Deploying and Scaling Applications with Amazon Lightsail

Amazon Lightsail is a cloud platform that's cost-effective, fast, and reliable with an easy-to-use interface. It’s ideal for simpler workloads, quick deployments, and getting started on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In this training, you will learn about the benefits of Amazon Lightsail, best practices for deploying your application onto Lightsail preconfigured blueprints, and how to use snapshots and load balancers to scale applications. You then learn when and how to migrate from Amazon Lightsail to other AWS services.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Internal Amazonians
• External customers

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Use the Amazon Lightsail console
• Create Lightsail instances and databases, snapshots and load balancers
• Deploy and Scale a LAMP Application

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of the Linux command line (e.g, cp, ls, cat, etc.)
• Basic understanding of Secure Shell (SSH)

Delivery Method

This course is delivered through a mix of:

• Digital training
• Video
• Hands-on labs

Hands-On Activity

The hands-on lab will demonstrate how to use Amazon Lightsail to easily deploy scalable applications in the cloud. You start by deploying a monolithic web application into an Amazon Lightsail instance. Next, you separate out the components, and use technologies like load balancers and snapshots to show how to deploy your application, at scale. You will end by learning when and how to migrate from Amazon Lightsail to other AWS services.

Duration

• Digital training course: 30 minutes
• Hands-on Lab: 2 hours

Course Outline

This course covers the following concepts:

• What is Amazon Lightsail?
• When to choose Amazon Lightsail
• Amazon Lightsail console overview
• Deploy and Scale a LAMP application
• Prerequisites: SSH
• Task 1: Deploy the lab infrastructure
• Task 2: Deploy a monolithic LAMP application
• Task 3: Connect to an Amazon Lightsail database
• Task 4: Scaling the PHP front end
• Task 5: Migrating to Amazon RDS
• Task 6: Upgrading to Amazon EC2
• Conclusion: Lab Cleanup