Cloud Platforms

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Put your Elastic Load Balancing skills to the test as you are challenged with configuring a Network Load Balancer in a real environment.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Networking, Storage, Compute; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Advanced; Description: Learn how to implement software development, testing, and delivery using Docker with this Cloud Academy Lab.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Development, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 9 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Follow best practices with AWS Trusted Advisor auditing your AWS environment and advising you on performance, and security improvements.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 10 minutes; Content Topics: Management; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Greg DeRenne; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to create an Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) cluster and submit work to a cluster in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 45 minutes; Content Topics: Analytics, Storage; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to configure different Amazon Route 53 routing policies in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Networking, Content Delivery Networking; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: AWS X-Ray helps you analyze your applications, learn how to instrument Java applications using the AWS Cloud9 and AWS X-Ray in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Development, Monitoring; This hands-on lab has: 8 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Put your foundational cloud networking skills to the test in this hands-on challenge lab as you implement an Amazon VPC.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Networking, Security; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: In this lab, you will learn how to create EC2 spot instances, how they can be used in AWS, and how to handle instance interruptions.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Storage, Compute; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Luke Orellana; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Follow along with this hands on lab and configure remote state for Terraform configurations using an Azure Storage Account.; Duration: Up to 43 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Luke Orellana; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Follow along in this hands-on lab and create reusable infrastructure that can be versioned and tested with Terraform modules.; Duration: Up to 45 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Luke Orellana; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Discover the use case of Terraform provisioners and learn when to use them in Terraform configurations.; Duration: Up to 30 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Luke Orellana; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: In this lab, use Azure's Machine Learning Studio to build an ML Pipeline to train and deploy a model.; Duration: Up to 2 hours and 15 minutes; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Stefano Cascavilla; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this lab, you will create a DB subnet group, a Neptune Database, and you will perform some SPARQL commands.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 15 minutes; Content Topics: Databases; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Luke Orellana; Difficulty: Advanced; Description: Develop a test to validate a Terraform module using Terratest, a popular Golang library for testing Terraform code.; Duration: Up to 40 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Luke Orellana; Difficulty: Advanced; Description: Learn how to use Terragrunt to create separate Terraform environments with a remote state following DRY principles.; Duration: Up to 30 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to aggregate data using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka in this Hands-On lab.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Analytics; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Eric Magalhães; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn to increase the storage space of an existing EBS volume without losing the data on the volume in this hands-on lab on expanding EBS Volumes on Linux Instances.; Duration: Up to 45 minutes; Content Topics: Storage, Operating System; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Luke Orellana; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Follow along with this hands-on lab and learn how to deploy and configure Azure Firewall and create route tables.; Duration: Up to 55 minutes; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to implement object detection on every new image uploaded on Amazon S3.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: In this hands-on lab, you'll install the AWS Application Discovery agent on a server, verify it's collecting data, and you'll query the collected data with Amazon Athena.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Migration; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Stefano Cascavilla; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Demonstrate your Infrastructure skills for highly available and scalable applications by performing tasks required to set up a Compute Engine infrastructure in this lab challenge.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Google Cloud Platform; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Luke Orellana; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: In this lab challenge, you will put your infrastructure development skills to the test. You will be tasked with deploying an EC2 instance using Terraform by editing a partial Terraform configuration to include deploying the EC2 resource.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Deployment; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to use the Amazon Kinesis Agent application to collect log files and learn how to use AWS Glue and Amazon Athena to query the log data.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Matt Martinez; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn to implement lightning-fast analytics by building an Azure Databricks workspace and cluster to interact with Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 data.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps