In this course, you will assume the role of an IT team member for a fictitious company, Don & Associates. This will help you learn about an IT professional's role and how to develop solutions on the job.

Don & Associates is a financial consulting company that provide services to small$-$ and medium$-$sized companies. The company operates networks and servers, as well as other physical technological infrastructure.

Don & Associates is looking to expand its services and locations, but the owner of the company is worried about the cost of acquiring additional equipment and is also concerned about maintenance and space. The owner is looking for an innovative solution that will reduce the operational cost of expansion.

Assignment $1$: Executive Summary$$In this assignment, you will develop a high$-$level overview in the form of an executive summary that will review the types of cloud computing, describe the advantages of moving operations to the cloud, and include a brief introduction of the major cloud vendors.

Assignment $2$: Cloud Vendor Presentation$$In this assignment, you will develop a detailed comparative analysis of the cloud vendors and the services on the market. You will present your findings in a narrated PowerPoint presentation that will be presented to the owner of the company.

Assignment $3$: Proof of Concept Report$$Your task is to develop a proof of concept by building a virtual machine on the AWS cloud platform to host your current infrastructure. For the purpose of the lab, you will use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud $($VPC$)$ to create your own VPC and launch a web server to host the company's web server. You will also create security groups for an EC$2$ instance, configure and customize the EC$2$ instance to run the web server, and launch it into the VPC$.$