Architecting on AWS – Accelerator

Program Code: 3036

Overview
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Certification

Overview

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) authorized Architecting on AWS – Accelerator training course is an immersive, advanced-level training course that covers all aspects of how to architect for the AWS Cloud. This AWS course covers topics from both Architecting on AWS and Advanced Architecting on AWS. It acquaints participants with how to design cloud architectures, from small-scale designs to large-scale, enterprise-level designs. The course begins by discussing the AWS Well-Architected Framework and goes on to cover important architecting information for AWS services, including compute, storage, database, networking, security, monitoring, automation, optimization, benefits of decoupling applications and serverless, building for resilience, and understanding costs.

The course helps participants prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Exam.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 5 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 5 days

What You'll learn

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

Outline

Module 1: Introduction

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

Module 2: The Simple Architectures

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Amazon S3 Glacier
Choosing AWS regions for your architectures
Lab: Hosting a static website

Module 3: Adding a Compute Layer

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Storage solutions for instances
Purchasing options such as dedicated host vs instances

Module 4: Adding a database layer

Relational vs non-relational database
Managed databases
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Neptune
Lab: Deploying a web application on AWS

Module 5: Networking in AWS – Part I

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
CIDR and subnets
Public vs private subnets
NAT and internet gateway
Security groups

Module 6: Networking in AWS – Part II

Virtual Private Gateway
Virtual Private Network
Direct Connect
VPC Peering
Transit Gateway
VPC Endpoints
Elastic Load Balancer
Route 53
Lab: Creating a VPC

Module 7: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Account users and AWS IAM
Federating users
Amazon Cognito

Module 8: Organizations

Organizations
Multiple account management
Tagging strategies

Module 9: Elasticity, High availability, Monitoring

Elasticity vs Inelasticity
Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs
Autoscaling
Scaling databases
Lab: Creating a highly available environment

Module 10: Automation

Why automate?
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Quick Starts
AWS System Manager
AWS OpsWorks
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Module 11: Deployment Methods

Why use a deployment method?
Blue, green, and canary deployment
Tools to implement your deployment methods
Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment
Lab: Automating infrastructure deployment

Module 12: Caching

When and why you should cache your data
Caching on AWS with Amazon CloudFront
Amazon ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached)
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Module 13: Security of your data

Shared responsibility model
Daa classification
Encryption
Automatic data security

Module 14: Building Decoupled Architecture

Tight coupling vs. loose coupling
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Amazon Simple Network Service (SNS)

Module 15: Optimization and Review

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

Module 16: Microservices

What is a microservice?
Containers
ECS
Fargate
EKS

Module 17: Serverless

Why use serverless?
Lambda
API Gateway
AWS step functions
Lab: Implementing a serverless architecture with AWS Managed Services

Module 18: Building for resilience

Using managed services to increase resiliency
Serverless for resiliency
Issues with microservices to be aware of
DDoS
Lab: Amazon CloudFront content delivery and automating WAF rules

Module 19: Networking in AWS – Part III

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

Module 21: Migration strategies

Cloud migration strategies
Planning
Migrating
Optimizing
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

Prerequisites

It is recommended for the participants of this course to 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

Who Should Attend

The course is intended for –

Solution architects new to designing and building cloud architectures
Data Center Architects who are migrating from an on-premise environment to cloud architects
Other IT/Cloud roles who want to understand designing and building cloud architectures

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Certification

This AWS course helps participants prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level Certification Exam. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification certification validates an individual’s ability to design and implement distributed systems on AWS. It also helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives.

This AWS Certification Exam comprises 65 questions either multiple-choice or multiple-response. Participants get 130 minutes to take the exam. The exam is offered in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.