Integrating AWS with the SDK

Integrating AWS with the SDK

Instructors: Morgan Willis

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There are 3 modules in this course

In this course, we start with the basics of AWS Identity and Access Management to understand the different forms of authentication and security when integrating AWS services. We refactor an existing application using the AWS SDK to replace storage functionality with Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon DynamoDB. Next, we investigate using compute services Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda to run our application code. In the final upgrade, we expose the application functionality as an API with Amazon API Gateway. Our experienced instructors take you on a deep dive on the workings and benefits of each service. This course will provide a combination of video-based lectures, demonstrations and hands-on lab exercises, taking you from concept to an API-based application hosted in AWS.

This week, you get your first introduction to AWS with a focus on the benefits of AWS for software engineers. You start learning how to integrate AWS services so you can use them from your own applications. Next, you learn how authentication and authorization work in AWS through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

What's included

11 videos5 readings1 assignment2 plugins

11 videosTotal 62 minutes

Course Introduction4 minutesPreview module
Week 1 Introduction3 minutes
What is AWS?9 minutes
Discussion: AWS for Software Engineers3 minutes
Starting Simple with Amazon S38 minutes
Introduction to AWS SDK for Python Boto3 minutes
Authentication and Authorization with IAM8 minutes
IAM Roles and working with access keys5 minutes
Setting up a Developer Environment9 minutes
AWS Cloud9 and credentials3 minutes
Week 1 Wrap Up3 minutes

5 readingsTotal 57 minutes

Welcome to the Course10 minutes
Pre-Course Survey1 minute
Getting Started15 minutes
Security30 minutes
Mid-Course Survey1 minute

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 1 Quiz30 minutes

2 pluginsTotal 30 minutes

Pre-Course Survey15 minutes
Mid-Course Survey15 minutes

This week, you explore AWS services that you can use to store data in your applications. First, you learn about Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which provides object storage that can store unstructured data, such as images or documents. Next, you learn about Amazon DynamoDB, a NoSQL database that you can use to store structured items.

What's included

8 videos2 readings2 assignments1 app item

8 videosTotal 41 minutes

Week 2 Introduction1 minutePreview module
S3 for Object Storage7 minutes
S3: Access control and Security6 minutes
Amazon S3 replication, encryption, and versioning4 minutes
Demo - S3 for Application Storage8 minutes
DynamoDB for NoSQL Table Storage6 minutes
DynamoDB Creating and Querying Items5 minutes
Week 2 Wrap Up1 minute

2 readingsTotal 40 minutes

Object Storage25 minutes
Structured Storage15 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 31 minutes

Ready for the lab?1 minute
Week 2 Quiz30 minutes

1 app itemTotal 60 minutes

Lab: S3 for Application Storage60 minutes

This week, you explore AWS compute services, such as AWS Lambda and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Compute services provide the computing power that you use to run your applications. Then, you learn about Amazon API Gateway. In this course, API Gateway is the service that hosts the API that customers use through the application. Finally, you combine the knowledge you learned this week your knowledge of storage to upgrade an application so it uses AWS services for the API, compute, and storage.