AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Sign Up

• User Sign Up
• Overview of the Amazon Management Console
• Management activities and billing overview
• Amazon Pricing

Module 2: AWS Big Picture – 10,000 Feet Overview

• An introduction to AWS
• EC2: An overview
• EBS: An overview
• Security Groups: An overview
• Elastic IP: An overview
• CloudFront: An overview
• S3: An overview
• Glacier: An overview
• IAM: An overview
• RDS: An 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 servers
• 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 your web servers via the internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Creating an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Adding both Ubuntu servers to the ELB
  3. Testing your Elastic Load Balancer
  4. Deleting your Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• What is Route53?
• Route53 demo integration with the ELB created (Demonstrated by the instructor only)

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 - Win-2012 with User Data (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching the Win 2012 R2 server
• Using PowerShell command-based user data for the web server
• Verifying that user data executed successfully
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

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

• Launching the EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Using user data for the web server
• Verifying that user data executed successfully

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

• Metadata: An overview
• Retrieving metadata information about your 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
• File Versioning
• Static web hosting in S3
• Cross-Region replication of objects
• Using Route 53 redirects 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
• Setting automatic deletion for 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
• Using 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. Setting up password policies for users
  4. Attaching policies to users
  5. Enabling two-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 verifying CLI-based access

Module 8: AWS CLI

• Working with the AWS CLI
• Launching an instance with full S3 and EC2 access
• Configuring the AWS CLI 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 from a local machine to S3 via CLI
• Listing buckets via CLI
• Deleting buckets via CLI

Module 9: Application Development and Deployment Best Practices

• Application deployment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Deploying a Python Beanstalk environment
• Deploying an IIS environment
• Terminating Python and Beanstalk environments

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 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

• Describing Amazon DynamoDB
• Verifying key aspects of Amazon RDS
• Configuring the Python SDK to access DynamoDB
• Creating tables using the Python SDK
• Putting items using the SDK
• Querying using the Python SDK
• Deleting items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory only)

• Describing 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