Become AWS Solution Architect Associate - Get Trained & Certified

Design Resilient Architectures

• Choose reliable/resilient storage
• Determine how to design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services
• Determine how to design a multi-tier architecture solution
• Determine how to design high availability and/or fault-tolerant architectures

Define Performant Architectures

• Choose performant storage and databases
• Apply caching to improve performance
• Design solutions for elasticity and scalability

Specify Secure Applications and Architectures

• Determine how to secure application tiers
• Determine how to secure data
• Define the networking infrastructure for a single VPC application

Designing highly available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems

• Identify and recognize cloud architecture considerations, such as fundamental components and effective designs
• Best practices for AWS architecture
• Developing to client specifications, including pricing/cost (e.g., on Demand vs. Reserved vs. Spot; RTO and RPO DR Design)
• Architectural trade-off decisions (e.g., high availability vs. cost, amazon relational database service (RDS) vs. installing your own database on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2))
• Hybrid IT architectures (e.g., Direct Connect, storage gateway, VPC, directory services)
• Elasticity and scalability (e.g., Auto Scaling, SQS, ELB, CloudFront)
• Identify the appropriate techniques and methods using Amazon EC2, amazon S3, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks, amazon virtual private cloud (VPC), and AWS Identity and access management (IAM) to code and implement a cloud solution

• Configure an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Operate and extend service management in a hybrid IT architecture
• Configure services to support compliance requirements in the cloud
• Launch instances across the AWS global infrastructure
• Configure IAM policies and best practices

Recognize and implement secure practices for optimum cloud deployment and maintenance.

• AWS shared responsibility model
• AWS platform compliance
• AWS security attributes (customer workloads down to physical layer)
• AWS administration and security services
• AWS identity and access management (IAM)
• Amazon virtual private cloud (VPC)
• Ingress vs. egress filtering, and which AWS services and features fit
• ‘Core’ Amazon EC2 and S3 security feature sets
• Incorporating common conventional security products (Firewall, VPN)
• Design patterns
• DOS mitigation

• Encryption solutions (e.g., key services)
• Complex access controls (building sophisticated security groups, ACLs, etc.)
• Amazon cloud watch for the security architect
• Trusted advisor/cloud watch logs

Recognize critical disaster recovery techniques and their implementation.

Content may include the following:

• Disaster recovery
• Explain the use of the guiding principles
• AWS security attributes (customer workloads down to physical layer)
• Recovery time objective
• Recovery point objective
• Amazon elastic block store
• AWS import/export
• AWS storage gateway
• Amazon Route 53
• Validation of the data recovery method

• General troubleshooting information and question

This course is intended for:

• IT Managers
• Developers
• Testers
• System Architect
• Administrators
• Solutions Architects
• Solution Design Engineers

• There are no pre-requisites as such for AWS training course. Although, prior experience in working with AWS or another cloud computing platform is recommended.
• You can drop your query via. an email or you can call us for current discounted rates.