Architecting on AWS

The Architecting on AWS course teaches participants to create resilient, secure, and highly available solutions on AWS. It covers design principles, best practices, and optimization techniques for developing high-performance applications. Through practical training and use case scenarios, learners gain hands-on experience and a deeper understanding of effective architecture on the AWS platform.

Course Details

Price:

$2,025.00

Days:

Location:

Virtual

Course Overview

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

• AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders
• AWS Technical Essentials
• Familiarity with general networking and cloud computing concepts
• Working knowledge of distributed systems and multi-tier architectures
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
• AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders – Financial Services

1 – AWS Introduction and History

Overview of Amazon Web Services and its evolution
AWS Global Infrastructure
Demo: AWS Management Console

2 – AWS Storage

Overview of AWS storage services
Introduction to Amazon EBS
Create and manage Amazon S3 buckets and objects

3 – Compute, Network, and Storage Services

Introduction to Amazon EC2, VPC, S3, and EBS
Demo: Amazon S3
Hands-on Lab: Build your own VPC and launch a web server

4 – AWS Security and IAM

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts
Demo: Setting up IAM roles and policies

5 – Compute Services & Networking

Overview of compute and networking options
Describe Amazon VPC and EC2
Launch an EC2 instance
Use Amazon EBS with EC2

6 – Managed Services & Databases

Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB and RDS
Understand use cases and architecture
Launch a database instance with RDS

7 – Databases (RDS, DynamoDB)

SQL vs NoSQL in AWS
Data storage considerations
Hands-on Lab: Build a database server and connect to it

8 – AWS Elasticity and Management Tools

Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
Introduction to AWS Trusted Advisor
Hands-on Lab: Scale and load balance your architecture

9 – Deployment and Management

Understand AWS CloudFormation
Use CloudWatch for metrics and alarms
Revisit IAM for user and service-level access

Class Dates & Times


08/06/2025 - 08/08/2025 Virtual 09:00:00 to 17:00:00 EST Enroll Now $2,025.00
10/06/2025 - 10/08/2025 Virtual 09:00:00 to 17:00:00 EST Enroll Now $2,025.00
12/03/2025 - 12/05/2025 Virtual 09:00:00 to 17:00:00 EST Enroll Now $2,025.00

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