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.
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Hosting Simple Web Applications using Amazon Lightsail
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Approx. 7 hours to complete
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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
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Includes hands on learning projects.
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Approx. 7 hours to complete
English
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
3 hours to complete
Week 1: Build and Deploy an App on Amazon Lightsail
3 hours to complete
10 videos (Total 58 min), 5 readings, 1 quiz
4 hours to complete
Week 2: Optimize and Scale Your App for High Availability
4 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 38 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes
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