Wednesday, 5 February 2020
Course Overview :
The course presents a top-down view of cloud computing, from applications and administration to programming, infrastructure, billing and security. The topics include: overview of cloud computing, cloud systems, Load balancing in AWS, distributed storage systems, virtualization, security in AWS, and management services and Billing. Students will study state-of-the-art solutions for cloud computing developed by Amazon. Students will also apply what they learn in one programming assignments and one project executed over Amazon Web Services.
Content :
1. Introduction to Cloud Technologies
Introduction to the Cloud Computing, History of cloud computing, Cloud service options, Cloud Deployment models, Business concerns in the cloud.
2. Virtualization and Cloud Platforms
Exploring virtualization, Load balancing, Hypervisors, Machine imaging, Cloud marketplace overview, Comparison of Cloud providers.
3. Introduction to AWS
AWS history, AWS Infrastructure, AWS services, AWS ecosystem.
4. Programming, management console and storage on AWS
Basic Understanding APIs - AWS programming interfaces, Web services, AWS URL naming, Matching interfaces and services, Elastic block store - Simple storage service, Glacier - Content delivery platforms.
5. AWS identity services, security and compliance
Users, groups, and roles - Understanding credentials, Security policies, IAM abilities and limitations, AWS physical security - AWS compliance initiatives, Understanding public/private keys, Other AWS security capabilities.
6. AWS computing and marketplace
Elastic cloud compute - Introduction to servers, Imaging computers, Auto scaling, Elastic load balancing, Cataloging the marketplace, AMIs, Selling on the marketplace
7. AWS networking and databases
Virtual private clouds, Cloud models, Private DNS servers (Route 53), Relational database service – DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift.
8. Other AWS services and management services
Analytics services, Application services, Cloud security, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, OpsWorks.
9. AWS billing and Dealing with disaster
Managing costs, Utilization and tracking, Bottom line impact, Geographic and other concerns, Failure plans, Examining logs.
Course Outcome:
After learning the course, the student will be able:
1. To explain the core concepts of the cloud computing paradigm: how and why this paradigm shift came about, the characteristics, advantages and challenges brought about by the various models and services in cloud computing.
2. To apply the fundamental concepts in datacenters to understand the tradeoffs in power, efficiency and cost by Load balancing approach.
3. To discuss system virtualization and outline its role in enabling the cloud computing system model.
4. To illustrate the fundamental concepts of cloud storage and demonstrate their use in storage systems such as Amazon S3 and HDFS.
5. To analyze various cloud programming models and apply them to solve problems on the cloud.
6. To understand various management and other distinguish services of AWS.
7. To analyze the billing of resources and other paradigm: how to deal with disasters.
8. To understand security and compliances for AWS.
9. To deploy applications over commercial cloud computing infrastructures such as Amazon
List of Assignments / Experiments:
1. Write pros and cons of Cloud Computing.
2. Summarize Cloud service models with real time examples.
3. Define Virtualization. Also list and explain different Hypervisors.
4. Discuss performance evaluation of service over cloud.
5. Create a scenario that use Amazon S3 as storage on cloud.
Contact Details :
Redback IT Academy
No : 5/X2 Hari Ohm 2nd Street,
Phase III, Sathuvachari,
Vellore. 632009
+91 8189985551
