Intro to AWS Networking

An AWS Immersion Day

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Administrivia

Duration - 2 hours with a 30 minute buffer Delivery Mode - Virtual over chime with individual AWS accounts provided to each attendee. These accounts are only accessible during this session. Here are the three link we’ll be working through today

Introduction to AWS Network Services - ppt deck
Lab - Amazon VPC - https://general-immersionday.workshop.aws/en/network.html
Other useful information - this hackmd page

Networking on AWS

This section contains links, QandA and other useful snippets

VPC Basics

What is Amazon VPC? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/what-is-amazon-vpc.html How Amazon VPC Works https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/how-it-works.html Building a Scalable andSecure Multi-VPC AWS Network Infrastructure whitepaper (33 pages) https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/building-a-scalable-and-secure-multi-vpc-aws-network-infrastructure.pdf

Additional Reference Material

AWS Services

AWS has over 200 services and more than 280 Apis for those services.

Overview of Amazon Web Services (circa 21Apr2021) describes AWS and the services. A great place to start with questions like ‘what is service X and what does it do?’ https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-overview.pdf
To learn more about a particular service; web search for ‘service name’ and ‘FAQ’. For example:
- for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) visit https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/
- also check out the pricing page https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/pricing/ HINT: use pricing as part of your architectural decision making to avoid Well Architected ANTI patterns There are many great videos on AWS on Youtube including:
AWS re:Invent 2017: Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users (ARC201). This video walks you through the architecture to serve from 1 to 10M users using AWS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95murBkYmU HINT If you only watch one video about AWS, then watch this one…

AWS Core Services

AWS Compute
- Choosing Compute Options https://aws.amazon.com/startups/start-building/how-to-choose-compute-option/
AWS Storage
- Cloud Storage Options https://aws.amazon.com/products/storage/
AWS Database
- AWS Database Options https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/
AWS Networking
- Networking and Content Delivery on AWS https://aws.amazon.com/products/networking/

AWS Training - Free, Classroom based and Online

AWS Delivered training from foundational to speciality can be found at https://bit.ly/3gz2r89

Training Types

Digital - Free, online, bite sized, role based and self paced - https://bit.ly/3dWquzv
Instructor led (classroom or virtual) - Paid, multi day - https://bit.ly/2R4Zu86
MOOCs - from eDX, Coursera, Udacity and Udemy - from basics to deep dives to DeepRacer and ML
- eDX - https://bit.ly/3vsgynE
- Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=aws
- Udacity - https://bit.ly/3xvG50P
- Udemy - https://bit.ly/3dUZ6SK
Certifications - 11 certifications from foundation to speciality - https://amzn.to/3exlJvw

Continue reading articles in my Amazon Web Services series

Networking on Aws