Architecting on AWS

Course Description:

  The Architecting on AWS course is a 3-day authorized Amazon Web Services (AWS) hands-on course that is designed to teach students all the essential skills to architect their IT solutions on AWS.

In this course, students will gain in-depth knowledge of the AWS platform and how to leverage AWS services for your specific cloud-based application. The course will cover AWS cloud best practices and AWS architecture principles covering the entire process of designing IT infrastructure from start to finish. Since AWS introduces an average of 200 new features and services annually, it is critical that students study the most recent upgrades and enhancments.

Students will also review case studies with a variety of AWS infrastructure designs and strategies, to reinforce the material. After the course, students will be fully able to build and scale a more efficient and reliable IT solution on the AWS cloud environment.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Making decisions based on the AWS-recommended architectural principles and best practices
• Leveraging AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
• Leveraging AWS managed services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
• Making an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient in order to increase performance and reduce costs
• Using the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions

Target Student: This course is ideal for solution architects and solution design engineers.

Prerequisites: Students should possess the following experience before attending the course:

• Attended AWS Essentials 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

• Core AWS Knowledge
• Designing Your Environment
• Making Your Environment Highly Available
• Forklifting an Existing Application onto AWS
• Event-Driven Scaling
• Automating and Decoupling Your Infrastructure
• Designing Storage at Scale
• Hosting a New Web Application on AWS
• The Four Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
• Disaster Recovery and Failover Strategies
• Troubleshooting Your Environment
• Large-Scale Design Patterns and Case Studies

  This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.