AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Sign up?

• User Sign Up process
• Overview of the Amazon Management Console
• Summary of Management Activities and Billing
• Understanding Amazon Pricing models

Module 2: AWS Big Picture – 10000 feet overview?

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

Module 3: Amazon EC2- Win server 2012 (Hands on lab)

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 Instance
• Decrypting the Password and downloading the RDP shortcut client
• Connecting to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
• Terminating the Windows Server 2012 Instance

Module 4: Amazon EC2- Security Groups (Hands on lab)

• Creation of Security Groups
• Modifying Security Groups
• Deletion of Security Groups

Module 5 : Amazon Elastic Block Store (Hands on lab)

• Creating a Standard Volume
• Creating and deleting snapshots
• Assigning volumes to Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 servers
• Disassociating and Deleting volumes

Module 6 : Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (Hands on 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 your web Servers via the internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Creating an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Adding both Ubuntu servers to the ELB
  3. Testing your Elastic Load Balancer
  4. Deleting your Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7 : AWS Route53

• Understanding Route53
• Route-53 demo integration with the ELB you created (Conducted by Instructor only)

Module 8 : AWS s3 (Hands on lab)

• AWS S3 Overview and pricing structure
• Creating a Bucket and Folder
• Uploading, downloading, sharing, and deleting objects
• Deleting a Bucket

DAY 2

Module 1 : Amazon EC2- Win-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
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

Module 2: Amazon EC2- Ubuntu 14.04 with user data (Hands on lab) )

• Launching the EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Configuring a web-server using User-data
• Verifying successful execution of user data

Module 3 : Amazon EC2- Ubuntu 14.04 with Meta data (Hands on lab)

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

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

• AWS S3 overview and pricing details
• Creating a 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 web content (Live demo by instructor)

Module 5 : Amazon Glacier (Hands on lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing details
• Creating life cycle policies for your data
• Accessing data stored in Glacier
• Configuring auto-delete rules for S3 data

Module 6 : AWS Cloud Formation

• Implementing Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation
• CloudFormation – Creating a new stack
• Deploying a sample template in JSON format
• Utilizing existing templates for deployment

DAY 3

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

• What is IAM? – A detailed introduction
• AWS federation with Active Directory- Conceptual overview
• 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 user- groups (Hands on lab)
  1. Creating a user and a group
  2. Adding a user to the group
  3. Setting up password policies for users
  4. Attaching policies to users
  5. Enabling dual-factor authentication for users
• IAM Roles (Hands on lab)
  1. Creating an IAM role with full EC2 and S3 access
  2. Launching an EC2 instance and validating CLI-based access

Module 8 : AWS CLI

• Working effectively with the AWS CLI
• Launching instances with full S3 and EC2 access
• 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

• Deploying applications 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 detailed 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. 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
• Key aspects of Amazon RDS
• Configuring the Python SDK to access DynamoDB
• 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 (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