In this MOOC, we will learn Cloud Computing basics using AWS as an example, We will guide you to create AWS account, planning AWS resources for your cloud systems, create AWS EC2 instances, access them and configure the popular LAMP web services with MySQL database. We will guide you to create user accounts for your programmer or operators using AWS Identify and Access management GUI, Register your domain name and setup DNS entry for your servers using AWS Route 53 in 22 mintues! and show you how to use AWS Command Line interface to create and managing instances and services programmatically. We then introduce AWS Load balancing feature, create load balancing cluster for scalability and reliability. We also demonstrate how to diagnose the problem introduced by the health check and firewall restriction conflicts. By the end of this course, you should be able to create your own web cluster with mysql databases, setup your users with credentials to manage your AWS resources/virtual machines either through their management control interface or using AWS CLI API using scripts. You will also learn the best practice in cloud security and debugging service interaction issues may arise in the cloud systems.
This course is part of the Advanced System Security Design Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
3 hours to complete
Cloud Computing Basics
3 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 44 min), 5 readings, 1 quiz
5 hours to complete
Secure Server Configuration and Integrated Access Management
5 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 68 min), 4 readings, 3 quizzes
2 hours to complete
Utilize Route53 DNS
2 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 21 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
3 hours to complete
AWS Load Balancer
3 hours to complete
3 videos (Total 38 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes
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TOP REVIEWS FROM CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY
by AAFeb 18, 2019
very useful and interesting to learn more about cloud computing and secuirty
by GBMar 19, 2019
Learned a lot about AWS and some techniques in clous security
by FSAug 18, 2022
good basic course on cloud computing and basic security configuration on AWS
by JGDec 10, 2020
Great Course! Very informational and the activities are helpful for skill enhancement. Thanks.
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