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AWS Essential Training for Architects

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Explore AWS from a cloud architect’s perspective, focusing on the concepts and core skills you need to know to build scalable, reliable cloud-based application architectures.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Aligning solutions
  • What you need to know
  • AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • Shared responsibility model
1. Keeping Things Secure
  • Design a strategy for secure access
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Organizing multiple accounts with AWS Organizations
  • Governing multiple accounts using AWS Control Tower
  • IAM Identity Center
  • VPC and subnets
  • VPN and Direct Connect
  • Controlling inbound traffic with security groups and network ACLs
  • Securing keys and credentials
  • Securing data in transit
  • Security best practices
2. Architecting for Resilience and High Availability
  • Design for failure
  • Elastic Load Balancing
  • Architecting loosely coupled applications with SNS and SQS
  • Host your apps with Elastic Beanstalk
  • AWS Fargate
  • Use cloud-native storage
  • Securing databases against failures
  • Backing up
3. Automate Infrastructure
  • Why should you automate?
  • CloudFormation
  • Going serverless with Lambda
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Orchestrating with Step Functions
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • Auto Scaling
  • Other automation tools in AWS
4. Improving Performance
  • Designing a strategy for improving performance
  • Monitoring with CloudWatch
  • Gathering performance insights
  • Using a content delivery network
  • Caching
  • High-performance storage
  • Hybrid Storage
  • Managed databases
5. Optimize for Cost
  • Strategies for optimizing costs
  • Reducing compute costs
  • Reducing storage costs
  • Tools to track cost and usage
Conclusion
  • Additional resources
  • Conclusion

Taught by

Jeff Winesett

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