AWS General Immersion Day
Details
Are you new to Amazon Web Services (AWS) or do you have experience and want to dive deeper into AWS? Then the General Immersion Day is for you. Join us on November 11th at IT Park Makhtumkuli for hands-on experience with foundational AWS services under the guidance of Igor Sharfmesser, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS.
An Immersion Day is organized around a theme and includes four presentations with hands-on labs that follow a common thread to help you learn the services.
- Date: November 11th (Saturday)
- Time: 3:00 PM
- Location: IT Park, Makhtumkuli 1A
As usual, since this involves a series of hands-on labs, please bring your own laptop.
Agenda
- Welcome and Introduction
- Introduction to AWS
- Compute on AWS: EC2
- Networking on AWS: VPC
- Storage on AWS: S3
- Security Essentials: IAM
- Raffle
Key topics
- Amazon EC2 – Secure and scalable compute capacity to support virtually any workload
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) – A service that lets you launch AWS resources on a logically isolated virtual network that you define
- Amazon S3 – Object storage to store and retrieve any amount of data from any storage location
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) – Secure access management to AWS services and resources
Requirements
The following level of knowledge is recommended:
- Any experience in IT
- Basic knowledge of common data center architectures and components (servers, networks, databases, applications, etc.)
No prior experience with cloud computing or AWS required.




