AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Account Setup

• User Registration
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of Management Activities and Billing
• Amazon Pricing Models

Module 2: AWS Overview – High-Level Perspective

• 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 (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 Instance
• Decrypting the Password and Downloading the RDP Shortcut Client
• 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 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
• Route53 Integration Demo with the Created ELB (Instructor-Led)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS S3 - Overview and Pricing
• Creating Buckets and Folders
• Uploading, Downloading, Sharing, and Deleting Objects
• Deleting Buckets

DAY 2

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

• Launching the 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 (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching the 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 Meta Data (Hands-on Lab)

• Overview of Metadata
• Retrieving Metadata Information for the 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 Route53 Redirection to Access Static Web (Instructor-Led Live Demo)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS Glacier Overview and Pricing
• Creating Lifecycle Policies
• Accessing Data from Glacier
• Setting 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 and Deploying Existing Templates

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 Group
  2. Adding a User to a Group
  3. Configuring 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 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 Between Local Machine and S3 via CLI
• Listing Buckets Using the CLI
• Deleting Buckets Using the 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 (Student-Led Hands-on Lab)
  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

• Description of Amazon DynamoDB
• Key Aspects of Amazon RDS
• Configuring Python SDK to Access DynamoDB
• Creating Tables Using Python SDK
• Putting Items Using SDK
• Querying Using Python SDK
• Deleting Items Using SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory Only)

• Description 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 Cases
• Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Overview and Use Cases
• Simple Workflow (SWF) - Overview and Use Cases