AWS Developer Associate Training Course

DAY 1

Module 1: Getting Started with Your AWS Account

• Account registration and sign-up
• Familiarization with the Amazon Management Console
• Overview of account management activities and billing structure
• Understanding Amazon pricing models

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

• General introduction to AWS services
• Amazon EC2 – Core concepts
• Elastic Block Store (EBS) – Basics
• Security Groups – Fundamentals
• Elastic IP addresses – Key features
• Amazon CloudFront – Introduction
• Amazon S3 – Basics
• Amazon Glacier – Overview
• IAM – Core concepts
• Amazon RDS – Introduction

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

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

Module 4: Amazon EC2 – Security Groups (Practical Lab)

• Creating new security groups
• Modifying existing security group rules
• Deleting security groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Practical Lab)

• Creating standard storage volumes
• Managing snapshots (creation and deletion)
• 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 web server accessibility via the internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Creating an Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Registering both Ubuntu servers with the ELB
  3. Verifying the Elastic Load Balancer functionality
  4. Deleting the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route 53

• Introduction to Route 53
• Demonstration of Route 53 integration with an existing ELB (Instructor-led)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Practical Lab)

• AWS S3 overview and cost structure
• Creating buckets and folders
• Managing objects: upload, download, share, and delete
• Deleting buckets

DAY 2

Module 1 : Amazon EC2 – Windows 2012 with User Data (Practical Lab)

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

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

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

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

• Introduction to instance metadata
• Retrieving metadata information from the EC2 instance
• Terminating the Ubuntu server instance

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

• AWS S3 overview and pricing details
• Creating an S3 bucket
• Implementing file versioning
• Enabling static website 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 (Practical Lab)

• AWS Glacier overview and pricing
• Creating lifecycle policies
• Retrieving data from Glacier
• Configuring automatic deletion of S3 data based on defined rules

Module 6 : AWS CloudFormation

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

DAY 3

Module 7 : AWS – IAM (Identity and Access Management)

• What is IAM? – A comprehensive introduction
• AWS federation with Active Directory – Theoretical overview
• Getting started with IAM configuration
• 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. Assigning users to groups
  3. Setting up password policies for users
  4. Attaching policies to users
  5. Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) for users
• IAM Roles in Action (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

• Working with the AWS Command Line Interface
• Launching instances with full access to S3 and EC2
• Configuring the AWS CLI client
• Creating security groups via CLI
• Creating key pairs via CLI
• Launching EC2 instances via CLI
• Stopping EC2 instances via CLI
• Terminating EC2 instances via CLI
• Creating load balancers via CLI
• Deleting load balancers via CLI
• Creating S3 buckets via CLI
• Uploading and downloading objects from local machine to 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
• Configuring 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 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

• 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 (Theory Only)

• Detailed description of Amazon RDS
• Comparison: Managing your own database on EC2 vs. 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