Duration : 4 Days (9:30 AM to 5:30 PM)
Date : 16, 17, 18, 19 May 2023
Overview
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
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Taken the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials classroom or digital training
- Working knowledge of distributed systems and multi-tier architectures
- Familiarity with general networking and cloud computing concepts
Course Contents
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 Cloud Formation
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
