AWS Hands on Labs: Step-by-step for Beginners NEW

Name: AWS Hands on Labs: Step-by-step for Beginners *NEW*
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Learn how to build and design your own architectures with AWS using the best practices taught in these hands-on labs!

Created byshahzeb Mansoor

Last updated 5/2022

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What you'll learn

Hands-on Practice in AWS Management Console & Command Line
Step-by-step cloud design architecture for beginners
Correlating the architecture design & AWS services on each step
Learn to deploy the common AWS services like EC2, ALB, VPC, S3, etc
Design Highly Available and Scaleable Websites on AWS

Course content

6 sections • 39 lectures • 3h 39m total length

Course Outline4:13
This lecture will give you an outline of this AWS Hands-on Labs Course, what you can expect from this course and everything that you will learn along the way.
Pre-requisites1:29
This lecture outlines the few pre-requisites you should have to really benefit from this course.
Creating an AWS Free-Tier Account2:55
This lecture will go through all the necessary steps to create your own AWS Free Tier Account to perform the labs.

NOTE: If you already have a Free Tier account that you can use, feel free to skip this lecture.
Install SSH Tools1:47
This lecture goes through the tools that are required to be installed on your Windows or Mac systems in order to perform the labs.

Design Overview0:48
Build two web servers in us-east-1 across two availability zones in public subnets of a VPC, and load balance internet traffic with an application load balancer to improve fault tolerance.
Create a custom VPC7:43
Create an Internet Gateway4:49
Create Public Subnets2:38
Create a Security Group10:53
Launch an EC2 Instance13:08
Launch two EC2 instances in separate availability zones using an amazon linux image, enable public ip addresses, and run a bash script to install apache and serve a basic index.html.
Create an Elastic Load Balancer (ALB)8:06
Cleanup1:31

Design Overview1:21
Prep for this Lab3:43
Create an Application Load Balancer3:41
Create SNS Topic (Simple Notification Service)4:26
Create a standard SNS topic named MyTopic, configure an email subscription, and confirm it to receive notifications, illustrating topics, subscriptions, and common endpoints in AWS.
Create an EC2 Auto-scaling Group using Launch Template14:03
Login to EC2 instance using SSH5:39
Learn to log into an AWS EC2 instance via SSH with PuTTY, convert PEM to PPK, install EPEL, run stress to simulate CPU load, and prepare for auto scaling tests.
Test EC2 Auto-scaling performance15:16
Cleanup2:34

Design Overview2:30
Design a secure, fault-tolerant architecture with web servers in two private subnets across two availability zones, using NAT gateway, Bastion host, an application load balancer, and an S3 gateway endpoint.
Prep for this Lab1:55
Prepare for lab 3 by reviewing and reusing existing resources from lab 2, including a custom VPC, two public subnets, default route table, and SSH key pair in AWS console.
Create Private Subnets and Route Table5:24
Create a NAT Gateway6:09
Create a Bastion Host8:02
Create EC2 Web Server Instances7:17
Create an Application Load Balancer4:25
Learn to create an internet-facing application load balancer across two availability zones to route HTTP traffic to two private subnets Apache web servers, with a target group and health checks.
Create a VPC Endpoint for S315:37
Create an S3 bucket, an IAM role for EC2, and a VPC gateway endpoint for S3 to enable private access; test uploading and downloading files via the endpoint.
Cleanup5:13

Design Overview2:11
Prep for this Lab2:47
Launch a RDS DB Instance11:45
Launch a MySQL RDS instance in a VPC, configure a DB subnet group across private subnets, set up security groups and automated backups, and explore multi-AZ and read replicas.
Create EC2 Web Server Instance4:01
Download PHP App from Git Repository6:02
Create an Application Load Balancer6:53
Connect to MySQL through EC2 SSH4:57
Enable RDS Multi-AZ Deployment & verification8:29
Cleanup4:46

Requirements

Basic IT Knowledge (OS, Networking, Databases)
Some knowledge of cloud concepts and AWS services preferred

Description

Are you looking for hands-on practice on AWS?

You have scoured the internet but can't find a proper step-by-step instructional guide with the latest architecture designs on how to create a solution in the AWS cloud?

Are you preparing yourself for an AWS Associate level certification and need to perform some easy to follow labs to brush up your knowledge and skills?

Then this is the course for you!

Why choose this course?

Each service in the hands-on labs is created step-by-step, and then added on the design architecture to reflect it.
Using the new AND latest AWS Architecture Icons from the past year on the designs. Majority of the other courses still show the outdated AWS architecture icons from few years ago.
Labs are performed using the new style of console interfaces on AWS Management Console as of mid / late 2020 (e.g Auto-scaling Groups, RDS, Security Groups, Target Groups, SNS Topics, Launch Template, etc), since the old console style is being deprecated.
The common best practices are shown during the labs to create highly available, resilient and scalable architectures.
Everything you do in the hands-on labs will be free of cost as it will be within Free-Tier limits, except for only couple of services for which the total cost will be less than 50 cents (USD).

Summary of hands-on labs covered in this course:

Two EC2 instances in Two Availability Zones, behind an Application Load Balancer
EC2 Auto-scaling group over two Availability Zones, behind an Application Load Balancer
Increase security by introducing Private subnets for EC2 instances, Bastion Host, NAT Gateway and VPC Gateway Endpoint for S3.
Two EC2 Web Server instances (Apache) behind an Application Load Balancer. PHP web application connected to a back-end Multi-AZ RDS (Relational Database) for data storage. Similar to LAMP stack.

The hands-on labs will touch upon the below major services and concepts:

Regions and Availability Zones
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
Private Subnet / Public Subnet
Security Groups / NACL (Network Access Control Lists)
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) / Launch Templates / AMIs
ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) / ALB (Application Load Balancer)
Auto-Scaling Groups
S3 (Simple Storage Service)
NAT Gateway
VPC Gateway Endpoint
RDS (Relational Database Service)
Multi-AZ RDS Deployment
SNS (Simple Notification Service)

Who this course is for:

Starting out with AWS Cloud
Studying for any AWS Associate Level certification
Looking for hands-on practice and building your own architecture on AWS

AWS Hands on Labs: Step-by-step for Beginners *NEW*

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 10min

Hands-on Lab #1: Two EC2 instances in Two AZs8 lectures • 50min

Hands-on Lab #2: EC2 Auto-scaling Group in Two AZs, with ALB8 lectures • 51min

Hands-on Lab #3: Two EC2 instances in Private subnets, Bastion Host & NAT GW9 lectures • 57min

Hands-on Lab#4: Two EC2 instances with Apache server, PHP app and RDS MySQL DB9 lectures • 52min

Conclusion1 lecture • 1min

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AWS Hands on Labs: Step-by-step for Beginners NEW