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Architecting on AWS

This 3-day course covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the AWS platform. Students learn how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding how AWS services fit into cloud-based solutions. In addition, students explore AWS Cloud best practices and design patterns for architecting optimal IT solutions on AWS, and build a variety of infrastructures in guided, hands-on activities. The course also covers how to create fledgling architectures and build them into robust and adaptive solutions.

Become a Certified AWS Solutions Architect

This training prepares you for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. This exam validates that you have the knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies. It also demonstrates that you can define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements. Finally, the certification provides implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the life cycle of the project.

Architecting on AWS is perfect for 

This training is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role and have one or more years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.

What will you learn during the Architecting on AWS training? 

1. Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
2. Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
3. Leverage AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
4. Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
5. Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions

Recommended Knowledge and Experience

1. Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services
2. Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services
3. Ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application
4. Ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement
5. Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform
6. An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS Cloud
7. An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure
8. An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS
9. An understanding of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services

Program

Introduction to Cloud Computing with AWS

• Services: VPC, EC2
• The meaning of Serverless
• Data and Storage options
• Networking 
• IAM
• S3
• CloudWatch

Working with AWS

• Launching a server
• S3
• IAM
• SDK
• CLI
• CloudFormation

AWS Certification

This Architecting on AWS prepares you for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. To obtain this certification additional studies are required and the exam is not included in the training. More information about the exam and how to buy/plan it can be found here.