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DAY 1

Module 1: Account Setup

  • Account registration process
  • Overview of the Amazon Management Console
  • Overview of management activities and billing
  • Amazon pricing structures

Module 2: AWS High-Level Overview

  • General overview of AWS
  • EC2- An overview
  • EBS- An Overview
  • Security Groups-An Overview
  • Elastic IP- An overview
  • CloudFront-An Overview
  • S3- An overview
  • Glacier- An overview
  • IAM – An Overview
  • RDS- AN overview

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

  • Launching a Windows Server 2012 Instance
  • Decrypting the password and downloading the RDP client shortcut
  • Connecting to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
  • Terminating the Windows Server 2012 Instance

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

  • Creating Security Groups
  • Modifying Security Groups
  • Deleting Security Groups

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

  • Creating a Standard Volume
  • Creating and deleting snapshots
  • Assigning volumes to Windows Server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 servers
  • Disassociating and deleting volumes

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

  • Lab 6.1
    1. Launching two Ubuntu EC2 Instances- 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. Adding both Ubuntu servers to the ELB
    3. Testing the Elastic Load Balancer
    4. Deleting the Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route 53

  • Understanding Route 53
  • Route 53 demo integration with the ELB created (Instructor-led demonstration only)

Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)

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

DAY 2

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

  • Launching the Win 2012 R2 server
  • Using PowerShell commands for user data to set up a web server
  • Validating successful execution of user data
  • Terminating the Ubuntu server

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

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

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

  • Overview of metadata
  • Fetching metadata information about your EC2 instance
  • Terminating the Ubuntu server

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

  • AWS S3 overview and pricing
  • Creating an S3 Bucket
  • File Versioning
  • Static website hosting on S3
  • Cross-region replication of objects
  • Using Route 53 redirects to access static websites (Instructor-led live demo)

Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Hands-on Lab)

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

Module 6: AWS CloudFormation

  • Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation
  • CloudFormation – Creating a new stack
  • 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 (Theory only)
  • Getting started with IAM
  • 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 group
    2. Adding a user to a group
    3. Setting up password policies for users
    4. Attaching policies to users
    5. Enabling multi-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 CLI
  • Launching an instance with full S3 and EC2 access
  • Configuring the AWS CLI client
  • Creating a security group using the CLI
  • Creating a key pair using the CLI
  • Launching an EC2 instance using the CLI
  • Stopping an EC2 instance using the CLI
  • Terminating an EC2 instance using the CLI
  • Creating a load balancer using the CLI
  • Deleting a load balancer using the CLI
  • Creating an S3 bucket using the CLI
  • Uploading and downloading objects between your local machine and S3 via CLI
  • Listing buckets via the CLI
  • Deleting buckets via the 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 public and private subnets
    3. VPC Peering
    4. Access Control Lists
  • Configuring VPC Instances (Student-led Hands-on Lab)
    1. Creating a VPC
    2. Creating subnets
    3. Creating an Internet Gateway
    4. Configuring routing
    5. Configuring a NAT instance
    6. Creating security groups
    7. Launching instances

Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Databases using Python SDK

  • Description of Amazon DynamoDB
  • Verifying key aspects of Amazon RDS
  • Configuring the Python SDK to access DynamoDB
  • Creating tables using the Python SDK
  • Putting items using the SDK
  • Querying using the Python SDK
  • Deleting items using the SDK

Module 12: AWS RDS (Theory Only)

  • Description of Amazon RDS
  • Comparing 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

Requirements

Foundational Linux skills (such as working with files and directories).

 28 Hours

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