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Course Overview
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.
Who Should Attend
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.
Course 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.
Course Outline
0 - Introductions & Course Map Review
Overview of course structure, AWS certification path, and key learning outcomes
1 - Architecting Fundamentals Review
Explore AWS services and infrastructure models, learn how to identify services and features to build resilient solutions, and review the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Hands-on Lab: Deploy an EC2 instance using the AWS CLI.
2 - Account Security
Apply best practices for IAM policies, account federation, and managing multiple AWS accounts.
3 - Networking Part 1
Design AWS networking with VPCs, routing, subnets, NACLs, and security groups to support highly available IT solutions.
4 - Compute
Understand compute options in AWS including EC2 instance types, high-performance computing, and serverless architecture options.
Hands-on Lab: Build a VPC and deploy EC2 resources.
5 - Storage
Compare AWS storage services including S3, EBS, and EFS. Learn data migration techniques and storage class use cases.
6 - Database Services
Use Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Redshift for different database workloads. Learn to build fault-tolerant and scalable database layers.
Hands-on Lab: Create a highly available RDS instance.
7 - Monitoring and Scaling
Monitor resources using CloudWatch and CloudTrail. Respond to events with automated scaling solutions.
8 - Automation
Automate deployments using AWS CloudFormation and manage resources through AWS Systems Manager.
9 - Containers
Implement container-based architectures on AWS using ECS and EKS. Explore how containers support modern application development.
10 - Networking Part 2
Dive deeper into AWS networking with VPC endpoints, Transit Gateway, hybrid cloud integration, and Route 53 for DNS.
11 - Serverless Architecture
Build scalable applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, and Step Functions.
Hands-on Lab: Design and deploy a serverless architecture.
12 - Edge Services
Reduce latency and improve performance using AWS Global Accelerator, CloudFront, and WAF.
Hands-on Lab: Deploy CloudFront with an S3 backend.
13 - Backup and Recovery
Explore AWS Backup and recovery strategies to ensure business continuity and resiliency in the cloud.