AWS - AWS Developer: Building on AWS
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AWS Developer: Building on AWS at edX Overview
Duration | 34 hours |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Difficulty level | Advanced |
Credential | Certificate |
AWS Developer: Building on AWS at edX Highlights
- Offered by University of California San Diego
- Requires an effort of 3<U+0096>4 hours per week
- Earn a certificate upon successful completion
- Learn from experts of AWS
AWS Developer: Building on AWS at edX Course details
- How to create and manage an AWS account
- AWS fundamental concepts including Regions, Availability Zones, and Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
- How to install and use the AWS SDKs
- How to use AWS compute services, both via the AWS Console and programmatically
- How to use AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS
- How to use Amazon AI image and text-to-speech applications
- How to make your applications more durable, distributed, and highly available
- In this course, part of the AWS Developer Series, you will develop and deploy applications on the AWS platform. Throughout the course, working in Python on Linux, you will develop a web application building upon your developer skills and using AWS services and tools.
- Your AWS instructors will guide you through getting started with AWS, creating an account, and installing SDKs. Throughout the course, we will use hands-on exercises to build out a web application.
AWS Developer: Building on AWS at edX Curriculum
Welcome to the Course
Welcome to Building on AWS
Meet the instructors
Discussion:Introduce yourself
What are we building this course? Project Intro
Intro to Week 1
Getting Started on AWS
Why should I (developer) build on the AWS cloud?
AWS Free Tier
Quiz
Exercise 1: Creating an AWS Account
Service Oriented Architectures and APIs in AWS
Exercise 2: Hello Amazon EC2
Quiz
Cloud Infrastructure and Responsibility
Understanding AWS Infrastructure
Networking: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
AWS vs Developer responsibility in the cloud
Quiz
EC2 Metadata
Exercise 3 - Logs, SSH, instance metadata
Quiz
Week 1 Discussion
Weekly Readings/Resources
Week 2
Invoking AWS APIs/ AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Create an AWS IAM user/access key video
Exercise 4: AWS IAM user, CLI, Boto, access keys
AWS APIs
Amazon S3
Intro to Amazon S3
Amazon S3 Access Control
Working with our Development Environment
Developing on AWS Cloud
Exercise 5: AWS Cloud 9
Quiz
Amazon Rekognition
Introduction to Amazon Rekognition
Exercise 6: Amazon Rekognition
Week 2 Discussion
Weekly Readings/Resources
Week 3
Storing Structured Data using AWS Managed Databases
AWS IAM Roles
Amazon Relational Database Service
Exercise 7: Amazon RDS
Quiz
Availability and Application Failure
Availability
What could go wrong?
Elastic Load Balancer
Exercise 8: Deploy an instance add ALB
Quiz
Week 3 Discussion
Weekly Readings/Resources
Week 4
Adding Support for Users and Private Data to the Application
Amazon Cognito
Authorization Flows in Our Application
Securing the Connection to the Server with TLS
End-to-End and At Rest
Using SSH Tunnel to Connect to C9
Exercise 9: Adding Amazon Cognito
Quiz
Week 4 Discussion
Weekly Readings/Resources
Exercise - Challenge Adding Polly to your application
Week 5
Debugging and Profiling a Distributed System
AWS XRay
Exercise 10: Adding X-Ray
Quiz
Taking a Task Off the Server Asynchronously
Intro to AWS Lambda
Exercise 11: AWS Lambda
Quiz
Week 5 Discussion
Weekly Readings/Resources
Week 6
Making our System More Distributed
Event Driven Architectures
How do AWS services do Async?
Queueing and On-Premises Hardware
Amazon Simple Queuing Service
Exercise 12 - Amazon SQS
Course Wrap up
Couse Wrap up and Preview of Next course
End of Course Assessment
Weekly Readings/Resources
Week 6 Discussion
AWS Developer: Building on AWS at edX Entry Requirements
- 1-3 years of software development experience
- Not mentioned
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