AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Registration

• Signing up as a user
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of management tasks and billing
• Understanding Amazon pricing models

Module 2: AWS Overview – A High-Level Perspective

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

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

• Starting 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 (Practical Lab)

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

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Practical Lab)

• Creating 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. Starting 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. Setting up 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
• Demonstrating Route-53 integration with your created ELB (conducted by the instructor)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• Overview and pricing of AWS S3
• 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 (Practical Lab)

• Starting the Win 2012 R2 server
• Using PowerShell command-based user data for the web server
• Verifying that user data executed successfully
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

Module 2: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with user data (Practical Lab)

• Starting the EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Utilizing user-data for the web server
• Confirming successful execution of user data

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

• Introduction to Metadata
• Retrieving metadata information about your EC2 instance
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

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

• Overview and pricing of AWS S3
• Establishing a S3 Bucket
• File Versioning
• Static web hosting in S3
• Cross-Region replication of your objects
• Using Route 53 redirects to access static web content (live demo by instructor)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• Overview and pricing of AWS Glacier
• Creating life cycle policies
• Accessing data from Glacier
• Setting auto-delete rules for data from S3

Module 6: AWS Cloud Formation

• Infrastructure as Code with Cloud Formation
• Cloud formation – Creating a new stack
• Deploying sample templates 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 – Theory only
• 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 – groups (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating a user and 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 (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
• Launching an instance with full access to S3 and EC2
• Configuring the awscli client
• Creating a security group using the CLI
• Creating a key pair using the CLI
• Launching an EC2 instance using the CLI
• Stopping an EC2 instance using the CLI
• Terminating an EC2 instance using the CLI
• Creating a load balancer using the CLI
• Deleting a load balancer using the CLI
• Creating an S3 bucket using the CLI
• Uploading and downloading an object from your local machine to S3 via CLI
• Listing buckets via CLI
• Deleting buckets via CLI

Module 9: Application Development and Deployment Best Practices

• Application deployment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Deploying a Python Beanstalk environment
• Deploying an IIS environment
• Terminating the 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 (Practical Lab for students)
  1. Creating a VPC
  2. Subnets
  3. Internet Gateway
  4. Routing
  5. Configuring a NAT instance
  6. Creating security groups
  7. Launching instances

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database using Python SDK

• Explaining Amazon DynamoDB
• Verifying key aspects of Amazon RDS
• Configuring Python SDK to access DynamoDB
• Creating tables using the Python SDK
• Putting items using the SDK
• Querying using the Python SDK
• Deleting items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (theory only)

• Explaining 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 case
• Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Overview and use case
• Simple Workflow (SWF) – Overview and use case