Architecting on AWS (AWSA)

This course focuses on the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the AWS platform. You will learn how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services and how they fit into cloud-bas...

This course focuses on the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the AWS platform. You will learn how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services and how they fit into cloud-based solutions. Best practices and design patterns are covered to help you architect optimal IT solutions on the AWS Cloud. Build and explore a variety of infrastructures through guided discussions and hands-on activity.

This course is designed to teach you 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 infrastructure based on AWS more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
- Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solu...

This course is intended for:



- Solutions Architects
- Solution Design Engineers
- Anyone who needs to understand the scope of cloud architectures

Day One

Module 1: Introduction



- The Well-Architected Framework
- AWS Global Infrastructure
Module 2: The simplest architectures



- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Amazon S3 Glacier
- Choosing AWS Regions for your architectures
- Hands-on lab: Hosting a Static Website
Module 3: Adding a compute layer



- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
- Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
- Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)
- Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
- Amazon...