Architecting on AWS (AWSA) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

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 FSx

Module 4: Adding a database layer

  • Database layer considerations
  • Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
  • Hands-on lab: Deploying a Web Application on AWS

Module 5: Networking in AWS – Part 1

  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
  • Network security in the cloud
  • Hands-on lab: Creating a VPC

Day Two

Module 6: Networking in AWS – Part 2

  • AWS VPN connections
  • AWS Direct Connect (DX)
  • VPC peering
  • AWS Transit Gateway
  • Load balancing on AWS
  • Amazon Route 53

Module 7: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • Account users and AWS IAM
  • Federating users
  • Amazon Cognito
  • AWS Organizations

Module 8: Elasticity, high availability, and monitoring

  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
  • Scaling your databases
  • Hands-on lab: Creating a highly available environment

Module 9: Automation

  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • AWS OpsWorks
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Hands-on lab: Automating infrastructure deployment with AWS CloudFormation

Day Three

Module 10: Caching

  • Caching on AWS with Amazon CloudFront
  • Session management
  • Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
  • Amazon ElastiCache

Module 11: Building decoupled architectures

  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

Module 12: Microservices and serverless architectures

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
  • AWS Fargate
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon API Gateway
  • AWS Step Functions
  • Hands-on lab: Implementing a serverless architecture with AWS Managed Services

Module 13: RTO/RPO and backup recovery setup

  • Disaster planning
  • Data replication
  • Recovery strategies
  • AWS Storage Gateway

Module 14: Optimization and review

  • Best practices for optimization
  • Review questions