AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Sign up?

• Account Sign Up Process
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of management activities and billing structures
• Understanding Amazon Pricing Models

Module 2: AWS Big Picture – 10,000 feet overview?

• General overview of the AWS ecosystem
• EC2 – High-level introduction
• EBS – General overview
• Security Groups – Basic concepts
• Elastic IP – Introductory overview
• CloudFront – Service overview
• S3 – Service introduction
• Glacier – Storage class overview
• IAM – Identity and Access Management basics
• RDS – Database service 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
• Establishing a connection 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 Standard Volumes
• Creating and managing snapshots
• Attaching volumes to Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 instances
• Detaching and deleting volumes

Module 6: Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (Hands-on Lab)

• Lab 6.1
  1. Launching two Ubuntu EC2 instances configured as Apache web servers with user data
  2. Editing HTML files on both servers
  3. Testing web server accessibility over 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 functionality
  4. Removing the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• Introduction to Route53
• Demonstration of Route53 integration with the previously created ELB (Instructor-led)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS S3 – Overview and cost considerations
• Creating Buckets and Folders
• Managing objects: upload, download, sharing, and deletion
• Deleting Buckets

DAY 2

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

• Launching the Windows 2012 R2 server
• Configuring a web server using PowerShell-based user data
• Verifying successful execution of user data scripts
• Terminating the server instance

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

• Launching the EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Implementing web server configuration via user data
• Confirming that user data scripts executed correctly

Module 3: Amazon EC2 - Ubuntu 14.04 with Meta Data (Hands-on Lab)

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

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

• AWS S3 – Detailed overview and pricing structure
• Creating an S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Setting up static website hosting on S3
• Configuring Cross-Region replication for objects
• Using Route 53 redirects for static website access (Live demo by instructor)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS Glacier – Service overview and pricing
• Establishing life cycle policies
• Retrieving data from Glacier
• Configuring auto-deletion rules for data migrating from S3

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code concepts using CloudFormation
• CloudFormation – Initiating a new stack
• Deploying sample templates 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 (Theory)
• Initial setup for IAM usage
• IAM roles – Delegation and federation concepts (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Defining a new role
  2. Assuming an existing role
  3. Removing a role
• IAM Users and Groups (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating users and groups
  2. Assigning users to groups
  3. Configuring password policies for users
  4. Applying 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 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
• 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
• Removing buckets via CLI

Module 9: Application Development and Deployment Best Practices

• Deploying applications with 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 detailed introduction
• Understanding VPC configurations
  1. VPC setup with a single public subnet
  2. VPC setup with public and private subnets
  3. VPC Peering
  4. Access Control Lists (ACL)
• Configuring VPC Instances (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Provisioning a VPC
  2. Managing Subnets
  3. Setting up the Internet Gateway
  4. Configuring Routing tables
  5. Configuring a NAT instance
  6. Creating security groups
  7. Launching instances within the VPC

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database using Python SDK

• Explaining Amazon DynamoDB
• Key aspects of Amazon RDS
• Configuring Python SDK to connect to DynamoDB
• Creating tables via Python SDK
• Inserting items using the SDK
• Querying data using Python SDK
• Removing items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory Only)

• Detailed description of Amazon RDS
• Comparison: Managing databases on EC2 vs. utilizing 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