Architecting on AWS

Description

Over 90% of Fortune 100 companies use AWS, and demand for skilled AWS Solutions Architects continues to grow. In this course, you'll gain the hands-on experience and technical knowledge needed to design secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure on AWS. Learn best practices using the AWS Well-Architected Framework while building real-world solutions that align with business objectives. This course also helps prepare you for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam and is ideal for professionals working toward becoming a certified AWS Solution Architect.

Objectives:

Learn to identify services and features that make up the core of AWS solutions and apply them using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. You’ll gain experience designing cloud computing environments that are scalable, secure, and resilient. This hands-on course covers compute services like EC2, database services like RDS and DynamoDB, and modern architectures including containers and serverless architecture. You'll also explore automation tools and monitoring solutions that support the creation of highly available IT solutions, helping you build the skills needed to become an AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Audience

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.

Objectives 

• 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.