Advanced Architecting on AWS
Course code
AA-AWS
Duration
3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours
Course Overview
Objectives
Prerequisites
Course Outline
Course Overview
Course description
Advanced Architecting on AWS covers how to build complex solutions that incorporate data services, governance, and security on AWS. It introduces specialized AWS services, including AWS Direct Connect and AWS Storage Gateway to support hybrid architectures. The course also covers best practices for designing and building scalable, elastic, secure, and highly available applications on AWS.
Objectives
Course objectives
This course is designed to teach you how to:
- Apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Manage multiple AWS accounts for your organization
- Connect an on-premises data center to the AWS Cloud
- Move data from an on-premises data center to AWS
- Design large data stores for the AWS Cloud
- Understand different architectural designs for scalability
- Protect your infrastructure from a DDoS attack
- Secure your data on AWS with encryption
- Enhance the performance of your solutions
- Select the most appropriate AWS deployment mechanism
Prerequisites
Intended audience
This course is intended for:
- Solution Architects
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Attended Architecting on AWS classroom trainin
- Achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certificatio
- Experience in designing scalable and elastic applications on the AWS platform
Course Outline
Day One
Module 1: AWS Account Management
- Multiple accounts
- Multi-account patterns
- License management
- Manage security and costs with multiple accounts
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Directory Service
- Hands-on lab: Multi-VPC connectivity using a VPN
Module 2: Advanced Network Architectures
- Improve VPC network connections
- Enhance performance for HPC workloads
- VPN connections over AWS
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Transit Gateway
- Amazon Route 53
- Exercise: Design a hybrid architecture
Module 3: Deployment Management on AWS
- Application lifecycle management
- Application deployment using containers
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS OpsWorks
- AWS CloudFormation
Day Two
Module 4: Data
- Optimize Amazon S3 storage
- Amazon ElastiCache
- AWS Snowball
- AWS Storage Gateway
- AWS DataSync
- Backup and archival considerations
- Database migration
- Designing for big data with Amazon DynamoDB
- Hands-on lab: Build a failover solution with Amazon Route 53 and Amazon RDS
Module 5: Designing for large scale applications
- AWS Auto Scaling
- Migrating over-provisioned resources
- Blue-green deployments on AWS
- Hands-on lab: Blue-green deployment with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Day Three
Module 6: Building resilient architectures
- DDoS attack overview
- AWS Shield
- AWS WAF
- Amazon GuardDuty
- High availability using Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SharePoint on AWS
- High availability using MongoDB on Amazon EC2
- AWS Global Accelerator
- Hands-on lab: CloudFront content delivery and automating AWS WAF rules
Module 7: Encryption and data security
- Encryption primer
- DIY key management in AWS
- AWS Marketplace for encryption products
- AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
- Cloud Hardware Security Module (HSM)
- Comparison of key management options
- Hands-on lab: AWS KMS with envelope encryption
