CS4740 Cloud Computing
Neal Magee, Ph.D.
Solution Architect, Research Computing
University of Virginia, Fall 2022
Course Schedule
| # | Date | Topics(s) | Read / Watch / Do |
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| 00 | Student Survey |
 Take the Survey
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| 01 | 8/23 | Course introduction, Concepts & Requirements |
 A Visit to the "Cloud"  Cloud Foundations |
| 02 | 8/25 | Abstraction & Virtualization |
Virtualization Hypervisors |
| 03 | 8/30 | Managed Services & Cost Management |
AWS Managed Services Lab 0: Cost Control Lab (In class) |
| 04 | 9/1 | Building Blocks I: VPCs & Networking |
VPCs and Subnets VPC Evolution Lab 1: Virtual Private Cloud (Submit by 9/8) |
| 05 | 9/6 | Building Blocks II: Security Groups & Ingress/Egress |
VPC Security Groups |
| 06 | 9/8 | Building Blocks III: IAM & Tagging |
IAM Overview Tagging Best Practices Lab 2: Identity and Access Management (Submit by 9/15)
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| 07 | 9/13 | Building Blocks IV: Block vs. Object Storage |
AWS Storage Storage Compared Object Storage Lab 3: Introduction to S3 (Submit by 9/22) |
| 08 | 9/15 | Building Blocks V: CDNs, Caching & Network Storage |
Introduction to AWS CloudFront Google Cloud CDN |
| 09 | 9/20 | Building Blocks VI: EC2 & Virtual Machines |
Amazon EC2 Create an EC2 Instance Lab 4: Introduction to EC2 (Submit by 9/27) GCP: Create a Virtual Machine |
| 10 | 9/22 | Building Blocks VII: Machine Images |
Dynamic AMIs |
| 9/26 | Programming Assignment #1 Due @ 5:00pm |
PA #1
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| 11 | 9/27 | Building Blocks VIII: Bootstrapping |
Deployment Strategies Lab 5: EC2 Bootstrapping (Submit by 10/14) |
| 12 | 9/29 | Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation |
AWS CloudFormation Lab 6: Introduction to CloudFormation (Submit by 10/14) |
| 10/4 | No Class - Fall Reading Day | ||
| 13 | 10/6 | Infrastructure as Code: CLI / boto3 / SDKs |
CI/CD in 100 Seconds Continuous Integration DevOps in Practice |
| 14 | 10/11 | CLI / boto3 / SDKs Continued |
AWS CLI v2 Introduction CI/CD at Instragram Lab 7: boto3 SDK (Submit by 10/20)
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| 15 | 10/13 | Scaling / Right-sizing / Chaos Engineering |
Netflix Chaos Engineering Right-Sizing Lab 8: EC2 Auto-scaling
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| 10/14 | Programming Assignment #2 Due @ 5:00pm |
PA #2
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| 16 | 10/18 | Designing Apps for the Cloud |
Cloud Design Patterns Well-architected Framework |
| 17 | 10/20 | Running Microservices |
Martin Fowler Microservice Patterns AWS Lightsail
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| 10/24 | Mid-Term Exam Due @ 11:59pm EDT (Covers material through 10/13) |
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| 18 | 10/25 | Serverless I: AWS Lambda |
AWS Lambda Overview Serverless Architectures |
| 19 | 10/27 | Serverless II: Lambda + Events |
Martin Fowler: EDA GCP: Event-Driven Architecture AWS Serverless Multi-tier AWS Step Functions |
| 20 | 11/1 | Serverless III: Chalice (online lecture, no in-class meeting) |
AWS Chalice Walkthrough: AWS Chalice Event-driven Pipeline Lab 9: Audit your AWS Environment |
| 21 | 11/3 | Serverless IV: API Gateway 1 |
Introduction to API Gateway Serverless Analytics for Games |
| 11/8 | No Class - Election Day | ||
| 22 | 11/10 | Serverless V: API Gateway 2 |
Lecture: API Fundamentals |
| 11/15 | Classes Canceled | ||
| 23 | 11/17 | Relational & NoSQL Databases in the Cloud |
Lecture: Cloud Databases Cloud Database Intro Martin Fowler Lab 10: CRUD Activities with DynamodB |
| 24 | 11/22 | ML/AI & Big Data Services (online lecture, no in-class meeting) |
Lecture: ML/AI In the Cloud Google Bigtable GitHub / Google BigQuery |
| 11/24 | No Class - Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 25 | 11/29 | Cloud Security |
AWS re:Inforce: Security Fundamentals AWS Shared Responsibility Model Secrets Management |
| 26 | 12/1 | Certification Prep |
AWS Certification GCP Certification Azure Certification |
| 12/2 | Programming Assignment #3 Due @ 11:59pm |
PA #3
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| 27 | 12/6 | Wrap-up / Deadline for Lab Verifications | |
| 12/09 | Final Exam Due @ 12:00pm EST (Covers all course material) |