Developing on AWS

Course subjects

Module 1: Course Overview

• Logistics

• Student resources

• Agenda

• Introductions

Module 2: 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

Module 3: 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

Module 4: 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

Lab 1: Configure the Developer Environment

• Connect to a developer environment

• Verify that the IDE and the AWS CLI are installed and configured to use the application profile

• Verify that the necessary permissions have been granted to run AWS CLI commands

• Assign an AWS IAM policy to a role to delete an Amazon S3 bucket

Module 5: 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

Module 6: 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

Lab 2: Develop Solutions Using Amazon S3

• Interact with Amazon S3 programmatically using AWS SDKs and the AWS CLI

• Create a bucket using waiters and verify service exceptions codes

• Build the needed requests to upload an Amazon S3 object with metadata attached

• Build requests to download an object from the bucket, process data, and upload the object back to the bucket

• Configure a bucket to host the website and sync the source files using the AWS CLI

• Add IAM bucket policies to access the S3 website.

Module 7: 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

Module 8: 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

Lab 3: Develop Solutions Using Amazon DynamoDB

• Interact with Amazon DynamoDB programmatically using low-level, document, and high-level APIs in your programs

• Retrieve items from a table using key attributes, filters, expressions, and paginations

• Load a table by reading JSON objects from a file

• Search items from a table based on key attributes, filters, expressions, and paginations

• Update items by adding new attributes and changing data conditionally

• Access DynamoDB data using PartiQL and object-persistence models where applicable

Module 9: Processing Your Application Logic

• Develop a Lambda function using SDKs

• Configure triggers and permissions for Lambda functions

• Test, deploy, and monitor Lambda functions

Lab 4: Develop Solutions Using AWS Lambda Functions

• Create AWS Lambda functions and interact programmatically using AWS SDKs and AWS CLI

• Configure AWS Lambda functions to use the environment variables and to integrate with other services

• Generate Amazon S3 pre-signed URLs using AWS SDKs and verify the access to bucket objects

• Deploy the AWS Lambda functions with .zip file archives through your IDE and test as needed

• Invoke AWS Lambda functions using the AWS Console and AWS CLI

Module 10: 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

Lab 5: Develop Solutions Using Amazon API Gateway

• Create RESTful API Gateway resources and configure CORS for your application

• Integrate API methods with AWS Lambda functions to process application data

• Configure mapping templates to transform the pass-through data during method integration

• Create a request model for API methods to ensure that the pass-through data format complies with application rules

• Deploy the API Gateway to a stage and validate the results using the API endpoint

Module 11: 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

Module 12: Granting Access to Your Application Users

• Analyse the evolution of security protocols

• Explore the authentication process using Amazon Cognito

• Manage user access and authorise serverless APIs

• Observe best practices for implementing Amazon Cognito

• Demonstrate the integration of Amazon Cognito and review JWT tokens

Lab 6: Capstone - Complete the Application Build

• Create a Userpool and an Application Client for your web application using

• Add new users and confirm their ability to sign-in using the Amazon Cognito CLI

• Configure API Gateway methods to use Amazon Cognito as an authoriser

• Verify JWT authentication tokens are generated during API Gateway calls

• Develop API Gateway resources rapidly using a Swagger importing strategy

• Set up your web application frontend to use Amazon Cognito and API Gateway configurations and verify the entire application functionality

Module 13: 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

Module 14: 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

Lab 7: Observe the Application Using AWS X-Ray

• Instrument your application code to use AWS X-Ray capabilities

• Enable your application deployment package to generate logs

• Understand the key components of an AWS SAM template and deploy your application

• Create AWS X-Ray service maps to observe end-to-end processing behavior of your application

• Analyse and debug application issues using AWS X-Ray traces and annotations

Module 15: Course Wrap-up

• Course overview

• AWS training courses

• Certifications

• Course feedback

Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.