AWS EC2 Crash Course + Load Balancing with Demos and PDFs (Udemy.com)

"Clear, concise, direct, and professionally prepared." -June

"Great coverage of some of the more low level elements of the EC2 service without going into overwhelming detail. All you need to get started and up and running with the basic but important fundamentals of EC2." -Daran

Are you brand new to AWS EC2 or AWS Load Balancers? Have you found that many of the training resources out there use complex technical jargon that make it difficult to understand the basic concepts? If you need to get a strong understanding of AWS EC2 and Load Balancers quickly and clearly, this is the course for you.

The contents of this course are applicable to multiple certifications, including the AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Sysops Administrator, and AWS Cloud Practitioner.

I have taught hundreds of thousands of students across a variety of platforms, and I think anyone brand new to these concepts love this course. Most lectures in this course are 5 - 10 minutes long. This course gives you an understanding of how EC2 and Load Balancers work, how they billed, and how to create and optimize your own configurations!

If you need to learn the basics of EC2, Network Load Balancer (NLB) Application Load Balancing (ALB) or Gateway Load Balancers (GLB), this course is the ideal starting point.

You can begin this course now, and in a few short hours you will have a strong understanding. So don't wait - give this course a try now and lean how to manage EC2 and Load balancers!

EC2 Lessons include:

• Intro to EC2

• Understanding VMs, Hosts, and Hypervisors

• Managed and Unmanaged Servcies, and how EC2 fits in

• Regions and Availability Zones

• EC2 Instance Types

• Multiple lessons demonstrating every step of creating an EC2 instance, including

  • Choosing an AMI

  • Choosing an instance type

  • Configuring network settings

  • Configuring storage volumes

  • Advanced Settings

  • User Data Scripts

  • Key Pairs and Security Groups

• Managing EC2 instances by resizing, stopping, starting, and terminating

• A deep dive on EC2 pricing and how you can save money!

Load Balancing Lessons include:

• Introduction to Load Balancers

• Create Target Groups

• Create and Verify the operation of Network Load Balancers (NLB)

• Internet-Facing vs. Internal Elastic Load Balancers (ELB)

• Health Checks, Availability, and Simulating Failures

• Understand Target Group Nodes and how they work across Availability Zones

• Cross-Zone Load Balancing

• Create and Verify the operation of Application Load Balancers (ALB)

• Create an Application Load Balancer and Configure Rules

• Test the Application Load Balancer and Simulate Failures

• Understanding the Gateway Load Balancer