AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Sign Up

• Account Registration Process
• Overview of the Amazon Management Console
• Management activities and billing overview
• Amazon Pricing structure

Module 2: AWS Big Picture – High-level overview

• General overview of AWS services
• EC2 – Introductory overview
• EBS – Introductory overview
• Security Groups – Introductory overview
• Elastic IP – Introductory overview
• CloudFront – Introductory overview
• S3 – Introductory overview
• Glacier – Introductory overview
• IAM – Introductory overview
• RDS – Introductory overview

Module 3: Amazon EC2 - Windows Server 2012 (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 instance
• Decrypting the password and downloading the RDP client shortcut
• Connecting to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
• Terminating the Windows Server 2012 instance

Module 4: Amazon EC2 - Security Groups (Hands-on Lab)

• Creating new Security Groups
• Modifying existing 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 using 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 configuration
  4. Deleting the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• Introduction to Route53
• Route53 integration demo with ELB (Demonstrated by Instructor)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS S3 overview and pricing model
• 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 a Windows 2012 R2 server
• Configuring a web server using PowerShell command-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 an 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 Metadata (Hands-on Lab)

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

Module 4: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS S3 overview and pricing details
• Creating an S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Setting up Static web hosting on S3
• Configuring Cross-Region replication for objects
• Using Route53 redirects to access static web content (Live demo by Instructor)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing details
• Creating lifecycle policies for data
• Retrieving data from Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion rules for data in S3

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code implementation using CloudFormation
• Creating a new stack in CloudFormation
• 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 – Theoretical overview
• Getting started with IAM configuration
• IAM roles for 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 the group
  3. Setting up password policies for users
  4. Attaching policies to users
  5. Enabling dual-factor authentication for users
• IAM Roles practical application (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 Command Line Interface
• Launching an instance with full access to S3 and EC2
• Configuring the AWS CLI 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 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 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 (ACLs)
• Configuring VPC Instances (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating a VPC
  2. Defining Subnets
  3. Setting up the Internet Gateway
  4. Configuring Routing
  5. Configuring a NAT instance
  6. Creating security groups
  7. Launching instances within the VPC

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database using Python SDK

• Understanding 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
• Deleting items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory Only)

• Description of Amazon RDS capabilities
• 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