AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Account Registration

• User registration process
• Overview of the Amazon Management Console
• Management activities and billing overview
• Amazon pricing models

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 (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 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. Launch two Ubuntu EC2 instances configured as Apache web servers with user data
  2. Edit HTML files on both servers
  3. Test your web servers via the internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Create an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Register both Ubuntu servers with the ELB
  3. Test the Elastic Load Balancer
  4. Delete the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• Understanding Route53
• Route53 integration with ELB (Demonstrated by the instructor only)

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 a Windows 2012 R2 server
• Using PowerShell command-based user data for a web server
• Verifying that user data executes successfully
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

Module 2: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with User Data (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching an EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Utilizing user data for a web server
• Verifying that user data executes successfully

Module 3: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with Metadata (Hands-on Lab)

• Overview of metadata
• Retrieving metadata information about your 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 on S3
• Cross-region replication of 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
• Creating lifecycle policies
• Accessing data from Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion of data from S3 based on rules

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation
• CloudFormation – Creating a new stack
• Deploying a sample template in JSON format
• Using 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 a group
  2. Adding a user to a group
  3. Setting up 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 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

• 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 (Hands-on Lab for students)
  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 & Databases using Python SDK

• Overview 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)

• Overview of Amazon RDS
• 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