AWS Solutions Architect : Associate Level

Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/
AWS Overview
 Learning Objectives

By the end of the lesson, you will be able to:

Describe the history and features of AWS

Identify the AWS Regions and Availability Zones worldwide

Identify major AWS services like Compute, Storage, Database,

and Networking

Access AWS services using AWS Management Console

Set up an AWS account and AWS CLI

Introduction to AWS
 What Is AWS?

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a subsidiary of Amazon offering various cloud services such as
Compute, Storage, Database, and Networking, that are flexible, scalable, cost-efficient, and
easy-to-use.
 What Is AWS?

Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide

Source: https://pages.awscloud.com/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-for-Infrastructure-as-a-Service-Worldwide.html
 Features of AWS

Security
Scalability
Highly secured physical
Flexible scalability to adjust the
infrastructure, software, and
capacity and maintain a steady,
networking capabilities of AWS
predictable performance
Cloud services

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Reliability
Services resilient to product
and infrastructure disruptions
 Features of AWS

Operational Efficiency Security

Performance Efficiency
Continuous improvement in the Highly
Cost secured
Optimization
physical
Run services efficiently and
ability to run systems, create infrastructure,
Achieve business
software,
outcomes
and
scalably in the cloud while
better procedures, and gain networking
with minimum
capabilities
costs
of AWS
handling any amount of traffic
insights cloud services

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Flexibility
Reliability
Provides an option to select the
Services are resilient to both
operating system, programming
service and infrastructure
language, web application
disruptions
platform, and database
 AWS Regions and Availability Zones

● AWS Cloud Infrastructure is globally distributed

in the form of AWS Regions and Availability
Zones (AZs).

● AWS Regions are geographic locations around

the world with multiple physically separated
and isolated AZs.

Major AWS Regions around the world

 AWS Regions and Availability Zones

Availability Zone is a cluster of discrete data centers

in separate facilities with redundant networking,
connectivity, and power. They are:

● Connected to other AZs through high

bandwidth and low-latency links

● Highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable

● Safe from issues such as power outages,

lightning strikes, tornadoes, and earthquakes

Availability Zones in Asia Pacific Region

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/
 Global Distribution

AWS is globally distributed over 24 geographic regions and has 77 Availability Zones.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
Core AWS Services
 Core AWS Services

Amazon offers various services that are broadly categorized in the following categories:

Compute
Storage

Database

Networking
 Compute

The Compute services from Amazon provide resizable compute capacity in the cloud,
which is intended to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

● Enables users to control their computing

resources

● Operates under pay-as-you-go model and

only takes minutes to obtain and boot new
server instances

● Allows quick scaling when computing

requirements change Amazon Compute
 Compute Services

The following are some of the AWS Compute services:

Amazon EC2 Amazon ECR Amazon ECS Amazon EKS Amazon

Lightsail

AWS Batch AWS Elastic AWS Fargate AWS Lambda AWS Serverless
Beanstalk Application
Repository
 Compute Services

Amazon EC2 offers a resizable compute capacity in the cloud that can be scaled up or
down to handle changes in requirements, reducing the need to forecast traffic.

Amazon EC2
 Compute Services

Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry) is a secure, scalable, and reliable AWS Docker
registry service to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

Amazon ECR
 Compute Services

Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a highly scalable, fast, and efficient container
management service that manages Docker containers on a cluster, hosted on serverless
infrastructure.

Amazon ECS
 Compute Services

Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a fully managed service to run Kubernetes on
AWS by handling the installation, deployment, and scaling of Kubernetes containers and
clusters.

Amazon EKS
 Compute Services

Amazon Lightsail enables developers to create Virtual Private Server (VPS) quickly and easily
by including a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a
static IP at a reasonable cost.

Amazon Lightsail
 Compute Services

AWS Batch is a fully managed service to run batch computing workloads on AWS by
providing a large amount of compute resources in response to the jobs submitted.

AWS Batch
 Compute Services

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service to quickly deploy and manage applications by
automatically handling the infrastructure and reducing the management complexity without
restricting any choices.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

 Compute Services

AWS Fargate is a fully managed serverless compute engine that runs both the ECS and EKS
containers. It allows users to specify and pay for resources per application and improves
security.

AWS Fargate
 Compute Services

AWS Lambda is a compute service that allows code execution without provisioning or managing
servers and scales automatically as per the requests. Users pay only for the compute and
execution time.

AWS Lambda
 Compute Services

AWS Serverless Application Repository is for developers and enterprises to quickly find,
deploy, and publish serverless applications on the AWS Cloud.

AWS Serverless
Application Repository
 Storage

The Storage services from Amazon provide a secure, reliable, and scalable place for the data
in AWS Cloud with high efficiency, availability, durability, and performance.

● Allow users to store, access, and analyze

data to reduce costs, increase agility, and
accelerate innovation

● Broadly categorized into object storage, file

storage, block storage, backup, and data
migration. Amazon Storage
 Storage Services

The following are some of the AWS Storage services:

Amazon S3 Amazon EFS Amazon FSx Amazon EBS AWS Backup

AWS Storage AWS AWS Transfer AWS Snow

Gateway DataSync Family Family
 Storage Services

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an object-based storage service that allows users to
store and retrieve large amounts of data using a highly scalable, fast, and inexpensive data
storage infrastructure.

Amazon S3
 Storage Services

Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is file storage for EC2 instances that lets users create and
mount a file system on the EC2 instances. It allows users to read and write data to and from
the file system.

Amazon EFS
 Storage Services

Amazon FSx is a fully managed service that facilitates third-party file systems for workloads
such as Windows–based storage, high-performance computing, machine learning, and
electronic design automation.

Amazon FSx
 Storage Services

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) offers block level storage volumes for EC2 instances. These
are highly available and reliable storage volumes that can be attached to any running instance
and used as a hard drive.

Amazon EBS
 Storage Services

AWS Backup is a fully managed service that helps to centralize, automate, and monitor the
backup activities and configure backup policies for multiple AWS resources in one place.

AWS Backup
 Storage Services

AWS Storage Gateway is a data transfer service that connects an on-premises software
device with cloud-based storage to deliver a secure and seamless integration between an
on-premises environment and the AWS Storage infrastructure.

AWS Storage Gateway

 Storage Services

AWS DataSync is a data-transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates data
migration between on-premises storage and AWS Storage services over the internet or
AWS Direct Connect.

AWS DataSync
 Storage Services

AWS Transfer Family migrates data to and from Amazon S3 using Secure File Transfer
Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol Secure (FTPS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in a
simplified manner.

AWS Transfer Family

 Storage Services

AWS Snow Family (AWS Snowcone, Snowball, and Snowmobiles) is a data transfer service that
helps customers running operations in austere, non-data center environments, or in low
internet network connectivity areas.

AWS Snow Family

 Database

Amazon offers the broadest set of purpose-built databases for various application
requirements. These database services are fully managed, scalable, and highly efficient.

● Choose database engines from relational,

key-value, in-memory, graph, time-series,
and ledger database types

● Support for multi-region, multi-master

replication, and full oversight of the data.

Amazon Database
 Database Services

The following are some of the Amazon Database services:

Amazon RDS Amazon Amazon Amazon

Redshift DynamoDB ElastiCache

Amazon Amazon Amazon Amazon

DocumentDB Keyspaces Neptune QLDB
 Database Services

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a web service that allows easier setup,
operation, and scaling of a relational database in the cloud. Amazon Aurora is a part of
this fully managed relational database service.

Amazon RDS
 Database Services

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, high-performance, petabyte-scale data warehouse

service that efficiently analyzes all the data using the existing business intelligence tools.

Amazon Redshift
 Database Services

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that facilitates fast
and predictable performance with seamless scalability.

Amazon DynamoDB
 Database Services

Amazon ElastiCache is a database service offering high-performance, resizable, and cost-effective in-
memory cache, allowing users to set up, manage, and scale distributed in-memory cache
environments in the AWS Cloud.

Amazon ElastiCache
 Database Services

Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed database service that is fast, reliable, and
scalable. It helps to easily set up, operate, and scale MongoDB-compatible databases in
the cloud.

Amazon DocumentDB
 Database Services

Amazon Keyspaces is a highly available, scalable, and manageable Apache Cassandra compatible
database service, automatically managing servers and eliminating the need to install, maintain, and
operate the software.

Amazon Keyspaces
 Database Services

Amazon Neptune is a graph database service that helps to build and run applications working
with highly connected datasets. It runs on a purpose-built, high-performance graph database
engine.

Amazon Neptune
 Database Services

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is a high-performance, fully managed ledger

database that offers a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction
log owned by a central trusted authority.

Amazon QLDB
 Networking

Amazon provides a broad set of networking services that provide essential security
features by isolating resources, encrypting data, and connecting privately on the AWS
global network.

● Offers highest network availability, with

very few down time hours from
networking issues

● 24 AWS Regions and 77 Availability

Zones providing global coverage

Amazon Networking
 Networking Services

The following are some of the Amazon Networking services:

Amazon VPC Amazon API Amazon Amazon

Gateway CloudFront Route 53

AWS VPN AWS Direct AWS Cloud AWS App

Connect Map Mesh
 Networking Services

Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) allows users to launch AWS resources into a user-defined
virtual network that closely resembles a traditional network, with the benefits of using the
scalable infrastructure of AWS.

Amazon VPC
 Networking Services

Amazon API Gateway helps to create and deploy robust, secure, and scalable REST and
WebSocket APIs that access AWS or other web services, as well as data that is stored in the
AWS Cloud.

Amazon API Gateway

 Networking Services

Amazon CloudFront speeds up the distribution of static and dynamic web content through a
worldwide network of edge locations that provide low latency and high-performance.

Amazon CloudFront
 Networking Services

Amazon Route 53 is a highly scalable and available Domain Name System (DNS) web service
for domain registration, DNS routing, and health checking.

Amazon Route 53
 Networking Services

AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a secure and private tunnel from a local network to the
AWS Cloud. An existing on-premises network can be extended into a VPC, or other AWS resources
can be connected from a client.

AWS VPN
 Networking Services

AWS Direct Connect links user’s internal network to an AWS Direct Connect location over a
standard 1 gigabit or 10 gigabit Ethernet fiber-optic cable.

AWS Direct Connect

 Networking Services

AWS Cloud Map is a fully managed service that can be used to create and maintain a map of
the backend services and resources that an application depends on.

AWS Cloud Map

 Networking Services

AWS App Mesh is a service mesh allowing users to easily monitor and control the services. It
standardizes the communication between services, provides end-to-end visibility, and ensures
high availability for the applications.

AWS App Mesh

Accessing AWS Services
 AWS Sign Up

The following are the steps to set up an AWS Account:

Open AWS home page Enter your account Select Personal or

and select Create an information, and then Professional account
AWS Account click on Continue type

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Read and accept the

Click on Create Account Enter your company or
AWS Customer
and Continue personal information
Agreement

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 AWS Sign Up

The following are the steps to set up an AWS Account:

Add a payment method on the Enter a phone number, verify it

Payment Information page, with the PIN received, and then
and then select Verify and Add click on Continue

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Confirmation page indicates the Select AWS Support Plan on the

account is being activated Select a Support Plan page

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 Introduction to AWS Management Console

AWS Management Console is a web application consisting a wide collection of service

consoles for managing Amazon Web Services.
 Introduction to AWS Management Console

AWS Management Console home page provides access to each service console that offers tools
for working with services such as Amazon S3, EC2, and CloudFront.
 Introduction to AWS Management Console

Resource Groups menu manages the AWS resources such as an EC2 instance or an S3 bucket
as a group.
 Introduction to AWS Management Console

Resource Groups menu can also be used to start Tag Editor, a tool for managing and
applying labels or tags to organize your resources.
 Introduction to AWS CLI

AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is an open-source tool that allows users to interact with
AWS services using commands in the command-line shell.

AWS
CLI
 Introduction to AWS CLI

AWS CLI is available in two versions:

● AWS CLI version 2: It is the most recent major version of AWS CLI and supports all
the latest features. Some features introduced in version 2 are not backward
compatible with version 1.

● AWS CLI version 1: It is the original version of AWS CLI and is still supported by
AWS. It is available only for backward compatibility.
 Introduction to AWS CLI

AWS CLI can be used from the command prompt in any terminal program:

● Linux shells – Shell programs such as bash, zsh, and tcsh can be used to
run commands in Linux or macOS.

● Windows command-line – Windows Command Prompt or PowerShell can

be used to run commands.

● Remotely – Amazon EC2 instances can be used to run commands through

a remote terminal program such as PUTTY or SSH.
Set Up the AWS Command Line Interface

Duration: 15 min.

Problem Statement:

You have been asked to set up the AWS Command Line Interface.
Assisted Practice: Guidelines to Set Up the AWS Command Line Interface

Steps to perform:
1. Setting up the AWS CLI on Windows
1. Download the AWS CLI MSI installer for Windows
2. Run the downloaded MSI installer
3. Confirm the installation using command prompt

1. Setting up the AWS CLI on Linux

1. Download the installation file using the curl command
2. Unzip the installation file using the unzip command
3. Run the install program and confirm the installation
 Key Takeaways

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a subsidiary of Amazon offering cloud

services such as Compute, Storage, Database, and Networking.

Operational and performance efficiency, reliability, security, scalability, and

cost optimization are some of the main features of AWS.

AWS is globally distributed over 24 geographic regions and has 77

Availability Zones.

AWS Management Console is a web application that comprises a wide

collection of service consoles for managing Amazon Web Services.

AWS CLI is an open-source tool that allows users to interact with

AWS services using commands in the command-line shell.