Architecting on AWS

Course Description

This course shows you the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the AWS platform. You learn how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services and how they fit into cloud-based solutions. You explore best practices and design patterns to help you architect optimal IT solutions on AWS, then build and explore a variety of infrastructures through guided, hands-on activity. You learn how to create fledgling architectures and build them into robust and adaptive solutions.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
Leverage 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

Delivery Method

This course is delivered through a mix of:

Classroom training
Hands-on labs

Duration

3 day(s)

Time

9-5 PM

Price

$2,025

Labs

Hands-on Activity

This course allows you to test new skills and apply knowledge to your working environment through a variety of practical exercises.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

Solutions architects
Solution design engineers
Anyone who needs to understand the scope of cloud architectures

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

Successfully completed the AWS Technical Essentials course
Working knowledge of distributed systems
Familiarity with general networking concepts
Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

Outline

This course covers the following concepts:

The Well-Architected Framework
Networking with AWS
Core AWS concepts, knowledge, and services, including designing your environment and making your environment highly available
Event-driven scaling
Automation
Decoupling
Serverless designs
How to grow your architecture from small to extremely large