AWS Developer Associate Training

• Benefits of using AWS over a traditional data center.
• AWS Global Infrastructure.
• SaaS, PaaS and IaaS models
• Virtualization

• Elements of IAM
• Security Token Service
• Web Identity Federation
• Active Directory Federation
• Key Management Service (KMS)
• Cognito
• Lab: Create an IAM role with S3 Full Access and DynamoDB Full Access.

• Components of EC2
• EC2 Pricing Options
• EC2 Instance Types
• AMI’s
• Amazon Elastic Block Storage(EBS)
• EBS Volume Types
• Security Groups
• Volumes and Snapshots
• Elastic File System(EFS)
• Auto Scaling
• Load balancers
• Placement Groups
• EC2 API and Command Line
• Lab: Create an EC2 instance, create an additional 10 GB General Purpose SSD Volume and attach it to the EC2 instance, create an Application Load Balancer and register the newly created EC2 instance.

• Types of Storage
• Components of S3
• Data Consistency Model
• S3 Storage Tiers
• Security and Access Controls
• Cross Origin Resource Sharing(CORS)
• Versioning
• Life Cycle Management
• Cross Origin Replication
• Transfer Acceleration
• Encryption
• Static Web Hosting
• Events
• Data Transfer
• S3 API and Command Line
• Lab 1: Create a S3 bucket and Put objects in S3-Infrequent access storage class.
• Lab 2: Create a S3 bucket and upload a simple html file. Enable static web hosting and try to serve the html content with static web hosting.

Combined Lab of Module 2, 3 and 4

• Lab: Create an EC2 instance. Attach the IAM role (created in Module 2) to newly created EC2 instance. Try to access the S3 bucket objects (Created in Module 4) by using S3 CLI commands from inside that EC2 instance.

• Amazon Glacier
• Storage Gateway
• Snowball Default Cache Behavior Default Cache Behavior
• Snowball Edge
• Snowmobile
• Lab: Theoretical knowledge is sufficient in this module.

• Concepts on Content Delivery Network
• Edge Locations and Caching
• Distribution and Origins
• Default Cache Behavior
• Creating your own Cloud front Distribution
• Lab: Create a web distribution with the origin of the S3 bucket (created in Lab 2 of Module 4). Enable Geo-Restriction by blacklisting

• Networks and Subnets
• Overview of VPC
• Route Tables
• Internet Gateways
• NAT Instances and NAT Gateway
• Endpoints
• Network Access Control Lists (NACL)
• VPN Connections
• VPC Peering
• Lab 1: Create a VPC by including such CIDR range which supports exactly 2048 network IP address. Create one public subnet and one private subnet.
• Lab 2: Create a VPC with public and private subnet. Separate them with Internet Gateway and NAT Gateway. Create EC2 Web Servers and Database Servers. Make such configuration, so that EC2 web servers will be inside public subnet and Database servers will be inside private subnet.

• Overview of Cloud Watch
• Cloud Watch Alarms
• Events and Rules
• CloudWatch Logs
• Cloud Watch Metrics and its components
• CloudWatch Dashboards

• Components of SNS
• Platform Applications
• Concepts on Fanning Out
• SNS API and Command line

Combined Lab of Module 8 & 9

• Create a Cloudwatch Alarm for an EC2 instance created in Module 2. Create an SNS topic and subscribe your email address. Now, Configure the Cloudwatch Alarm to send an email alert when the CPU utilization is 70% or above.

• Concepts on Decoupled Applications
• Components of SQS
• Queue Attributes
• Concepts on Long Polling and Short Polling
• Encryption
• Dead Letter Queue
• SQS API and Command Line

Combined Lab of Module 9 & 10

• Create a SQS standard queue. Create a SNS topic. Configure the SQS and SNS so that any messages published to SNS will automatically be added to SQS queue.

• Serverless and Micro services concepts
• AWS SDK on any programming Language Supported
• Lambda Functions Deployment
• Lambda Triggers and Event Source Mapping
• Environment Variables
• Debugging with Cloud watch Logs
• Monitoring with Cloud watch Metrics
• Step function, X - Ray
• Lab: Write a lambda function to create an S3 bucket in Current region and add a text file from lambda function in that bucket.

• Concepts on Rest API’s
• Resources and Methods
• Stages
• Usage Plans and API keys
• CORS
• Lambda Integration

• Concepts on NoSQL
• Components of DynamoDB
• Eventual and Strongly Consistent Reads
• Primary Keys and Disk Partition patterns
• Indexes
• DynamoDB Streams
• Provisioned Throughput and its calculations
• Backups and Auto Scaling
• DynamoDB Metrics
• DynamoDB API and Command Line

Combined Lab of Module 11, 12 & 13

• Create a 3 tier web application using S3 for static hosting, DynamoDB for database storage, Lambda for data processing and API Gateway.

• Concepts on Relational DBMS
• Components of RDS
• Database Engines
• Backups and Snapshots
• Subnet groups
• Parameter groups
• Option groups
• Overview on Elasticache
• Memcached and Redis

• Concepts on DNS
• Components of Route53
• Routing Policies
• Alias records
• Lab: Go to http://www.dot.tk/ and create a new domain of your choice. Create a new hosted zone in Route53 and point it to the Cloudfront Distribution created in Module 6. When you hit your domain in the browser, it should open the your site created in s3.