Course Overview

In this training, best practices and design patterns are covered to help you architect optimal IT solutions on the AWS Cloud. Build and explore a variety of infrastructures through guided discussions and hands-on activity.

Through a series of use case scenarios and practical learning, you’ll learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure, and highly available IT solutions in the AWS Cloud. Expert AWS Instructors emphasize best practices using the AWS Well-Architected Framework and guide you through the process of designing optimal IT solutions, based on real-life scenarios. At the end of the course, you’ll practice building a solution and apply what you’ve learned with confidence.

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Level: Intermediate

Duration: 3 Days

Delivery Type: Instructor-Led Training

Course Objectives

• Making decisions based on the AWS-recommended architectural principles and best practices
• Leveraging AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
• Leveraging AWS managed services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
• Making an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient in order to increase performance and reduce costs with AWS Solution Architect course
• Using the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions by taking this AWS Solution Architect Course

Prerequisites

Required

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

Recommended

• AWS Technical Essentials

Who Should Go For This Training?

• Solutions Architects
• Solution Design Engineers

Course Outline

Day 1

Module 1: Introduction

•   The Well-Architected Framework
  

•   AWS Global Infrastructure
  

Module 2: The simplest architectures

•   Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  

•   Amazon S3 Glacier
  

•   Choosing AWS Regions for your architectures
  

•   Hands-on lab: Hosting a Static Website
  

Module 3: Adding a compute layer

•   Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
  

•   Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
  

•   Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)
  

•   Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
  

•   Amazon FSx
  

Module 4: Adding a database layer

•   Database layer considerations
  

•   Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
  

•   Amazon DynamoDB
  

•   AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
  

•   Hands-on lab: Deploying a Web Application on AWS
  

Module 5: Networking in AWS – Part 1

•   Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
  

•   Network security in the cloud
  

•   Hands-on lab: Creating a VPC
  

Day 2

Module 6: Networking in AWS - Part 2

•   AWS VPN connections
  

•   AWS Direct Connect (DX)
  

•   VPC peering
  

•   AWS Transit Gateway
  

•   Load balancing on AWS
  

•   Amazon Route 53
  

Module 7: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

•   Account users and AWS IAM
  

•   Federating users
  

•   Amazon Cognito
  

•   AWS Organizations
  

Module 8: Elasticity, high availability, and monitoring

•   Amazon CloudWatch
  

•   AWS CloudTrail
  

•   Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
  

•   Scaling your databases
  

•   Hands-on lab: Creating a highly available environment
  

Module 9: Automation

•   AWS CloudFormation
  

•   AWS Systems Manager
  

•   AWS OpsWorks
  

•   AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  

•   Hands-on lab: Automating infrastructure deployment with AWS CloudFormation
  

Day 3

Module 10: Caching

•   Caching on AWS with Amazon CloudFront
  

•   Session management
  

•   Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
  

•   Amazon ElastiCache
  

Module 11: Building decoupled architectures

•   Decoupling Your Architecture
  

•   Decoupling with Amazon SQS
  

•   Decoupling with Amazon SNS
  

•   Developing with Amazon MQ
  

Module 12: Microservices and serverless architectures

•   Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
  

•   AWS Fargate
  

•   AWS Lambda
  

•   Amazon API Gateway
  

•   AWS Step Functions
  

•   Hands-on lab: Implementing a serverless architecture with AWS Managed Services
  

Module 13: RTO/RPO and backup recovery setup

•   Disaster planning
  

•   Data replication
  

•   Recovery strategies
  

•   AWS Storage Gateway
  

Module 14: Optimization and review

•   Best practices for optimization
  

•   Review questions