AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Account Sign-Up

• Account registration process
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of Amazon pricing models

Module 2: AWS Overview – High-Level Perspective

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

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

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 instance
• Decrypting the password and retrieving the RDP shortcut
• Connecting to the EC2 Windows 2012 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 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) (Practical 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 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 Route 53

• Understanding Route 53
• Demonstrating Route 53 integration with the ELB created earlier (Instructor-led)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• AWS S3 overview and pricing details
• 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 (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 server

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

• Launching an EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Setting up a web server using user data
• Verifying successful execution of user data

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

• Overview of metadata
• Retrieving metadata information about the EC2 instance
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

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

• AWS S3 overview and pricing
• Creating an S3 bucket
• Implementing file versioning
• Configuring static website hosting in S3
• Setting up cross-region replication for objects
• Using Route 53 redirects to access static websites (Instructor-led live demo)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing
• Creating lifecycle policies
• Accessing data from Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion of data from S3 based on defined rules

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Managing infrastructure as code using CloudFormation
• Creating a new CloudFormation 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 detailed introduction
• AWS federation with Active Directory – Theoretical overview
• 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 a group
  2. Adding a user to the group
  3. Configuring password policies for users
  4. Attaching policies to users
  5. Enabling multi-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 via CLI
• Creating a key pair via CLI
• Launching an EC2 instance via CLI
• Stopping an EC2 instance via CLI
• Terminating an EC2 instance via CLI
• Creating a load balancer via CLI
• Deleting a load balancer via CLI
• Creating an S3 bucket via 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

• 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 detailed 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. Creating a VPC
  2. Defining subnets
  3. Setting up an Internet Gateway
  4. Configuring 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
• Configuring Python SDK to access DynamoDB
• Creating tables using Python SDK
• Inserting items using the SDK
• Querying data using Python SDK
• Deleting items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory only)

• Overview of Amazon RDS
• Managing databases 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