Course Curriculum

Contents
Course Curriculum ............................................................................................................................................... 1
Cloud Foundations............................................................................................................................................ 2
1. Overview of cloud, service and deployment models, pricing ....................................................................... 2
AWS ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
2. Cloud Computing on AWS ....................................................................................................................... 3
3. Managed Services on AWS ...................................................................................................................... 3
4. Big Data Management and Analytics on Cloud .......................................................................................... 3
5. Containers ............................................................................................................................................ 3
6. Cloud Native DevOps.............................................................................................................................. 3
Azure .............................................................................................................................................................. 4
7. Azure Infrastructure ............................................................................................................................... 4
8. Azure Security Solutions ......................................................................................................................... 4
9. Azure Solutions for Apps ......................................................................................................................... 4
10. Azure Data Platforms .......................................................................................................................... 4
Cloud Security & Migration ................................................................................................................................ 5
11. Cloud security overview, migration, financials ....................................................................................... 5
Google Cloud ................................................................................................................................................... 6
12. GCP - GCE, GAE, GKE, BigTable, CloudSQL, Storage, VPC, LB, Cloud Shell ................................................... 6
MicroServices .................................................................................................................................................. 6
13. MicroServices .................................................................................................................................... 6

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 Cloud Foundations

1. Overview of cloud, service and deployment models, pricing

● Introduction to Virtualization (VM’s and Containers)
● Service Delivery & Deployment Models
● Cloud Attributes and Services Taxonomy
● Introduction to Infrastructure Automation
● Key Aspects of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

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 AWS

2. Cloud Computing on AWS

● Compute, Load Balancing, Autoscaling
● Storage, Replication and Life Cycle Management
● AWS Organization and Identity
● Networking and Data migration

3. Managed Services on AWS

● Databases (RDS, DynamoDB)
● Web Application Firewall
● SNS, SQS, Cloudwatch
● Athena, Quicksight and Kinesis
● Serverless (Lambda)
● AWS Cognitive Services (Rekognition, Comprehend & Polly)

4. Big Data Management and Analytics on Cloud

● Concepts of NoSQL
● NoSQL Databases (Cassandra and DynamoDB)
● Partitioner, Replication, Snitch
● Query Driven Design and Distributed Development
● Amazon EMR, Hadoop, Hive and Spark

5. Containers
● Docker
● Elastic Container Service (ECS)

6. Cloud Native DevOps

● Terraform
● Deployment Pipeline (AWS Code Commit, AWS Code Deploy, AWS Code Pipeline)
● CloudFormation

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 Azure

7. Azure Infrastructure
● Introduction to Azure & its services
● Azure Virtual Machines (Networking components, Configuring high availability, Scale sets, Autoscaling,
etc.)
● Storage (Blob Storage, Azure Files)
● Virtual Networking (Networking Options, VNet Peering, VNet to VNet setup)
● Active Directory (Basics on Azure AD & AD connect)
● Azure Resource Manager (Building ARM template, Powershell, CLI, Cloud shell usage)
● Azure Cost Management (Αlerts, Budgeting, Pricing Calculator)

8. Azure Security Solutions

● Load Balancing (Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, WAF, Azure Traffic Manager)
● Network Security (Network Security Groups, Azure Bastion, Firewall)
● Security & Governance Solutions

9. Azure Solutions for Apps

● Azure App Services (Web Apps, Azure Functions, Logic Apps)
● API Management
● Container-based applications
● Messaging & Event-Based Services (Service Bus, Event Hub, Event Grid)
● Azure DevOps
● Monitoring (Monitoring options, Metrics, Service Health, Activity Log, Alerts, Configuring Log Analytics
and Diagnostic logging, Configuring App Insights)

10.Azure Data Platforms

● Cosmos DB (Introduction, Working with Core SQL API, Global distribution (replicas), Throughput,
Consistency, Partitioning, Connect via Azure function/VM2)
● SQL Database (Database options & models)
● Data Services Intro (Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Stream Analytics)

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 Cloud Security & Migration

11.Cloud security overview, migration, financials

● AWS Organizations
● Security services (Trusted Advisor, Data encryption, Amazon Inspector, AWS Config, Guard Duty, Macie)
● Identity and Access Control
● Application user management (AWS Cognito
● Cost Explore
● Cloud Migration Strategie
● Migration Maturity Index
● API based integration
● Workload Analysis

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 Google Cloud

12.GCP - GCE, GAE, GKE, BigTable, CloudSQL, Storage, VPC, LB, Cloud Shell
● Regions, Resources and Services Overview
● Google Compute Engine, Instance Groups, Load Balancing and Autoscaling
● Storage and Networking
● GCloud and Cloud SDK
● Google App Engine
● Google Kubernetes Engine

MicroServices

13.MicroServices
● Expectations and Characteristics
● Failures, Modelling challenges, Load balancing
● The 12-factor app
● Architecture and Design Patterns
● Anti Patterns
● Event Driven Architecture
● Security Enforcemen
● Migrating a monolith

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