AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Account Registration?

• Account Sign Up Process
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of Management Activities and Billing
• Understanding Amazon Pricing Models

Module 2: AWS Ecosystem – High-Level Overview?

• General Introduction to 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 Shortcut Client
• Establishing a Connection to the EC2 Windows 2012 Instance
• Shutting Down the Windows Server 2012 Instance

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

• Setting Up Security Groups
• Modifying Security Group Rules
• Removing Security Groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Practical Lab)

• Provisioning a Standard Volume
• Creating and Removing Snapshots
• Attaching Volumes to Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 Instances
• Detaching and Deleting Volumes

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

• Exercise 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 Server Availability via the Internet
• Exercise 6.2
  1. Creating 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

• Understanding Route53
• Demonstrating Route53 Integration with Your ELB (Instructor-Led)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• AWS S3 Overview and Cost Structure
• Setting Up Buckets and Folders
• Uploading, Downloading, Sharing, and Deleting Objects
• Removing a Bucket

DAY 2

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

• Starting the Windows 2012 R2 Server
• Utilizing PowerShell Command-Based User Data for a Web Server
• Verifying Successful Execution of User Data
• Terminating the Ubuntu Server

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

• Launching an EC2 Ubuntu Cloud Server
• Implementing User Data for a Web Server
• Confirming Successful Execution of User Data

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

• Overview of Metadata
• Retrieving Metadata Information for Your EC2 Instance
• Shutting Down the Ubuntu Server

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

• AWS S3 Overview and Pricing Details
• Setting Up an S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Configuring Static Website Hosting in S3
• Enabling Cross-Region Replication for Objects
• Using Route53 Redirects to Access Static Websites (Instructor Live Demo)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• AWS Glacier Overview and Pricing
• Establishing Life Cycle Policies
• Retrieving Data from Glacier
• Configuring Auto-Delete Rules for S3 Data

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code via CloudFormation
• CloudFormation – Setting Up 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)

• Introduction to IAM
• 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. Removing a Role
• IAM Users and Groups (Practical Lab)
  1. Setting Up a User and Group
  2. Adding a User to a Group
  3. Configuring Password Policies for Users
  4. Attaching Policies to Users
  5. Enabling Two-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
• Setting Up the awscli Client
• Creating a Security Group via CLI
• Generating a Key Pair via CLI
• Starting an EC2 Instance via CLI
• Halting an EC2 Instance via CLI
• Terminating an EC2 Instance via CLI
• Creating a Load Balancer via CLI
• Removing a Load Balancer via CLI
• Creating an S3 Bucket via CLI
• Transferring Objects Between 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
• Setting Up a Python Beanstalk Environment
• Configuring an IIS Environment
• Terminating the Python and Beanstalk Environments

DAY 4

Module 10: AWS- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Introduction to VPC
• Comprehending 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. Defining Subnets
  3. Setting Up an Internet Gateway
  4. Configuring Routing
  5. Setting Up a NAT Instance
  6. Creating Security Groups
  7. Launching Instances

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database via Python SDK

• Overview of Amazon DynamoDB
• Key Features 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 (Theoretical Overview)

• Overview of Amazon RDS
• Managing Your Own Database on EC2 vs. Using RDS

Module 13: AWS- SNS, SQS, and SWF (Theoretical Overview)

• Simple Notification Service (SNS) – Overview and Applications
• Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Overview and Applications
• Simple Workflow (SWF) – Overview and Applications