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Course Outline
DAY 1
Module 1: Initial User Registration
- User Sign Up process
- Overview of the Amazon Management Console
- Overview of Management Activities and Billing
- Amazon Pricing models
Module 2: AWS High-Level Overview – The 10,000-Foot View
- An 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 passwords and downloading the RDP shortcut client
- 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)
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Lab 6.1
- Launching two Ubuntu EC2 instances as Apache web servers using user data
- Editing HTML files on both servers
- Testing web servers via the internet
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Lab 6.2
- Creating an Elastic Load Balancer
- Adding both Ubuntu servers to the ELB
- Testing the Elastic Load Balancer
- Deleting the Elastic Load Balancer
Module 7: AWS Route 53
- Understanding what Route 53 is
- Route 53 demo integration with the previously created ELB (Conducted by the Instructor)
Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)
- AWS 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 (Hands-on Lab)
- Launching the Windows 2012 R2 server
- Setting up a web server using PowerShell commands in user data
- 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
- Utilizing user data for the 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 regarding 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 web hosting on S3
- Cross-region replication of objects
- Using Route 53 redirects to access static websites (Live demonstration by instructor)
Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Hands-on Lab)
- AWS Glacier overview and pricing
- Creating lifecycle policies
- Accessing data from Glacier
- Setting up automatic deletion rules for data in S3
Module 6: AWS CloudFormation
- Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation
- CloudFormation – Creating a new stack
- Deploying sample templates in JSON format
- Using 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
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IAM Roles – Delegation and Federation (Hands-on Lab)
- Creating a role
- Assuming a role
- Deleting a role
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IAM Users and Groups (Hands-on Lab)
- Creating users and groups
- Adding users to groups
- Setting up password policies for users
- Attaching policies to users
- Enabling multi-factor authentication for users
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IAM Roles (Hands-on Lab)
- Creating an IAM role with full access to EC2 and S3
- 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 CLI
- Creating a key pair using CLI
- Launching an EC2 instance using CLI
- Stopping an EC2 instance using CLI
- Terminating an EC2 instance using CLI
- Creating a load balancer using CLI
- Deleting a load balancer using CLI
- Creating an S3 bucket using CLI
- Uploading and downloading an object from your 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
- 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
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Understanding VPC configurations
- VPC with a single public subnet
- VPC with both public and private subnets
- VPC Peering
- Access Control Lists
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Configuring VPC Instances (Hands-on Lab by Students)
- Creating a VPC
- Creating Subnets
- Creating an Internet Gateway
- Configuring Routing
- Configuring a NAT instance
- Creating security groups
- Launching instances
Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Databases using Python SDK
- Describing 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)
- Describing Amazon RDS
- Managing your own database 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
Requirements
Foundational Linux skills (such as working with files and directories)
28 Hours
Testimonials (3)
Sounds knowledgeable, and interacts with his leaners
Shuko Ndhlovu - BMW
Course - AWS Developer Associate
Everything. I had played around with AWS before but just on my own personal time. The training really brought everything together, with real world examples and how many individual pieces can be bolted together for a applicable solution.
Matt Sartain - MDA Systems Ltd.
Course - AWS Developer Associate
I liked getting to understand the breadth of the services offered by AWS and gaining a better understanding of their pricing model for each of those services.
