Architecting on AWS

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Solutions Architects
• Solution Design Engineers
• Anyone who needs to understand the scope of cloud architectures

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Taken the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials classroom or digital training
• Working knowledge of distributed systems and multi-tier architectures
• Familiarity with general networking and cloud computing concepts

Course Content

Day One

Module 1: Introduction

• The Well-Architected Framework
• AWS Global Infrastructure

Module 2: The simplest architectures

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Amazon S3 Glacier
• Choosing AWS Regions for your architectures
• Hands-on lab: Hosting a Static Website

Module 3: Adding a compute layer

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
• Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
• Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)
• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
• Amazon FSx Module 4: Adding a database layer
• Database layer considerations
• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
• Amazon DynamoDB
• AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
• Hands-on lab: Deploying a Web Application on AWS

Module 5: Networking in AWS – Part 1

• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
• Network security in the cloud
• Hands-on lab: Creating a VPC

Day Two

Module 6: Networking in AWS – Part 2

• AWS VPN connections
• AWS Direct Connect (DX)
• VPC peering
• AWS Transit Gateway
• Load balancing on AWS
• Amazon Route 53

Module 7: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Account users and AWS IAM
• Federating users
• Amazon Cognito
• AWS Organizations

Module 8: Elasticity, high availability, and monitoring

• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
• Scaling your databases
• Hands-on lab: Creating a highly available environment

Module 9: Automation

• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Systems Manager
• AWS OpsWorks
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Hands-on lab: Automating infrastructure deployment with AWS CloudFormation

Day Three

Module 10: Caching

• Caching on AWS with Amazon CloudFront
• Session management
• Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
• Amazon ElastiCache

Module 11: Building decoupled architectures

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Module 12: Microservices and serverless architectures

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• AWS Fargate
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon API Gateway
• AWS Step Functions
• Hands-on lab: Implementing a serverless architecture with AWS Managed Services

Module 13: RTO/RPO and backup recovery setup

• Disaster planning
• Data replication
• Recovery strategies
• AWS Storage Gateway

Module 14: Optimization and review

• Best practices for optimization
• Review questions