If you are dealing with protecting data on your AWS architecture using methods such as encryption or certificate management, these workshops can help you learn in depth. We will be using the Cloud9 IDE and a combination of python code and AWS console access for these workshops.

Data encryption provides a strong layer of security to protect data that you store within AWS services. AWS services can help you achieve ubiquitous encryption for data in transit as well as data at rest.

In order to complete these workshops you'll need a valid active AWS Account with Admin permissions. The code and instructions in these workshops assume only one student is using a given AWS account at a time. If you try sharing an account with another student, you'll run into naming conflicts for certain resources.

Use a personal account or create a new AWS account to ensure you have the neccessary access. This should not be an AWS account from the company you work for.

If the resources that you use for this workshop are left undeleted you will incur charges on your AWS account.

These workshops assume that you are using a Cloud IDE environment. We recommend you use the latest version of Chrome or Firefox to complete this workshop.

Basic python knowledge is sufficient to consume these workshops.

Since these workshops use the Cloud9 IDE, you can use run these workshops only in the following regions where the AWS Cloud9 service is available : N.Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Ireland and Singapore.

Please run these cloudformation stacks in your AWS account as this is required for all the workshops in this repository. When you launch the Cloudformation stack keep clicking next until you get to the point where it says

"I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names."

Acknowledge the above statement by clicking on the check box and then click on the Create button

The above stack creates an Cloud9 IDE environment called workshop-environment . In addition a VPC with two subnets and an internet gateway is also created. It takes about 5 minutes for the stack creation to complete. After about 5 minutes you should see the following cloudformation stacks with the status **CREATE_COMPLETE" as shown in the picture below

• Navigate to the Cloud9 service within your AWS console
• Open the Cloud9 IDE environment called workshop-environment .It takes about 30 seconds for the environment to start up.
• In the Cloud9 IDE environment you will find a folder called data-protection in the folder pane on the left side of the screen
• Open the file named environment-setup.py in the IDE
• Run the python module environment-setup.py by clicking the play button on the top pane
• This module would take about a minute to complete
• In the runner window below you should see Workshop environment setup was successful printed

• Within the Cloud9 environment, open the file named cf-setup.py in the IDE
• Run the python module cf-setup.py by clicking the play button on the top pane
• In the runner window below you should see All cloudformation stack creation for the workshops has been initiated printed
• At this point you can move onto Step 4
• It takes about 5 minutes for all cloudformation stacks creation to complete. Once complete you should see the following stacks successfully completed as shown in the picture below :

• Open a bash terminal within the Cloud9 environment and change directory to data-protection. See Images below
• At this point the cloud9 environment is ready for the workshops

Please review and complete all the above prerequisites before attempting these workshops. The images below are clickable links

Once you you have finished working on the workshops within this github repository ,the final step is to clean up the resources by deleting the cloudformation stacks that setup the workshop environment. If you don't follow the final cleanup process charges from resources created for these workshops will continue to accrue. Therefore please make sure that you follow the steps below to completion.

For cleanup follow the steps below :

Within the Cloud9 IDE workshop environment that you used for this workshop checkout the final clean up branch by using the following command :

git checkout final-cleanup

• In the Cloud9 IDE you will find a python module called final-cleanup.py
• Run the final-cleanup.py python module
• At this point, cleanup of the cloudformation stacks is initiated.
• It takes about 10 minutes for all the cloudformation stacks to be deleted.
• Please make sure that you don't close this browser window until all the cloudformation stacks are deleted
• The Cloud9 IDE workshop environment session shall will be terminated at this point

This sample code is made available under a modified MIT license. See the LICENSE file.