AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: User Sign Up

• Account Registration
• Amazon Management Console Overview
• Management Activities and Billing Insights
• Understanding Amazon Pricing Models

Module 2: AWS Big Picture – 10,000 Feet View

• General Overview of AWS
• EC2: High-Level Introduction
• EBS: High-Level Introduction
• Security Groups: High-Level Introduction
• Elastic IP: High-Level Introduction
• CloudFront: High-Level Introduction
• S3: High-Level Introduction
• Glacier: High-Level Introduction
• IAM: High-Level Introduction
• RDS: High-Level Introduction

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

• Provisioning a Windows Server 2012 Instance
• Decrypting Password and Downloading RDP Client Shortcut
• Establishing 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
• Removing Security Groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Practical Lab)

• Creating Standard Volumes
• Taking and Removing Snapshots
• Attaching Volumes to Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 Instances
• Detaching and Deleting Volumes

Module 6: Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (Practical Lab)

• Exercise 6.1
  1. Provisioning Two Ubuntu EC2 Instances as Apache Web Servers with User Data
  2. Editing HTML Files on Both Servers
  3. Testing Web Servers via Internet Connection
• Exercise 6.2
  1. Setting Up an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Registering Both Ubuntu Servers with the ELB
  3. Verifying Elastic Load Balancer Functionality
  4. Decommissioning the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• Introduction to Route53
• Demonstration of Route53 Integration with Previously Created ELB (Instructor-Led)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• S3 Overview and Pricing Structure
• Creating Buckets and Folders
• Uploading, Downloading, Sharing, and Deleting Objects
• Deleting Buckets

DAY 2

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

• Provisioning the Windows 2012 R2 Server
• Implementing User Data for Web Server Setup via PowerShell
• Confirming Successful Execution of User Data
• Terminating the Ubuntu Server

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

• Provisioning the EC2 Ubuntu Cloud Server
• Utilizing User Data for Web Server Configuration
• Verifying Successful Execution of User Data

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

• Introduction to 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 Details
• Establishing an S3 Bucket
• Managing File Versioning
• Configuring Static Web Hosting on S3
• Setting Up Cross-Region Replication for Objects
• Using Route53 Redirection for Static Web Access (Instructor-Demo)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• Glacier Overview and Pricing Details
• Defining Lifecycle Policies for Storage
• Retrieving Data from Glacier
• Configuring Rule-Based Auto-Deletion of Data from S3

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code via CloudFormation
• CloudFormation – Initializing a New Stack
• Deploying Sample Templates in JSON Format
• Utilizing and Deploying Existing Templates

DAY 3

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

• Introduction to IAM – A Comprehensive Guide
• AWS Federation with Active Directory – Theoretical Concept
• Getting Started with IAM
• IAM Roles – Delegation and Federation (Practical Lab)
  1. Role Creation
  2. Assuming a Role
  3. Removing a Role
• IAM Users and Groups (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating Users and Groups
  2. Assigning Users to Groups
  3. Setting Up Password Policies for Users
  4. Linking Policies to Users
  5. Activating Two-Factor Authentication for Users
• IAM Roles (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating an IAM Role with Full Access to EC2 and S3
  2. Provisioning an EC2 Instance and Verifying CLI-Based Access

Module 8: AWS CLI

• Utilizing the AWS Command Line Interface
• 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
• Provisioning 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 Machine and 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
• Setting Up a Python Beanstalk Environment
• Setting Up an IIS Environment
• Shuttering Down Python and Beanstalk Environments

DAY 4

Module 10: AWS – Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Introduction to VPC – A Comprehensive Guide
• 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 (Student-Led Practical Lab)
  1. VPC Creation
  2. Subnet Configuration
  3. Internet Gateway Setup
  4. Routing Configuration
  5. Setting Up a NAT Instance
  6. Creating Security Groups
  7. Provisioning Instances

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database Integration using Python SDK

• Overview of Amazon DynamoDB
• Key Features of Amazon RDS
• Configuring Python SDK for DynamoDB Access
• Table Creation using Python SDK
• Inserting Items using SDK
• Querying Data using Python SDK
• Removing Items using SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theoretical)

• Overview of Amazon RDS
• Comparing Self-Managed Databases on EC2 vs. Using 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