Developing on AWS – 3 Day Training Course (1 Exam, 1 Certification)

BUILDING A WEB APPLICATION ON AWS

• Discuss the architecture of the application you are going to build during this course
• Explore the AWS services needed to build your web application
• Discover how to store, manage, and host your web application

GETTING STARTED WITH DEVELOPMENT ON AWS

• Describe how to access AWS services programmatically
• List some programmatic patterns and how they provide efficiencies within AWS SDKs and
• AWS CLI
• Explain the value of AWS Cloud9

GETTING STARTED WITH PERMISSIONS

• Review AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) features and components permissions
• to support a development environment
• Demonstrate how to test AWS IAM permissions
• Configure your IDEs and SDKs to support a development environment
• Demonstrate accessing AWS services using SDKs and AWS Cloud9

GETTING STARTED WITH STORAGE

• Describe the basic concepts of Amazon S3
• List the options for securing data using Amazon S3
• Define SDK dependencies for your code
• Explain how to connect to the Amazon S3 service
• Describe request and response objects

PROCESSING YOUR STORAGE OPERATIONS

• Perform key bucket and object operations
• Explain how to handle multiple and large objects
• Create and configure an Amazon S3 bucket to host a static website
• Grant temporary access to your objects
• Demonstrate performing Amazon S3 operations using SDKs

GETTING STARTED WITH DATABASES

• Describe the key components of DynamoDB
• Explain how to connect to DynamoDB
• Describe how to build a request object
• Explain how to read a response object
• List the most common troubleshooting exceptions

PROCESSING YOUR DATABASE OPERATIONS

• Develop programs to interact with DynamoDB using AWS SDKs
• Perform CRUD operations to access tables, indexes, and data
• Describe developer best practices when accessing DynamoDB
• Review caching options for DynamoDB to improve performance
• Perform DynamoDB operations using SDK

PROCESSING YOUR APPLICATION LOGIC

• Develop a Lambda function using SDKs
• Configure triggers and permissions for Lambda functions
• Test, deploy, and monitor Lambda functions

MANAGING THE APIS

• Describe the key components of API Gateway
• Develop API Gateway resources to integrate with AWS services
• Configure API request and response calls for your application endpoints
• Test API resources and deploy your application API endpoint
• Demonstrate creating API Gateway resources to interact with your application APIs

BUILDING A MODERN APPLICATION

• Describe the challenges with traditional architectures
• Describe the microservice architecture and benefits
• Explain various approaches for designing microservice applications
• Explain steps involved in decoupling monolithic applications
• Demonstrate the orchestration of Lambda Functions using AWS Step Functions

GRANTING ACCESS TO YOUR APPLICATION USERS

• Analyze the evolution of security protocols
• Explore the authentication process using Amazon Cognito
• Manage user access and authorize serverless APIs
• Observe best practices for implementing Amazon Cognito
• Demonstrate the integration of Amazon Cognito and review JWT tokens

DEPLOYING YOUR APPLICATION

• Identify risks associated with traditional software development practices
• Understand DevOps methodology
• Configure an AWS SAM template to deploy a serverless application
• Describe various application deployment strategies
• Demonstrate deploying a serverless application using AWS SAM

OBSERVING YOUR APPLICATION

• Differentiate between monitoring and observability
• Evaluate why observability is necessary in modern development and key components
• Understand CloudWatch’s part in configuring the observability
• Demonstrate using CloudWatch Application Insights to monitor applications
• Demonstrate using X-Ray to debug your applications