AWS Essential Training for Architects
4h 2mIntermediate2024-04-08
Authors
Shyam Raj
Technical Instructor, Network and Cloud Guru
Course details
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most widely used cloud platforms in the world, which explains why it’s the top pick for many organizations looking to scale and reduce costs by adopting a cloud infrastructure strategy. This course serves as a comprehensive reference for solutions architects working within an AWS environment.
Join instructor Shyam Raj as he covers key concepts of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, along with considerations for security, resilience and high availability, automation, performance, cost optimization, and more. Each lesson is backed with practical examples that ground services such as Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Fargate, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch in a real-world context.
Note: This course pairs well with AWS Essential Training for Administrators, which dives deeper into the process of implementing and managing an AWS cloud environment.
Join instructor Shyam Raj as he covers key concepts of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, along with considerations for security, resilience and high availability, automation, performance, cost optimization, and more. Each lesson is backed with practical examples that ground services such as Elastic Load Balancing, Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Fargate, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch in a real-world context.
Note: This course pairs well with AWS Essential Training for Administrators, which dives deeper into the process of implementing and managing an AWS cloud environment.
Skills covered
Cloud DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonCloud ServicesCloud PlatformsEssential TrainingCloud Computing
Concepts
Introduction
- Aligning solutions
- What you need to know
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Shared responsibility model
Keeping Things Secure
- Design a strategy for secure access
- Identity and Access Management
- Organizing multiple accounts with AWS Organizations
- Governing multiple accounts using AWS Control Tower
- IAM Identity Center
- VPC and subnets
- VPN and Direct Connect
- Controlling inbound traffic with security groups and network ACLs
- Securing keys and credentials
- Securing data in transit
- Security best practices
Architecting for Resilience and High Availability
- Design for failure
- Elastic Load Balancing
- Architecting loosely coupled applications with SNS and SQS
- Host your apps with Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS Fargate
- Use cloud-native storage
- Securing databases against failures
- Backing up
Automate Infrastructure
- Why should you automate
- CloudFormation
- Going serverless with Lambda
- Event-driven architecture
- Orchestrating with Step Functions
- AWS Systems Manager
- Auto Scaling
- Other automation tools in AWS
Improving Performance
- Designing a strategy for improving performance
- Monitoring with CloudWatch
- Gathering performance insights
- Using a content delivery network
- Caching
- High-performance storage
- Hybrid Storage
- Managed databases
Optimize for Cost
- Strategies for optimizing costs
- Reducing compute costs
- Reducing storage costs
- Tools to track cost and usage
Conclusion
- Additional resources
- Conclusion