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: The AWS Big Picture – A High-Level Overview

• Introduction to 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 servers
• Detaching and deleting volumes

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

• Lab 6.1
  1. Launching two Ubuntu EC2 instances configured 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

• Understanding Route53
• Demonstration of Route53 integration with the 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 for a web server
• Verifying the 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
• Utilizing user data for a web server
• Verifying the 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
• 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
• Configuring auto-deletion of data from S3 based on rules

Module 6 : AWS Cloud Formation

• 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. Setting up password policies for users
  4. Attaching policies to users
  5. Enabling multi-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 CLI
• Listing buckets via CLI
• Deleting buckets via 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 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 for 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 a database on EC2 vs. 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