Understanding and Designing AWS Outposts (Udemy.com)
If you are planning an AWS Ouposts project, or need an in-depth understanding of Outposts, this is the course for you!
Created by: Rick Crisci
Last updated September 2024
What you will learn
- Understand basic AWS Outposts Security concepts
- Learn how Outposts communicates with an AWS region over a wide area network
- Use the Outposts Local Gateway to communicate with on premises workloads and to configure local egress
- Understand the Security model of Outposts and how it protects data-at-rest and data-in-transit
- Learn how to create highly-available AWS Outposts deployments
How it compares
Against the other 235 rated Udemy courses in AWS on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 64% of them
- Reviews290#171 of 236 by number of reviews
- Length1.7 hoursshorter than 96% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2024earlier than 51% of them
Course Description
"An easy-to-follow introduction to AWS Outposts. Great content! " - Tomica
"Rick is an excellent instructor. Clear, easy to understand presentation." - David
Are you looking for AWS Outposts Training? Do you want to learn from an experienced trainer who makes complex concepts simple and easy to understand?
I am a Cloud Computing Instructor who has taught thousands of hours of live training directly for AWS and VMware. Most lectures in this course are 5 - 15 minutes long. A few deeper topics are slightly longer. This course gives you a complete understanding of AWS Outposts concepts. So join me in becoming an Outposts Guru today!
AWS Outposts provide you with the ability to run AWS Cloud workloads in your own datacenter. This process involves many design considerations and can be complex. This course is designed to help you understand all of the concepts behind Outposts. We'll start at the very beginning, and learn what Outposts can do for you. If you have AWS experience, many of the concepts that you learn will not be new to you.
We'll learn about:
Networking requirements for Outposts
Best practices for connectivity
Routing functions for Outposts
Connecting workloads in the on-premises datacenter
How to leverage native AWS cloud services from your Outposts deployment
How to design Compute and Storage resources intelligently
All of these lessons will have an emphasis on security, as well as an in-depth look at how to design for data protection and fault tolerance.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
290 Reviews
Rick Crisci
I am the owner of TrainerTests and have delivered thousands of hours of official live training to my students, and I love teaching people new skills.
I provide video training unlike any other organization. I believe in using high quality illustrations and animations to simplify complex concepts. In my courses you will get the technical depth that you need, with a focus on making sure that you completely understand the underlying concepts.
Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, I always enjoy making new contacts with my students!
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Reviews
By Sudeep Ghosh on 1/19/2026
This course very well explains AWS Outpost in detail - specially the design & architecture considerations.
By Leo Wiggins III on 7/11/2025
Good detailed course. Helps broaden my knowledge and understanding of AWS as a beginner.
By Keith Fulford on 6/30/2025
This was a good match for my need. Very good material covered and instructor was very knowledgeable.
By Anonymized User on 10/11/2023
Good initial overview, I would have liked some addiional tdiscussion around which AWS services are and are not available with Outpost's EC2, EBS, and S3 capabilities
By Mazhar Haq on 5/27/2023
Very useful to get us started. Would be nice the have a list of websites mentioned as a list that we can copy and paste. The links mentioned in the lectures don't work so would be great to update the course notes with the working links.
By Nandan Das on 12/24/2022
it was a good learning , thanks
By Jason on 2/7/2022
Please update video 2 in the series, which referred to 1u &2u server availability in the year 2021. Great job.
By Tomica Kaniski on 2/3/2022
An easy to follow introduction to AWS Outposts. Great content!
By David M Van Camp on 2/2/2022
Rick is an excellent instructor. Clear, easy to understand presentation.
By Devon Daley on 12/7/2021
This is was an excellent match for me aligns with everything I'm currently learning
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Overall Score : 92 / 100








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