AWS Developer Associate Training Course

Day 1

Module 1: Account Setup and Access

• Creating a user account
• Introduction to the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of administrative tasks and billing
• Understanding Amazon pricing models

Module 2: The AWS Ecosystem – A High-Level View

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

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

• Launching a Windows Server 2012 instance
• Decrypting the password and retrieving the RDP client shortcut
• Connecting 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 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
  4. Deleting the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route 53

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

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• S3 overview and pricing
• 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 successful execution of user data
• Terminating the instance

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

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

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

• Overview of metadata
• Retrieving metadata for your EC2 instance
• Terminating the instance

Module 4: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (Practical Lab)

• S3 overview and pricing
• Creating an S3 bucket
• Implementing file versioning
• Hosting a static website on S3
• Configuring cross-region replication
• Live demonstration: Using Route 53 redirects for static web access

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Practical Lab)

• Glacier overview and pricing
• Creating lifecycle policies
• Accessing data stored in Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion rules for data in S3

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation
• Creating new stacks in CloudFormation
• 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
• Theory: AWS federation with Active Directory
• 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. Configuring password policies
  4. Attaching policies to users
  5. Enabling multi-factor authentication
• IAM Roles (Practical 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

• Working with the AWS CLI
• Launching an instance with full S3 and EC2 permissions
• 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
• Setting up a Python Beanstalk environment
• Setting up 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 Integration with Python SDK

• Overview of Amazon DynamoDB
• Key features of Amazon RDS
• Configuring Python SDK for DynamoDB access
• 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)

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

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

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