About This Course
The AWS Solution Architecture course offers a multitude of advantages for professionals seeking to excel in cloud computing. Participants gain an in-depth understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its vast array of services, enabling them to design and implement scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud solutions tailored to diverse business needs. By mastering AWS architecture best practices, participants can optimize performance, enhance security, and ensure compliance with industry standards, thus unlocking opportunities for innovation and growth. Additionally, the course equips learners with the skills to leverage AWS's global infrastructure and advanced features to drive digital transformation initiatives, making them valuable assets in today's competitive IT landscape.
What You'll Learn?
- AWS Fundamentals: You will acquire a deep understanding of AWS services, including compute, storage, networking, databases, and security, along with their use cases and best practices.
- Architectural Best Practices: You will learn architectural principles and best practices for designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable AWS architectures.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): You will learn how to provision and manage AWS resources using Infrastructure as Code tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, enabling automated and repeatable infrastructure deployments.
- Scalability and Elasticity: You will understand how to design AWS solutions that can scale seamlessly to accommodate varying workload demands and maintain performance under load.
- Security and Compliance: You will learn about AWS security features, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, compliance standards, and best practices for securing AWS environments.
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery: You will gain insights into designing architectures for high availability and disaster recovery using AWS services like Amazon Route 53, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, and AWS Backup.
- Cost Optimization: You will learn strategies for optimizing costs associated with AWS services, including choosing the right pricing models, monitoring costs, and implementing cost-saving measures.
- Migration to AWS: You will understand migration strategies and techniques for migrating on-premises workloads to AWS, including lift-and-shift migrations, re-platforming, and refactoring.
- AWS Services Integration: You will learn how to integrate and orchestrate various AWS services to build complex and scalable architectures that meet specific business requirements.
- Real-World Scenarios: Through hands-on labs, case studies, and real-world scenarios, you will apply your knowledge to solve practical challenges and gain valuable experience in architecting solutions on AWS.
Requirements
- No prior knowledge of anything is required as everything will be covered in this course.
- Basic Networking knowledge helps, but isn't a must-have
- You don't need any coding or cloud experience at all.
Target Audience
- Solutions Architects
- Cloud Engineers
- DevOps Engineers
- IT Professionals
- System Administrators
- Network Administrators
- IT Managers
- Cloud Consultants
- Enterprise Architects
- IT Operations Specialists
Topics for This Course
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What is Cloud Computing
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Cloud Service & Deployment Models
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How AWS is the leader in the cloud domain
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Various cloud computing products offered by AWS
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Introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI
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AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console, virtualization in AWS (Xen hypervisor)
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What is auto-scaling
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AWS EC2 best practices and cost involved.
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Introduction to EC2
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Regions & Availability Zones(AZs)
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Pre-EC2, EC2 instance types
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Comparing Public IP and Elastic IP
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Demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance
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Introduction to AMIs, Creating and Copying an AMI
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Introduction to EBS
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EBS volume types
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EBS Snapshots
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Introduction to EFS
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Instance tenancy- Reserved and Spot instances Pricing and Design Patterns
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Introduction to Elastic Load Balancer
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Types of ELB - Classic, Network and Application
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Load balancer architecture
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Cross-zone load balancing
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Introduction to Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, the lifecycle of Auto Scaling
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Components of Auto Scaling, scaling options and policy, instance termination
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Using load balancer with Auto Scaling
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Pre-Route 53 - how DNS works
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Routing policy, Route 53 terminologies, Pricing
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What is Amazon VPC
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VPC as a networking layer for EC2
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IP address and CIDR notations
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Components of VPC - network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, NAT
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Security in VPC - security groups and NACL, types of VPC, what is a subnet, VPC peering with scenarios, VPC endpoints, VPC pricing and design patterns.
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Introduction to AWS storage
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Pre-S3 - online cloud storage
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API, S3 consistency models
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Storage hierarchy, buckets in S3
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Objects in S3, metadata and storage classes, object versioning, object lifecycle management, cross-region replication, data encryption, connecting using VPC endpoint, S3 pricing.
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What is a database, types of databases, databases on AWS
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Introduction to Amazon RDS
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Multi-AZ deployments, features of RDS
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Read replicas in RDS, reserved DB instances
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RDS pricing and design patterns
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Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, Aurora pricing and design patterns
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Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB, DynamoDB pricing and design patterns
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What is Amazon Redshift, advantages of Redshift
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What is ElastiCache, why ElastiCache
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Introduction to CloudFormation
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CloudFormation components
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CloudFormation templates
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The concept of Infrastructure-as-a-code
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Functions and pseudo parameters
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Introduction to Simple Notification Service, how does SNS work
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Introduction to Simple Email Service, how does SES work
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Introduction to Simple Queue Service, how does SQS work
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Pre-IAM, why access management
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Amazon Resource Name (ARN), IAM features
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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) in IAM, JSON
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IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, pricing Introduction to CloudWatch, metrics and namespaces, CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms, CloudWatch logs, pricing and design patterns
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Introduction to CloudTrail, tracking API usage
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What is AWS Lambda
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How Lambda is different from EC2
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Benefits and limitations of Lambda
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How does Lambda work
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Use cases of Lambda, Lambda concepts
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Integration S3 with Lambda
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What is Elastic Beanstalk, how does Beanstalk work, Beanstalk concepts, Beanstalk pricing
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What is configuration management
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What is AWS OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks benefits
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CloudFormation vs OpsWorks, services in OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks Stacks, OpsWorks pricing
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What is Cloud migration
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Why migration is important
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Migration process in AWS, the 6 R's migration strategy
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Virtual machine migration, migrating a local vm onto the AWS cloud
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Migrating databases using Database Migration Service (DMS) Migrating a local database to RDS
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Migrating an on-premises database server to RDS using DMS, other migration services
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Important guidelines for creating a well-architected AWS framework that is resilient and performant
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Designing of fault-tolerant and high-availability architecture
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Resilient storage
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Decoupling mechanism
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Multi-tier architecture solution
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Disaster recovery solution
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Scalable and elastic solutions
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What is DevOps
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Introduction to AWS DevOps
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AWS Developer tools - CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline, integrating GitHub with CodePipeline
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Creating a DevOps lifecycle using AWS DevOps tools
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What is FSx
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Types of FSx and FSx for Windows server
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How does FSx for Windows File Server work, FSx for Lustre
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Use cases of FSx
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Automatic failover process
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Supported clients and access methods
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What is a Global Accelerator, How Global Accelerator works, Listeners and Endpoints
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What are AWS Organizations, Features of AWS Organizations, Managing multiple accounts
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What are ENIs, ENAs and EFAs, Working with network interfaces
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Enhanced Networking with ENA, EFA with MPI, Monitoring an EFA
Modules:
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