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Course Outline
DAY 1
Module 1: Getting Started with AWS
- Account creation and sign-up process
- Overview of the Amazon Management Console
- Monitoring management activities and billing details
- Understanding Amazon Pricing models
Module 2: AWS High-Level Overview
- Comprehensive overview of the AWS ecosystem
- Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) - Introduction
- Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Introduction
- Security Groups - Introduction
- Elastic IP - Introduction
- Amazon CloudFront - Introduction
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - Introduction
- Amazon Glacier - Introduction
- IAM (Identity and Access Management) - Introduction
- Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) - Introduction
Module 3: Amazon EC2 with Windows Server 2012 (Hands-on Lab)
- Launching a Windows Server 2012 instance
- Decrypting passwords and downloading the RDP client shortcut
- Establishing a connection 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 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 Route 53
- Demonstration of Route 53 integration with the previously created ELB (Conducted by the Instructor only)
Module 8: AWS S3 (Hands-on Lab)
- Overview of AWS S3 and its pricing structure
- Creating Buckets and Folders
- Uploading, downloading, sharing, and deleting objects
- Deleting Buckets
DAY 2
Module 1: Amazon EC2 with Windows 2012 User Data (Hands-on Lab)
- Launching the Windows 2012 R2 server
- Configuring a web server using PowerShell-based user data
- Validating successful execution of user data
- Terminating the Ubuntu server
Module 2: Amazon EC2 with Ubuntu 14.04 User Data (Hands-on Lab)
- Launching the EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
- Utilizing user data for web server setup
- Validating successful execution of user data
Module 3: Amazon EC2 with Metadata (Hands-on Lab)
- Overview of Instance Metadata
- Fetching metadata information about your EC2 instance
- Terminating the Ubuntu server
Module 4: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (Hands-on Lab)
- Overview of AWS S3 and pricing
- Creating an S3 Bucket
- Implementing File Versioning
- Setting up static web hosting on S3
- Configuring Cross-Region replication for objects
- Using Route 53 for redirects to access static websites (Live demonstration by instructor)
Module 5: Amazon Glacier (Hands-on Lab)
- Overview of AWS Glacier and pricing
- Creating lifecycle policies
- Accessing data stored in Glacier
- Configuring automatic deletion of data from S3 based on defined rules
Module 6: AWS CloudFormation
- Infrastructure as Code concepts using CloudFormation
- Creating a new stack in CloudFormation
- Deploying sample templates in JSON format
- Using and deploying existing templates
DAY 3
Module 7: AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)
- What is IAM? - A comprehensive introduction
- AWS federation with Active Directory - Theoretical overview 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 a user and group
- Adding a user to a group
- Setting up password policies for users
- Attaching policies to users
- Enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) for users
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IAM Roles in Action (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 (Command Line Interface)
- Working with the AWS CLI
- Launching an instance with full access to S3 and EC2
- 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 objects from the local machine to S3 via CLI
- Listing buckets using CLI
- Deleting buckets using 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 (ACLs)
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Configuring VPC Instances (Hands-on Lab by students)
- Creating a VPC
- Configuring Subnets
- Setting up an Internet Gateway
- Configuring Routing
- Configuring a NAT instance
- Creating Security Groups
- Launching Instances
Module 11: AWS Managed Services & Database Operations 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 into tables 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 proficiency in 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.
