AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Account Setup and Management

• User Sign Up process
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of management activities and billing mechanisms
• Understanding Amazon pricing models

Module 2: The AWS Landscape – High-Level Overview

• General overview of the AWS ecosystem
• EC2 – Service overview
• EBS – Service overview
• Security Groups – Service overview
• Elastic IP – Service overview
• CloudFront – Service overview
• S3 – Service overview
• Glacier – Service overview
• IAM – Service overview
• RDS – Service 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 Windows 2012 EC2 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 Standard Volumes
• 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 with user data
  2. Editing HTML files on both servers
  3. Testing the web servers 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 functionality
  4. Deleting the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route53

• Introduction to Route53
• Demonstration of Route53 integration with the previously created ELB (Instructor-led only)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• S3 overview and pricing details
• 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 a Windows 2012 R2 server
• Configuring a web server using PowerShell-based user data
• Verifying the successful execution of user data
• Terminating the Ubuntu server (contextual cleanup)

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

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

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

• Introduction to Metadata
• Retrieving metadata information for an 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 on S3
• Setting up cross-region replication for objects
• Using Route53 redirects to access static websites (Live instructor demo)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• Glacier overview and pricing details
• Creating lifecycle policies
• Accessing data stored in Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion of data from S3 based on specific rules

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• 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)

• Comprehensive introduction to IAM
• AWS federation with Active Directory (Theoretical)
• Getting started with IAM configurations
• 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 two-factor authentication for users
• IAM Roles in Action (Practical Lab)
  1. Creating an IAM role with full EC2 and S3 access permissions
  2. Launching an EC2 instance and validating CLI-based access

Module 8: AWS CLI

• Working with the AWS Command Line Interface
• Launching an instance 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 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
• Deploying a Python Beanstalk environment
• 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 (Student-led Practical Lab)
  1. Creating a VPC
  2. Defining 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 (Theoretical)

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