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.
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Course Overview

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.

• 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

Introductions & Course Map Review
Overview of course structure, AWS certification path, and key learning outcomes

Architecting Fundamentals Review
Explore AWS services and infrastructure models, learn how to identify services and features to build resilient solutions, and review the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Hands-on Lab: Deploy an EC2 instance using the AWS CLI.

Account Security
Apply best practices for IAM policies, account federation, and managing multiple AWS accounts.

Networking Part 1
Design AWS networking with VPCs, routing, subnets, NACLs, and security groups to support highly available IT solutions.

Compute
Understand compute options in AWS including EC2 instance types, high-performance computing, and serverless architecture options.
Hands-on Lab: Build a VPC and deploy EC2 resources.

Storage
Compare AWS storage services including S3, EBS, and EFS. Learn data migration techniques and storage class use cases.

Database Services
Use Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Redshift for different database workloads. Learn to build fault-tolerant and scalable database layers.
Hands-on Lab: Create a highly available RDS instance.

Monitoring and Scaling
Monitor resources using CloudWatch and CloudTrail. Respond to events with automated scaling solutions.

Automation
Automate deployments using AWS CloudFormation and manage resources through AWS Systems Manager.

Containers
Implement container-based architectures on AWS using ECS and EKS. Explore how containers support modern application development.

Networking Part 2
Dive deeper into AWS networking with VPC endpoints, Transit Gateway, hybrid cloud integration, and Route 53 for DNS.

Serverless Architecture
Build scalable applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, and Step Functions.
Hands-on Lab: Design and deploy a serverless architecture.

Edge Services
Reduce latency and improve performance using AWS Global Accelerator, CloudFront, and WAF.
Hands-on Lab: Deploy CloudFront with an S3 backend.

Backup and Recovery
Explore AWS Backup and recovery strategies to ensure business continuity and resiliency in the cloud.

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