Developing on AWS

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Course Overview

This course teaches experienced developers how to programmatically interact with AWS services to build web solutions. It guides you through a high-level architectural discussion on resource selection and dives deep into using the AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs) and Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to build and deploy your cloud applications. You will build a sample application during this course, learning how to set up permissions to the development environment, adding business logic to process data using AWS core services, configure user authentications, deploy to AWS cloud, and debug to resolve application issues. The course includes code examples to help you implement the design patterns and solutions discussed in the course. The labs reinforce key course content and help you to implement solutions using the AWS SDK for Python, .Net, and Java, the AWS CLI, and the AWS Management Console.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for: Intermediate-level software developers

Course Objectives

    • Build a simple end-to-end cloud application using AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs), Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and IDEs.
    • Configure AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to support a development environment.
    • Use multiple programming patterns in your applications to access AWS services.
    • Use AWS SDKs to perform CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon DynamoDB resources.
    • Build AWS Lambda functions with other service integrations for your web applications.
    • Understand the benefits of microservices architectures and serverless applications to design.
    • Develop API Gateway components and integrate with other AWS services.
    • Explain how Amazon Cognito controls user access to AWS resources.
    • Build a web application using Cognito to provide and control user access.
    • Use DevOps methodology to reduce the risks associated with traditional application releases and identify AWS services that help in implementing DevOps practices.
    • Use AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to deploy an application.
    • Observe your application build using Amazon X-Ray

Course Outline

1 - Course Overview

  • Logistics
  • Student resources
  • Agenda
  • Introductions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9 - Processing Your Application Logic

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

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

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

12 - 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

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

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

15 - Course Wrap-up

  • Course overview
  • AWS training courses
  • Certifications
  • Course feedback

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