Join Bart Castle as he introduces the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam and explains what a career as a cloud solutions architect might look like for you. Learn why AWS is such an influential force in the information technology world, how their suite of career certifications fit together, and where to find the resource you'll need to pass the exam. Cover some of the best learning tools like a free AWS account, Cloud9, and the AWS Architecture site.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to deploy the CBT Nuggets AWS Lab Tools. If you’re preparing for AWS certification, the information in this hands-on training is recommended, but won’t appear on AWS exams. For more information, read our blog post about AWS Lab Tools or download the Supplemental Files.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you Amazon Web Services (AWS) account management designs and best practices. Learn about planning for the right levels of isolation to meet modern organizations' security, compliance, and control requirements. Gain an understanding of the shared responsibility trade-off between AWS and its consumers.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design and configure basic access management solutions by using AWS authentication and authorization components. Learn how to delegate permissions by using IAM roles, how to implement dynamic security policy statements by using IAM conditions and variables, and how to work with managed and inline security policies in the management console. Gain an understanding of users, groups, roles, security policies, Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), and the three main resources you can use to administer AWS resources: the management console, command line, and system developer kit.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to work with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) security policies. Learn about the structure and composition of security policy statements and their elements, like Effect, Action, and Resource. Cover other optional elements and how to use them to achieve common security objectives.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to plan and administer Linux and Windows EC2 instances in AWS. Learn how to create an EC2 launch template by using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), how to connect to an EC2 instance by using the Windows PuTTY client, and how to retrieve the administrator password for a Windows instance by using an EC2 key pair. Gain an understanding of virtualization, storage-volume images (snapshots), compute resources, the management console, SSH keys, and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to administer and maintain EC2 instances. Learn how to separate dynamic and static components within EC2 workloads by using data volumes, how to use data volume snapshots to take backups and create new Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and how to monitor and optimize EC2 instances. Gain an understanding of user data scripts and UserData.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you about network traffic flow and management in AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Learn how to implement and configure network interfaces, security groups, network access control lists (ACLs), and more. Gain an understanding of IP routing in VPCs and common techniques for isolating, filtering, and controlling network traffic.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to build a basic AWS virtual private cloud deployment to support a publicly accessible web server running Wordpress. Learn how to identify the key resources and configurations that'll support internet accessibility for a public-facing EC2-based web application including Elastic Network Interfaces and Security Group rules logic.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches how to work with private network traffic in AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Learn how to configure network address translation (NAT) services and how to provision a management network and administrative jump boxes to enable secure SSH or RDC-based access for administrators.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design dynamic EC2-based solutions, ensuring that durability, scalability, and maintenance are efficiently handled. Learn how to grow a web server Target Group by using a new instance and how to burst above a performance baseline level by using CPU credits. Gain an understanding of instance status, health checks, routing options, forwarding rules, EC2 Auto Recovery, and the three types of load balancers offered at AWS: Classic, Application, and Network.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design, implement, and test Auto Scaling groups and scaling policies. Learn how to set the AMI, instance type, and user data by using a launch configuration; how to externally control the size of Auto Scaling groups by using desired capacity parameters; and how to use CloudWatch to create an Auto Scaling policy that will control the timing of scale-in and scale-out events of scaling group. Gain an understanding of launch configurations and Elastic Beanstalk.

Join Bart Castle as he covers best practices for web-scale design. Learn how to apply a domain name to an Elastic Beanstalk application, how to move the static resources of a web application to an S3 bucket, and how to implement a CloudFront distribution. Gain an understanding of Route53, DNS redirection, blue/green deployments, and caching principles.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to apply best-practice asynchronous messaging principals and design messaging solutions by using AWS-managed services like the Simple Queue and Notification Services. Gain an understanding of polling-retrieval, push messaging, and stream messaging solutions.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to perform basic integration of the AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Simple Queue Service (SQS) to enable serverless service-to-service messaging.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to choose an appropriate AWS datastore based on data use and access pattern criteria. Gain an understanding of data and workload characteristics, such as sizing, rate, concurrency, and quality concerns. Learn about relational databases, contextual-document databases, graph databases, and in-memory datastores. Cover AWS services, such as RDS, TimeStream, ElasticSearch, MemcacheD, Redis, and QLDB.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to implement and support Amazon DynamoDB solutions. Gain an understanding of DynamoDB, on-demand backups, read capacity units (RCUs), and write capacity units (WCUs). Learn how to choose between SQL and NoSQL solutions, how to create DynamoDB IAM administrative security policies, how to enable global table replication, and more.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to create, manage, and design DynamoDB solutions that support common data interactions such as create, read, update, and delete. Learn how to create a DynamoDB table in the management console, how to create a table with the command line by using the create-table command, and how to add items to a table and retrieve items from a table by using the management console and command line. Gain an understanding of read consistency by covering eventually consistent reads and strongly consistent reads; item retrieval by covering scans and queries; and table data by covering expressions, filtering, and input files.

Join Bart Castle as he covers the cloud-based VPN services you can use to connect AWS and Azure networks together. Learn how to set up an NFS share by using the Elastic File service, how to mount and test an NFS share, and how to update route tables. Gain an understanding of VPN architecture, IPsec VPN, subnets, customer gateways (CGWs), and virtual gateways (VGWs).

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to configure and deploy the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Storage Gateway appliance. Learn how to provision gateway volumes, how to configure the gateway software on an EC2 Linux instance, and how to create and connect to an NFS-based share on the new gateway appliance.

Join Bart Castle as he covers the cloud-computing solutions and best practices of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn about the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization. Gain an understanding of the best practices included in each pillar and how to implement them.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you about the various monitoring solutions at AWS and how to use them. Learn how to choose the best metric for monitoring AWS services, applications, user activity, and admin activity; how to plan and design for metric collection, response timing, thresholds, and alarm limits; and how to use the Simple Notification Service (SNS) and CloudWatch Event Rules to notify you when your root account is used. Gain the skills you need to use the Personal Health Dashboard, automate Landing Zone deployments with AWS Control Tower, create a Metric Filter by using CloudWatch and CloudTrail log shipping, and more.

Join Bart Castle as he shows you how to use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track various types of metrics, set alarms, create custom dashboards, and more. Learn how to use custom CloudWatch metrics, how to review key API calls that enable the publishing of custom metrics, and how to publish custom CloudWatch metrics using AWS CLI scripts and Linux cron jobs. Gain an understanding of the default CloudWatch dashboards, the dual modes of the CloudWatch management console, and the alarm states and actions of CloudWatch.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design, plan, and evaluate various security logging solutions at AWS. Gain an understanding of operational log files, CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs, and the six-step design for AWS logging: collection, transport, storage, taxonomy, analysis, and security. Learn how to access AWS log files that show VPC network traffic, application activity, and datastore actions; how to install the CloudWatch agent with the CLI and the Systems Manager integration; how to design a centralized logging solution; and how to create an ELK stack.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to evaluate deployment management options at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn how to determine when you should use EC2, Systems Manager, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, or ElasticBeanstalk to manage deployment and configuration management activities.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to configure the AWS Systems Manager service. Gain an understanding of Systems Manager and what it has to offer as you work with the State and Inventory manager, Automation documents, and the Parameter store.

Join Bart Castle as he covers Infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation and teaches you how to use AWS CloudFormation stacks and templates. Learn how to apply source control, automated integration, and automated deployment to traditional infrastructure changes; how to write a basic resource-creation template for an S3 bucket; and how to provide input to a CloudFormation template in order to get the results you want. Gain an understanding of Change sets, intrinsic functions, tables mappings, FindInMap, and more.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to implement a self-service portfolio using AWS Service Catalog and CloudFormation. Learn how to register CloudFormation templates as products, how to list those products in a portfolio, and how to manage product versions, variables, permissions and more.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to implement and select protective security controls at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn how network isolation, security groups, and network access controls can work with network traffic filtering devices and services to meet security objectives.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you common hardening and security practices for EC2 instances. Learn how to approach patching and security updating directly or by using an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) hardening routine and how to manage EC2 key pairs and the resulting authentication models it supports for EC2 workloads.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to approach security for data in transit to, from, and within AWS regions, services, and networks. Learn how Amazon authenticates, secures, and controls access to service APIs. Gain an understanding of what factors contribute to data migration and transportation solutions involving Snowball, Storage Gateway, the Import/Export Service, and the Database Migration Service.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to plan for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn what sort of mitigation techniques are common and how AWS services can help protect against a variety of DDoS attacks, such as infrastructure-layer and application-layer attacks. Gain an understanding of common exploits and how to prepare for them.

Join Bart Castle as he covers common data security practices at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn how to leverage encryption and other security controls to secure DynamoDB table data and RDS databases. Gain the skills you need to add authentication and reliability controls.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to manage data encryption operations at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn how to plan for the use of KMS and HSM services. Gain an understanding of the encryption key management options available at AWS and common KMS key management and encryption activities, such as creating, deleting, labeling, and auditing keys and key usage.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you about common Elastic Block Store (EBS) encryption activities and concepts. Learn how to create and work with encrypted volumes using the management console and the AWS Command Line. Gain an understanding of how encrypted volumes affect other EBS aspects like snapshots and AMIs.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to improve and manage S3 bucket and object integrity and availability. Learn how to implement S3 lifecycle policies and bucket replication, how to validate object upload and download integrity with checksums, and how to integrate archive practices by using the Glacier storage-class and vaults.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you about critical S3 security best practices for ensuring confidentiality. Learn how to ensure that S3 object data isn't publicly accessible, how to secure S3 object data by using AES encryption, and how to plan for the appropriate combination of client-side encryption, server-side encryption, and key management options.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to maintain visibility over your organization's spending at AWS. Learn how to work with cost and usage reports (CUR) to generate reproducible reports, export them to S3, and set up an Athena-based analysis solution for further reviewing. Gain an understanding of how these tools can ensure visibility over critical aspects of your AWS deployment.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to implement cost and spend management controls at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn how to configure billing management administration, how to implement spend alert notifications, how to set up a budget and monitor it, how to use Lambda functions to react to spend overages, and how to mitigate costs by terminating resources automatically.

Join Bart Castle as he covers the components and value of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) for DevOps teams. Gain an understanding of the Code, Build, Test, Release, Deploy, and Operate phases. Learn how to write and edit code by using tools like Cloud9 and CodeStar, how to use CodeCommit and CodeBuild, how to deploy tested software by using CodeDeploy, and more.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to migrate an existing Wordpress (LAMP) website to Amazon Web Services (AWS) by using EC2 and RDS. Learn how to back up an existing site and restore those backups into a newly-created AWS environment, how to get an RDS instance ready to configure and connect to a Wordpress site, and how to build a basic Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP environment on EC2.

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam. Learn about the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected framework. Gain an understanding of question styles and how to approach answering trickier questions.