Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer

This curriculum provides an overview of the features and functions of Amazon AppStream 2.0, focusing on fundamental concepts and configurations to accelerate your company’s new and existing Amazon AppStream 2.0 deployments. The curriculum includes best practices to prepare for deployment and essential steps to deploy applications and non-persistent cloud desktops using Amazon AppStream 2.0.

The curriculum is composed of eight discrete modules that can be completed in any order depending on your interest and need.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 160 minutes

Activities

This curriculum includes presentations, e-learning interactions, video demonstrations, and knowledge checks.

Curriculum objectives

In this curriculum, you will learn to:

• Review topics to prepare for Amazon AppStream 2.0 deployment
• Determine how to configure network and access settings for Amazon AppStream 2.0
• Create an image for the applications to stream to users
• Determine how to provision a fleet and stack to users
• Identify how persistent storage for AppStream 2.0 enhances user storage access
• Identify how persistent storage for AppStream 2.0 enhances user storage access
• Identify how to manage Amazon AppStream 2.0 user
• Determine how to apply your existing Active Directory policies to your streaming instances
• Determine how to use monitoring metrics for Amazon AppStream 2.0 usage for ongoing maintenance

Intended audience

This curriculum is intended for:

• Desktop/Virtual Desktop Infrastructure managers and administrators responsible for developing and maintaining remote desktop environments
• Technical professionals who work with, or would like to work with, cloud-based virtualization

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this curriculum have:

• Introduction to End User Computing
• Familiarity with virtualization and virtual operating systems
• Familiarity with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)
• Familiarity with directory services
• Conceptual knowledge of cloud computing 

Curriculum outline

Module 1: Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer: Preparing to Deploy

• Amazon AppStream 2.0 requirements
• Amazon AppStream 2.0 deployment best practices
• Preparing an AWS account
• How Amazon AppStream 2.0 works
• Security in Amazon AppStream 2.0

Module 2: Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer: Networking and Access to Deploy

• Amazon AppStream 2.0 networking
• VPC setup
• Connections to your VPC
• Video Demonstration: Configure a VPC with private subnets and a public subnet

Module 3: Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer: Create an Image with Applications

• Launch an image builder
• Image builder actions
• Install an application
• Create a custom image
• Administer images
• Video Demonstration: Launching an image builder
• Video Demonstration: Installing applications
• Video Demonstration: Creating an image

Module 4: Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer: Create a Fleet and Stack

• Create and provision a fleet
• Manage a fleet
• Create a stack
• Manage a stack
• Video Demonstration: Provision a fleet
• Video Demonstration: Create a stack
• Video Demonstration: Create streaming URLs
• Video Demonstration: Create a user pool

Module 5: Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer: Administer and Activate Persistent Storage

• Administer persistent storage
• Additional storage options
• Application settings persistence 

Module 6: Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer: Managing End User Access

• Access through a web browser
• Configure a connection method for the end user
• End user experience: Connect through a web browser
• Install the AppStream 2.0 client for Windows
• Configure the AppStream 2.0 client
• End user experience: Connect through the AppStream 2.0 client

Module 7: Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer: Using Active Directory

• Active Directory domains
• Requirements and considerations for using Active Directory
• Joining AppStream 2.0 to Active Directory
• Setting up SAML 2.0 federation
• Video Demonstration: Create a user within a user pool for AppStream 2.0

Module 8: Amazon AppStream 2.0 Primer: Monitoring and Reporting

• Monitoring usage for Amazon AppStream 2.0 resources
• Monitoring with the Amazon AppStream 2.0 console
• Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch metrics
• Amazon AppStream 2.0 usage reports