AWS Cloud – Solution Architect Associate Workshop Training in India

Module 1 : Amazon EC2 and EBS System operations ( Hands on lab by students)       

• 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 2 : Auto Scaling and Bootstrapping   ( Hands on lab by students)                      

• Overview Of   Autoscaling
•  ELB: Configuring The Elastic Load Balancer  for Autoscaling 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 3 : AWS s3  ( Hands on lab by students)                                                       

• AWS s3- Overview and pricing
• Create Bucket  and Folder
• Upload, download, share and delete object
• File Versioning
• Cross Region Replication
• Setting s3 life cycle policy
• Create static Website in s3
• S3 Transfer Acceleration ( Theory only)
• S3 security and encryption ( Theory only)
• Delete Bucket

Module 4 : AWS- IAM (Identity and Access Management)                                                   

• What is IAM? – A comprehensive introduction
• Getting started with IAMs

IAM   user- groups ( Hands on lab by students)

1. 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    ( Hands on lab by students)                                                              

1. 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    ( Live demo by Instructor)

Module 5 : AWS Cloudfront ( Live Demo by Instructor)                                                         

• 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 6: AWS other storage options ( Theory only)                                                     

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

Module 1 – Addon services and Points to Know ( Theory Only)

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

Module 2  : AWS-  Webapp and  RDS    ( Hands on lab by students)                       

• 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 3 : Other Database options  ( Theory Only)

• 1. DynamoDB – Overview and use case
  2. Redshift – Overview and use case
  3. Elastic cache – Overview and use case
  4. Aurora DB – Overview and use case

Module 4 : Well Architected Framework    

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

Module 5  : AWS Cloud Formation  ( Hands on lab by students)

• 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

Module 6 : AWS- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• What is VPC? – A comprehensive introduction
• Networking bottlenecks
• Understanding VPC configurations
  1. VPC with single public subnet
  2. VPC with public and private subnet
  3. VPC Peering
  4. Access control List
• Configuring VPC Instances ( Hands on lab by students)
  1. Creating a VPC
  2. Subnets
  3. Internet Gateway
  4. Routing
  5. Configuring a NAT Gateway
  6. Creating security groups
  7. Launching instances in public and private subnets
• NAT vs Bastions
• VPC Flow Logs
• VPC clean up

Module 7: Whitepaper overview – Must read whitepapers for students

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

Module 8 : AWS route 53  ( Live demo by instructor)                                                                     

• Route 53 - routing options
• Simple routing - Handons lab
• weighted routing policy lab
• latency based routing lab
• Geolocation based routing lab
• failover routing lab

Module 9 : Migrate to AWS

• Case studies
• Migration approach

AWS exam tips

• Exam blue print overview