AWS for Windows SELF-STUDY GUIDE - Amazon S3

1 Scott Zimmerman SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, Amazon WEB services AWS FOR Windows SELF-STUDY GUIDE REVISED: JANUARY 4, 2017 Page 1 | 9 Introduction This SELF-STUDY GUIDE is written for IT professionals, architects, and software developers who are interested in learning how to design, build, and deploy Microsoft workloads on AWS. This GUIDE is organized by various topic areas , or workloads, relevant to running Windows on AWS. Each topic area consists of items , such as whitepapers, videos, and hands-on labs. Each item includes a description, a hyperlink to publically-available content, and a time estimate (in minutes). Most of this material could be considered Level 200 or 300, but we ve avoided those labels since many resources span multiple levels. In selecting these items, we have attempted to provide efficient learning paths and reduce duplication. We expect the content referenced by the items to be updated independently, sometimes without breaking the links in this GUIDE . We are exploring appropriate ways to update this GUIDE as new or improved content becomes available.

2 The first topic area addresses AWS core service pre-requisites for running Microsoft workloads, then this GUIDE covers DevOps and System Administration, Security, Active Directory and Directory services , SQL Server, SharePoint Sever, Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server and Lync, SAP, Dynamics CRM, Enterprise Application Migration, Visual Studio and .NET, Web Applications, and AWS Workspaces and AppStream It concludes with sections on Microsoft Licensing, Miscellaneous Windows Topics, and an appendix of other resources. Please note that many AWS services are not covered in this GUIDE . The selected items focus on the essentials to deploy traditional Microsoft stack applications on AWS. Each item includes one of the following content type codes: Lab: (account required) WP: Whitepaper QS: Quick Start Doc: Documentation/Tutorial Video: Webinar/re:Invent Blog: Blog post Regarding the time estimates, your mileage will vary. Many items can be browsed in less time than the stated estimates, and in other cases, readers may want to explore or dive deep.

3 You will notice that the total time of the topic areas are not balanced. This is not to emphasize one over another; rather, this simply reflects the availability of content. For example, today there are limited training resources about running Dynamics CRM on AWS, and none for Dynamics NAV and AX. We hope to expand the available content to cover additional topics most important to our customers. Please let us know your priorities. AWS doesn t currently offer a Microsoft-focused certification, and this GUIDE isn t focused on certification preparation, but this GUIDE could be a helpful supplement to someone studying for an AWS Associate level certification. See this page for more information: If you have feedback or questions about this GUIDE , please email Good luck with your studies! Page 2 | 9 Contents Introduction .. 1 AWS for Windows Essentials: EC2, VPC, EBS .. 2 DevOps and System Administration .. 3 Security .. 4 Active Directory and Directory Service .. 4 SQL Server.

4 5 SharePoint Server .. 5 Exchange Server .. 6 Skype for Business Server and Lync Server .. 6 SAP on Windows .. 6 Dynamics CRM .. 6 Enterprise Application Migration .. 6 Visual Studio, .NET, Elastic Beanstalk, and Lambda .. 7 Web Applications .. 8 AWS Workspaces and AppStream .. 8 Microsoft Licensing on AWS .. 8 Miscellaneous Microsoft 9 Appendix: Resources .. 9 AWS for Windows Essentials: EC2, VPC, EBS Type Notes and Links Mins. Lab Creating Amazon EC2 Instances with Microsoft Windows 25 Lab Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with Windows Server 25 WP AWS Storage services Overview 30 Video Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic Block Store 61 Page 3 | 9 DevOps and System Administration Type Notes and Links Mins. WP Introduction to DevOps on AWS 30 Video AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell 50 Doc AWS Management Portal for VMware vCenter 30 Video Benefit from DevOps When Moving to AWS for Windows 55 Video EC2 Systems Manager for Hybrid Cloud Management 52 Video How I learned to embrace DevOps and Configure Infrastructure at Scale 49 Video Manage Inventory, Patching, and System Images for Your Hybrid Cloud 49 WP Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Simple Systems Manager (SSM) 30 QS Remote Desktop Gateway on the AWS Cloud 60 QS Windows PowerShell DSC on the AWS Cloud 120 Lab AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell: Getting Started 50 Lab Using Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration in AWS 60 Lab Using the AWS Management Pack for Microsoft System Center 85 Lab Using AWS Systems Manager for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 85 Video Best Practices.

5 OpsWorks for Windows on AWS 60 WP Using Amazon Web services and DFS Replication for Disaster Recovery of File Servers 30 Page 4 | 9 Security Type Notes and Links Mins. WP AWS Security Best Practices 65 Video Automated Governance of Your AWS Resources 50 Video Mastering Access Control Policies 57 Video AWS Security Roadshow - IAM Recommended Practices 39 Video Running, Configuring, and Securing Windows Workloads 62 WP Securing the Microsoft Platform on Amazon Web services 30 WP Single Sign-on to Amazon EC2-based .NET Applications 90 Active Directory and Directory Service Type Notes and Links Mins. Video Active Directory on AWS 42 Video Architecting Microsoft Workloads on AWS 44 Video Best Practices for Integrating Active Directory with AWS Workloads 38 WP Managing Your Microsoft Windows Server Fleet with AWS Directory Service 30 QS Active Directory Domain services on the AWS Cloud 60 QS Web Application Proxy on AWS 90 Blog Optimizing Joining Windows Server Instances to a Domain with PowerShell in AWS CloudFormation 45 Page 5 | 9 SQL Server Type Notes and Links Mins.

6 Video Best Practices: SQL Server on Amazon RDS and EC2 41 Video SQL Server on AWS for High Availability 42 Video Design, Deploy, and Optimize Microsoft SQL Server on AWS 58 WP Deploying Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web services 75 Lab Introduction to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) SQL Server 35 Lab Administering Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server 90 Lab SQL Server in Amazon EC2: Getting Started 90 Lab SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Amazon EC2 117 QS SQL Server with WSFC on the AWS Cloud 180 SharePoint Server Type Notes and Links Mins. Video SharePoint 2013 on AWS 38 Lab SharePoint Server on AWS (part 1): Getting Started 90 Lab Deploy a SharePoint Server Farm on AWS 70 WP Estimating AWS Deployment Costs for Microsoft SharePoint Server 30 QS Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 on the AWS Cloud 180 Page 6 | 9 Exchange Server Type Notes and Links Mins. Video Exchange Server 2010 55 WP Implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in the AWS Cloud 40 Lab Running Microsoft Exchange 2013 SP1 on AWS 60 QS Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 on the AWS Cloud 180 Skype for Business Server and Lync Server Type Notes and Links Mins.

7 Lab Skype for Business Server on AWS: Getting Started 117 QS Microsoft Lync Server 2013 on the AWS Cloud 120 SAP on Windows Type Notes and Links Mins. WP Implementing SAP Solutions on Amazon Web services 30 WP SAP on Amazon Web services High Availability GUIDE 30 Dynamics CRM Type Notes and Links Mins. Lab Installing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 on AWS: Getting Started 85 Enterprise Application Migration Type Notes and Links Mins. Blog AWS Server Migration Service 15 Doc AWS Direct Connect FAQs 20 Page 7 | 9 WP AWS Database Migration Service Best Practices 30 Doc Getting Started with AWS Database Migration 30 WP An Overview of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework 20 Video Migrate Applications to AWS Quickly, Multisite Replication and SQL HA 41 Doc AWS Server Migration User GUIDE 30 WP AWS Well-Architected Framework 60 Visual Studio, .NET, Elastic Beanstalk, and Lambda Type Notes and Links Mins. Video Turbocharge Your Microsoft .NET Developments with AWS 59 Lab Working with AWS CodeCommit on Windows 45 Video Deploying and Managing.

8 NET Pipelines and Microsoft Workloads 57 Lab Programming Amazon S3 with .NET 70 Lab Programming AWS Security Token Service (STS) with .NET 55 Lab Programming Amazon DynamoDB with .NET 75 Lab Programming Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS with .NET 70 Video Developing Serverless C# Applications with AWS Lambda 50 Lab Programming AWS Lambda for Windows 65 Doc Tutorial: How to Deploy a .NET Sample Application Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk 30 WP Optimizing with C++ AMP on the GPU 45 Page 8 | 9 Web Applications Type Notes and Links Mins. Lab Introduction to Amazon ElastiCache with Windows Server 25 Lab Windows Server Website Hosting on AWS: Getting Started 85 WP Hosting Static Websites on AWS 40 WP Blue/Green Deployments on AWS 30 AWS Workspaces and AppStream Type Notes and Links Mins. Video Deploying Amazon WorkSpaces at Enterprise Scale 47 Video Best Practices from the Trenches: Deploy Amazon WorkSpaces Like a Pro 54 Doc Amazon WorkSpaces Administration GUIDE 120 Video Deliver Desktop Applications to Any Device, Anywhere with AppStream 51 Video Building SaaS Offerings for Desktop Apps with Amazon AppStream 55 Microsoft Licensing on AWS Type Notes and Links Mins.

9 Doc Microsoft Licensing on AWS 20 Doc Amazon Web services and Microsoft 30 Page 9 | 9 Miscellaneous Microsoft Topics Type Notes and Links Mins. Lab Using Windows Server Storage Spaces with Amazon EBS 65 WP Using Windows Storage Spaces and iSCSI on Amazon EBS 40 Lab Oracle 11G on Windows Server 2012 R2: Getting Started 75 Lab Microsoft DirectAccess on AWS: Getting Started 90 Appendix: Resources x Windows Server Solutions on AWS: x Resources for Windows on AWS x Microsoft whitepapers: x Whitepapers x AWS Quick Starts: x AWS Certifications: x AWS Microsoft FAQ (licensing): x AWS for Windows Case Studies: x AWS Monthly Webinar Series: x Windows Hands-on Lab Webinars: x AWS YouTube Channel: x Windows on Amazon EC2 Documentation: x Training AWS for Windows : x AWS Partner Network