AWS Developer Associate Training Course

Day 1

Module 1: User Registration?

• Account Sign-up
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of Management Activities and Billing
• Amazon Pricing Models

Module 2: AWS High-Level View – A 10,000-Feet Overview?

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

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

• Starting a Windows Server 2012 Instance
• Decrypting the Password and Downloading the RDP Client Shortcut
• Connecting to the Windows 2012 EC2 Instance
• Ending the Windows Server 2012 Instance

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

• Establishing Security Groups
• Modifying Security Groups
• Removing Security Groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Practical Lab)

• Creating a Standard Volume
• Generating and Removing 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 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
• Route 53 Integration Demo with Your ELB (Conducted by Instructor Only)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• AWS S3 – Overview and Pricing
• 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)

• Starting the Windows 2012 R2 Server
• Implementing a Web Server Using PowerShell-Based User Data
• Verifying Successful Execution of User Data
• Ending the Ubuntu Server

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

• Launching the EC2 Ubuntu Cloud Server
• Utilizing Web Server User Data
• Confirming Successful Execution of User Data

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

• Overview of Metadata
• Retrieving Metadata Information About Your EC2 Instance
• Ending the Ubuntu Server

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

• AWS S3 Overview and Pricing
• Establishing an S3 Bucket
• File Versioning
• Static Web Hosting in S3
• Cross-Region Replication of Objects
• Accessing Static Web via Route 53 Redirect (Live Demo by Instructor)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• AWS Glacier Overview and Pricing
• Creating Lifecycle Policies
• Retrieving Data from Glacier
• Configuring Automatic Deletion of S3 Data 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 (Practical Lab)
  1. Establishing a Role
  2. Assuming a Role
  3. Removing a Role
• IAM Users and Groups (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating a User and Group
  2. Assigning a User to a Group
  3. Setting Up User Password Policies
  4. Attaching Policies to Users
  5. Enabling Dual-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

• 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
• Generating 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 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
• Setting Up an IIS Environment
• Terminating the 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 (Practical Lab by Students)
  1. Creating a VPC
  2. Subnets
  3. Internet Gateway
  4. Routing
  5. Configuring a NAT Instance
  6. Establishing Security Groups
  7. Launching Instances

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Databases Using Python SDK

• Describing Amazon DynamoDB
• Verifying Key Aspects of Amazon RDS
• Configuring the Python SDK for DynamoDB Access
• Creating Tables Using the Python SDK
• Inserting Items Using the SDK
• Querying Using the Python SDK
• Deleting Items Using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory Only)

• Describing Amazon RDS
• Comparing Managing Your Own Database on EC2 vs. 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