Students will learn tools such as Bash (hands-on script practice) and Python Automation, which are essential skills in modern-day cybersecurity and cloud engineering.
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), including Security Groups, Network Access Control Lists (NACLs), and Subnets
Storage services at the block, object, and file level
EC2 instances and custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in compliance with CIS benchmarks
Autoscaling and Load Balancers
NAT gateways for protecting private subnets containing databases
Cross-Region peering and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) types
Billing strategies using Reserved Instances (RI), Savings Plans, and Spot Instances
Relational databases (RDS) with MySQL, multi-Availability Zone setups, and read replicas, as well as DynamoDB NoSQL databases
Strategies for requesting bill adjustments and reversals from AWS
Placement groups and backups/snapshots for disaster recovery
Global disaster recovery (DR) region planning and encryption using AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Automating snapshots, creating S3 buckets with versioning and cross-region replication, and hosting serverless applications using S3, Simple Notification Service (SNS), Redshift, Kinesis, and Lambda
Notification Service (SNS), Redshift, Kinesis, and Lambda
Domain registration and health checks using Route53, along with different routing policies and record types (A, CNAME, ALIAS)
Content Delivery Network (CDN) using CloudFront
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CloudFormation
Messaging and queuing with Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Auditing using CloudTrail
Connecting on-premises environments to AWS VPCs using Direct Connect and Directory Services/AD Connector
Integration of on-premises Active Directory (AD) users with cloud-based IAM roles
VPN connectivity between public and private cloud environments
Command-line interface (CLI) usage for cloud management

Our team

Hamza Jamal Haider

Syed Haider Raza Zaidi

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