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Cloud Computing Security
  • Level Foundation
  • Duration 13 hours
  • Course by University of Colorado System
  • Offered by

About

In this MOOC, we will learn Cloud Computing basics using AWS as an example, We will guide you to create AWS account, planning AWS resources for your cloud systems, create AWS EC2 instances, access them and configure the popular LAMP web services with MySQL database. We will guide you to create user accounts for your programmer or operators using AWS Identify and Access management GUI, Register your domain name and setup DNS entry for your servers using AWS Route 53 in 22 mintues! and show you how to use AWS Command Line interface to create and managing instances and services programmatically. We then introduce AWS Load balancing feature, create load balancing cluster for scalability and reliability. We also demonstrate how to diagnose the problem introduced by the health check and firewall restriction conflicts. By the end of this course, you should be able to create your own web cluster with mysql databases, setup your users with credentials to manage your AWS resources/virtual machines either through their management control interface or using AWS CLI API using scripts. You will also learn the best practice in cloud security and debugging service interaction issues may arise in the cloud systems.

Modules

Welcome to Cloud Computing

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Welcome to Cloud Computing

1 Readings

  • Get help and meet other learners in this course. Join your discussion forums!

Cloud Computing Basic AWS as an Example Part 1

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Cloud Computing with AWS

1 Readings

  • Basic Cloud Service Models

Cloud Computing Basic AWS as an Example Part 2

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
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1 Discussions

  • What is public cloud's impact on security?

1 Videos

  • Cloud Computing Basic AWS as an Example Part 2

1 Readings

  • Cloud Service Interruption and Their Impact

AWS Cloud EC2 Service

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • AWS Cloud EC2 Service

1 Readings

  • AWS EC2

Sign up AWS Account

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • AWS Account Sign Up

1 Readings

  • AWS How It Started Myth

AWS Resource Planning

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • AWS Resource Planning

1 Readings

  • AWS Resource Features

Exam 1.1

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Quiz 1.1

Create AWS EC2 Instance

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 PeerReview
    • 1 ExternalTool
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1 External Tool

  • Receive AWS Educate Credit for Your Exercises

1 Peer Review

  • Project 1a. Create AWS Account and AWS EC2 Instance

1 Videos

  • Create an AWS Instance

1 Readings

  • Microsoft Azure an AWS Alternative

Secure Access to AWS Instance

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Secure Access to AWS Instance

1 Readings

  • Biomedical Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services

Configure LAMP Server Software Packages

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Configure LAMP Server Software Packages

Create IAM User Account and Apply IAM Security Best Practices

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Identity and Access Management

1 Readings

  • IAM Beyond Compliance Article

AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

1 Readings

  • AWS Command Line Interface

Use AWS CLI to clone and manage instances

    • 1 Videos
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1 Videos

  • Use AWS ClI to clone and manage instances

Exam 1.2

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1 Assignment

  • Quiz 1.2

Setup Domain with AWS Route53 service

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Setup Domain with Route53

1 Readings

  • Using Route 53 Amazon's DNS Service for the Cloud

Register DNS Entries with Route 53 Service

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Register DNS Entries on Route53

1 Readings

  • Routing Traffic to an Amazon EC2 Instance

Quiz 1.3

    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Quiz 1.3 AWS Route 53 Advanced DNS Services

AWS Load Balancing Cluster

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • AWS Load Balancing

1 Readings

  • Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive and Best Practices

Create AWS Load Balancing Cluster

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Create AWS Load Balancing Cluster

1 Readings

  • Articles on Issues with AWS ELB

Diagnose AWS Load Balancing Cluster Setup

    • 1 Videos
    • 2 Readings
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1 Videos

  • Diagnose AWS Load Balancing

2 Readings

  • Detecting Issues with Load Balancers
  • Survey Of Techniques And Challenges For Load Balancing In Public Cloud

Peer Assignment: Create Application Load Balancer

    • 1 PeerReview
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  • Create AWS Load Balancers

Quiz 1.4

    • 1 Assignment
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  • Quiz 1.4

Auto Summary

"Cloud Computing Security" is a foundational IT and Computer Science course focusing on AWS. Led by Coursera, it covers AWS account creation, resource planning, EC2 instance setup, LAMP services, user account management, DNS configuration, load balancing, and security best practices. This 780-minute course offers a practical guide to building and managing secure cloud systems, ideal for beginners looking to enhance their cloud computing skills. Subscription options include the Starter plan.

Edward Chow
Instructor

Edward Chow