Hands-On Sessions

Session 1 - Introduction to AWS

AWS Console

• How to Access AWS Environments (AWS Console, API, SDK)
• Navigating the AWS Console
  • Regions
  • Services selection
• Documentation
  • Service Quotas

Networking

• Networking Concept (Intro to VPC's)
• Default VPC
• Components (VPC, Availability Zones, CIDR ranges, Security Groups, Route Tables, IGW, NAT-GW)
• Examples
• Build a VPC

Compute

• Compute options (EC2, Containers, Serverless)
• Intro to EC2
• EC2 Instance Types
• Start EC2 instance and install a web-server (user data section):
  • Save Private Key

#!/bin/bash
yum update -y
yum install -y httpd.x86_64
systemctl start httpd.service
systemctl enable httpd.service
echo "Hello World from $(hostname -f)" > /var/www/html/index.html

• Configure ALB and target group inkl. health check to /index.html

Session 2 - Introduction to AWS

EC2, Auto-Scaling, Load Balancing

• Create an EC2 launch template
• Create an Auto Scaling Group + ALB + Target Group via the ASG dialog
• Do tests on shutting down instances
• Check CloudWatch

S3 static website hosting

• Documentation
• Create a simple index.html via Cloudshell and copy to the target bucket

echo "Hello AWS Enablement Day" > index.html
aws s3 cp index.html s3://<yourbucketname>

• Enable static website hosting
• Configure and modify S3 Bucket Policy

S3 Bucket Policy:

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Principal": "*",
			"Action": "s3:GetObject",
			"Resource": "<bucketarn>/*"
		}
	]
}

• optional: Add a Content Delivery Network (CDN - Amazon CloudFront)

Session 3 - Serverless translation service

Sources

GitHub Repository