AWS Certified Developer Associate - Practical Guide [15H]

Create a new Cloud9 environment by clicking the create environment button, choose the North Virginia region, and configure a free tier t-2 micro instance with a dark theme and terminal.

Explore cloud computing basics, including on-demand compute power, storage, and pay-as-you-go pricing, and learn how economy of scale, elasticity, agility, and lower maintenance enable scalable global deployments.

Learn the shared security responsibility model: AWS secures the cloud while you secure your cloud with IAM, firewall rules, VPC, MFA, credential rotation, and OS patches.

Access essential AWS fundamental resources through the linked documents from Amazon, covering the basics discussed in this module, with the PTF download for reference and module conclusion.

Explore the basics of cloud computing with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, EFS, and Glacier, and learn about regions, availability zones, shared responsibility, service limits and requests.

Build a load balancing setup with a lamp stack ami using a launch configuration and an auto scaling group, then create a load balancer to serve traffic to multiple instances.

Learn how cloud formation templates model and provision AWS resources, deploy stacks, and automate configuration across regions with version control and easy rollback.

Learn how to create and manage stacks with CloudFormation templates, explore stack options, parameters, and termination protection, and deploy stacks across accounts using StackSets.

Deploy an EC2 instance using CloudFormation templates in any region, and configure a security group to allow SSH access from your IP address.

Understand DynamoDB throughput for reads and writes by configuring read and write capacity units, item sizes, and strongly vs eventually consistent reads.

Complete a self-guided identity and access management lab by creating a user with full program access but no console access, following best practices. The next video shows the lab solution.

Create an IAM group and a user with programmatic access, assign the 'Amazon easy to full access' policy, and enforce no console access—demonstrating group-based user management best practices.

Create an instance profile in the IAM dashboard to grant administrator privileges, attach it to an EC2 instance, and verify access by running aws ec2 describe-instances from within the instance.

Create an instance profile giving the easy to service administrator privileges, attach it to an Amazon Linux 2 instance, and verify SSH access with the generated credentials.

Explore how AWS Lambda runs code without servers, scales automatically, and charges only for compute used. Learn Lambda components—functions, event sources, downstream resources—and how events may trigger multiple functions.