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Course Outline
DAY 1
Module 1: AWS Account Setup
- Account registration process
- Overview of the AWS Management Console
- Monitoring management activities and billing
- AWS pricing models
Module 2: AWS High-Level Overview
- General AWS platform overview
- EC2: Comprehensive introduction
- EBS: Comprehensive introduction
- Security Groups: Comprehensive introduction
- Elastic IP: Comprehensive introduction
- CloudFront: Comprehensive introduction
- S3: Comprehensive introduction
- Glacier: Comprehensive introduction
- IAM: Comprehensive introduction
- RDS: Comprehensive introduction
Module 3: Amazon EC2 - Windows Server 2012 (Hands-on Lab)
- Launching a Windows Server 2012 instance
- Decrypting passwords 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 (EBS) (Hands-on Lab)
- Creating a Standard Volume
- Creating and deleting snapshots
- Attaching 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 configured as Apache web servers using user data
- Editing HTML files on both servers
- Testing web server accessibility 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 Route53
- Introduction to Route53
- Demonstration of Route53 integration with the previously created ELB (Instructor-led only)
Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)
- AWS S3 overview and pricing models
- 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
- Configuring 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 web server configuration
- Validating successful execution of user data
Module 3: Amazon EC2 - Ubuntu 14.04 with Metadata (Hands-on Lab)
- Overview of Metadata
- Fetching 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 models
- Creating an S3 Bucket
- Implementing file versioning
- Setting up static web hosting in S3
- Configuring cross-region replication for 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 models
- Creating lifecycle policies
- Accessing data stored in Glacier
- Configuring automatic deletion rules for S3 data
Module 6: AWS CloudFormation
- Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation
- CloudFormation: Creating a new stack
- Deploying a sample template in JSON format
- Utilizing existing templates for deployment
DAY 3
Module 7: AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)
- What is IAM? - Comprehensive introduction
- AWS federation with Active Directory - Theoretical overview
- 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
- Configuring password policies for users
- Attaching policies to users
- Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) 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 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 the local machine and S3 via CLI
- Listing buckets via CLI
- Deleting buckets via CLI
Module 9: Application Development and Deployment Best Practices
- Application deployment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Deploying a Python Elastic Beanstalk environment
- Deploying an IIS environment
- Terminating Python and Elastic Beanstalk environments
DAY 4
Module 10: AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- What is VPC? - Comprehensive introduction
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Understanding VPC configurations
- VPC with a single public subnet
- VPC with public and private subnets
- VPC Peering
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
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Configuring VPC Instances (Student hands-on lab)
- Creating a VPC
- Creating subnets
- Setting up 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 data using the Python SDK
- Deleting items using the SDK
Module 12: AWS RDS (Theoretical Overview)
- Describing Amazon RDS
- Comparing managing your own database on EC2 versus using RDS
Module 13: AWS SNS, SQS, and SWF (Theoretical Overview)
- Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Overview and use cases
- Simple Queue Service (SQS) - Overview and use cases
- Simple Workflow (SWF) - Overview and use cases
Requirements
Fundamental Linux skills, such as navigating 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.
