Architecting on AWS - Accelerator

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Solutions Architects who are new to designing and building cloud architectures
• Data Center Architects who are migrating from on-premises environment to cloud architectures
• Other IT/cloud roles who want to understand how to design and build cloud architectures

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Attended AWS Technical Essentials classroom training or have equivalent experience
• Working knowledge of distributed systems
• Familiarity with general networking concepts
• Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

Course outline

Day One

Module 1: Introduction

• The real story of AWS
• Well-Architected Framework
• Six advantages of the cloud
• Global infrastructure

Module 2: The Simplest Architectures

• S3
• Glacier
• Choosing your regions
• Hands-on lab: Static Website

Module 3: Adding a Compute Layer

• EC2
• Storage solutions for instances
• Purchasing options such as dedicated host vs instances

Module 4: Adding a Database Layer

• Relational vs non-relational
• Managed databases
• RDS
• Dynamo DB
• Neptune
• Hands-on lab: Deploying a web application on AWS

Module 5: Networking in AWS Part 1

• VPC
• CIDR and subnets
• Public vs private subnets
• NAT and internet gateway
• Security groups

Day Two

Module 6: Networking in AWS Part 2

• Virtual Private Gateway
• VPN
• Direct Connect
• VPC peering
• Transit Gateway
• VPC Endpoints
• Elastic Load Balancer
• Route 53
• Hands-on lab: Creating a VPC

Module 7: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• IAM
• Identity federation
• Cognito

Module 8: Organizations

• Organizations
• Multiple account management
• Tagging strategies

Module 9: Elasticity, High Availability, and Monitoring

• Elasticity vs inelasticity
• Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs
• Auto scaling
• Scaling databases
• Hands-on lab: Creating a highly available environment

Module 10: Automation

• Why automate?
• CloudFormation
• AWS Quick Starts
• AWS Systems Manager
• AWS OpsWorks
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Day Three

Module 11: Deployment Methods

• Why use a deployment method?
• Blue green and canary deployment
• Tools to implement your deployment methods
• CI/CD
• Hands-on lab: Automating infrastructure deployment

Module 12: Caching

• When and why you should cache your data
• Cloudfront
• Elasticache (Redis/Memcached)
• DynamoDB Accelerator

Module 13: Security of Your Data

• Shared responsibility model
• Data classification
• Encryption
• Automatic data security

Module 14: Building Decoupled Architecture

• Tight coupling vs loose coupling
• SQS
• SNS

Module 15: Optimizations and Review

• Review questions
• Best practices
• Activity: Design and architecture – two trues and one lie

Day Four

Module 16: Microservices

• What is a microservice?
• Containers
• ECS
• Fargate
• EKS

Module 17: Serverless

• Why use serverless?
• Lambda
• API Gateway
• AWS Step Functions
• Hands-on lab: Implementing a serverless architecture with AWS Managed Services

Module 18: Building for Resilience

• Using managed services greatly increases resiliency
• Serverless for resiliency
• Issues with microservices to be aware of
• DDoS
• Hands-on lab: Amazon CloudFront content delivery and automating WAF rules

Module 19: Networking in AWS Part 3

• Elastic Network Adapter
• Maximum transmission units
• Global Accelerator
• Site to site VPN
• Transit Gateway

Module 20: Understanding Costs

• Simple monthly calculator
• Right sizing your instances
• Price sensitive architecture examples

Day Five

Module 21: Migration Strategies

• Cloud migration strategies
• Planning
• Migrating
• Optimizing
• Hands-on lab: Application deployment using AWS Fargate

Module 22: RTO/RPO and Backup Recovery Setup

• Disaster planning
• Recovery options

Module 23: Final Review

• Architecting advice
• Service use case questions
• Example test questions