Introduction to AWS for Developers Learning Spike Course

Course Summary

The Introduction to AWS for Developers Learning Spike training course assumes no previous knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The course starts by introducing participants to the benefits of using AWS and the primary reasons why Information Technology (IT) and DevOps look to AWS for elastic solutions. Next, participants will learn about the major components available in AWS. The course concludes with a lesson on how to implement the major components through live lab exercises.

This is a hands on course, so each student will need his or her own computer workstation. The following software and access is needed:
Windows: PuTTY, Administrator access to install AWS CLI tools
Mac/Linux: Terminal access, root access to install CLI tools

Purpose

Learn how to use AWS as a proficient user of the technology tools.

Audience

Developers and developer teams looking to add AWS to their stack.

Role

Software Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Hack-a-thon - Learning Spikes - Workshops

Duration

1 Day

Related Technologies

AWS

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Productivity Objectives:

Describe the benefits of AWS.
Create an AWS environment.
Implement AWS components such as Big Data, Nesting, Buckets, EBS and Glacier.

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What You'll Learn

In the Introduction to AWS for Developers Learning Spike training course, you'll learn:

Why Cloud
Why AWS
Accessing your AWS account
AWS Graphical Interface Console
Overview of key AWS services
Regions and Availability Zones
- Advantages of using Availability Zones and Regions for failover and redundancy
- Cost of Availability Zones versus Regions
Creating a security group
Creating an SSH key
Elastic Cloud Instances (EC2)
- Overview of the different EC2 instance types
Launching an EC2 instance using the console
- Downloading the private key
Accessing your EC2 instance
- Configuring PuTTY for windows
Enabling an Apache Web Server
Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Verifying Python
- Installing wget and unzip
- Installing the AWS CLI
- Finding CLI help
- Configuring CLI
- Controlling CLI output
  - Text
  - Table
  - JSON
Controlling EC2 with the CLI
- Creating the SSH key pair
- Launching the EC2 instance with CLI
- Accessing the new EC2 instance via SSH
- Stopping an EC2 instance
Storage Overview
- Advantage of using AWS storage
- Cost advantages
  - Pay as You Go
- Different types of storage
  - S3
  - EBS
  - Glacier
S3 (Simple Storage Service)
- S3 Overview
  - Use cases
Big Data
- Data Size Limits
- S3 access control
- S3 security
- RRS (Reduced Redundancy Storage) Overview
Cost benefits
- Automatically archiving sets of data to Glacier
- hosting from S3
Auto scaling
- Objects and Buckets
- S3 folders
Nesting
- Using S3
Creating a bucket
- Creating a folder
- Adding an object to a bucket
Setting Object Permissions
- Downloading an object from S3
- Deleting an object or bucket
- Using a 3rd party S3 explorer tool
- Creating access log records
- Controlling S3 with the CLI
  - List Buckets
  - Create buckets
  - Copying files up to an S3 bucket
  - Assigning S3 object permissions
  - List objects in an S3 bucket
  - Syncing files between local storage and S3
  - Deleting a bucket
EBS (Elastic Block Storage)
- EBS overview
  - EBS Use cases
  - Different available volume speeds
General purpose SSD
IOPS
Magnetic
- Automatic Replication
- Encryption
- Access control
- Striping volumes
- Scaling volumes
- Snapshots
Moving snapshots between regions
- Creating an EBS volume
- Adding a volume to your instance
  - Making the volume available
- Launching an instance from a snapshot
  - Resizing an EBS volume
  - Sharing an EBS volume
  - Copying an EBS volume across regions
- EBSoptimized instances
  - Using IOPS
Glacier
- Glacier overview
  - Use cases
  - Cost benefits
  - Data size limits
  - Region specific storage
  - Moving data in and out of Glacier
- Glacier Operations
  - Vaults
Creation and deletion
- Archives
- Jobs
- SNS notifications upon action completion
AWS Storage Gateway Overview
- Use cases
- Benefits
AWS Billing
- Resources used this month
- Month by month cost comparison
- Past billing and usage reports
- Set billing preferences
- Consolidated billing
- Set Cloudwatch Billing alerts
- AWS Cost simulator
  - Project Cost Planner
  - Estimate monthly bills
- AWS Free tier for new accounts