AWS Developer Associate Training Course

Day 1

Module 1: Account Setup & Registration

• User registration process
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of administrative activities and billing
• Understanding Amazon pricing models

Module 2: AWS Architecture – High-Level Overview

• General overview of AWS services
• EC2: Core concepts
• EBS: Key features
• Security Groups: Basic understanding
• Elastic IP: Functional overview
• CloudFront: Service introduction
• S3: Storage fundamentals
• Glacier: Archive storage basics
• IAM: Identity and access management
• RDS: Relational database service intro

Module 3: Amazon EC2 – Windows Server 2012 (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 instance
• Decrypting the instance password and setting up the RDP client
• Establishing a remote connection to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
• Terminating the Windows Server 2012 instance

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

• Creating new Security Groups
• Modifying existing Security Group rules
• Deleting Security Groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Hands-on Lab)

• Creating a Standard Volume
• Managing snapshots: creation and deletion
• Attaching volumes to Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 instances
• Detaching and removing volumes

Module 6: Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) (Hands-on Lab)

• Lab 6.1
  1. Deploying two Ubuntu EC2 instances configured as Apache web servers using user data
  2. Updating HTML content on both servers
  3. Verifying web server accessibility via the internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Setting up an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Registering the Ubuntu servers with the ELB
  3. Testing the Elastic Load Balancer performance
  4. Removing the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route 53

• Introduction to Route 53
• Demonstration of Route 53 integration with the previously created ELB (Instructor-led)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)

• S3 overview and cost structure
• Creating Buckets and Folders
• Managing objects: uploading, downloading, sharing, and deleting
• Removing Buckets

Day 2

Module 1: Amazon EC2 – Windows 2012 with User Data (Hands-on Lab)

• Launching the Windows 2012 R2 server
• Implementing a PowerShell-based web server using user data
• Confirming successful execution of user data scripts
• Terminating the associated Ubuntu server (if applicable)

Module 2: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with User Data (Hands-on Lab)

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

Module 3: Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu 14.04 with Metadata (Hands-on Lab)

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

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

• S3 overview and pricing details
• Creating a new S3 Bucket
• Implementing File Versioning
• Setting up Static Web Hosting on S3
• Configuring Cross-Region Replication for objects
• Using Route 53 redirects to serve static web content (Live Instructor Demo)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Hands-on Lab)

• Amazon Glacier overview and pricing
• Establishing life cycle policies for data transition
• Retrieving data from Glacier storage
• Configuring automatic deletion rules for data in S3

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Concept of Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation
• Creating a new CloudFormation Stack
• Deploying a sample template using 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 concept)
• Getting started with IAM services
• Managing IAM Roles – Delegation and Federation (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating a new role
  2. Assuming the created role
  3. Removing the role
• Managing IAM Users and Groups (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating users and groups
  2. Assigning users to groups
  3. Configuring password policies for users
  4. Attaching permission policies to users
  5. Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for users
• Advanced IAM Roles (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating an IAM role with full EC2 and S3 access
  2. Launching an EC2 instance and verifying CLI-based access

Module 8: AWS CLI

• Overview of working with the AWS Command Line Interface
• Launching instances with S3 and EC2 access
• Configuring the AWS CLI client
• Creating a Security Group via CLI
• Generating 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
• Removing a Load Balancer via CLI
• Creating an S3 Bucket via CLI
• Uploading and downloading objects between local machine and S3 via CLI
• Listing S3 Buckets via CLI
• Deleting S3 Buckets via CLI

Module 9: Application Development and Deployment Best Practices

• Deploying applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Setting up 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 network configurations
  1. VPC architecture with a single public subnet
  2. VPC architecture with public and private subnets
  3. Implementing VPC Peering
  4. Configuring Access Control Lists
• Hands-on configuration of VPC Instances (Student-led Lab)
  1. Creating a new VPC
  2. Defining Subnets
  3. Setting up an Internet Gateway
  4. Configuring Route Tables
  5. Implementing 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 the Python SDK to interact with DynamoDB
• Creating tables via 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)

• Detailed description of Amazon RDS
• Comparison: Managing a self-hosted database on EC2 versus using Amazon RDS

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

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