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

Day One

• Module 1: Introduction
  • The Well-Architected Framework - AWS Global Infrastructure
• Module 2: The simplest architectures
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) - Amazon S3 Glacier - Choosing AWS Regions for your architectures
  • Hands-on lab: Hosting a Static Website
• Module 3: Adding a compute layer
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) - Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) - Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) - Amazon FSx
• Module 4: Adding a database layer
  • Database layer considerations - Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) - Amazon DynamoDB - AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
  • Hands-on lab: Deploying a Web Application on AWS
• Module 5: Networking in AWS – Part 1
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) - Network security in the cloud - Hands-on lab: Creating a VPC

Day Two

• Module 6: Networking in AWS – Part 2
  • AWS VPN connections - AWS Direct Connect (DX) - VPC peering AWS Transit Gateway - Load balancing on AWS - Amazon Route 53
• Module 7: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Account users and AWS IAM - Federating users - Amazon Cognito - AWS Organizations
• Module 8: Elasticity, high availability, and monitoring
  • Amazon CloudWatch - AWS CloudTrail - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling - Scaling your databases
  • Hands-on lab: Creating a highly available environment
• Module 9: Automation
  • AWS CloudFormation - AWS Systems Manager - AWS OpsWorks - AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Hands-on lab: Automating infrastructure deployment with AWS CloudFormation

Day Three

• Module 10: Caching
  • Caching on AWS with Amazon CloudFront - Session management - Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) - Amazon ElastiCache
• Module 11: Building decoupled architectures
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) - Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
• Module 12: Microservices and serverless architectures
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) - AWS Fargate - AWS Lambda - Amazon API Gateway - AWS Step Functions
  • Hands-on lab: Implementing a serverless architecture with AWS Managed Services
• Module 13: RTO/RPO and backup recovery setup
  • Disaster planning - Data replication - Recovery strategies - AWS Storage Gateway
• Module 14: Optimization and review
  • Best practices for optimization - Review questions

Instructor-led live training with exercises

Delivered as a live, interactive training: available in-person or online, or in a hybrid format.

We recommend that attendees of this course have attended the AWS technical essentials course.
Moreover they should have:

• Working knowledge of distributed systems and multi-tier architectures
• Familiarity with general networking and cloud computing concepts

This course is intended for:

• Solutions Architects
• Solution Design Engineers
• Anyone who needs to understand the scope of cloud architectures