Course Overview

Welcome to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) course! I’m Dipin Thomas, your instructor for this beginner-friendly journey. We’ll start with the basics and build up to advanced topics, ensuring you gain practical skills for deploying and managing EC2 instances—a crucial building block for many AWS services.

Module Breakdown

Module 1: Introduction and Foundations

In this module, you’ll learn:

• The role of EC2 in the AWS ecosystem
• Core networking components: VPCs, subnets, Availability Zones, and NAT gateways
• Real-world architectures demonstrating how these elements interact

Key resources:

• AWS EC2 Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
• AWS VPC Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/

Module 2: EC2 Essentials

You will explore:

• Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and how to choose them
• EC2 instance families and storage types (EBS, Instance Store)
• Automating instance setup with user data scripts
• Hands-on labs reinforcing each concept

Module 3: Advanced EC2 Concepts

Dive deeper into:

• Assigning IAM roles to EC2 instances for secure access
• Creating and using launch templates and configurations
• Scaling your application with Auto Scaling groups and Elastic Load Balancers
• Monitoring performance and logs using Amazon CloudWatch

For more on IAM roles, see the AWS IAM Documentation.

Module 4: Real-World Scenario

Apply your knowledge in a simulated environment for the fictional Acme Corporation. You’ll:

• Troubleshoot common EC2 issues (networking quirks, security group misconfigurations)
• Follow Alex, the cloud administrator, through step-by-step remediation
• Validate your solutions with quizzes and lab tasks

Each module features detailed lectures, live demonstrations, interactive quizzes, and practical lab exercises. By the end of this course, you’ll be proficient in deploying, securing, and scaling EC2 instances in real-world scenarios.

See you in the first lesson!