Architecting on AWS

Course Description

Architecting on AWS is designed for solutions architects, design engineers, and developers who seek a comprehensive understanding of AWS architecting. In this course, you will learn to identify the services and features necessary to build resilient, secure, and highly available IT solutions. Because architectural solutions differ by industry and business size, AWS Authorized Instructors emphasize best practices using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The curriculum guides you through designing optimal solutions based on real-life scenarios, covering everything from networking and account security to serverless and backup recovery.

Who is this course for

This course is intended for technical individuals who need to design cloud infrastructures. It is particularly beneficial for:

• Solutions Architects and Design Engineers responsible for technical roadmaps.

• Developers who want to understand the infrastructure their code runs on.

• Certification Seekers aiming for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.

Course Objectives

• Core Best Practices: Identify AWS architecting basic practices and account security fundamentals.

• Network Design: Build secure virtual networks with public/private subnets and explore hybrid networking and peering.

• Resource Selection: Compare and select appropriate compute, storage, and database services based on specific business use cases.

• Scalability & Monitoring: Identify the roles of load balancing, auto-scaling, and monitoring to maintain application health.

• Modern Architectures: Explore the benefits of containers, serverless architectures, and edge services for latency and security.

• Resiliency: Implement backup and recovery solutions to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery.

Prerequisites

• Required: Completed AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials or AWS Technical Essentials.

• Technical Knowledge: Working knowledge of distributed systems and multi-tier architectures.

• Networking: Familiarity with general networking concepts and IP addressing.

• General: Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts.

Course outline

Section 1: Architecting Fundamentals

• Hands-on lab: Explore and interact with the AWS Management Console and AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS services

• AWS infrastructure

• AWS Well-Architected Framework

Section 2: Account Security

• Principals and identities

• Security policies

• Managing multiple accounts

Section 3: Networking 1

• IP addressing

• VPC fundamentals

• VPC traffic security

Section 4: Compute

• Hands-on lab: Build your Amazon VPC infrastructure

• Compute services

• EC2 instances

• Storage for EC2 instances

• Amazon EC2 pricing options

• AWS Lambda

Section 5: Storage

• Storage services

• Amazon S3

• Shared file systems

• Data migration tools

Section 6: Database Services

• Hands-on lab: Create a database layer in your Amazon VPC infrastructure

• Database services

• Amazon RDS

• Amazon DynamoDB

• Database caching

• Database migration tools

Section 7: Monitoring and Scaling

• Hands-on lab: Configure high availability in your Amazon VPC

• Monitoring

• Alarms and events

• Load balancing

• Auto scaling

Section 8: Automation

• AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure management

Section 9: Containers

• Microservices

• Containers

• Container services

Section 10: Networking 2

• VPC endpoints

• VPC peering

• Hybrid networking

• AWS Transit Gateway

Section 11: Serverless

• Hands-on lab: Build a serverless architecture

• What is serverless?

• Amazon API Gateway

• Amazon SQS

• Amazon SNS

• Amazon Kinesis

• AWS Step Functions

Section 12: Edge Services

• Hands-on lab: Configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution with an Amazon S3 origin

• Edge fundamentals

• Amazon Route 53

• Amazon CloudFront

• DDoS protection

• AWS Outposts

Section 13: Backup and Recovery

• Hands-on lab: Capstone lab: Build an AWS multi-tier architecture. Participants review the concepts and services that they learned in class and build a solution based on a scenario. The lab environment provides partial solutions to promote analysis and reflection. Participants deploy a highly available architecture. The instructor is available for consultation.

• Disaster planning

• AWS Backup

• Recovery strategies