The Architecting on AWS course is for solutions architects, solution-design engineers, and developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting. In this course, you will learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure and highly available IT solutions on the AWS Cloud. Architectural solutions differ depending on industry, types of applications, and business size. AWS Authorized 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. The modules focus on account security, networking, compute, storage, databases, monitoring, automation, containers, serverless architecture, edge services, and backup and recovery. At the end of the course, you will practice building a solution and apply what you have learned with confidence.

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
• Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
• Leverage AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
• Make an infrastructure based on AWS more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
• Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions

Intended Audience

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 Outline

Day 1:

MODULE 1: ARCHITECTING FUNDAMENTALS REVIEW

• AWS Services and Infrastructure
• Infrastructure Models
• AWS API Tools
• Securing your infrastructure
• The Well-Architected Framework
• Hands-on lab Explore Using the AWS API Tools to Deploy an EC2 Instance

MODULE 2: ACCOUNT SECURITY

• Security Principals
• Identity and Resource-Based Policies
• Account Federation
• Introduction to Managing Multiple Accounts

MODULE 3: NETWORKING, PART 1

• IP Addressing
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Patterns and Quotas
• Routing
• Internet Access
• Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)
• Security Groups

MODULE 4: COMPUTE

• Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
• EC2 Instances and Instance Selection
• High Performance Computing on AWS
• Lambda and EC2, When to Use Which
• Hands-On Lab Build Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

Day 2:

MODULE 5: STORAGE

• Shared File Systems
• Shared EBS Volumes
• Amazon S3, Security, Versioning and Storage Classes
• Data Migration Tools

MODULE 6: DATABASE SERVICES

• AWS Database Solutions
• Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
• DynamoDB, Features and Use Cases
• Redshift, Features, Use Cases and Comparison with RDS
• Scaling
• Caching and Migrating Data
• Hands-on Lab Create a Database Layer in Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

MODULE 7: MONITORING AND SCALING

• Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs
• Invoking Events
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Auto Scaling Options and Monitoring Cost
• Hands-on Lab Configure High Availability in Your Amazon VPC

MODULE 8: AUTOMATION

• Cloud Formation
• AWS Systems Manager

MODULE 9: CONTAINERS

• Microservices
• Monitoring Microservices with X-Ray
• Containers

Day 3:

MODULE 10: NETWORKING PART 2

• VPC Peering & Endpoints
• Transit Gateway
• Hybrid Networking
• Route 53

MODULE 11: SERVERLESS ARCHITECTURE

• Amazon API Gateway
• Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Kinesis Firehose
• Step Functions
• Compare Amazon SQS to Amazon MQ
• Hands-on Lab Build a Serverless Architecture

MODULE 12: EDGE SERVICES

• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS and Firewall Manager
• Compare AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Outposts
• Hands-On Lab Configure an Amazon CloudFront Distribution with an Amazon S3 Origin

MODULE 13: BACKUP AND RECOVERY

• Planning for Disaster Recovery
• AWS Backup
• Recovery Strategies

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course, or the following knowledge:
• Working knowledge of distributed systems
• Familiarity with general networking concepts and IP addressing
• Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts