Course Overview
Architecting on AWS 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.
Who should attend
This course is intended for
- Solutions architects
- Solution-design engineers
- Developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:
- Taken the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (CP-ESS)
- Working knowledge of distributed systems
- Familiarity with general networking concepts
- Familiarity with IP addressing
- Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
Course Objectives
- Identify AWS architecting basic practices.
- Explore using the AWS management tools: The AWS Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), and CloudFormation in a lab environment.
- Examine the enforcement of accounts security using policies.
- Identify the elements that build an elastic, secure, virtual network that includes private and public subnets.
- Practice building an AWS core networking infrastructure.
- Determine strategies for a layered security approach to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets.
- Identify strategies to select the appropriate compute resources based on business use-cases.
- Practice building a VPC and adding an Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance in a lab environment.
- Practice installing an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the VPC you created.
- Compare and contrast AWS storage products and services, based on business scenarios.
- Compare and contrast the different types of AWS database services based on business needs.
- Practice building a highly available, auto-scaling database layer in a lab.
- Explore the business value of AWS monitoring solutions.
- Identify and discuss AWS automation tools that will help you build, maintain and evolve your infrastructure.
- Discuss network peering, VPC endpoints, gateway and routing solutions based on use-cases.
- Discuss hybrid networking configurations to extend and secure your infrastructure.
- Discuss the benefits of microservices as an effective decoupling strategy to power highly available applications at scale.
- Explore AWS container services for the rapid implementation of an infrastructure-agnostic, portable application environment.
- Identify the business and security benefits of AWS serverless services based on business examples.
- Practice building a serverless infrastructure in a lab environment.
- Discuss the ways in which AWS edge services address latency and security.
- Practice building a CloudFront deployment with an S3 backend in a lab environment.
- Explore AWS backup, recovery solutions, and best practices to ensure resiliency and business continuity.
- Build a highly available and secure cloud architecture based on a business problem, in a project based facilitator-guided lab.
Follow On Courses
Outline: Architecting on AWS (AWSA)
Day 1
Module 1: Architecting Fundamentals Review
- AWS Services
- AWS Infrastructure
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Hands-on lab: Explore and interact with the AWS Management Console and AWS Command Line Interface
Module 2: Account Security
- Principals and identities
- Security policies
- Managing multiple accounts
Module 3: Networking 1
- IP addressing
- VPC fundamentals
- VPC traffic security
Module 4: Compute
- Compute services
- EC2 instances
- Storage for EC2 instances
- Amazon EC2 pricing options
- AWS Lambda
- Hands-On Lab: Build your Amazon VPC infrastructure
Day 2
Module 5: Storage
- Storage services
- Amazon S3
- Shared file systems
- Data migration tools
- Module 6: Database Services
- Database services
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Database caching
- Database migration tools
- Hands-on Lab: Create a database layer in your Amazon VPC infrastructure
Module 7: Monitoring and Scaling
- Monitoring
- Alarms and events
- Load balancing
- Auto scaling
- Hands-on Lab: Configure high availability in your Amazon VPC
Module 8: Automation
- AWS CloudFormation
- Infrastructure management
- Module 9: Containers
- Microservices
- Containers
- Container services
Day 3
Module 10: Networking 2
- VPC endpoints
- VPC peering
- Hybrid networking
- AWS Transit Gateway
Module 11: Serverless
- What is serverless?
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon SNS
- Amazon Kinesis
- AWS Step Functions
- Hands-on Lab: Build a serverless architecture
Module 12: Edge Services
- Edge fundamentals
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon CloudFront
- DDoS protection
- AWS Outposts
- Hands-On Lab: Configure an Amazon CloudFront distribution with an Amazon S3 origin
Module 13: Backup and Recovery
- Disaster planning
- AWS Backup
- Recovery strategies
- Hands-on Lab: Capstone lab – Build an AWS Multi-Tier architecture. Participants review the concepts and services 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.