AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Overview

Duration: 3 days

This course covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the AWS platform. Students learn how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding how AWS services fit into cloud-based solutions. In addition, students explore AWS Cloud best practices and design patterns for architecting optimal IT solutions on AWS, and build a variety of infrastructures in guided, hands-on activities. The course also covers how to create fledgling architectures and build them into robust and adaptive solutions.

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

Content

•             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

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:

•             AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

•             Working knowledge of distributed systems

•             Familiarity with general networking concepts

•             Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures

•             Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate