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Utilizing Amazon Elastic Container Service to containerize your applications in order to enhance operational efficiency and scalability.

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Welcome to the Amazon Elastic Container Service course, where you'll embark on a journey to acquire practical expertise in Amazon Elastic Container Service and harness the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for efficient containerization.

Throughout this short course, you'll explore the industry-specific applications of Amazon Elastic Container Service and delve into containerization fundamentals. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Explore the world of containerization. - Illustrate the Features and Application Lifecycle of Amazon Elastic Container Service. - Have an overview of the components of Amazon ECS. - Set up the environment to use Amazon ECS. - Have a deep dive in Amazon Elastic Container Service where you will learn about the monitoring process and also explore the real-life scenarios of Amazon ECS. This short course is designed for freshers, AWS Developers, Software Engineers, AWS solution architects, DevOps Engineer and IT professionals seeking to enhance their containerization skills. Prior experience with Docker, and AWS is beneficial but not required for this course. Embark on an educational voyage to master Amazon Elastic Container Service and elevate your containerization expertise.

Welcome to the introductory course of Amazon Elastic Container Service. This course will help you gain a comprehensive hands-on learning experience on Amazon Elastic Container Service, a powerful and high-performance cloud-based container orchestration service. This course is designed for learners seeking to harness the capabilities of Amazon Elastic Container Service to easily deploy, manage and scale containerized applications.

What's included

34 videos8 readings6 assignments3 discussion prompts

34 videosTotal 182 minutes

Course Introduction6 minutesPreview module
Introduction to Containers - Part 14 minutes
Introduction to Containers - Part 26 minutes
Container management tools (Docker, Amazon ECS , OpenShift)6 minutes
AWS Account Setup and Navigation6 minutes
Choosing an AWS Container Service6 minutes
Introduction to ECS - Part 15 minutes
Introduction to ECS - Part 23 minutes
ECS Terminology and Features5 minutes
ECS Application Lifecycle - Part 14 minutes
ECS Application Lifecycle - Part 24 minutes
Working of ECS and ECR6 minutes
Amazon ECS Containers and Images4 minutes
ECS Cluster Concepts5 minutes
Amazon ECS clusters in Local Zones, Wavelength Zones, and AWS Outposts6 minutes
Amazon ECS cluster management and auto scaling4 minutes
Set-up process for the Amazon ECS - Part 15 minutes
Set-up process for the Amazon ECS - Part 24 minutes
Demonstration - Set-up process for the Amazon ECS - Part 15 minutes
Demonstration - Set-up process for the Amazon ECS - Part 26 minutes
Create a container image - Part 15 minutes
Create a container image - Part 26 minutes
Demonstration - Create a container image - Part 15 minutes
Demonstration - Create a container image - Part 24 minutes
Demonstration - Create a container image - Part 36 minutes
AWS ECS Anywhere4 minutes
Work with Windows containers on AWS Fargate4 minutes
Demonstration - Work with Windows containers on AWS Fargate - Part 13 minutes
Demonstration - Work with Windows containers on AWS Fargate - Part 24 minutes
Understand the concepts of Fargate, Task Definitions, Tasks, and Services5 minutes
Monitoring Amazon ECS and Securing Elastic Container Service5 minutes
Use with Linux containers on AWS Fargate4 minutes
Demonstration - Use with Linux containers on AWS Fargate7 minutes
Scheduling Amazon ECS tasks3 minutes

8 readingsTotal 41 minutes

Introduction to Amazon Elastic Container Service5 minutes
What is Container Orchestration and it's services5 minutes
How to Use Discussion Forums2 minutes
Amazon ECS use cases5 minutes
Amazon ECS container instances3 minutes
Get started with the console using Windows on Amazon EC210 minutes
Amazon Elastic Container Service – Best Practices and Real World Applications of ECS8 minutes
Summary3 minutes

6 assignmentsTotal 45 minutes

Knowledge Check: Overview of Container Service5 minutes
Knowledge Check5 minutes
Knowledge Check: Amazon ECS: Features and Application Lifecycle5 minutes
Knowledge Check: Deep Dive in Amazon Elastic Container Service5 minutes
End Course Knowledge Check20 minutes
Knowledge Check: Set up to use Amazon ECS5 minutes

3 discussion promptsTotal 9 minutes

What are the distinct characteristics and purposes of virtual machines, images, and containers in the field of computing and software deployment?3 minutes
What factors should we consider when selecting the appropriate ECS capacity, ECS provisioning, and Amazon ECS features?3 minutes
How can Linux users effectively initiate their journey with Amazon EC2 and ECS through the console, considering practical implementation and usage scenarios?3 minutes