A curated list of awesome things related to the AWS, AWS CDK, and AWS Training and Certification.
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- Contents
- Training
- Security
- Object Storage
- Compute and Block Storage
- Load Balancing, CloudWatch and AutoScaling
- Backup and Archival
- Networking, VPC and Route53
- Relational Databases
- Non-Relational Databases
- Queueing and Notification
- CDN/Edge Services
- Object Storage and Hosting Static Websites
- Solutions for Databases, Disaster Recovery and Web Application Hosting
- Architecting for High Availability and Scalability
- Elastic Beanstalk
- DevTools
- CodeDeploy
- OpsWorks
- EC2 Container Service and Registry
- Lambda, API Gateway, and Serverless Computing
- General Principles for Big Data / Analytics
- Amazon Redshift
- Elastic Map/Reduce (EMR)
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- DynamoDB for Big Data
- Introduction to Mobile and IoT
- Solutions and Architectures for Mobile, IoT, and Big Data
- Additional Resources
- Contribute
- License
This section aims to call out free training materials available across the web.
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | Understanding AWS Security | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rei30obkaBc |
| 📺 | Journey Through the Cloud - Security Best Practices | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPyGDWKHIo |
| 📕 | Read the AWS Overview of Security Processes Whitepaper | 2 hours | https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-security-whitepaper.pdf |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2013 Access Control for the Cloud: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OpZmBp9S0k |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 IAM Best Practices to Live By | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_wiGpBQGCjU |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015 (SEC318) AWS CloudTrail Deep Dive | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0e-mz\_I2OU |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: AWS Security State of the Union (SID326) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvyc-VEUOns |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: NEW LAUNCH! Introduction to Amazon GuardDuty (SID218) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imjbh0WPSR4 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: The AWS Philosophy of Security (SID322) | 55 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJiCfPXOW-U |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Best Practices for Managing Security Operations on AWS (SID206) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjrcoK8T3To |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Living on the Edge, It's Safer Than You Think! Building Strong (CTD310) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Xc3k0pmfo |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Security and DevOps: Agility and Teamwork (SID315) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noBJdxlSYvw |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Incident Response in the Cloud (SID319) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufmgB9M2WII |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Embedding Security into DevOps on AWS with Automation Toolsets (SID347) | 40 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz68BlZm7ZQ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Architecting Security and Governance Across a Multi-Account Strategy (SID331) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71fD8Oenwxc |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Security Anti-Patterns: Mistakes to Avoid (FSV301) | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzJmE\_Jlas0 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: How Chick-fil-A Embraces DevSecOps on AWS (SID306) | 55 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_0BCJLIxowQ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Force Multiply Your Security Team with Automation and Alexa (SID302) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6sokCFRlns |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Automating DDoS Response in the Cloud (SID324) | 57 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pQ3j4IcpY8 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2019: The fundamentals of AWS cloud security (SEC205-R2) | 57 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBkq6MrT2w |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2019: Provable access control: Know who can access your AWS resources (SEC343-R) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DX7p-OirGU |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2019: Getting started with AWS identity (SEC209-R1) | 1hr | https://youtu.be/Zvz-qYYhvMk |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS identity (SEC207-L) | 51 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqAGpeFUP9g |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2019: Leadership session: AWS security (SEC201-L) | 53 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oam8FDNJhbE |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2019: Security benefits of the Nitro architecture (SEC408-R1) | 1hr | https://youtu.be/0qcUOKupt7Y |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2019: Threat management in the cloud: Amazon GuardDuty & AWS Security Hub | 47 minutes | https://youtu.be/vhYsm5gq9jE |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the S3 home page, watch intro videos and review the customer case studies | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (SOV203) Understanding AWS Storage Options | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnycsuQ4SF8 |
| 📕 | S3 Infrequent Access Blog Post | 15 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-option-glacier-price-reduction/ |
| 📕 | Blog Posts related to S3 review and read any relevant to your role | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/amazon-s3/ |
| 📕 | review the Glacier home page and its referenced resources | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (STG312) Amazon Glacier Deep Dive: Cold Data Storage in AWS | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1Ggo4E2Xo |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Dive on Amazon S3 (STG303) | 40 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMhWWkhydFQ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive on Amazon S3 & Amazon Glacier Infrastructure (STG301) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9\_vScxbIQLY |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Best Practices for Amazon S3 (STG302) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuL1K3oWuo&t=1s |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive on Amazon S3 & Amazon Glacier Storage Management (STG311) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUWqDOnXeDw |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2018: What's New in Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, Amazon EBS, & more (STG213-L) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gidUa4lJd9Y |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the EC2 home page, watch intro videos and review customer case studies | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ | |
| 📺 | EC2 Instances Deep Dive re:Invent 2017 Video | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZy6E2I5Rek | |
| 📕 | review the EBS home page, watch intro videos and review customer case studies | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ | |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (STG403) Amazon EBS: Designing for Performance | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wKgha8CZ\_w | |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2016: (STG301) Deep Dive on Amazon EBS | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHmTmCkdp8 | |
| 📕 | Tutorial: Installing a LAMP Web Server on Amazon Linux2 | 1 hour | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-lamp-amazon-linux-2.html | |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive on Amazon EBS (CMP310) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnLCr99kFcY |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the ELB home page and related resources | 15 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2016: Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive and Best Practices (NET403) | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy7zNaDTYGQ |
| 📕 | review the CloudWatch home page and related resources | 15 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (DVO315) Log, Monitor and Analyze your IT with Amazon CloudWatch | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaOR-ybLJF0 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (CMP201) All You Need To Know About Auto Scaling | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4trGuelatMI |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive into the New Network Load Balancer (NET304) | 55 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0FBGIT1Ub4 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Auto Scaling: The Fleet Management Solution for Planet Earth (CMP201) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUUbOQyrnJU |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2018: Elastic Load Balancing: Deep Dive and Best Practices (NET404-R1) | 1hr | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIgAT7vjol8 |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (BAC202) Introducing AWS Solutions for Backup and Archiving | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYI4Gx0D54U |
| 📕 | review the Solution page for Backup and Recovery, analyze customer case studies and watch the videos | 1 hour | https://aws.amazon.com/backup-recovery/ |
| 📕 | review the Solution page for Data Archival, analyze customer case studies and watch the videos | 1 hour | https://aws.amazon.com/archive/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive on Backup to the AWS Cloud (STG305) | 40 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NELpuY6B4Jc |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive: Backing Up Amazon EC2 with Amazon EBS Snapshots (CMP304) | 55 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUJCQRejA28 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive on Data Archiving in Amazon S3 & Amazon Glacier, with (STG304) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpLNgFEWBo |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Turner's Cloud Archive for CNN's Video Library and Global Multip (MAE304) | 40 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAfC7ciWzS4 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Building Queryable Archives and Data Lakes for Financial Service (FSV303) | 40 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLzrow07yHk |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the VPC home page and related resources | 15 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ |
| 📕 | Default VPC Jeff Barr Blog Post | 15 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-update-virtual-private-clouds-for-everyone/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (NET201) VPC Fundamentals and Connectivity Options | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5\_bQ6Dgk6k8 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: From One to Many – Evolving VPC Designs | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmqjgLdmL4 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015 - Amazon Route 53 Deep Dive: Delivering Resiliency, Minimizing Latency | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9y-T7mQVxs |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Advanced VPC Design and New Capabilities for Amazon VPC (NET305) | 50 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj11NFXDbLY |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Networking Many VPCs: Transit and Shared Architectures (NET404) | 1 hour 10 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGKrVO9xlqI |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Creating Your Virtual Data Center: VPC Fundamentals and Connectivity (NET201) | 45 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tff1mekxOJ4 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: DNS Demystified: Global Traffic Management with Amazon Route 53 (NET302) | 45 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVBC1gb78r8 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2018: Advanced VPC Design and New Capabilities for Amazon VPC (NET303) | 57 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnxXNZdf6ew |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (WEB202) Best Practices for Handling a 20x Traffic Spike | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTYbit3BiI |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (BAC304) Deploying a DR Site on AWS: Min. Cost with Max. Efficiency | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-AsaQeFhb0 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (SEC307) Building a DDoS-Resilient Architecture with Amazon Web Services | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT2y3DzMEmQ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (ENT308) Best Practices for Implementing Hybrid Architecture Solutions | 35 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-DynRJUugU |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (ARC302) Running Lean Architectures: Optimizing for Cost Efficiency | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG1DsYgeGEk |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (ARC307) Infrastructure as Code | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL2xSMVXy5w |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2018: Running Lean Architectures: How to Optimize for Cost Efficiency (ARC202-R2) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo1ytbsNsa4 |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the RDS home page, customer case studies, and watch intro videos | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/rds/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2016: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS (DAT307) | 1 hour and 5 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX5C\_idmYf4 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) (DAT302) | 52 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJxC-B9Q9tQ |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 – Relational Database Management Systems in the Cloud (SQL Server) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oryGBLFGu3o |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 – Amazon RDS for MySQL Best Practices | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHg8LD5KNC0 |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 – Amazon RDS PostgreSQL | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZXp19q8RFo |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 – Oracle on AWS and Amazon RDS | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDtmCBaEQyQ |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 – New Launch! Introducing Maria DB on Amazon RDS | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEc8kSlpOQ0 |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2016 - Getting Started with Amazon Aurora | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60QumD2QsF0 |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2016 - Deep Dive on Amazon Aurora (DAT303) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duf5uUsW3TM |
| 📺 | Introduction to AWS Database Migration Service | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ5\_nnBZtJE |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the DynamoDB home page and customer case studies, watch the intro video | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2014: (BDT203) From Zero to NoSQL Hero: Amazon DynamoDB Tutorial | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDqLwzQEOmM |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 Building Scalable Applications and AWS NoSQL Services | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie4dWGT76LM |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Advanced Design Patterns for Amazon DynamoDB (DAT403-R) | 50 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzeKPKpucS0 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: DynamoDB - What's new (DAT304) | 50 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFDDjzIGxA0 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: What's new for AWS Purpose Built, Non-relational Databases (DAT204) | 60 min | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJ9FxjV1kw |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the SQS, SWF, and SNS home pages, customer case studies and watch intro videos | 1 hour | https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/ |
| 📺 | Massive Message Processing with Amazon SQS and Amazon DynamoDB (ARC301) | AWS re:Invent 2013 | 1 hour |
| 📕 | Tutorial: Working with Amazon SQS | 30 minutes | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSGettingStartedGuide/WorkingWithSQS.html |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: How Mobile Businesses and Enterprises Use Amazon SNS | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTM1nDv6x7s |
| 📕 | Tutorial: Getting Started with Amazon Simple Notification Service | 30 minutes | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/GettingStarted.html |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: NEW LAUNCH! Introducing Amazon MQ Managed Message Broker Service (ENT228) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCucC1SKkvI |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: How the BBC Built a Massive Media Pipeline Using Microservices (ARC330) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ7Husc\_yZo |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the CloudFront home page, customer case studies and featured videos | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2016: Introduction to Amazon CloudFront (CTD205) | 56 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2uN9VoAnz8 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2016: CloudFront Flash Talks: Best Practices (CTD301) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgbJJ412qRE |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Introduction to Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda@Edge (CTD201) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRaPw1tx6LA |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Amazon CloudFront Flash Talks: Best Practices on Configuring, Securing (CTD301) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U3QdNSFJDU |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (WEB203) Building a Website That Costs Pennies to Operate | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgU-GDgj4SM |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 2] Best Practices for Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier (STG203-R2) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHeTn9pHNKo/ |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the Solution page for Databases and its references resources | 1 hour | https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/ |
| 📕 | review the Solution page for Disaster Recovery, review the referenced whitepapers and customer case studies, analyst report, watch the videos | 2 hours | https://aws.amazon.com/disaster-recovery/ |
| 📕 | review the Solution page for Website Hosting, review the referenced customer case studies and watch the videos | 2 hours | https://aws.amazon.com/websites/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Disaster Recovery with AWS: Tiered Approaches to Balance Cost wi (ENT322) | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7EMou07hRc |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: How to Design a Multi-Region Active-Active Architecture (ARC319) | 1 hour 20 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMrfzR4zyM4 |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | Webinar: AWS Webcast - Design For Availability | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh-yTPZnE-8 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2018: Data Protection: Encryption, Availability, Resiliency, & Durability (SEC325-R1) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH6AXreSQWQ/ |
| 📺 | AWS re: Invent ARC 205: Building Web-Scale Applications With AWS | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZAN2\_W6Ns |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2018: Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users (ARC205-R1) | 50 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma3xWDXTxRg/ |
| 📕 | Review the Web Application Hosting, Disaster Recovery and Content/Media Serving reference architectures with your mentor and other new hires. Make sure you understand every piece of the diagram: what it does and what alternative services/approaches can be used instead | 2 hours | http://media.amazonwebservices.com/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_web_01.pdf,http://media.amazonwebservices.com/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_disasterrecovery_07.pdf and http://media.amazonwebservices.com/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_media_02.pdf |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 Scaling Your Web Applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkj0GXgaRv8 |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and Code Pipeline) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL2xSMVXy5w |
| 📺 | re:Invent 2017 Deep Dive CloudFormation | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01hy48R9Kr8 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2018: Deep Dive into AWS X-Ray: Monitor Modern Applications (DEV324) | 53 minutes | https://youtu.be/5MQkX57eTh8 |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 AWS CodeDeploy: Automating Your Software Deployments | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4NSyUbAEkw |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | re:Invent 2015 AWS OpsWorks Under the Hood | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxSu015Zgak |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | Take a look at the ECS and ECR home pages, watch the intro video, review the key points and customer case studies | 45 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/ |
| 📕 | Werner Vogels' blog: Under the Hood of Amazon Container Service (ECS) | 10 minutes | http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2015/07/under-the-hood-of-the-amazon-ec2-container-service.html |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2016: State of the Union: Containers (CON316) | 35 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR8BI2Exkbc |
| 📺 | Amazon Container Service (ECS) Deployment Walkthrough | 10 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wLMLwjCqN4 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2016: Getting Started with Docker on AWS (CMP209) | 40 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMhacj2n0gk |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2016: Running Microservices on Amazon ECS (CON309) | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtALTTjy7Qw |
| Kubernetes training | > 1 hour | https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/online-training/overview/ | |
| 📺 | Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) | 52 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lef1qR7C\_GE&t=10s |
| 📺 | AWS re:invent 2017: Introducing Amazon Fargate (CON214) | 40 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SceSgOTyrw |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | Take a look at the Lambda and API Gateway home pages, watch the intro video, review key points and customer case studies | 45 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ |
| 📺 | AWS Summit Series 2016 - Chicago - Getting Started with AWS Lambda and the Serverless Cloud | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5PNX-8MRt0 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (DEV203) Amazon API Gateway & AWS Lambda to Build Secure and Scalable APIs | 45 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBxWZ9bgd44 |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (BDT205) Your First Big Data Application on AWS | 1 hour 15 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKzJuo\_5huA |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT310) Big Data Architectural Patterns and Best Practices on AWS | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7o5OlRLtvU |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT317) Building a Data Lake on AWS | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Px5g6wLW2A |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | Take a look at the Redshift home page, view the intro video, key points, and customer case studies | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (DAT201) Introduction to Amazon Redshift | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIj1bFjiqd8 |
| 📺 | Amazon Redshift Masterclass | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgLKodmL5xE |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (FIN401) Seismic Shift: Nasdaq's Migration to Amazon Redshift | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4wAH5FQjS8 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT401) Amazon Redshift Deep Dive: Tuning and Best Practices | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmy3jCxUliM |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | Take a look at the EMR home page, view the intro video, key points, and customer case studies | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/emr/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT208) A Technical Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnFYoiRqEHw |
| 📺 | AWS March 2016 Webinar Series - Building Big Data Solutions with Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AHGcLnvinI |
| 📺 | AWS Webcast - Masterclass Amazon Elastic MapReduce EMR | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQH2FqUcQog |
| 📕 | Tutorial: Contextual Advertising using Apache Hive and Amazon EMR | 1 hour 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/2855 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (BDT308) Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce as Your Scalable Data Warehouse | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO1oH9fzlgk |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT305) Amazon EMR Deep Dive and Best Practices | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HseALaLllc |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT309) Data Science & Best Practices for Apache Spark on Amazon EMR | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHfOZ1wn8Go |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (SDD401) Amazon Elastic MapReduce Deep Dive and Best Practices | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5nep2CIeL0 |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT314) A Big Data & Analytics App on Amazon EMR & Amazon Redshift (NASDAQ; focus on Security) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuHxnOQarXU |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | take a look at the Kinesis home page, watch the intro video, review key points and customer case studies | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/ |
| 📺 | AWS Summit Series 2016 - Chicago - Getting Started with Amazon Kinesis | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bhXafN9uNg |
| 📺 | AWS Summit Series 2016 - Santa Clara - Streaming Data Processing with Amazon Kinesis | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7GCkMT0Pc |
| 📕 | Lab: Tutorial: Visualizing Web Traffic Using Amazon Kinesis Streams | 1 hour | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/kinesis-sample-application.html |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT320) New! Streaming Data Flows with Amazon Kinesis Firehose | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkRoQlhWDXA |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | take a look at the Elasticsearch Service home page, watch the intro video, review key points and customer case studies | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT209) New! Amazon Elasticsearch Service for Real-time Analytics | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7dJESec\_dY |
| 📺 | AWS October 2015 Webinar Series - Essentials: Introducing Amazon Elasticsearch Service | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7QLSPB3OA |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (BDT313) Amazon DynamoDB for Big Data | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBfWk3a6Lus |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2018: (DAT401) Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEPXoXVf2k |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | Review home pages for Mobile Hub, Cognito, SNS and IOT. Watch intro videos, review customer case studies | 1 hour | https://aws.amazon.com/mobilehub/ |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: Mobile Application Development: State of the Union (MBL306) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaRt3zr5nxY |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2017: IoT State of the Union (IOT210) | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAi18SbtWwU |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (MBL317) NEW! Introducing AWS Mobile Hub | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMz0XwRPY98 |
| 📺 | Engage Your Customers with Amazon SNS Mobile Push (MBL308) | AWS re:Invent 2013 | 45 minutes |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2014: (MBL303) Get Deeper Insights Using Amazon Mobile Analytics | 35 minutes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU4yAYDFL2A |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (MBL402) Mobile Identity Management & Data Sync Using Amazon Cognito | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX6pEWf344I |
| 📺 | AWS re:Invent 2015: (MBL313) New! AWS IoT: Understanding Hardware Kits, SDKs, & Protocols | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMiplPiU2nI |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | review the Solution page for Big Data and its referenced resources | 1 hour | https://aws.amazon.com/big-data/ |
| 📕 | review the Solution page for Mobile and its referenced resources | 1 hour | https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/ |
| 📕 | review the Solution page for Internet of Things (IoT) and its referenced resources | 1 hour | https://aws.amazon.com/iot/ |
| Type | Resource | Expected Duration | Link / Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📕 | AWS Getting Started guides and quick tutorials | 2 hours | https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/ |
| 📕 | Install and configure the AWS CLI and preferred development environment SDK (Python, Java, etc.) | 30 minutes | https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ |
| 📕 | Tutorial: Hosting a WordPress Blog with Amazon Linux | 1 hour | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/hosting-wordpress.html |
| 📕 | Review the different instance types | 20 minutes | http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ and http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#instance |
| 📺 | Watch Stephen Schmidt (AWS CISO) 2015 re:Invent Security Overview | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCH4r3s4THQ |
| 📺 | AWS Summit Series 2016 - Chicago - Compliance in the Cloud Using Security by Design | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVzrGr4Fkzc |
| 📺 | a collection of security-related sessions from re:Invent-2015 | 1-2hrs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRQgpQMzwTI&list=PLhr1KZpdzukc9aw8-gnLmyralfsBv7zcR |
| 📕 | AWS re:Invent 2014: High Availability Application Architectures in Amazon VPC | 1 hour | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fEHhBX7YKE |
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