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Security on AWS,"This quest is designed to teach you how to apply AWS Identity and Access Management, in concert with several other AWS Services, to address real-world application and service security management scenarios.",27 minutes,Free,,Quest,,
Serverless Web Apps using Amazon DynamoDB,"Serverless architectures allow you to build and run applications and services without needing to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure. This quest will show how to design, build, and deploy interactive serverless web applications, using a simple HTML/JavaScript web interface which uses Amazon API Gateway calls to send requests to AWS Lambda backends that query Amazon DynamoDB data.",5 hours,3 Credits,,Quest,,
Alexa Skills Development,"In this Quest, you will learn how to create Alexa skills that respond to voice commands and which can be used on the Amazon Echo, Dot, and Tap devices. You will create back-end functions in AWS Lambda, and then connect them with voice response logic using the Alexa Skills Kit.  You will use both the AWS Console and the Amazon Developer Portal in these labs, the latter requiring you to have or create a no-cost, no-credit-card-required account.  No hardware device is required for any lab; an Alexa voice response simulation system is provided in the Amazon Developer Portal.
Templates used in these labs can be adapted and extended to create your own Alexa skills and offer them to the worldwide Alexa user community.",4 hours,30 Credits,,Quest,,
Serverless Design with AWS Lambda,"In this Quest, you will learn how to write functions with the AWS Lambda Service that respond to events and integrate other AWS Services.  You will create applications that write records to Amazon DynamoDB, send messages with Amazon SNS, and monitor events in Amazon CloudWatch and external services.  You will even write a back-end function in Lambda for creating a voice-response app for Alexa and the Amazon Echo.",4 hours,24 Credits,,Quest,,
Advanced Operations Using Amazon Redshift,"In this Quest, you will delve deeper into the uses and capabilities of Amazon Redshift.  You will use a remote SQL client to create and configure tables, and gain practice loading large data sets into Redshift. You will explore the effects of schema variations and compression. You will explore visualization of Redshift data, and connect Redshift with Amazon Machine Learning to create a predictive data model. ",4 hours,18 Credits,,Quest,,
Compute & Networking,"In this quest, you’ll learn to work with services related to Compute and Networking, including Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).",5 hours,12 Credits,,Quest,,
Deployment & Management,"In this quest, you’ll learn to work with services related to Deployment and Management, including AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS OpsWorks.",2 hours,16 Credits,,Quest,,
Storage & CDN,"In this Quest, you’ll learn to work with services related to Storage and Content Delivery Networks, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Amazon CloudFront.",5 hours,46 Credits,,Quest,,
Websites & Web Apps,"AWS offers services that provide businesses with a flexible, highly scalable, and low-cost way to deliver their websites and web applications. In this quest, you’ll learn to work with foundational services for marketing websites on AWS.",6 hours,27 Credits,,Quest,,
Big Data on AWS,"Scientists, developers, and other technologists from many different industries are taking advantage of AWS to perform big data analytics and meet the challenges of the increasing volume, variety, and velocity of digital information.  AWS offers a portfolio of cloud computing services to help you manage big data by reducing costs, scaling to meet demand, and increasing the speed of innovation. In this quest, you’ll learn to work with advanced services for Big Data.",5 hours,26 Credits,,Quest,,
Digital Media,"AWS provides a set of on-demand storage, archive, transcoding, and streaming services for businesses that are running photo, video, and file storage applications in the cloud.  In this quest, you’ll learn to work with advanced services for digital media on AWS.",4 hours,38 Credits,,Quest,,
SysOps Administrator - Associate,Achieving AWS Certification requires hands-on experience. This quest helps you get hands-on practice with several key services as you prepare for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Exam. Visit AWS Certification to learn more about this exam and find more resources to prepare.,7 hours,46 Credits,,Quest,,
Solutions Architect - Associate,"Achieving AWS Certification requires hands-on experience. This quest helps you get hands-on practice with several key services as you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam.
Visit AWS Certification to learn more about this exam and find more resources to prepare.",4 hours,12 Credits,,Quest,,
Solutions Architect - Professional,Achieving AWS Certification requires hands-on experience. This quest helps you get hands-on practice with several key services as you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Exam. Visit AWS Certification to learn more about this exam and find more resources to prepare.,4 hours,28 Credits,,Quest,,
Programming Windows on AWS,Learn how to develop applications in Microsoft Visual Studio leveraging AWS services.,8 hours,49 Credits,,Quest,,
Corporate Apps on AWS for Windows,"Learn how to deploy Microsoft Windows Server-based applications in the AWS cloud, including Microsoft Exchange, Dynamics CRM and SharePoint.",2 hours,1 Credit,,Quest,,
Databases on AWS for Windows,Learn how to deploy and administer databases running on Microsoft Windows Server in Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS.,2 hours,2 Credits,,Quest,,
SysAdmin on AWS for Windows,"Learn how to use system administration tools in the AWS cloud, including PowerShell, Storage Spaces and Microsoft System Center.",2 hours,15 Credits,,Quest,,
Monitoring a Live Streaming Workflow with Amazon CloudWatch,"An important part of any video workflow is being able to monitor the status and health of the software services and their tasks in order to detect and correct problems before they jeopardize the workflow. In this lab, you will use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor a live streaming video workflow built with AWS Elemental MediaPackage, AWS Elemental MediaPackage, and Amazon CloudFront.",1 hour 30 minutes,8 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,,
Serverless Web Apps using Amazon DynamoDB - Part 2,"This is part two of a three-part lab which teaches you how to create a ""serverless"" web app with an Amazon DynamoDB backend data store. In this second part of the lab, you will build upon the infrastructure created in part one. You will go on to create Lambda functions that interact with the DynamoDB table and add data, then build the necessary IAM roles and polices to support access to the functions and database via API Gateway. To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with DynamoDB, API Gateway, and IAM.",1 hour ,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,,
Build a Dynamic Conversational Bot - Part 2,"In this is a continuation of Build a Dynamic Conversational Bot. In this lab you will create a product catalog with Amazon DynamoDB and an AWS Lambda function, which will be used as a code hook for your bot. This provides your chatbot with the ability to not only understand user requests but also allow it to trigger actions to fulfill a user request, such as querying a database for product flavors.",1 hour 30 minutes,8 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,,
Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB,"This lab teaches you about Amazon DynamoDB by walking you through how to create, query, view and delete a table in the AWS Management Console.",40 minutes,Free,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,Japanase
Programming AWS Lambda for Windows,"This lab will continue your hands-on practice with using the AWS Toolkit for .NET through working with AWS Lambda for application development. It will demonstrate the basic steps required to install Visual Studio Community Edition and the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio and to build an application in Node.js that leverages AWS Lambda using the AWS SDK for .NET. To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with Visual Studio, with Node.js, and have a basic knowledge of launching and connecting to Windows systems in AWS.  You should have at a minimum taken the Introduction to AWS Lambda lab prior to taking this lab.",1 hour 5 minutes,10 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,,
S3: Multi-region Storage Backup with Cross-Region Replication,"This lab walks you through the process of enabling Cross-Region Replication on an S3 bucket. You will create source and destination buckets, enable versioning, then create varius replication policies to demonstrate different methods of replicating objects.",1 hour ,Free,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,Japanase
"Building a Live Video Channel with MediaLive, MediaStore and CloudFront","In this lab, you will create a live streaming video workflow using MediaLive, MediaStore, and Amazon CloudFront.",1 hour ,8 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,
Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM),"This lab shows you how to manage access and permissions to your AWS services using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Practice the steps to add users to groups, manage passwords, log in with IAM-created users, and see the effects of IAM policies on access to specific services.",25 minutes,Free,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,Japanase
Introduction to Elastic Load Balancing,This lab provides you with an introduction to Elastic Load Balancer. It covers creating and testing a Network Elastic Load Balancer. When the lab is launched you are provided with two web servers in two different Availability Zones. In the lab you will create a Network Elastic Load Balancer and use the two Web Servers as targets. You will then test the functionality of the load balancer in different scenarios.,50 minutes,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,Japanase
Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3),"This lab demonstrates how to use an Amazon S3 bucket and manage files, or object, that are stored in the bucket. You will practice how to create a bucket, add an object, view an object, move an object, and delete an object and bucket in the AWS Management Console.",1 hour ,Free,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,Japanase
Serverless Architectures using Amazon CloudWatch Events and Scheduled Events with AWS Lambda,"This is a two part lab. In part one of the lab, you will learn how to use a Lambda function with CloudWatch events to monitor the creation of an EC2 instance, using a Lambda function you create manually. In part two of the lab, you will create a Lambda function from a blueprint to alert you to a CloudWatch alarm, with notification through an Amazon SNS topic. Prerequisites: To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with basic CloudWatch and SNS concepts. Node.js and Python programming are required, although full solution code is provided.  You should have at a minimum taken the “Introduction to AWS Lambda” lab.",45 minutes,8 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,Fundamental,Japanase
Automating AWS Services with Scripting and the AWS CLI,"This lab demonstrates how to access and manage AWS services in three ways: through the AWS Management Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and the AWS Software Development Kit (SDK). You will use one or more of these three options to access Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EC2 and Amazon CloudWatch.",1 hour 15 minutes,10 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,,
Video on Demand with AWS Elemental MediaConvert,"In this lab, you will utilize the AWS Elemental MediaConvert Service to convert input video into multiple output formats, combine multiple videos into one during the conversion process, add captions/watermarks to the videos, and work with ad insertion metadata.",50 minutes,10 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,
Introduction to Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling,This lab shows you how to use Auto Scaling to automatically launch Amazon EC2 instances in response to conditions that you specify. You will then test Auto Scaling by terminating a running instance and watching while Auto Scaling automatically creates a replacement instance.,40 minutes,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,,
Creating an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with AWS CloudFormation,"This lab will demonstrate how to create an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network using AWS CloudFormation. Note: This lab is a more of a walkthrough of a template rather than ""learn how to build it"". You will walk through the sections of an AWS CloudFormation template and get explanations for each step. You will then launch the AWS CloudFormation template to create a four-subnet Amazon VPC that spans two Availability Zones and a NAT that allows servers in the private subnets to communicate with the Internet in order to download packages and updates.",1 hour ,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,Fundamental,Japanase
Using Open Data with Amazon S3,"This lab demonstrates how to upload data to Amazon S3 and make it available for anyone to access via a web browser. You will learn how to create an Amazon S3 bucket, configure it to host a website, upload objects to it, and use JavaScript to display those objects on a web page. Along the way, you’ll learn some best practices for creating open data. At the end of this lab you will have deployed a simple web site that makes data easy to access and provides basic documentation of the data.",40 minutes,8 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,Fundamental,Japanase
Streaming Dynamic Content using Amazon CloudFront,"This lab demonstrates how to use Amazon CloudFront to deliver a dynamic, multiple bit-rate media stream to a connected device using Apple’s HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) protocol. The stream can also be played on any browser which supports the HLS protocol. In this lab, you also use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to convert a source video into multiple bit-rate files that will be delivered using CloudFront.",50 minutes,10 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,,
Collecting and Analyzing Logs with Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights,This lab provides you with a basic overview of collecting various types of logs into CloudWatch hence we can look for possible security related events,1 hour 30 minutes,5 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,,
Creating a Serverless Video Conversion Watchfolder Workflow for MediaConvert,Use an AWS Lambda script applied to an Amazon S3 bucket to create a Watchfolder to automate video ingest and delivery in AWS Elemental MediaConvert. You will monitor the completion of jobs in MediaConvert using Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to get notifications when the jobs are completed.,1 hour ,8 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,
Introduction to AWS CloudFormation Designer,"This lab introduces the AWS CloudFormation Designer, which provides a visual tool for creating and modifying CloudFormation templates.  Prerequisites: This lab assumes that you have an introductory-level knowledge of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and AWS CloudFormation. Students should have taken the Introductory-level labs for each of these Services before taking this lab.",40 minutes,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,,
Building Your First Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC),"This lab demonstrates how to build an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) which contains private and public subnets, routing tables, and a NAT server to allow private subnets to access the Internet.",1 hour 25 minutes,8 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,Fundamental,Japanase
Introduction to AWS OpsWorks,"This lab introduces you to AWS OpsWorks. In this lab you will create a simple PHP application server stack and deploy a PHP application to it.  For the lab to function as written, please DO NOT change the auto assigned region.",55 minutes,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,Japanase
Monitoring Security Groups with Amazon CloudWatch Events,"In this lab you will learn how to use AWS CloudWatch events with a Lambda function to detect changes to the ingress permissions of an EC2 security group.   In an different lab, Monitoring Security Groups with AWS Config, you will do something similar but with different services.  Both of these labs illustrate techniques that could be used to provide additional layers of protection to infrastructure controls.  Prerequisites: To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with EC2 security groups. Python programming skills are helpful, although full solution code is provided.  It would be helpful to have taken the Introduction to AWS Lambda lab.",57 minutes,10 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,Advanced,
Launching and Managing a Web Application with AWS CloudFormation,"This lab covers how to use AWS CloudFormation to provision a web application with a number of supporting AWS products and services, including Auto Scaling Groups, Amazon EC2 Instances, Elastic Load Balancers, and more. It also covers how to use AWS CloudFormation to manage infrastructure and reconfigure Auto Scaling Groups.",50 minutes,15 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,Expert,Japanase
Introduction to Amazon EC2,"This lab provides you with a basic overview of launching, resizing, managing, and monitoring an Amazon EC2 instance.",1 hour ,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,
Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS),"This lab takes you through how to create an Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume, attach it to an Amazon EC2 instance, create a file system on the volume, take a snapshot of the volume, and increase the size and IOPS.",45 minutes,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,Japanase
Serverless Web Apps using Amazon DynamoDB - Part 3,"This is part three of a three-part lab which teaches you how to create a serverless web app with an Amazon DynamoDB backend data store. In this lab you will configure an API using Amazon API Gateway and set up a public website to retrieve information from your DynamoDB table via Lambda functions, using what you learned in all three labs. To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with DynamoDB and API Gateway through taking those introductory labs.",55 minutes,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,Fundamental,
Working with Elastic Load Balancing,"This lab introduces the concept of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). In this lab you will use ELB to load balance a set of web servers in an Availability Zone. You will launch a pair of Amazon EC2 instances, bootstrap them to install web servers and content, and then access the instances independently using Amazon EC2 DNS records. Next, you will set up ELB, add your instances to the ELB, and then access the ELB DNS record to watch your requests load balance between servers. Finally, you will look at ELB metrics in CloudWatch.  To successfully complete this lab, you should be familiar with the AWS Management Console.",30 minutes,8 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,,
Securing VPC Resources with Security Groups,This lab demonstrates how to lockdown security groups to appserver via a bastion host using SSM,1 hour ,1 Credit,,Hands-On Lab,Fundamental,
Build a Dynamic Conversational Bot - Part 1,"In this lab, you will use Amazon Lex to create and build a conversational bot that understands your requests and asks for more input if needed. If all required slots have been filled, the bot will ask for confirmation before triggering an action.",1 hour ,8 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,,
Introduction to AWS Device Farm,"This lab provides the basic hands-on experience of AWS Device Farm Service, which provides a test harness for mobile app developers. It will demonstrate the basic steps required to load an example Android app and run a series of tests, using several common mobile device platforms from Samsung, LG, Amazon, and others.",30 minutes,Free,,Hands-On Lab,Introductory,Japanase
Building a Media Sharing Website - Part 1: Media Upload,"This lab will demonstrate how to deploy a photo sharing website with a web interface for users to browse and store images. The application, written in Ruby on Rails, will use Amazon S3 for storage, Amazon DynamoDB for the database, and Amazon EC2 to host the web application.",55 minutes,10 Credits,,Hands-On Lab,Advanced,Japanase