2024-2025 College Catalog 
    
    Dec 27, 2024  
2024-2025 College Catalog

CIS 245 - AWS Cloud Foundations and Developing


Credits: 4
Lab/Lecture: Four Lecture.

Provides an overview of cloud concepts, Amazon Web Services (AWS) core services, security, architecture, pricing, and support. Intended for students who seek an overall understanding of cloud computing concepts, independent of specific technical roles. Prepares students for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Developer Associate exam. Provides students with the knowledge to develop, deploy and debug cloud-based applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.  It will investigate the different software development kits (SDKs) and how to build cloud infrastructure using code. Recommended preparation: A strong foundation in information technology fundamentals prior to taking this course.
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
  1. explain the value of the AWS cloud;
  2. explain the AWS shared responsibility model and AWS cloud security best practices;
  3. explain AWS cloud costs, economics, and billing practices;
  4. describe and position the core AWS services (compute, network, databases, and storage);
  5. identify aws services for common use cases;
  6. develop, deploy and debug code on the aws cloud;
  7. implement security within the aws cloud application;
  8. develop code based on aws cloud services and software development kits (sdks);
  9. refactor code based on aws services and versions;
  10. monitor and troubleshoot aws cloud applications.


Prerequisite(s): CIS 171 and CIS 215