Hosting Simple Web Applications using Amazon Lightsail

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Free Online Course: Hosting Simple Web Applications using Amazon Lightsail provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2 weeks long, 2-4 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX. Hosting Simple Web Applications using Amazon Lightsail is taught by Oksana Hoeckele.

Overview
  • 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.

Syllabus
  • Week 1

    Video : Course Introduction

    Video : Week 1 Introduction

    Video : App Hosting Services on AWS

    Video : Overview of Amazon Lightsail

    Video : Set up your Account on AWS

    Video : Create and Deploy a LAMP Stack instance

    Video: Assign a static IP address

    Lab : Lab 1

    Video : Create a managed database in Amazon Lightsail

    Video : Create a bucket in Amazon Lightsail

    Video : Create bucket metric alarms

    Reading : FAQ 1

    Lab : Lab 2

    Quiz : Week 1 Quiz

    Week 2

    Video : Week 2 Introduction

    Video : Create content distribution network

    Video: Add a load balancer

    Lab: Lab 3

    Video: Create a DNS zone in Amazon Lightsail

    Video: Create SSL/TLS certificates

    Lab: Lab 4

    Video: How to scale your app

    Video: Deleting resources

    Video: Course Closing/Recap

    Reading: FAQ 2

    Quiz: Week 2 Quiz

    Quiz: Final Quiz