Day 1: AWS Technical Essentials

Module 1: User Sign up?

• User Sign Up
• Overview Amazon Management Console
• Management Activity and Billing overview
• Amazon Pricing

Module 2: AWS Big Picture – 10000 feet overview?

• An overview of AWS
• EC2- An overview
• EBS- An Overview
• Security Group-An Overview
• Elastic IP- An overview
• Cloud Front-An Overview
• S3- An overview
• Glacier- An overview
• IAM – An Overview
• RDS- AN overview

Module 3: Amazon EC2- Win server 2012

• Launch Windows server 2012 Instance
• Decrypt Password and download RDP shortcut client
• connect to the EC2 Windows 2012 instance
• Terminate the Windows server 2012 Instance

Module 4: Amazon EC2- Security Groups

• Creating Security Groups
• Modify Security Groups
• Delete Security Groups

Module 5: Amazon Elastic Block Store

• Create Standard Volume
• Create and delete snapshots
• Create Provisioned I/o Volume
• Assign volumes to Windows server 2012 and Ubuntu 14.04 server
• Disassociate and Delete volumes

Module 6: Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

• Lab 6.1
  1. Launch Two Ubuntu EC2 Instances- apache web servers with user data
  2. Edit HTML files to both the servers
  3. Test your web Servers through internet
• Lab 6.2
  1. Create Elastic Load Balancer
  2. Add both the Ubuntu servers to ELB
  3. Test your Elastic Load Balancer
  4. Delete your Elastic Load Balancer

Module 7: AWS Route 53

• What is Route 53
• Route 53 demo integration with ELB you created

Module 8: AWS S3

• AWS S3 – Overview and pricing
• Create Bucket and Folder
• Upload, download, share and delete object
• Delete Bucket

Day 2 – EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, Auto Scaling, CloudFront,Glacier

Module 9: Amazon EC2 and EBS System operations

• EC2 and EBS – Advanced theory
• EC2 – Creating your own AMI
• EC2 – Launching instance using own AMI
• EC2 – copy snapshot across region and share across accounts (live demo by
  instructor)
• EBS – Snapshot
• EBS- creating volume using snapshot
• EBS – copy EBS snapshot across region and share across accounts (live demo by
  instructor)
• EBS – upgrade volume types

Module 10: Auto Scaling and Bootstrapping

• Overview of Auto Scaling
• ELB: Configuring The Elastic Load Balancer for Auto Scaling group
• Configuring The AMI For Our Web Application
• Auto Scaling And Bootstrapping
• Scale out VM’s though stress test
• Scaling VM ‘s based on low utilization

Module 11: AWS S3

• AWS s3- Overview and pricing
• Create Bucket and Folder
• Upload, download, share and delete object
• File Versioning (S3 version control)
• Cross Region replication
• Setting s3 life cycle policy
• Create a static website in S3
• S3 Transfer Acceleration
• S3 security and encryption
• Delete Bucket

Module 12: AWS-IAM ( Identity and Access Management )

• • What is IAM? – A comprehensive introduction
  • Getting started with IAMs
  • IAM user- groups
    1. Creating a user and group
    2. Adding a user to the group
    3. Password policy setup for users
    4. Attaching policy to users
    5. Enabling dual /Multi factor authentication to the users
  • IAM roles
    1. Creating a IAM role and assign S3 full access policy
    2. Launching a EC2 instance using a S3 full access role
    3. AWS CLI install and create S3 bucket using cli, upload file and delete bucket from S3
    4. Deleting a role
  • Creating a Billing Alarm

Module 13 : AWS CloudFront

• CloudFront overview and pricing
• Create a origin bucket for CloudFront
• Upload file to origin bucket
• Create CDN distribution and use origin bucket
• Access files through CloudFront distribution

Module 14: AWS other storage options

• Storage Gateway – Overview and pricing
• Snowball – Overview and Pricing
• Glacier – Overview and pricing
• Glacier – Live demo by instructor using fast glacier client

Day 3: AWS Security- IAM, AWS CLI, SDK, DynamoDB

Module 15: Add on services and Points to Know

• Consolidated Billing
• AWS organization
• Cross Account Access
• Resource Groups and Tags
• VPC Peering
• Direct Connect
• Security Token Service
• Workspaces
• Active Directory Integration
• ECS
• Cloud watch
• EBS Encryption
• User data
• EC2 Instance metadata
• Elastic File System
• Lambda concepts
• EC2 Placement groups
• EBS vs Instance store

Module 16: AWS- Web App and RDS

• RDS- An overview
• RDS –read replica
• RDS- Multi AZ failover
• RDS snapshots
  1. Lab 1: Create a RDS instance
  2. Lab 2: connecting to an RDS instance
  3. Lab 3: creating a RDS snapshots and restoring snapshot
  4. Lab 4: Deleting RDS snapshots
• Deploy Web application in Amazon Ec2 (media wiki)
• Connect your Media wiki web application with RDS instances securely
• Make media wiki available on public URL for user sign up and write knowledge wiki
• Delete Your RDS instance

Module 17: Other Database options

• DynamoDB – Overview and use case
• Redshift – Overview and use case
• Elastic cache – Overview and use case
• Aurora DB – Overview and use case

Module 18: Well Architected Framework

• Introduction to the framework
• Security
• Reliability
• Performance
• Cost optimization
• Operational excellence

Module 19: AWS Cloud Formation

• Infrastructure as Code using Cloud Formation
• Cloud formation – Create a new stack
• Create and deploy sample template in JSON format
• Use existing templates and deploy

Day 4: VPC, Cloud Formation, Benastalk, SNS, SQS, SWF

Module 20: AWS- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• What is VPC? – A comprehensive introduction
• Networking bottlenecks
• Understanding VPC configurations
• VPC with single public subnet
• VPC with public and private subnet
• VPC Peering
• Access control List
• Configuring VPC Instances
• Creating a VPC
• Subnets
• Internet Gateway
• Routing
• Configuring a NAT Gateway
• Creating security groups
• Launching instances in public and private subnets
• NAT vs Bastions
• VPC Flow Logs
• VPC clean up

Module 21: App services

• SQS
• SWF
• SNS
• Elastic Transcoder
• API Gateway
• Kinesis 101
• Kinesis
• Application Services Summary

Module 22: Whitepaper overview

• AWS security whitepaper
• AWS Risk and compliance
• Storage Options in Cloud
• Architecting for AWS best practices

Module 23: AWS route 53

• Route 53 – routing options
• Simple routing – Hands on lab
• weighted routing policy lab
• latency based routing lab
• Geolocation based routing lab
• failover routing lab

Module 24: Migrate to AWS

• Case studies
• Migration approach

AWS exam tips

• Exam blue print overview