Architecting on AWS

Architecting on AWS

Architecting on AWS covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS. The course is designed to teach IT professionals how to optimize the use of the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services and how these services fit into cloud-based solutions. You will learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure and highly available IT solutions on the AWS Cloud. This course emphasizes AWS Cloud best practices and recommended design patterns to help students think through the process of architecting optimal IT solutions on AWS. Case studies throughout the course showcase how some AWS customers have designed their infrastructures, and the strategies and services they implemented.

Duration: 3 Days

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with general networking concepts
• Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
• AWS Technical Essentials or equivalent knowledge required

Audience

• Solutions Architects
• Solution Design Engineers

Learning Objectives

• Make architectural decisions based on the AWS-recommended 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 AWS-based infrastructure more efficient in order to increase performance and reduce costs
• Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions

Topics

• The Simplest Architectures
• Adding a Compute Layer
• Adding a Database Layer
• Networking in AWS
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Elasticity, High Availability, and Monitoring
• Automation
• Caching
• Building Decoupled Architectures
• Microservices and Serverless Architectures
• RTO/RPO and Backup Recovery Setup
• Optimizations and Review