AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Account Setup and Registration

• Signing up for a new user account
• Navigating the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of management activities and billing
• Understanding Amazon pricing models

Module 2: The AWS Ecosystem – A High-Level Overview

• Introduction to AWS
• Overview of EC2
• Overview of EBS
• Overview of Security Groups
• Overview of Elastic IP
• Overview of CloudFront
• Overview of S3
• Overview of Glacier
• Overview of IAM
• Overview of RDS

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

• Initiating a Windows Server 2012 instance
• Decrypting the password and obtaining the RDP client shortcut
• Establishing a connection to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
• Terminating the Windows Server 2012 instance

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

• Setting up Security Groups
• Adjusting 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 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 using user data
  2. Modifying HTML files on both servers
  3. Testing web server availability over the internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Provisioning an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Registering both Ubuntu servers with the ELB
  3. Verifying the Elastic Load Balancer configuration
  4. Removing the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route 53

• Understanding Route 53
• Demonstrating Route 53 integration with the previously created ELB (Instructor-led only)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• AWS S3 introduction and pricing structure
• Creating Buckets and Folders
• Uploading, downloading, sharing, and deleting objects
• Removing Buckets

DAY 2

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

• Launching the Windows 2012 R2 server
• Configuring a web server using PowerShell-based user data
• Confirming successful execution of user data
• Terminating the Ubuntu server (contextual cleanup)

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

• Launching an EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Implementing a web server via user data
• Verifying the successful execution of user data

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

• Introduction to Metadata
• Retrieving metadata details for your EC2 instance
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

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

• AWS S3 overview and cost analysis
• Establishing an S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Setting up static web hosting on S3
• Configuring cross-region replication for objects
• Using Route 53 redirects to access static websites (Live Instructor Demo)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing
• Establishing life cycle policies for storage
• Retrieving data from Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion of S3 data based on defined rules

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Managing Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation
• Creating a new stack in CloudFormation
• Deploying a sample template in JSON format
• Utilizing and deploying existing templates

DAY 3

Module 7: AWS – Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• What is IAM? – A thorough introduction
• AWS federation with Active Directory – Theoretical discussion only
• Initial steps with IAM
• IAM Roles – Delegation and federation (Practical Lab)
  1. Provisioning a role
  2. Assuming a role
  3. Removing a role
• IAM Users and Groups (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating a user and a group
  2. Assigning a user to the group
  3. Configuring password policies for users
  4. Linking policies to users
  5. Enabling multi-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 S3 and EC2 access
• Setting up the awscli client
• Creating a security group via CLI
• Generating a key pair via CLI
• Launching 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 storage and S3 via CLI
• Listing buckets via CLI
• Deleting buckets via CLI

Module 9: Best Practices for Application Development and Deployment

• Deploying applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Setting up a Python Beanstalk environment
• Setting up an IIS environment
• Decommissioning Python and Beanstalk environments

DAY 4

Module 10: AWS – Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• What is VPC? – A thorough introduction
• Analyzing VPC configurations
  1. VPC setup with a single public subnet
  2. VPC setup with both public and private subnets
  3. VPC Peering
  4. Access Control Lists
• Configuring VPC Instances (Student-led Practical Lab)
  1. Provisioning a VPC
  2. Defining Subnets
  3. Setting up an Internet Gateway
  4. Configuring Routing
  5. Configuring a NAT instance
  6. Creating security groups
  7. Launching instances

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Databases using Python SDK

• Explaining Amazon DynamoDB
• Reviewing key features of Amazon RDS
• Configuring Python SDK for DynamoDB access
• Creating tables via Python SDK
• Inserting items using the SDK
• Querying data using Python SDK
• Removing items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theoretical)

• Describing Amazon RDS
• Comparing self-managed databases on EC2 versus using RDS

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

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