Week 2 Worklog

Understand and practice deploying Amazon EC2: AMI, EBS, Instance Store, Metadata, Auto Scaling, Pricing.
Learn related Compute & Storage services: Lightsail, EFS, FSx, MGN and real-world use cases.
Practice launching EC2 instances and managing resources with Tags & Resource Groups.
Get familiar with and use Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring & logging.
Practice deploying applications with Auto Scaling Group (ASG) to ensure availability and scalability.
Learn the AWS Transit Gateway mechanism for connecting multiple VPCs.

Day	Tasks	Start date	Completion date	Reference Material
2	- Study AWS Transit Gateway	15/09/2025	15/09/2025	https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
3	- Learn about Compute VMs on AWS (EC2, AMI, EBS, Instance Store, Metadata, Auto Scaling, Pricing…) - Study Lightsail, EFS, FSx, MGN - Complete Module 03-01 → 03-07, 03-02	16/09/2025	16/09/2025	https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
4	- Further study Amazon EC2 (overview, features, usage) - Successfully deploy an EC2 instance	17/09/2025	17/09/2025	https://000004.awsstudygroup.com/
5	- Learn about Tags & Resource Groups for AWS resource management - Practice tagging and managing resource groups successfully	18/09/2025	18/09/2025	https://000027.awsstudygroup.com/
6	- Workshop: Amazon CloudWatch (monitoring & logging) - Learn Auto Scaling Group (deploy FCJ Management app with ASG) - Complete CloudWatch workshop and deploy the application using Auto Scaling Group successfully	19/08/2025	19/08/2025	https://000006.awsstudygroup.com/

Theoretical knowledge mastered:
- Amazon EC2 and storage types (EBS, Instance Store)
- Auto Scaling and EC2 pricing options
- Amazon Lightsail, EFS, FSx, MGN and their corresponding use cases
Hands-on achievements:
- Launched EC2 instances successfully
- Tagged resources and managed them with Resource Groups
- Used CloudWatch for system monitoring
- Deployed the FCJ Management application with an Auto Scaling Group
Able to combine theory and labs to better understand how services operate in practice.