VPC Networking: Designing a Software Defined Data Center on AWS

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Free Online Course: VPC Networking: Designing a Software Defined Data Center on AWS provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. VPC Networking: Designing a Software Defined Data Center on AWS is taught by Mark Wilkins.

Overview
  • Learn how to set up a multitier virtual private cloud (VPC)—a software-defined data center—on Amazon Web Services.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Designing a software-defined data center at AWS
    • What you should know
    • H+Sports use case
    1. VPC Architecture
    • Defining the VPC
    • Deep dive: Packet flow
    • AWS regions
    • AWS Availability Zones
    • Availability Zone considerations
    • AWS costs
    • AWS Regions and Availability Zones
    • Planning for fault tolerance, and high-availability
    2. Creating VPCs
    • VPC design choices
    • Create a VPC
    • The default VPC
    3. Creating Subnets
    • Reasons to create subnets
    • Creating subnets
    • Route tables
    • The master route table
    • Custom route table
    4. IP Addressing
    • Public and private IP addresses
    • Order an Elastic IP address
    • Hosting public IP addresses at AWS
    • Order BYOIP
    5. VPC Security
    • VPC security options
    • Security groups
    • Security group design
    • Create a custom network ACL
    • Network ACLs
    • Create security groups
    • Designing packet flow with security groups
    6. VPC Public Connectivity
    • Internet gateway services
    • Order and configure an internet gateway
    • Egress-only internet gateway
    • Add an Egress-only internet gateway
    • NAT services
    • Adding NAT services
    7. VPC Private Connectivity
    • VPC peering
    • Peering VPCs together
    • Sharing VPC resources
    • Sharing resources with RAM
    • Private endpoints
    • Gateway and interface endpoints
    • VPN connections
    8. VPC Compliance
    • Monitoring with Flow Logs
    • Create flow logs
    • Controlling access with IAM roles
    • Creating IAM roles for cross-account access
    • Dedicated tenancy VPC
    • Creating a dedicated tenancy VPC
    • VPC soft limits
    • Requesting a service limit increase
    • Using automation for compliance
    • Deploying a network stack with CloudFormation
    Conclusion
    • Next steps