AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Account Registration

• Creating an AWS User Account
• Overview of the Amazon Management Console
• Management activities and billing fundamentals
• Understanding Amazon Pricing models

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

• General overview of AWS services
• EC2 overview
• EBS overview
• Security Groups overview
• Elastic IP overview
• CloudFront overview
• S3 overview
• Glacier overview
• IAM overview
• RDS overview

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

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 Instance
• Decrypting the administrator password and downloading the RDP client
• Establishing a connection to the Windows Server 2012 EC2 instance
• Terminating the Windows Server 2012 Instance

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

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

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

• Lab 6.1
  1. Launch two Ubuntu EC2 instances configured as Apache web servers using user data
  2. Edit HTML files on both servers
  3. Test the web servers via the internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Create an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Register both Ubuntu servers with the ELB
  3. Verify the Elastic Load Balancer functionality
  4. Delete the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route 53

• Introduction to Route 53
• Live demonstration of Route 53 integration with the previously created ELB (instructor-led)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS S3 overview and pricing structure
• Creating Buckets and Folders
• Uploading, downloading, sharing, and deleting objects
• Deleting Buckets

DAY 2

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

• Launching a Windows 2012 R2 server
• Configuring a web server using PowerShell-based user data
• Verifying successful execution of user data
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

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

• Launching an EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Implementing web server configuration via user data
• Confirming successful execution of user data

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

• Overview of Instance Metadata
• Retrieving metadata information for your EC2 instance
• Terminating the Ubuntu server

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

• AWS S3 overview and pricing details
• Creating an S3 Bucket
• Enabling File Versioning
• Configuring static web hosting in S3
• Setting up Cross-Region replication for objects
• Using Route 53 redirects for static web access (live instructor demo)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Hands-on Lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing
• Creating life-cycle policies for storage
• Accessing data from Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion of data from S3 based on defined rules

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Implementing Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation
• Creating a new CloudFormation stack
• Deploying sample templates in JSON format
• Utilizing and deploying existing templates

DAY 3

Module 7: AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

• What is IAM? – A comprehensive introduction
• AWS federation with Active Directory (theory only)
• Getting started with IAM concepts
• IAM Roles – Delegation and Federation (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating a role
  2. Assuming a role
  3. Deleting a role
• IAM Users and Groups (Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating a user and a 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 (Hands-on 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 Command Line Interface
• 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 between a 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)

• What is VPC? – A comprehensive introduction
• Understanding VPC configurations
  1. VPC with a single public subnet
  2. VPC with both public and private subnets
  3. VPC Peering
  4. Access Control Lists
• Configuring VPC Instances (Student-led Hands-on Lab)
  1. Creating a VPC
  2. Defining Subnets
  3. Configuring an Internet Gateway
  4. Setting up Routing
  5. Configuring a NAT instance
  6. Creating security groups
  7. Launching instances within the VPC

Module 11: AWS Managed Services and Databases using the Python SDK

• Explaining Amazon DynamoDB
• Verifying 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 (Theory Only)

• Explaining Amazon RDS
• Comparing self-managed databases on EC2 versus using RDS

Module 13: AWS SNS, SQS, and SWF (Theory Only)

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