This course provides the best Amazon Web Services (AWS) tutorial for beginners to learn about AWS cloud services.

Learn about the core AWS's services like compute, storage, networking services and how they work with other services like Identity, Mobile,  Routing, and Security. This course provides you with a good grasp an all you need to know of AWS services.

This course has been designed by three AWS Solution Certified Architects who have a combined industry experience of 17 years.  We aim to provide you with just the right depth of knowledge you need to have.

Kyle Murphy

Easy to read and very succinct ! Loved this course. Its better than most other courses  out there that are either half baked or way to detailed. 

Excellent,  time and money well spent on this. 

Richard Guajardo

Got what I was looking for. I used this for my interview prep with AWS. 

Worth it !

Tammy Rogers 

Loved all the architecture diagrams. It really helped in understanding how each service would be used. 

Pretty detailed. 

Learn the A to Z of  Amazon Web Services  (AWS)

## DNS – basics
DNS is fundamentally used to convert human-friendly domain names to IP addresses. For example, `www.xyz.com` gets translated into `http://18.125.38.x`.

### Domain registrars

As all domains in a top-level domain (i.e. `com`, `.uk`, `.gov`) need to be unique, there needs to be a central authority that owns the assignment and management of domains, this is done by domain registrars.

They essentially register the domain in the central database known as the *WHOIS database*.

**NS Record** stands for Name Server records, they are used by top Level Domain servers to direct traffic to the content DNS Server which holds the authoritative DNS record.

If you register a domain on AWS or `Godaddy.com` you would take your NZ records and give them to GoDaddy that way traffic will be directed to your name server address.

**A – Record**: an ‘A-record’ is the fundamental type of DNS record and the “A” in the record stands for Address. The record is used by a computer to translate the name of the domain to the IP address. 

**TTL (Time to Live)** is the interval length that a DNS record is cached on either the Resolving Server or the user’s own local PC measured in seconds. 
 The lower the TTL the faster the changes to the DNS records propagate throughout the internet.

**C-Name or Canonical Name** is used to resolve one domain name to another. Eg: Resolving `http://m.google.com` to `http://google.com`.  

Alias Records are used to map resource record sets in your hosted zone to elastics load balancers that are configured to your web instances. 


# DNS – basics
DNS is fundamentally used to convert human-friendly domain names to IP addresses. For example, `www.xyz.com` gets translated into `http://18.125.38.x`.

## Domain registrars

As all domains in a top-level domain (i.e. `com`, `.uk`, `.gov`) need to be unique, there needs to be a central authority that owns the assignment and management of domains, this is done by domain registrars.

They essentially register the domain in the central database known as the *WHOIS database*.

**NS Record** stands for Name Server records, they are used by top Level Domain servers to direct traffic to the content DNS Server which holds the authoritative DNS record.

If you register a domain on AWS or `Godaddy.com` you would take your NZ records and give them to GoDaddy that way traffic will be directed to your name server address.

**A – Record**: an ‘A-record’ is the fundamental type of DNS record and the “A” in the record stands for Address. The record is used by a computer to translate the name of the domain to the IP address. 

**TTL (Time to Live)** is the interval length that a DNS record is cached on either the Resolving Server or the user’s own local PC measured in seconds. 
 The lower the TTL the faster the changes to the DNS records propagate throughout the internet.

**C-Name or Canonical Name** is used to resolve one domain name to another. Eg: Resolving `http://m.google.com` to `http://google.com`.  

Alias Records are used to map resource record sets in your hosted zone to elastics load balancers that are configured to your web instances. 


 Get introduced to the fundamentals of DNS.


DNS Basics

Get introduced to the fundamentals of DNS.

Fundamental Building Blocks of AWS

AWS: Miscellaneous Services

AWS: Identity & Access Management (IAM)

AWS: Compute Offerings

AWS: Storage

AWS: Database Offerings

AWS: Routing

AWS: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

AWS: Application Services

AWS Well Architected Framework

DNS Basics

DNS – basics

Domain registrars