AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Registration

• Signing up for an account
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of management activities and billing
• Understanding Amazon pricing models

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

• General overview of AWS
• Introduction to EC2
• Introduction to Security Groups
• Introduction to Elastic IP
• Introduction to CloudFront
• Introduction to S3
• Introduction to Glacier
• Introduction to IAM
• Introduction to RDS

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

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

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

• Creating new Security Groups
• Modifying existing Security Groups
• Deleting Security Groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Practical 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) (Practical Lab)

• Lab 6.1
  1. Launching two Ubuntu EC2 instances configured as Apache web servers using user data
  2. Editing HTML files on both servers
  3. Testing web server accessibility over 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
• Live demonstration of Route 53 integration with the ELB created (Led by Instructor)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• S3 overview and pricing details
• Creating Buckets and Folders
• Uploading, downloading, sharing, and deleting objects
• Deleting a Bucket

DAY 2

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

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 R2 instance
• Utilizing PowerShell-based user data for web server configuration
• Verifying the successful execution of user data
• Terminating the instance

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

• Launching an EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Configuring the web server using user data
• Confirming the successful execution of user data

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

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

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

• S3 overview and pricing
• Creating an S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Setting up Static Web Hosting in S3
• Configuring Cross-Region Replication for objects
• Using Route 53 redirects to access static websites (Live demonstration by Instructor)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• Glacier overview and pricing
• Creating lifecycle policies for data
• Accessing data stored in Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion rules for S3 data

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

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

DAY 3

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

• Comprehensive introduction to IAM
• Getting started with IAM
• IAM Roles – Delegation and federation (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating a role
  2. Assuming a role
  3. Deleting a role
• IAM Users and Groups (Practical 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 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 validating CLI-based access

Module 8: AWS CLI

• Working with the AWS CLI
• 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 between a local machine and S3 using CLI
• Listing buckets via CLI
• Deleting buckets via CLI

Module 9: Application Development and Deployment Best Practices

• Deploying applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Deploying an IIS environment
• Terminating Python and Beanstalk environments

DAY 4

Module 10: AWS - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Comprehensive introduction to VPC
• 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 for Students)
  1. Creating a VPC
  2. Configuring 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 & Database using Python SDK

• Overview of Amazon DynamoDB
• 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 (Theoretical)

• Overview of Amazon RDS
• Comparing self-managed databases on EC2 with RDS

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

• Simple Notification Service (SNS) – Overview and use cases
• Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Overview and use cases
• Simple Workflow (SWF) – Overview and use cases