This is the first lab in the series where we take a look at getting around with IAM. On Azure we have Azure Active Directory. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no editing whatsoever so you'll … Continue reading AWS Developer Cert Prep Part 1: Introduction to IAM

Here is an index of all the parts of the ten part series of self-recorded labs targeting preparation for the AWS SysOps Administrator Associate Certification. Identity & Access Management (IAM) EC2 (Windows & Linux) EBS-Backed AMIs Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) Relational Database Service (RDS) Auditing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Auto-scaling with EC2 Command-Line-Interface (CLI) and Software Development … Continue reading AWS SysOps Administrator Associate Cert Prep Series Recap

This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at launching and managing a web application using AWS CloudFormation. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no editing whatsoever so you'll get … Continue reading AWS SysOps Administrator Cert Prep Part 10: Launching and Managing a Web App with CloudFormation

This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at utilizing the command-line-interface (CLI) and software development kits (SDKs) to manage AWS services. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no editing … Continue reading AWS SysOps Administrator Cert Prep Part 9: CLI and SDK Management

This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at setting up a VPC. On Azure we call these things "Virtual Networks". I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no editing whatsoever … Continue reading AWS SysOps Administrator Cert Prep Part 7: VPC

This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at performing a security audit across some resources within an AWS account. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no editing whatsoever so … Continue reading AWS SysOps Administrator Cert Prep Part 6: Performing a Security Audit

This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at setting up RDS and using it with an application hosted on an EC2 instance. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no … Continue reading AWS SysOps Administrator Cert Prep Part 5: RDS

This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at setting up a ELB. On Azure we have a couple of options but Traffic Manager probably is the closest relative. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is … Continue reading AWS SysOps Administrator Cert Prep Part 4: ELB

This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at setting up EBS-Backed EC2 instances using our own custom AMIs. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no editing whatsoever so you'll … Continue reading AWS SysOps Administrator Cert Prep Part 3: EBS-Backed AMIs

This is the next lab in the series where we take a look at setting up and connecting to an EC2 instance running Windows Server. I recorded this lab so that others might experience it in a more passive way if they so chose. This video is a straight shot with no editing whatsoever so … Continue reading AWS SysOps Administrator Cert Prep Part 2B: EC2 Windows