Architect
Learn from AWS experts. Advance your skills and knowledge. Build your future in the AWS Cloud.
This learning path is designed for solutions architects, solution design engineers, and anyone who wants to learn how to design applications and systems on AWS. Build technical skills as you progress along the path toward AWS Certification.
This path also includes two optional courses to provide more choices for your progression.
Architecting on AWS - Accelerator. This five-day course covers topics from two other courses in this path, Architecting on AWS and Advanced Architecting on AWS, and may be taken in place of those courses.
Exam Readiness Intensive Workshop: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate also covers topics from two courses in this path, Architecting on AWS and Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, and may be taken in place of those courses.
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Recommended progression
Follow this recommended sequence of courses and exams to build your AWS Cloud skills in this Learning Path.AWS Technical Essentials
Learn the fundamentals of identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements.
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1 dayArchitecting on AWS
Learn the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS so you can build scalable and resilient solutions in the cloud.
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3 days
Architecting on AWS - Accelerator
In this immersive five-day course, you’ll learn how to design cloud architectures, from small designs to large-scale, enterprise-level designs and everything in-between. It covers topics from Architecting on AWS and Advanced Architecting on AWS.
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5 daysExam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
In this half-day, intermediate-level workshop, we will explore the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam’s topic areas, mapping them to architecting on AWS and to specific areas to study. We will review sample exam questions in each topic area.
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4 hoursExam Readiness Intensive Workshop: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
During the first three days, instructors will deliver the content of our Architecting on AWS course, as well as new quizzes added to the end of each module. Next, instructors will deliver the content of our half-day course Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. They will also dive into supplemental material for AWS services (such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Key Management Service) and provide a quiz. The five-day course finishes with an instructor-guided review of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate practice exam and an additional quiz.
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5 daysAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
This exam validates an examinee's ability to effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies.
Exam | 130 minutes
Advanced Architecting on AWS
Learn how to build complex solutions that incorporate data services, governance, and security on the AWS platform. Gain best practices for building scalable, elastic, secure, and highly available applications on AWS.
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3 daysExam Readiness: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Join this advanced-level course to prepare for the exam. Explore the exam’s topic areas and how they related to architecting on AWS. We will review sample exam questions in each topic area and teach you how to interpret the concepts being tested.
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1 dayAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam validates advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform.
Exam | 180 minutes
Deepen Your AWS Cloud Knowledge with Our Ramp-Up Guide
Our downloadable Ramp-Up Guide helps individuals in architect roles see all free digital training, classroom courses, videos, whitepapers, certifications, and other information that is available to help you build their AWS Cloud knowledge.
