Course Overview
Through a series of use case scenarios and practical learning, you'll explore AWS services that can be applied to solve architectural problems. You’ll find opportunities to combine your new knowledge with critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This course culminates in a final review project to reinforce what you’ve learned throughout the three days.
Course Content
Day 1
- AWS Account Strategies
- Advanced Network Architecture
- Designing Large Datastores for AWS
Day 2
- Web Scale Applications
- Building Resilience
- Comprehensive Cloud Security
Day 3
- Encryption and Key Management on AWS
- Security Data on AWS
- Designing for Performance
Who should attend
Who should take this course:
- Cloud architects
- Solutions architects
- Anyone who designs solutions for cloud infrastructures
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Knowledge and experience with core AWS services from the compute, storage, networking, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) categories
- At least one of the following:
- Attended the Architecting on AWS (AWSA) classroom training OR
- Achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification OR
- Have at least 1 year of experience operating AWS workloads
Course Objectives
- How to secure Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint connections in a lab environment
- Best practices for what services to use and how to implement permissions management
- AWS hybrid network designs to address traffic increases and streamline remote work while ensuring FIPS 140-2 Level 2 or Level 3 security compliance
- Solutions and products available to design a hybrid infrastructure
- And much more
Outline: Advanced Architecting on AWS (AWSAA)
Day 1
Module 1: Reviewing Architecting Concepts
- Group Exercise: Review Architecting on AWS core best practices
- Lab 1: Securing Amazon S3 VPC Endpoint Communications
Module 2: Single to Multiple Accounts
- AWS Organizations for multi-account access and permissions
- AWS SSO to simplify access and authentication across AWS accounts and third-party services
- AWS Control Tower
- Permissions, access, and authentication
Module 3: Hybrid Connectivity
- AWS Client VPN authentication and control
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- AWS Direct Connect for hybrid public and private connections
- Increasing bandwidth and reducing cost
- Basic, high, and maximum resiliency
- Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS resolution
Module 4: Specialized Infrastructure
- AWS Storage Gateway solutions
- On-demand VMware Cloud on AWS
- Extending cloud infrastructure services with AWS Outposts
- AWS Local Zones for latency-sensitive workloads
- Your 5G network with and without AWS Wavelength
Module 5: Connecting Networks
- Simplifying private subnet connections
- VPC isolation with a shared services VPC
- Transit Gateway Network Manager and VPC Reachability Analyzer
- AWS Resource Access Manager
- AWS PrivateLink and endpoint services
- Lab 2: Configuring Transit Gateways
Day 2
Module 6: Containers
- Container solutions compared to virtual machines
- Docker benefits, components, solutions architecture, and versioning
- Container hosting on AWS to reduce cost
- Managed container services: Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
- AWS Fargate
- Lab 3: Deploying an Application with Amazon ECS on Fargate
Module 7: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- CI/CD solutions and impact
- CI/CD automation with AWS CodePipeline
- Deployment models
- AWS CloudFormation StackSets to improve deployment management
Module 8: High Availability and DDoS Protection
- Common DDoS attacks layers
- AWS WAF
- AWS WAF web access control lists (ACLs), real-time metrics, logs, and security automation
- AWS Shield Advanced services and AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) services
- AWS Network Firewall and AWS Firewall Manager to protect accounts at scale
Module 9: Securing Data
- What cryptography is, why you would use it, and how to use it
- AWS KMS
- AWS CloudHSM architecture
- FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and Level 3 encryption
- Secrets Manager
Module 10: Large-Scale Data Stores
- Amazon S3 data storage management including storage class, inventory, metrics, and policies
- Data lake vs. data warehouse: Differences, benefits, and examples
- AWS Lake Formation solutions, security, and control
- Lab 4: Setting Up a Data Lake with Lake Formation
Day 3
Module 11: Large-Scale Applications
- What edge services are and why you would use them
- Improve performance and mitigate risk with Amazon CloudFront
- Lambda@Edge
- AWS Global Accelerator: IP addresses, intelligent traffic distribution, and health checks
- Lab 5: Migrating an On-Premises NFS Share Using AWS DataSync and Storage Gateway
Module 12: Optimizing Cost
- On-premises and cloud acquisition/deprecation cycles
- Cloud cost management tools including reporting, control, and tagging
- Examples and analysis of the five pillars of cost optimization
Module 13: Migrating Workloads
- Business drivers and the process for migration
- Successful customer practices
- The 7 Rs to migrate and modernize
- Migration tools and services from AWS
- Migrating databases and large data stores
- AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
Module 14: Capstone Project
- Use the Online Course Supplement (OCS) to review use cases, investigate data, and answer architecting design questions about Transit Gateway, hybrid connectivity, migration, and cost optimization