Compute Fundamentals For AWS

Understanding the fundamentals of AWS is critical if you want to deploy services and resources within the AWS Cloud. The Compute category of services are key resources that allow you to carry out computational abilities via a series of instructions used by applications and systems. These resources cover a range of different services and features, these being:

EC2 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
ECS - Amazon Elastic Container Service
ECR - Amazon Elastic Container Registry
EKS - Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Lambda
AWS Batch
Amazon Lightsail

This course will provide the fundamental elements of all of these Compute services and features that will allow you to select the most appropriate service for your project and implementations. Each have their advantages by providing something of value that’s different to the others, which will all be discussed.

Topics covered within this course consist of:

What is Compute: This lecture explains what 'Compute' is and what is meant by Compute resources and services
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): This is one of the most common Compute services, as a result this will likely be the longest lecture as I want to cover a lot of elements around EC2 to ensure you are aware of how it’s put together and how it works
Amazon ECS (EC2 Container Service): Within this lecture I will provide a high level overview of what the EC2 Container Service is and how it relates to Docker
Amazon Elastic Container Registry: In this lecture I explain how this service links closely with ECS to provide a secure location to store and manage your docker images
Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS): Here I look at how EKS, provides a managed service allowing you to run Kubernetes across your AWS infrastructure without having to take care of running the Kubernetes control plane
AWS Elastic Beanstalk: This lecture will provide an overview of the service, showing how it’s used to automatically deploy applications using EC2 and a number of other AWS services.
AWS Lambda: This lecture covers the Lambda ‘serverless’ service, where I shall explain what serverless means and how this service is used to run your own code in response to events.
AWS Batch: Here I will provide a high level overview of this service that relates to Batch Computing
Amazon Lightsail: Finally we will look at Amazon Lightsail, a Virtual Private Server solution used for small scale projects and use cases
If you want to learn the differences between the different Compute services, then this course is for you!

With demonstrations provided, along with links to a number of our Labs that allow you to gain hands on experience in using many of these services will give you a solid understanding of the Compute services used within AWS.