Architecting on AWS

Day 1

Module 0: Introductions & Course Map review

• Welcome and course outcomes

Module 1: Architecting Fundamentals Review

• AWS Services and Infrastructure
• Infrastructure Models
• AWS API Tools
• Securing your infrastructure
• The Well-Architected Framework

Module 2: Account Security

• Security Principals
• Identity and Resource-Based Policies
• Account Federation
• Introduction to Managing Multiple Accounts

Module 3: Networking, Part 1

• IP Addressing
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Patterns and Quotas
• Routing
• Internet Access
• Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)
• Security Groups

Module 4: Compute

• Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
• EC2 Instances and Instance Selection
• High Performance Computing on AWS
• Lambda and EC2, When to Use Which
• Hands-On Lab: Build Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

 

Day 2

Module 5: Storage

• Shared File Systems
• Shared EBS Volumes
• Amazon S3, Security, Versioning and Storage Classes
• Data Migration Tools

Module 6: Database Services

• AWS Database Solutions
• Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
• DynamoDB, Features and Use Cases
• Redshift, Features, Use Cases and Comparison with RDS
• Scaling
• Caching and Migrating Data
• Hands-on Lab: Create a Database Layer in Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

Module 7: Monitoring and Scaling

• Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs
• Invoking Events
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Auto Scaling Options and Monitoring Cost
• Hands-on Lab: Configure High Availability in Your Amazon VPC

Module 8: Automation

• CloudFormation
• AWS Systems Manager

Module 9: Containers

• Microservices
• Monitoring Microservices with X-Ray
• Containers

 

Day 3

Module 10: Networking Part 2

• VPC Peering & Endpoints
• Transit Gateway
• Hybrid Networking
• Route 53

Module 11: Serverless Architecture

• Amazon API Gateway
• Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Kinesis Firehose
• Step Functions
• Compare Amazon SQS to Amazon MQ
• Hands-on Lab: Build a Serverless Architecture

Module 12: Edge Services

• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS and Firewall Manager
• Compare AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Outposts
• Hands-On Lab: Configure an Amazon CloudFront Distribution with an Amazon S3 Origin

Module 13: Backup and Recovery

• Planning for Disaster Recovery
• AWS Backup
• Recovery Strategies