AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Account Setup

• User sign-up process
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of management activities and billing structures
• Understanding Amazon pricing models

Module 2: AWS Landscape – High-level Overview

• General overview of 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 downloading the RDP client shortcut
• Connecting to the Windows 2012 EC2 instance
• Terminating the Windows Server 2012 instance

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

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

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Practical Lab)

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

Module 6: Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (Practical 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. Setting up an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Registering both Ubuntu servers with the ELB
  3. Verifying the Elastic Load Balancer functionality
  4. Removing the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• Introduction to Route53
• Live demonstration of Route53 integration with the previously created ELB (instructor-led)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• AWS S3: Overview and cost structure
• Creating Buckets and Folders
• Uploading, downloading, sharing, and removing objects
• Removing Buckets

DAY 2

Module 1: Amazon EC2 – Windows 2012 with User Data (Practical Lab)

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

Module 2: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with User Data (Practical Lab)

• Starting an EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Utilizing user data to configure a web server
• Verifying successful execution of user data

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

• Introduction to Metadata
• Retrieving metadata information for your EC2 instance
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

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

• AWS S3 overview and pricing details
• Establishing an S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Setting up static web hosting in S3
• Configuring Cross-Region replication for objects
• Live demo of Route 53 redirects for static web access (instructor-led)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing details
• Creating life cycle policies
• Retrieving data from Glacier
• Setting up rule-based automatic deletion for S3 data

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code via CloudFormation
• CloudFormation – Initiating a new stack
• Deploying a sample template in JSON format
• Utilizing and deploying existing templates

DAY 3

Module 7: AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

• What is IAM? – A thorough introduction
• AWS federation with Active Directory – Theoretical discussion
• Getting started with IAM
• IAM roles – Delegation and federation (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating a role
  2. Assuming a role
  3. Removing a role
• IAM users and groups (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating a user and a group
  2. Assigning a user to a group
  3. Setting up password policies 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 verifying CLI-based access

Module 8: AWS CLI

• Interacting with the AWS CLI
• Launching an instance with full access to S3 and EC2
• Configuring the awscli client
• Creating a security group via CLI
• Creating a key pair via CLI
• Launching an EC2 instance via CLI
• Halting an EC2 instance via CLI
• Terminating an EC2 instance via CLI
• Setting up a load balancer via CLI
• Removing a load balancer via CLI
• Establishing an S3 bucket via CLI
• Transferring objects between local machines 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
• Setting up a Python Beanstalk environment
• Setting up an IIS environment
• Terminating Python and Beanstalk environments

DAY 4

Module 10: AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• What is VPC? – A thorough 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 (Student-led Practical Lab)
  1. Establishing 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 Python SDK for DynamoDB access
• Creating tables using the Python SDK
• Inserting items using the SDK
• Querying data using the Python SDK
• Removing items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory only)

• Overview of Amazon RDS
• Managing databases 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