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Developing with Amazon Cloud Storage

In spring of 2006, Amazon ushered in the age of cloud storage with its Simple Storage Service (S3). Since then Amazon has introduced a slew of other cloud storage services ranging from storage associated with Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers to storage that’s part of Amazon’s content distribution network (CloudFront). All told Amazon has six distinctive cloud storage solutions which are continually being enhanced.

In this hands-on course, students will learn about all cloud storage services offered by Amazon Web Services, how each one fits in the Amazon storage landscape, the different performance and pricing options, and how to use each storage service. Developers interested in learning about and using Amazon cloud storage should find the course both challenging and engaging. By the end of the course students will have enough hands-on experience with the Amazon cloud storage services to apply to their own projects.

Course Brochure

LEARN HOW TO

Understand EC2 storage, EBS, S3, CloudFront, SDB, and RDS terms, concepts, and pricing models
Get hands-on training with each storage service using the APIs and management applications
Understand trade-offs of Amazon’s storage services and how they compare with each other

AGENDA

Amazon Storage Overview

EC2 Storage
Unstructured Data Storage
Structured Data Storage

Managing Amazon Storage

AWS Management Console
CloudWatch
Elasticfox
S3Fox Organizer
AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

EC2 Instance Storage

Instance storage types
Instance storage pricing
Using instance storage

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Key terms and concepts
EBS Pricing
Using EBS
EBS vs. Instance Storage

Using Simple Storage Service (S3)

Key S3 concepts
S3 Pricing
Putting data into S3
Accessing S3 data
3rd-party Applications
AWS Import/Export

Programming S3

S3 libraries
Writing data to S3
Reading data from S3

S3 Security

Key security concepts
Restricting access

Using CloudFront Content Distribution Network

Key CloudFront concepts
CloudFront Pricing
Putting data into CloudFront
Accessing CloudFront data
Programming CloudFront
S3 vs. CloudFront

Using Simple Database Service (SDB)

Key SDB concepts
SDB Pricing
Putting data into SDB
Querying SDB

Programming SDB

SDB Libraries
Writing data to SDB
Reading data from SDB

Using Relational Database Service (RDS)

Key RDS concepts
RDS Pricing
Using RDS
Programming RDS
RDS vs. SDB

Is This Course For You?

This course is meant for Java developers who want to understand how to use the various cloud storage services offered by Amazon Web Services. Basic Java development experience and familiarity with the open-source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) are required for this course.