Overview
In this online training course, students will be taught the fundamental skills to architect your IT solutions on AWS. AWS Architect Associate is a course for System Engineers and System Developers and will cover how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services and how they fit into cloud-based solutions.
This course can be used in order to prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.
Course Instructor: Raymond Lacoste
Course Outline
01. Course Overview and the AWS Global Infrastructure
- Introduction to AWS Architect Associate Course and Exam Objectives
- Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
02. Compute
- EC2: Overview, Architecture, and Pricing
- EC2: Launching and Accessing a Linux and Windows Server
- EC2: AMIs and Instance Types
- EC2: Instance Store, EBS, EFS, FSx
- EC2: IP addressing, Network Interfaces, Security Groups and Placement Groups
- EC2: Auto Scaling
- EC2: Load Balancers
- ECS: Overview
- Serverless: Lambda
- Serverless: API Gateway
03. Databases
- Databases: Overview
- RDS: Overview, Instances, Storage, Encryption and Backups
- RDS: Multi-AZ, and Read Replicas
- RDS: Amazon Aurora
- Elasticache: Overview
- DynamoDB: Overview
- Redshift: Overview
04. Networking
- VPC: Overview, and VPC Subnets
- VPC: Internet Connectivity, Routing, and NAT
- VPC: Security Groups and ACLs
- VPC: VPNs, Direct Connect, Peering, Transit Gateways, and Endpoints
- CloudFront and Global Accelerator
- Route53
05. Storage and Migration
- Storage: Overview and Review
- Storage: S3 Introduction, Storage Classes, Lifecyle Policies, and Static Websites
- Storage: S3 Security, Integrity, and Replication
- Storage: Storage Gateway and AWS Backup
- Migration: Snowcone, Snowball and Snowmobile
- Migration: AWS DataSync, AWS Transfer, AWS Database Migration Service
06. Application Integration and Customer Engagement
- SQS, SNS, SES, Amazon MQ
07. Security
- IAM: Users, Groups, Policies
- IAM: Temporary Credentials, Roles, Password Policies
- KMS and HSM
- Amazon Inspector, Macie, GuardDuty
- AWS Certificate Manager. Secrets Manager, WAF, Shield
08. Monitoring and Management
- Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config
- AWS Organizations and AWS Resource Groups
- AWS Billing and Cost Management
Skills Learned
After completing this online training course, students will be able to:
- Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectual 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 solution