AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Registration

• Signing Up for User Accounts
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of Management Activities and Billing
• Amazon Pricing Structure

Module 2: The AWS Landscape – A 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)

• Initiating a Windows Server 2012 Instance
• Decoding the Password and Retrieving the RDP Shortcut Client
• Establishing a Connection to the EC2 Windows 2012 Instance
• Terminating the Windows Server 2012 Instance

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

• Setting Up Security Groups
• Altering Security Groups
• Removing Security Groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Practical Lab)

• Establishing a Standard Volume
• Creating and removing snapshots
• Attaching volumes to Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 servers
• Detaching and removing volumes

Module 6: Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (Practical Lab)

• Lab 6.1
  1. Starting Two Ubuntu EC2 Instances – Apache Web Servers with User Data
  2. Modifying HTML files on both servers
  3. Testing your Web Servers via the Internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Setting up an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Registering both Ubuntu servers with the ELB
  3. Testing the Elastic Load Balancer
  4. Removing the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• Understanding Route53
• Demonstration of Route53 integration with the previously created ELB (Led by the Instructor)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• AWS S3 – Overview and Pricing
• Establishing a Bucket and Folder
• Uploading, downloading, sharing, and removing objects
• Removing the Bucket

DAY 2

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

• Initiating a Windows 2012 R2 Server
• Configuring a Web-Server Using PowerShell-Based User Data
• Confirming 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 Web-Server User Data
• Verifying Successful Execution of User Data

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

• Introduction to Metadata
• Retrieving metadata information regarding your EC2 instance
• Terminating the Ubuntu Server

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

• AWS S3 overview and pricing
• Establishing an S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Setting up Static Web Hosting in S3
• Performing Cross-Region replication of objects
• Utilizing Route 53 redirects to access static web content (Live demo by instructor)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing
• Creating life cycle policies
• Retrieving data from Glacier
• Setting up auto-delete rules for data from S3

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Managing Infrastructure as Code via CloudFormation
• CloudFormation – Initializing 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 aspect only
• Getting Started with IAM
• IAM Roles – Delegation and federation (Practical Lab)
  1. Establishing a role
  2. Assuming a role
  3. Removing a role
• IAM Users and Groups (Practical Lab)
  1. Establishing a user and group
  2. Assigning a user to the group
  3. Configuring password policy for users
  4. Associating policies with users
  5. Enabling dual-factor authentication for users
• IAM Roles (Practical Lab)
  1. Establishing an IAM role with full access to EC2 and S3
  2. Starting 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
• Setting up the AWSCLI client
• Establishing 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
• Establishing a load balancer via CLI
• Removing a load balancer via CLI
• Establishing an S3 bucket via CLI
• Transferring an object from your local machine to S3 via CLI (Upload and Download)
• Listing buckets via CLI
• Removing buckets via CLI

Module 9: Best Practices for Application Development and Deployment

• 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 (Practical Lab by students)
  1. Establishing a VPC
  2. Managing Subnets
  3. Setting up an Internet Gateway
  4. Configuring Routing
  5. Setting up a NAT instance
  6. Establishing security groups
  7. Initiating instances

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database using Python SDK

• Explaining Amazon DynamoDB
• Verifying 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
• Removing items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory Only)

• Explaining Amazon RDS
• Comparing 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