Develop the expertise to design resilient, secure, and highly available information technology solutions leveraging the AWS Cloud platform. This comprehensive course is specifically tailored for solutions architects, solution-design engineers, developers, and IT professionals seeking to master AWS architectural best practices and principles.
Cloud architecture strategies vary significantly across different industries, application types, and organizational sizes. AWS Authorized Instructors emphasize proven best practices using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, guiding participants through the process of designing optimal IT solutions based on real-world business scenarios and use cases. Course modules cover account security, networking, compute resources, storage solutions, database services, monitoring and logging, infrastructure automation, container technologies, serverless computing, edge services, and business continuity planning. By course completion, participants build a comprehensive solution and apply their learning with increased confidence in architectural decision-making.
Course Activities: This course includes instructor-led presentations using industry case studies, collaborative group discussions, technical demonstrations, knowledge assessments, and hands-on laboratory exercises designed to reinforce practical skills.
Target Audience: Solutions architects, solution-design engineers, developers, and professionals pursuing AWS Solutions Architect-Associate certification.
Prerequisites:
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course or equivalent knowledge
- Practical experience with distributed systems design and operation
- Understanding of fundamental networking concepts and protocols
- Knowledge of IP addressing and subnetting
- Experience with multi-tier application architectures
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts and models
Topics Covered:
- AWS architecting principles and recommended practices
- AWS management tools, including the Console, Command Line Interface, and CloudFormation, with practical lab work
- Account security implementation using identity-based policies
- Building elastic, secure virtual networks with private and public subnets
- Hands-on construction of AWS core networking infrastructure
- Security strategies for layered defense of VPC subnets
- Selecting appropriate compute resources aligned with business requirements
- Practical VPC creation and EC2 instance deployment in lab environments
- Amazon RDS database and Application Load Balancer setup within created VPCs
- Comparative analysis of AWS storage products and services based on organizational needs
- Evaluation of different AWS database service options for specific business requirements
- Building highly available, auto-scaling database architectures
- AWS monitoring and observability solutions and their business value
- AWS automation tools for infrastructure provisioning, maintenance, and evolution
- Network peering, VPC endpoints, gateways, and routing solutions for various use cases
- Hybrid networking configurations for extending and securing on-premises infrastructure
- Microservices architecture benefits for application decoupling and scalability
- AWS container services for rapid deployment of portable applications
- Serverless computing benefits and security considerations with practical examples
- Building serverless infrastructure and applications in lab settings
- AWS edge services for reducing latency and enhancing security
- CloudFront and S3 deployment exercises in hands-on labs
- AWS backup, disaster recovery solutions, and resiliency best practices
- Building and deploying a highly available, secure cloud architecture through project-based facilitator-guided laboratories
