AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Sign-up?

• Account Registration
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of management tasks and billing
• Amazon Pricing Structure

Module 2: The AWS Landscape – A High-Level Overview?

• General introduction to AWS
• EC2 – Introduction
• EBS – Introduction
• Security Groups – Introduction
• Elastic IP – Introduction
• CloudFront – Introduction
• S3 – Introduction
• Glacier – Introduction
• IAM – Introduction
• RDS – Introduction

Module 3: Amazon EC2 – Windows Server 2012 (Practical Lab)

• Starting a Windows Server 2012 instance
• Decrypting the password and obtaining the RDP shortcut client
• Connecting to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
• Stopping the Windows Server 2012 instance

Module 4: Amazon EC2 – Security Groups (Practical Lab)

• Setting up Security Groups
• Adjusting Security Groups
• Removing Security Groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Practical Lab)

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

Module 6: Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (Practical Lab)

• Lab 6.1
  1. Starting two Ubuntu EC2 instances – Apache web servers with user data
  2. Modifying HTML files on both servers
  3. Testing your web servers via the internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Setting up an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Adding both Ubuntu servers to the ELB
  3. Testing your Elastic Load Balancer
  4. Removing your Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route 53

• Understanding Route 53
• Live demo of Route 53 integration with the ELB created (conducted by the instructor)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• AWS S3 – Introduction and pricing
• Creating a Bucket and Folder
• Uploading, downloading, sharing, and deleting objects
• Removing the Bucket

DAY 2

Module 1: Amazon EC2 – Win 2012 with user data (Practical Lab)

• Starting the Win 2012 R2 server
• Implementing a web server using PowerShell-based user data
• Confirming successful execution of user data
• Stopping the Ubuntu server

Module 2: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with user data (Practical Lab)

• Starting the EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Implementing a web server using User-data
• Confirming successful execution of user data

Module 3: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with Metadata (Practical Lab)

• Overview of Metadata
• Retrieving metadata information about your EC2 instance
• Stopping the Ubuntu server

Module 4: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (Practical Lab)

• AWS S3 overview and pricing
• Creating an S3 Bucket
• File Versioning
• Static web hosting on S3
• Cross-region replication of your objects
• Live demo by the instructor: Using Route 53 redirects to access static web content

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing
• Setting up lifecycle policies for your data
• Retrieving data from Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion of data from S3 based on rules

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation
• CloudFormation – Creating a new stack
• Deploying a sample template in JSON format
• Using existing templates and deploying them

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 (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating a role
  2. Assuming a role
  3. Deleting a role
• IAM users and groups (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating a user and group
  2. Adding a user to the group
  3. Setting up password policy for users
  4. Attaching policies to users
  5. Enabling dual-factor authentication for users
• IAM Roles (Practical 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 an object from your local machine to 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 (Practical Lab by students)
  1. Creating a VPC
  2. Subnets
  3. Internet Gateway
  4. Routing
  5. Configuring a NAT instance
  6. Creating security groups
  7. Launching instances

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database using Python SDK

• Overview of 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 using the Python SDK
• Deleting items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory only)

• Overview of Amazon RDS
• Managing your own database on EC2 vs. using RDS

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

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