Who should take this course?

This course is intended for solutions architects, solution-design engineers, developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting and individuals seeking the AWS Solutions Architect-Associate certification.

Prerequisites

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

The Training Covers These Topics:

  • Identify AWS architecting basic practices.
  • Explore using the AWS management tools: The AWS Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), and CloudFormation in a lab environment.
  • Examine the enforcement of accounts security using policies.
  • Identify the elements that build an elastic, secure, virtual network that includes private and public subnets.
  • Practice building an AWS core networking infrastructure.
  • Determine strategies for a layered security approach to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets.
  • Identify strategies to select the appropriate compute resources based on business use-cases.
  • Practice building a VPC and adding an Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance in a lab environment.
  • Practice installing an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the VPC you created.
  • Compare and contrast AWS storage products and services, based on business scenarios.
  • Compare and contrast the different types of AWS database services based on business needs.
  • Practice building a highly available, auto-scaling database layer in a lab.
  • Explore the business value of AWS monitoring solutions.
  • Identify the role of monitoring, event driven load balancing, and auto scaling responses, based on usage and needs.
  • Identify and discuss AWS automation tools that will help you build, maintain and evolve your infrastructure.
  • Discuss network peering, VPC endpoints, gateway and routing solutions based on use-cases.
  • Discuss hybrid networking configurations to extend and secure your infrastructure.
  • Discuss the benefits of microservices as an effective decoupling strategy to power highly available applications at scale.
  • Explore AWS container services for the rapid implementation of an infrastructure-agnostic, portable application environment.
  • Identify the business and security benefits of AWS serverless services based on business examples.
  • Practice building a serverless infrastructure in a lab environment.
  • Discuss the ways in which AWS edge services address latency and security.
  • Practice building a CloudFront deployment with an S3 backend in a lab environment.
  • Explore AWS backup, recovery solutions, and best practices to ensure resiliency and business continuity.
  • Build a highly available and secure cloud architecture based on a business problem, in a project-based facilitator-guided lab.

1 – Architecting Fundamentals Review

  • AWS Services and Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure Models
  • AWS API Tools
  • Securing your infrastructure
  • The Well-Architected Framework
  • Hands-on lab: Explore Using the AWS API Tools to Deploy an EC2 Instance

2 – Account Security

  • Security Principals
  • Identity and Resource-Based Policies
  • Account Federation
  • Introduction to Managing Multiple Accounts

3 – Networking, Part 1

  • IP Addressing
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Patterns and Quotas
  • Routing
  • Internet Access
  • Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)
  • Security Groups

4 – Compute

  • Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
  • EC2 Instances and Instance Selection
  • High Performance Computing on AWS
  • Lambda and EC2, When to Use Which
  • Hands-On Lab: Build Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

5 – Storage

  • Amazon S3, Security, Versioning and Storage Classes
  • Shared File Systems
  • Data Migration Tools

6 – Database Services

  • AWS Database Solutions
  • Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
  • DynamoDB, Features and Use Cases
  • Redshift, Features, Use Cases and Comparison with RDS
  • Caching and Migrating Data
  • Hands-on Lab: Create a Database Layer in Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

7 – Monitoring and Scaling

  • Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs
  • Invoking Events

8 – Automation

  • CloudFormation
  • AWS Systems Manager

9 – Containers

  • Microservices
  • Monitoring Microservices with X-Ray
  • Containers

10 – Networking Part 2

  • VPC Peering & Endpoints
  • Transit Gateway
  • Hybrid Networking
  • Route 53

11 – Serverless Architecture

  • Amazon API Gateway
  • Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Kinesis Firehose
  • Step Functions
  • Hands-on Lab: Build a Serverless Architecture

12 – Edge Services

  • Edge Fundamentals
  • Amazon CloudFront
  • AWS Global Accelerator
  • AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS and Firewall Manager
  • AWS Outposts
  • Hands-On Lab: Configure an Amazon CloudFront Distribution with an Amazon S3 Origin

13 – Backup and Recovery

  • Planning for Disaster Recovery
  • AWS Backup
  • Recovery Strategies

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