AWS Essential Training for Architects

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.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Aligning solutions
02 - What you need to know
03 - AWS Well-Architected Framework
04 - Shared responsibility model

1. Keeping Things Secure

05 - Design a strategy for secure access
06 - Identity and Access Management
07 - Organizing multiple accounts with AWS Organizations
08 - Governing multiple accounts using AWS Control Tower
09 - IAM Identity Center
10 - VPC and subnets
11 - VPN and Direct Connect
12 - Controlling inbound traffic with security groups and network ACLs
13 - Securing keys and credentials
14 - Securing data in transit
15 - Security best practices

2. Architecting for Resilience and High Availability

16 - Design for failure
17 - Elastic Load Balancing
18 - Architecting loosely coupled applications with SNS and SQS
19 - Host your apps with Elastic Beanstalk
20 - AWS Fargate
21 - Use cloud-native storage
22 - Securing databases against failures
23 - Backing up

3. Automate Infrastructure

24 - Why should you automate
25 - CloudFormation
26 - Going serverless with Lambda
27 - Event-driven architecture
28 - Orchestrating with Step Functions
29 - AWS Systems Manager
30 - Auto Scaling
31 - Other automation tools in AWS

4. Improving Performance

32 - Designing a strategy for improving performance
33 - Monitoring with CloudWatch
34 - Gathering performance insights
35 - Using a content delivery network
36 - Caching
37 - High-performance storage
38 - Hybrid Storage
39 - Managed databases

5. Optimize for Cost

40 - Strategies for optimizing costs
41 - Reducing compute costs
42 - Reducing storage costs
43 - Tools to track cost and usage

Conclusion

44 - Additional resources
45 - Conclusion