AWS Basic and Essential Roadmap

Some references:

• ec2: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/concepts.html
• ec2 autoscaling: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/what-is-amazon-ec2-auto-scaling.html

EC2

AMIs

• AWS AMIs (features Amazon Linux AMI vs Ubuntu AMIs)
  • How to find AMIs
  • AMI Types
• How to create AMI?
• How to purchase and sell an AMI
• Sharing AMIs

Instance Types

• Type of instances
• Pricing Models or Purchase options
• How to connect to an EC2 (windows, linux)?
  • linux: SSH Daemon, SSM
  • windows: RDP

Storage (EBS)

• EBS Volumes
  • What is it?
  • Types
  • Attach a vol to an instance (linux)
• EBS Snapshots
  • What is it?
    • Archive Tier (saves costs)?
  • How to create a snapshot?
  • Share an snapshot
  • EBS Monitoring
  • Others: S3, EFS, FSX

Auto-scaling (ALBs, TGs, SGs)

• ALB: Types of load balancer and its differences
  • ALB: What is a Target Group, what are its properties?
• ASG: What are Launch Templates and Launch Configurations?
• ASG: How to create an Autoscaling group?
• ASG: What are the different ways to scale an ASG?
• ASG: What are Warm Pools?

Networking (?)

• Differences between private ip and public ip
  • Difference between EIP and Auto-assigned public ip
• How DHCP and DNS work?
• What is an AWS Region and a Zone??
• Network Interfaces: ENI, ENA, EFA

Security (?)

• What is and How to use an IAM Role in EC2?
• SG: How different are Security Groups vs Network ACLs (nacl)?
• Key Pairs and usage (linux, windows) (?)
• What are AWS Shield and AWS WAF?
• How AWS KMS works for EBS?

VPC

S3

RDS