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Hosting Simple Web Applications using Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Web Services

About this Course

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.

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

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Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Beginner Level

Approx. 7 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

What you will learn

Describe the capabilities of Amazon Lightsail
Create and deploy a LAMP-stack instance on Lightsail
Create a load balancer to evenly distribute network traffic to your application
Set up a Domain Name System (DNS) zone, along with the DNS records

Skills you will gain

lamp (software bundle)
Application Hosting
Content Delivery Network
Object Storage
Amazon Lightsail

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Beginner Level

Approx. 7 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

Instructor

Oksana Hoeckele

Cloud Technologist

31 Learners

1 Course

Offered by

Amazon Web Services

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, security, hybrid and enterprise applications, from 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic regions. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.

Coursera and AWS have been partners since 2017 providing learners and enterprises globally, the skills they need to succeed. Coursera builds on AWS servers to scale with student demand with confidence around capacity and elasticity and in partnership with AWS. In 2019, Coursera achieved Advanced Tier Partner status and further extended the partnership with AWS Educate, AWS EdStart and AWS Academy collaborations. Coursera's been able to make cloud skills more accessible with 8 AWS courses on the Coursera platform featuring top subject matter experts and the portfolio continues to grow. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Week 1: Build and Deploy an App on Amazon Lightsail

Welcome to week 1 of Hosting Simple Web Applications Using Amazon Lightsail! This week, you will deploy a LAMP application in the AWS Cloud and gradually add functionality to enhance the application. You will create a static IP address, deploy a managed database instance, create and seed a MySQL database on the database instance, and configure object storage to host media files. Finally, you will set up alarms so that you will be notified when your storage bucket is approaching its limit.

3 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 58 min), 5 readings, 1 quiz

10 videos

Course Introduction3m

Week 1 Introduction2m

App Hosting Services on AWS5m

Overview of Amazon Lightsail 5m

Set Up Your Account on AWS and Create a User9m

Create and Deploy a LAMP Stack Instance6m

Assign a Static IP Address to Your App4m

Create a Managed Database in Amazon Lightsail10m

Create a Bucket in Amazon Lightsail6m

Create Bucket Metric Alarms3m

5 readings

Pre-Course Survey5m

Exercise 130m

Exercise 230m

Week 1 FAQs15m

Mid-Course Survey5m

1 practice exercise

Quiz 130m

Week

Week 2

4 hours to complete

Week 2: Optimize and Scale Your App for High Availability

Welcome to week 2 of Hosting Simple Web Applications Using Amazon Lightsail! The content for this week covers technical concepts and step-by-step instructions that are designed to help you scale and optimize an application in the AWS Cloud. This week, you will explore how to reduce latency delays with a content delivery network (CDN). You will also spread the incoming traffic between multiple application instances by setting up a load balancer. Then, you will create a Domain Name System (DNS) zone and generate the SSL/TLS certificate for a load balancer. By the end of the week, you will prepare a highly available application that receives traffic over HTTPS, a secure protocol.

4 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 38 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes

8 videos

Week 2 Introduction2m

Create a Content Distribution Network for Pet Images6m

Add a Load Balancer To Create a Highly Available App5m

Create a DNS Zone in Amazon Lightsail8m

Create SSL/TLS Certificates for Your Load Balancer in Amazon Lightsail5m

How To Scale Your LightSail App5m

Delete All Resources2m

Course Closing1m

4 readings

Exercise 330m

Exercise 430m

Week 2 FAQs20m

Post-Course Survey5m

2 practice exercises

Quiz 230m

Final Quiz50m

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Hosting Simple Web Applications using Amazon Lightsail

Hosting Simple Web Applications using Amazon Lightsail