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.

Day 1

Module 0: Introductions & Course Map review

• Welcome and course outcomes

Module 1: Architecting Fundamentals Review

• AWS Services and Infrastructure
• Infrastructure Models
• AWS API Tools
• Securing your infrastructure
• The Well-Architected Framework

Module 2: Account Security

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

Module 3: Networking, Part 1

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

Module 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

Day 2

Module 5: Storage

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

Module 6: Database Services

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

Module 7: Monitoring and Scaling

• Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs
• Invoking Events
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Auto Scaling Options and Monitoring Cost
• Hands-on Lab: Configure High Availability in Your Amazon VPC

Module 8: Automation

• CloudFormation
• AWS Systems Manager

Module 9: Containers

• Microservices
• Monitoring Microservices with X-Ray
• Containers

Day 3

Module 10: Networking Part 2

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

Module 11: Serverless Architecture

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

Module 12: Edge Services

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

Module 13: Backup and Recovery

• Planning for Disaster Recovery
• AWS Backup
• Recovery Strategies

Capstone Lab: Build an AWS Multi-Tier Architecture

Participants review the concepts and services learned in class and build a solution based on a scenario. The lab environment provides partial solutions to promote analysis and reflection. Participants deploy a highly available architecture. The instructor is available for consultation

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
• Working knowledge of distributed systems
• Familiarity with general networking concepts
• Familiarity with IP addressing
• Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

This course teaches you how to:

• Make architectural decisions based on the AWS-recommended architectural principles and best practices.
• Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available.
• Leverage AWS managed services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure.
• Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient in order to increase performance and reduce costs.
• Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions.

Intermediate

This course includes presentations, hands-on lab, and group exercises.