Course description
Hosting Simple Web Applications Using Amazon Lightsail
As a freelance developer, you are regularly building various software solutions for your customers. Recently, you received a request to create a pet adoption app on AWS. Because of a tight deadline and limited budget, you need to find a hosting platform that would satisfy all customer requirements without having a lot of setup and operations overhead. You evaluate different AWS services and decide on Amazon Lightsail to meet your use case. With Lightsail, you’ll be able to build and deploy an instance to host an app and then gradually add features to enhance app functionality.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Prerequisites
Prior application development experience
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you'll learn
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Differentiate between several app hosting services on AWS
- Understand the value and simplicity of Amazon Lightsail
- Create an account on AWS
- Create and deploy a LAMP stack instance in Lightsail
- Differentiate between dynamic and static IP addresses in Lightsail
- Assign a static IP address to the app
- Create a managed database in Lightsail
- Store images in Amazon S3
- Create a bucket metric alarm to receive notifications when the Amazon S3 bucket is reaching its limit
- Create a content distribution network
- Build a Highly Available application
- Familiarize yourself with Lightsail service limits
- Delete all configured resources to avoid incurring costs
Training Course Content
Week 1
- Course Introduction
- Week 1 Introduction
- App Hosting Services on AWS
- Overview of Amazon Lightsail
- Set up your Account on AWS
- Create and Deploy a LAMP Stack instance
- Assign a static IP address
- Lab 1
- Create a managed database in Amazon Lightsail
- Create a bucket in Amazon Lightsail
- Create bucket metric alarms
- FAQ 1
- Lab 2
- Week 1 Quiz
Week 2
- Week 2 Introduction
- Create content distribution network
- Add a load balancer
- Lab 3
- Create a DNS zone in Amazon Lightsail
- Create SSL/TLS certificates
- Lab 4
- How to scale your app
- Deleting resources
- Course Closing/Recap
- FAQ 2
- Week 2 Quiz
- Final Quiz
Course delivery details
This course is offered through Amazon Web Services, a partner institute of EdX.
2-4 hours per week
Expenses
- Verified Track -$49
- Audit Track - Free