Cloud Platforms

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: In this lab, you'll how to create workflows in Azure Logic Apps using variables and controls to develop complex workflows while integrating external services.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 10 minutes; Content Topics: Development; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to use AWS Glue with AWS Lambda and Amazon S3 to create an efficient searchable data lake in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to deploy containerized applications in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters from the Cloud Console, Cloud Shell, and Marketplace in this Lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 15 minutes; Content Topics: Google Cloud Platform; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to create tables, set distribution styles, and configure fine-grained access on an Amazon Redshift cluster in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to use an Amazon RDS Proxy to make your database-backed applications more performant and resilient in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 15 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 4 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Test your Amazon Elastic Container Service challenge skills in this hands-on lab as you tasked with deploying a web application; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This lab challenge has: 1 Lab step

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to use Amazon GuardDuty to automatically uncover malicious EC2 activity and configure threat lists to improve the security of your AWS environments.; Duration: Up to 50 minutes; Content Topics: Security; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to manage Cosmos DB using the Azure Portal and CLI as you integrate Azure Functions with Cosmos DB change feed triggers to buy and sell stocks.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Adil Islam; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to enable end-users to reset forgotten passwords without the need for a call to the help desk using Microsoft Entra ID Self-Service Password Reset in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 15 minutes; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This hands-on lab has: 4 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this lab, you will be uploading data to BigQuery directly and using other big data GCP Services like Dataproc and Dataflow.; Duration: Up to 45 minutes; Content Topics: Google Cloud Platform; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Put your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud skills to the test in this hands-on challenge as you are tasked with isolating a compromised EC2 instance.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Advanced; Description: Learn about provisioning an Azure VM with Terraform modules including making your own reusable modules in this lab. You will use Cloud Academy's browser-based IDE to complete the lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment; This hands-on lab has: 8 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Develop, visualize, serve, and consume a TensorFlow machine learning model using the Amazon Deep Learning AMI in this Lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 40 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 9 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Join this Lab and gain experience using an TensorFlow convolutional neural network to style images and monitor the GPU used for training in Amazon CloudWatch.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 10 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Take control of a p2.xlarge instance equipped with an NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU to perform CPU vs GPU performance analysis for AWS Machine Learning in this Lab.; Duration: Up to 45 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 8 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Practice serverless web development with Python for AWS by deploying an app that uses the Serverless Application Model (SAM), Cognito user pools, and DynamoDB.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 12 Lab steps

Author: Adil Islam; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: In this hands-on lab playground, you'll have the opportunity to play around with the PowerBI Desktop application and build queries, data models, and visualize data using reports.; Duration: Up to 4 hours; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This hands-on lab has: 1 Lab step

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Prove your Amazon Route 53 skills and knowledge in this hands-on challenge laboratory as you are tasked with creating a hosted zone.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Networking, Content Delivery Networking; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Parveen Singh; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to investigate security attacks on a Windows virtual machine using Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rule in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Azure Sentinel; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Parveen Singh; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to use Microsoft Sentinel security tools to collect, investigate and hunt threats using this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; This hands-on lab has: 4 Lab steps

Author: Adil Islam; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn the benefits of continuous integration using Azure Pipelines to automate the building and checking of your code in this hands-on Azure DevOps lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create and deploy a cloud-native application voting webapp into an Amazon EKS cluster.; Duration: Up to 2 hours and 15 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to deploy a highly available website using AWS, with a scenario based on challenges, like time restrictions, and cost limitations many websites face.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 8 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Put your AWS Identity and Access Management skills to the test in this hands-on challenge lab as you are tasked with configuring cross account access.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps