Silver Oak Group of Institutes

Silver Oak College of Engineering and Technology

Report on

A Five-Day

GUJCOST, DST, Government of Gujarat sponsored

STTP on

“AWS Cloud Architecting”

Organized By

Department of Computer Engineering

A five-day Short Term Training Program on ‘AWS Cloud Architecting’ was organized from

February 25, 2019 to March 1, 2019 by the Department of Computer Engineering, Silver Oak

College of Engineering and Technology, sponsored by GUJCOST, DST, and Government of

Gujarat. The program aimed at empowering students, faculty members and industrialist and

makes them learn and develop the understanding about the AWS cloud architecture from scratch.

Expert Introduction

1. Mr. Harshal Trivedi (AWS Alexa Hero) - Mr. Harshal Trivedi is AWS Alexa Hero who

is currently working as CTO at Wobot Intelligence. Mr. Harshal Trivedi is Co-Founder of

SoftVan, Wobot Intelligence and Innoventaa. Harshal has been an IT Technocrat and

works closely with Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Big

Data.

2. Mr. Nilesh Vaghela (AWS Community Hero) : Mr. Nilesh Vaghela is an AWS

Community Hero with a working experience of more than 2 decades. He is associated with

Linux Community since 1998. He started working with AWS since 2013 and within one

year, he has trained a dedicated cloud team and started full support of AWS Cloud

Services as a AWS Standard Consulting partner. Nilesh Vaghela is the founder of

ElectroMech Corporation, an AWS Cloud and open source focused company.

The STTP started with the inaugural function.

The STTP was inaugurated with a felicitation to the experts by Dr.Saurin Shah (Principal,

SOCET) and Dr. Pina Bhatt (Principal, ASOIT). Followed by a brief keynote by Prof.SatvikKhara

(Head, Department of Computer Engineering, SOCET), the STTP was set open.

Over a period of 5-days, the following topics were covered as a part of this Programme.

Day 1 - Session 1: Introduction to AWS

Mr. Harshal Trivedi gave a detailed introduction on advantages of Cloud Computing as

well as fundamentals of cloud services.

Day 1 - Session 2: Introduction to EC2

The expert discussed about Amazon Elastic Compute cloud.

Day 1 - Session 3: Introduction to Amazon Echo

The expert gave a detailed insight on Amazon Elastic Compute cloud.

Felicitation to Mr. Harshal Trivedi by Dr.Saurin Shah(Principal, SOCET)

Felicitation to Mr.Nilesh Vaghelaby Dr.Pina Bhatt(Principal, ASOIT)

Opening speech by Prof.SatvikKhara (Head, Department of Computer Engineering,

SOCET)

Day 2 - Session 1: What is Alexa?

Day 2 began with the introduction of Alexa.

Day 2 - Session 2: Alexa Concepts, modules and programming

The fundamental modules of Alexa programming were discussed.

Day 2 - Session 3: Alexa Skills

An overview of how Alexa can be trained to perform skills.

Participants gaining insight about Alexa and Amazon Echo.

Devices like Alexa and Amazon Echo were brought in for a more hands-on experience

Mr. Harshal Trivedi talking about Alexa and Amazon Echo.

Day 3 - Session 1: Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Glacier

Storage:

Mr. Nilesh Vaghela gave a briefing about Load balancing and CloudWatch.

Day 3 - Session 2: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

A detailed session on how Amazon Simple Storage Service is changing the game.

Day 3 - Session 3: AWS Identity and Access Management

For an enhanced understanding about the Identification and resource access.

Mr. Nilesh Vaghela talking about AWS Subscription Workflow.

The participants were fully indulged in the Amazon S3 session.

Day 4 - Session 1: Database and AWS and Simple Queue Services

An insightful session on how Queueing services enable coupling and decoupling

microservices on distributed systems.

Day 4 - Session 2: Subscription Workflow and Simple Notification Service

How workflows help in tracking the state and coordinate the tasks in the cloud.

Day 4 - Session 3: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and Amazon

Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

An interesting session on Fusing the power of Virtual network and the scalable

infrastructure of AWS.

Amazon and VPC – Let’s dive right in!

A bit more on Amazon EBS

Day 5 - Session 1: Domain Name System (DNS), Amazon Route 53, Amazon

ElastiCache

The expert shed some light about how the performance of web applications with the help

of Amazon ElastiCache.

Day 5 - Session 2: Additional Key Services, Security on AWS

A brief highlight on how key services handle the security on AWS.

Day 5- Session 3: AWS Risk and Compliance, Architecture Best Practices

A detailed explanation about the Best Practices for making the most out of the cloud

Architecture. The key highlight of the program was FUTURE OF VOICE

TECHNOLOGY IN AI: EXPLORING ALEXA PROGRAMMING.

Vote of Thanks by Prof.Viren Patel (Department of Computer Engineering, SOCET)

Certificate Distribution

Certificate Distribution

STTP ended with the Closing Ceremony.

Total 51 industrialists, professors, and students from different companies and institutes

participated in this five days STTP. This training program was successfully conducted and

provided an enriching experience to the participants. All candidates were satisfied with the course

and had good experience of having practical knowledge of recent technologies.

Feedback from the participants:

➢ Jay Barach: Very well managed event and very well-mannered andsupportive staff.

➢ Harsh Patel:The whole program was well-managed by the members. Everything happened in

perfect time. I really gained good knowledge.

➢ ManjeetsinhAlonja: Well managed and operated program. A good environment which

polished my skills. Overall, a good event.

➢ Bhrugu Pandya: I learned so many new things about AWS cloud architecture and tools which

I wasn’t aware of. I’d like to attend more such workshops.

➢ Kartik Derasari: What I specialy enjoyed was the hands-on session of each possible service

and tool along with Alexa Programming.

➢ RhushabhVaghela: The experts had good conceptual understanding. With the help of a hands-

on approach, we could easily understand the concepts.

➢ Nikhil Padhiyar: It was a good experience to explore AWS Cloud and service provided by

Amazon. Skill development will add value to my knowledge.