Practical Exercises

✅ Setup EC2 Instance ✅ Setup 2 EC2 Instances ✅ Setup ALB for the EC2 Instances ✅ Setup some EC2 with nginx (and add bootstrap scripts)

• Setup an IAM role and assign to an EC2
• Allow the EC2 to write to S3 on boot-up
• Setup autoscaling for the instances
• Configure athena
• Setup custom metrics for the instances

Future Extensions

• Install RDS and connect from EC2
• Create S3 bucket, make a file public, make a folder public, etc.
• Restrict SSH access (on Security Groups) to my IP
• Install Amazon Inspektor on AWS EC2 instances
• Setup detailed monitoring agent on EC2 instance
• Setup some CloudTrail monitoring checks (and use Athena to query them)
• Setup some AWS Config rules
• Play around with S3 ACL's

• Understand consolidated billing (steps to setup)

• Setup some roles / users (with different policies, etc)

• Tag resources (and use explorer to find them)
• Add WAF infront of your fake application

• Setup EC2 backups and restore processes

• Setup custom metrics for the instances

• Setup some EBS volumes, log in, dig out the volumes, break them.
• Research about Linux volumes and Docker volumes
• Create a VPC for your application (probably do this another day...)