Cloud Computing: Architecting, Deploying, and Securing Solutions on AWS

by Abdirahim mohamed Abdi, Ismail Mumin Abdi

Wednesday 10 Dec 2025, 10:00 → 12:00 Africa/Mogadishu

Room 502 (Jazeera University Main Campus)

Overview

Cloud computing has revolutionized how businesses build and scale technology infrastructure. Instead of relying on traditional on-premise data centers that require heavy investment in hardware, maintenance, and management, organizations now use cloud platforms to access computing resources on demand. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s leading cloud provider, offering a broad set of services that empower companies to architect scalable applications, deploy workloads efficiently, and secure systems using modern industry best practices. This program introduces core cloud concepts, AWS service categories, deployment approaches, and security foundations necessary for building reliable, cost-efficient, and well-architected solutions in the cloud.

 

Outline

A. Introduction to Cloud Computing

• Definition and evolution of cloud computing
• Benefits: scalability, elasticity, cost efficiency, global reach
• Types of cloud computing services:
  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
  • PaaS (Platform as a Service)
  • SaaS (Software as a Service)

B. Deployment Models

• Public Cloud
• Private Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• Multi-Cloud Approach
• Real-world use cases for each deployment model

C. AWS Shared Responsibility Model

• AWS responsibility (Security of the cloud)
• Customer responsibility (Security in the cloud)

Best practices for customer security compliance

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D. Core AWS Services

1. Compute Services

• Amazon EC2: Instances, pricing, Auto Scaling
• AWS Lambda: Serverless compute
• Load Balancer & Auto Scaling Groups

2. Storage Services

• Amazon S3: Buckets, versioning, lifecycle policies
• EBS & EFS: Block vs file storage
• Glacier: Archival storage

3. Networking & Content Delivery

• VPC fundamentals: Subnets, routing, Security Groups
• Route 53: DNS service
• CloudFront: CDN and caching
• VPN & Direct Connect for hybrid networking

4. Databases

• RDS: Managed SQL databases
• DynamoDB: NoSQL workloads

5. Security and Identity

• IAM roles, policies, MFA
• CloudTrail & Config for auditing