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    AWS Academy Cloud Architecting 2.x - Capstone Project: Environment Overview

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    This document provides instructions for a capstone project to design and deploy a secure web application on AWS. Students are tasked with migrating an existing PHP application and MySQL database to meet requirements for high availability, secure access, anonymous public access, and automatic scaling. The application provides researchers access to global development statistics. Key requirements include securing the database, providing administrative access, storing database credentials securely, and using a load balancer and auto scaling. Deliverables are a diagram of the solution design and a written summary of design decisions. Assets include sample data and website code to complete the project.

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    This document provides instructions for a capstone project to design and deploy a secure web application on AWS. Students are tasked with migrating an existing PHP application and MySQL database to meet requirements for high availability, secure access, anonymous public access, and automatic scaling. The application provides researchers access to global development statistics. Key requirements include securing the database, providing administrative access, storing database credentials securely, and using a load balancer and auto scaling. Deliverables are a diagram of the solution design and a written summary of design decisions. Assets include sample data and website code to complete the project.

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    This document provides instructions for a capstone project to design and deploy a secure web application on AWS. Students are tasked with migrating an existing PHP application and MySQL database to meet requirements for high availability, secure access, anonymous public access, and automatic scaling. The application provides researchers access to global development statistics. Key requirements include securing the database, providing administrative access, storing database credentials securely, and using a load balancer and auto scaling. Deliverables are a diagram of the solution design and a written summary of design decisions. Assets include sample data and website code to complete the project.

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    AWS Academy Cloud Architecting

    2.x - Capstone Project

    Environment Overview
    This environment is long-lived. When the session timer runs to 0:00, the session
    will end, but any data and resources that you created in the AWS account will be
    retained. Any running resources (such as an EC2 instance) will be stopped. If you
    later launch a new session (for example, the next day), you will find that your
    work is still in the lab environment. However, you will need to manually start any
    stopped resources. You can continue to develop your solution as you progress
    through the course materials.

    IMPORTANT: Monitor your lab budget in the lab interface above. Whenever you
    have an active lab session, the remaining budget will display at the top of this
    screen. For this Capstone Project environment, the limit is $40. If you exceed
    your lab budget your lab account will be disabled and all progress and
    resources will be lost. Therefore, it is important for you to manage your
    spending. Suggestions to avoid overspending: Launch only the number of
    instances you need, sized to your requirements. Stop EC2 and RDS instances
    when not in use. Delete no longer needed resources and data.

    Environment Navigation
    Use the Readme link above to return to these instructions at any time.

    Use the AWS Details link above to access information about your environment.

    After you start the lab, the AWS Details panel will display and you will need to
    choose Readme to return to these instructions.

    Tip: you can resize this panel at anytime by dragging the bar to the left of these
    instructions to make it wider or narrower.

    The terminal window to the left of these instructions can be used to run AWS CLI
    commands or code such as AWS SDK for Python code (details provided below).
    Access the AWS Management Console

    1. At the top of these instructions, choose


    Start Lab to start the lab session.
    o The lab session is started and session information is displayed.
    o A timer above shows the time remaining in the session.

    Tip: You can refresh the session length at any time by choosing
    Start Lab again before the timer reaches 0:00.

    2. Choose the Readme link to return to these instructions.

    5. Connect to the AWS Management Console by choosing the AWS link


    above the terminal window.
    o You should be connected to the AWS Management Console.

    Tip: If a new browser tab does not open, a banner or icon is usually
    at the top of your browser with the message that your browser is
    preventing the site from opening pop-up windows. Choose the
    banner or icon, and then choose Allow pop-ups.

    Tip: if you are interested in interacting with the AWS account


    programmatically, read the Configuring and using the terminal in
    the browser section below for details.

    Using the Terminal in the browser


    A terminal window displays to the left of these instructions. The terminal
    provides access to a Linux shell on a server that exists outside of the AWS
    account that you use when your lab is running. Credentials are configured on
    the server that provide the same level of AWS service access via the terminal
    that you also have via the AWS Management Console.
    Project overview
    This project provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate the solution
    design skills that you develop throughout this course. Your assignment is to
    design and deploy a solution for the following case.

    By the end of this project, you should be able to apply the architectural design
    principles that you learned in this course to:

    • Deploy a PHP application that runs on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud


    (Amazon EC2) instance
    • Create a database instance that the PHP application can query
    • Create a MySQL database from a structured query language (SQL) dump
    file
    • Update application parameters in an AWS Systems Manager Parameter
    Store
    • Secure the application to prevent public access to backend systems

    Introducing the Example Social Research


    Organization
    Example Social Research Organization is a (fictitious) nonprofit organization that
    provides a website for social science researchers to obtain global development
    statistics. For example, visitors to the site can look up various data, such as the
    life expectancy for any country in the world over the past 10 years.

    Shirley Rodriguez, a researcher at the organization, developed the website. She


    thought it would be valuable to share the data that she had gathered with other
    researchers. Shirley stores the data in a MySQL database, and the data is
    available through a PHP website that she built. She initially published the site
    through a commercial hosting company that provides limited support for
    technical issues and security.

    Over the past year, Shirley’s website has grown in popularity. As a result of
    increased traffic, she started receiving complaints that the site is not as
    responsive as it used to be. She also experienced an attempted ransomware
    security breach. The security breach was unsuccessful, but her supervisor,
    Mateo Jackson, suggested that Shirley investigate new ways to host the website.
    Shirley heard about Amazon Web Services (AWS), and initially moved her website
    and database to an EC2 instance that runs in a public subnet. She also runs an
    instance of MySQL on the same EC2 instance.

    Shirley approached your team to make sure that her current design follows best
    practices. She wants to make sure that she has a robust and secure website.
    One of your colleagues started the process of migrating the site to a more
    secure implementation, but they were reassigned to another project. Your tasks
    are to complete the implementation, make sure that the website is secure, and
    confirm that the website returns data from the query page.

    The following summary lists the solution requirements, and provides a diagram
    of the current environment.

    Solution requirements
    • Provide secure hosting of the MySQL database
    • Provide secure access for an administrative user
    • Provide anonymous access to web users
    • Run the website on a t2.small EC2 instance, and provide Secure Shell (SSH)
    access to administrators
    • Provide high availability to the website through a load balancer
    • Store database connection information in the AWS Systems Manager
    Parameter Store
    • Provide automatic scaling that uses a launch template
    The following parameters are used by the PHP application to connect to the
    database:

    • /example/endpoint
    • /example/username
    • /example/password
    • /example/database

    These parameter values are case sensitive.

    Project deliverables
    To complete this assignment, you must:

    • Deploy a PHP application that meets the system requirements outlined


    above
    • Submit a diagram that illustrates your solution
    • Submit a written summary of the design decisions that you made to
    achieve the result

    Assets for completing the project


    You can use the following assets for this project:

    • A SQL dump file that contains sample data


    • A .zip file that contains the PHP and image files for the Example Social
    Research Organization website

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