AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Account Registration

• User sign-up process
• Introduction to the AWS Management Console
• Overview of administrative activities and billing
• Understanding Amazon pricing models

Module 2: The AWS Ecosystem – High-Level Overview

• General introduction to AWS
• EC2 overview
• EBS overview
• Security Groups overview
• Elastic IP overview
• CloudFront overview
• S3 overview
• Glacier overview
• IAM overview
• RDS overview

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

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 instance
• Decrypting the password and downloading 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)

• Creating Security Groups
• Modifying 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 instances
• 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 connectivity via 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 configuration
  4. Deleting the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• Introduction to Route53
• Demonstration of Route53 integration with a 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)

• Launching the Windows Server 2012 R2 instance
• Implementing a PowerShell-based user data script for a web server
• Verifying successful execution of user data
• Terminating the Ubuntu server (contextual step)

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

• Launching the EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Utilizing user data for web server configuration
• Confirming successful execution of user data

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

• Overview of Instance 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
• Creating an S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Configuring static website hosting in S3
• Setting up Cross-Region Replication for objects
• Live demonstration of using Route53 redirects to access static web content

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• Glacier overview and pricing model
• Creating lifecycle policies
• Accessing data stored in Glacier
• Configuring auto-deletion rules for data transitioning from S3

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Implementing Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation
• Creating new stacks in CloudFormation
• Deploying sample templates in JSON format
• Utilizing existing templates for deployment

DAY 3

Module 7: AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

• Comprehensive introduction to IAM
• AWS federation with Active Directory (theoretical component)
• 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 users and groups
  2. Adding users to groups
  3. Setting up password policies for users
  4. Attaching 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 validating CLI-based access

Module 8: AWS CLI

• Interacting with the AWS CLI
• Launching an instance with full access to S3 and EC2
• 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 local machines to S3 using the 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 the 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 (ACLs)
• Configuring VPC Instances (Student-led Practical Lab)
  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 within the VPC

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database using Python SDK

• Exploring Amazon DynamoDB
• Key aspects of Amazon RDS
• Configuring 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 (Theoretical Component)

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

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

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