AWS - Architecting on AWS

Course Description

Acquire fundamental skills for building IT infrastructure on AWS! The three-day course enables you to optimize AWS Cloud and understand how AWS services fit into cloud-based solutions. It explains AWS Cloud's best practices and design patterns for architecting optimal IT solutions on AWS. You learn to build a variety of infrastructures in guided, hands-on activities. The AWS Architect training also covers creating fledgling architectures and building them into robust adaptive solutions.

The AWS Architect training is recommended for earning the AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate certification.

Note: Lab time available only for class duration & not beyond. Additional lab charges apply for “repeat students”.

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

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for:

• Solutions Architects
• Solution Design Engineers

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
• AWS Business Essentials

Course Outline

Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class based on regional location and/or language in which the class is served.

1. Introduction

   • The Well-Architected Framework
   • AWS Global Infrastructure

2. The simplest architectures

   • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
   • Amazon S3 Glacier
   • Choosing AWS Regions for your architectures

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

4. Adding a database layer

   • Database layer considerations
   • Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
   • Amazon DynamoDB
   • AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

5. Networking in AWS - Part 1

   • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
   • Network security in the cloud
   • Hands-on lab: Creating a VPC

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

7. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

   • Account users and AWS IAM
   • Federating users
   • Amazon Cognito
   • AWS Organizations

8. Elasticity, high availability, and monitoring

   • Amazon CloudWatch
   • AWS CloudTrail
   • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
   • Scaling your databases

9. Automation

   • AWS CloudFormation
   • AWS Systems Manager
   • AWS OpsWorks
   • AWS Elastic Beanstalk

10. Caching

    • Caching on AWS with Amazon CloudFront
    • Session management
    • Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
    • Amazon ElastiCache

11. Building decoupled architectures

    • Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
    • Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

12. Microservices and serverless architectures

    • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    • AWS Fargate
    • AWS Lambda
    • Amazon API Gateway
    • AWS Step Functions

13. RTO/RPO and backup recovery setup

    • Disaster planning
    • Data replication
    • Recovery strategies
    • AWS Storage Gateway

14. Optimization and review

    • Best practices for optimization