AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Registration

• Signing up for an AWS account
• Overview of the Amazon Management Console
• Management activities and billing overview
• Understanding Amazon pricing

Module 2: AWS Big Picture – High-Level Overview

• General overview of AWS
• EC2 – Overview
• EBS – Overview
• Security Groups – Overview
• Elastic IP – Overview
• CloudFront – Overview
• S3 – Overview
• Glacier – Overview
• IAM – Overview
• RDS – Overview

Module 3: Amazon EC2 – Windows Server 2012 (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 instance
• Decrypting the password and downloading the RDP client shortcut
• Connecting to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
• Terminating the Windows Server 2012 instance

Module 4: Amazon EC2 – Security Groups (Hands-on Lab)

• Creating Security Groups
• Modifying Security Groups
• Deleting Security Groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Hands-on Lab)

• Creating a Standard Volume
• Creating and deleting snapshots
• Attaching volumes to Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 instances
• Detaching and deleting volumes

Module 6: Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (Hands-on Lab)

• Lab 6.1
  1. Launching two Ubuntu EC2 instances as Apache web servers with user data
  2. Editing HTML files on both servers
  3. Testing the web servers via the internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Creating an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Registering both Ubuntu servers with the ELB
  3. Testing the Elastic Load Balancer
  4. Deleting the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• Introduction to Route53
• Demonstration of Route53 integration with the previously created ELB (conducted by the instructor)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS S3 – Overview and pricing
• Creating a Bucket and Folder
• Uploading, downloading, sharing, and deleting objects
• Deleting a Bucket

DAY 2

Module 1: Amazon EC2 – Windows 2012 with User Data (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching a Windows 2012 R2 server
• Using PowerShell-based user data to configure a web server
• Verifying successful execution of user data
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

Module 2: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with User Data (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching an EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Configuring a web server using User Data
• Verifying successful execution of user data

Module 3: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with Metadata (Hands-on Lab)

• Overview of Metadata
• Retrieving metadata information for an EC2 instance
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

Module 4: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS S3 overview and pricing
• Creating an S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Setting up static web hosting in S3
• Cross-Region replication of objects
• Using Route53 redirection to access static web content (live demo by instructor)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing
• Creating lifecycle policies
• Accessing data from Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion of S3 data based on rules

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation
• CloudFormation – Creating a new stack
• Deploying a sample template in JSON format
• Utilizing existing templates for deployment

DAY 3

Module 7: AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

• What is IAM? – A comprehensive introduction
• AWS federation with Active Directory – Theory only
• Getting started with IAM
• IAM Roles – Delegation and Federation (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating a role
  2. Assuming a role
  3. Deleting a role
• IAM Users and Groups (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating a user and a group
  2. Adding a user to the group
  3. Configuring password policies for users
  4. Attaching policies to users
  5. Enabling dual-factor authentication for users
• IAM Roles (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating an IAM role with full access to EC2 and S3
  2. Launching an EC2 instance and validating CLI-based access

Module 8: AWS CLI

• Working with the AWS CLI
• Launching an instance with full access to S3 and EC2
• Configuring the awscli client
• Creating a security group using the CLI
• Creating a key pair using the CLI
• Launching an EC2 instance using the CLI
• Stopping an EC2 instance using the CLI
• Terminating an EC2 instance using the CLI
• Creating a load balancer using the CLI
• Deleting a load balancer using the CLI
• Creating an S3 bucket using the CLI
• Uploading and downloading objects between a local machine and S3 via the CLI
• Listing buckets via the CLI
• Deleting buckets via the CLI

Module 9: Application Development and Deployment Best Practices

• Deploying applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Deploying a Python Beanstalk environment
• Deploying an IIS environment
• Terminating the Python and Beanstalk environment

DAY 4

Module 10: AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• What is VPC? – A comprehensive introduction
• Understanding VPC configurations
  1. VPC with a single public subnet
  2. VPC with public and private subnets
  3. VPC Peering
  4. Access Control Lists
• Configuring VPC Instances (Hands-on Lab for students)
  1. Creating a VPC
  2. Creating subnets
  3. Setting up an Internet Gateway
  4. Configuring routing
  5. Configuring a NAT instance
  6. Creating security groups
  7. Launching instances

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database using Python SDK

• Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB
• Key aspects of Amazon RDS
• Configuring the Python SDK to access DynamoDB
• Creating tables using the Python SDK
• Inserting items using the SDK
• Querying data using the Python SDK
• Deleting items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory Only)

• Description of Amazon RDS
• Managing your own database on EC2 versus using RDS

Module 13: AWS SNS, SQS, and SWF (Theory Only)

• Simple Notification Service (SNS) – Overview and use cases
• Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Overview and use cases
• Simple Workflow (SWF) – Overview and use cases