Cloud Computing Security

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Cloud Computing Security

This course is part of Advanced System Security Design Specialization

Instructor: Edward Chow

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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1 week to complete

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

132 reviews

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There are 4 modules in this course

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.

In this module, we learn about the basics of cloud computing using AWS EC2 as an example, including the resources provided by the public cloud, the pricing structures related to the resource usages in computing, storage, and networking services, and their trade-offs, the basic operations of setting up account.

What's included

6 videos6 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

6 videos Total 44 minutes

Welcome to Cloud Computing 3 minutes
Cloud Computing with AWS 12 minutes
Cloud Computing Basic AWS as an Example Part 2 6 minutes
AWS Cloud EC2 Service 9 minutes
AWS Account Sign Up 4 minutes
AWS Resource Planning 9 minutes

6 readings Total 75 minutes

Get help and meet other learners in this course. Join your discussion forums! 5 minutes
Basic Cloud Service Models 20 minutes
Cloud Service Interruption and Their Impact 10 minutes
AWS EC2 10 minutes
AWS How It Started Myth 10 minutes
AWS Resource Features 20 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Quiz 1.1 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

What is public cloud's impact on security? 10 minutes

In this module, we learn how to sign up AWS account, create/configure/manage AWS EC2 instances, access them and configure the Linux operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP server side scripting support. We also learn how to follow the best security practice to create user accounts with different privileges using AWS IAM service. We learn how to use AWS Command Line Interface to create AWS EC2 instances and control AWS Resources. It allows for programming control of the EC2 instances.

What's included

6 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 app item

6 videos Total 68 minutes

Create an AWS Instance 18 minutes
Secure Access to AWS Instance 6 minutes
Configure LAMP Server Software Packages 10 minutes
Identity and Access Management 13 minutes
AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) 9 minutes
Use AWS ClI to clone and manage instances 11 minutes

4 readings Total 80 minutes

Microsoft Azure an AWS Alternative 20 minutes
Biomedical Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services 20 minutes
IAM Beyond Compliance Article 30 minutes
AWS Command Line Interface 10 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Quiz 1.2 30 minutes

1 peer review Total 60 minutes

Project 1a. Create AWS Account and AWS EC2 Instance 60 minutes

1 app item Total 60 minutes

Receive AWS Educate Credit for Your Exercises 60 minutes

In this module, we learn AWS' highly available and scalable cloud DNS web service and how to set up a domain for an organization/company using AWS Route53 service, create DNS entries for an instance, and understand the advanced Geoproximity Routing With Traffic Biasing.

What's included

2 videos2 readings1 assignment

In this module, we learn how to utilize the AWS load balancer support to create load balancing clusters to provide high available services based on round robin and customize rules with header content. We learn how to create application load balancer to distribute http requests to target groups with instances, and configure the health check mechanism so that the load balancing can avoid unhealthy or unresponsive instances. We also learn show to debug the common mistake of AWS load balancing configuration due to the misconfiguration of the security group in the target instances. The cost formula related to the usage of AWS load balancing service are also covered.

What's included

3 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review

3 videos Total 38 minutes

AWS Load Balancing 14 minutes
Create AWS Load Balancing Cluster 12 minutes
Diagnose AWS Load Balancing 12 minutes

4 readings Total 62 minutes

Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive and Best Practices 22 minutes
Articles on Issues with AWS ELB 20 minutes
Detecting Issues with Load Balancers 10 minutes
Survey Of Techniques And Challenges For Load Balancing In Public Cloud 10 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Quiz 1.4 30 minutes

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Create AWS Load Balancers 120 minutes

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Edward Chow

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Reviewed on Feb 20, 2019

good type of teaching , this will useful to everyone

Reviewed on Jan 20, 2020

Very good course giving exposure to fundamentals of Cloud Computing & various AWS Security platforms.

Reviewed on Feb 18, 2019

very useful and interesting to learn more about cloud computing and secuirty

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