Architecting on AWS

Master AWS Architecting to create resilient, secure IT solutions tailored for developers and solution architects, leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework for optimal cloud infrastructure.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Identify AWS architecting basic practices.

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Explore AWS management tools in a lab environment.

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Examine account security using policies.

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Identify elements for building an elastic, secure network.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Solutions architects
  • Solution-design engineers
  • Developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting
  • Individuals seeking AWS Solutions Architect-Associate certification

Description

Architecting on AWS is for solutions architects, solution-design engineers, and developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting. In this course, you will learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure and highly available IT solutions on the AWS Cloud. Architectural solutions differ depending on industry, types of applications, and business size. AWS Authorized Instructors emphasize best practices using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and guide you through the process of designing optimal IT solutions, based on real-life scenarios. The modules focus on account security, networking, compute, storage, databases, monitoring, automation, containers, serverless architecture, edge services, and backup and recovery. At the end of the course, you will practice building a solution and apply what you have learned with confidence.

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July 29-31, 2025

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Course Outline

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Architecting Fundamentals Review

  1. AWS Services and Infrastructure

  2. Infrastructure Models

  3. AWS API Tools

  4. Securing your infrastructure

  5. The Well-Architected Framework

  6. Hands-on lab: Explore Using the AWS API Tools to Deploy an EC2 Instance

Account Security

  1. Security Principals

  2. Identity and Resource-Based Policies

  3. Account Federation

  4. Introduction to Managing Multiple Accounts

Networking Part 1

  1. IP Addressing

  2. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Patterns and Quotas

  3. Routing

  4. Internet Access

  5. Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)

  6. Security Groups

Compute

  1. Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

  2. EC2 Instances and Instance Selection

  3. High Performance Computing on AWS

  4. Lambda and EC2, When to Use Which

  5. Hands-On Lab: Build Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

Storage

  1. Shared File Systems

  2. Shared EBS Volumes

  3. Amazon S3, Security, Versioning and Storage Classes

  4. Data Migration Tools

Database Services

  1. AWS Database Solutions

  2. Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)

  3. DynamoDB, Features and Use Cases

  4. Redshift, Features, Use Cases and Comparison with RDS

  5. Scaling

  6. Caching and Migrating Data

  7. Hands-on Lab: Create a Database Layer in Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

Monitoring and Scaling

  1. Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs

  2. Invoking Events

  3. Elastic Load Balancing

  4. Auto Scaling Options and Monitoring Cost

  5. Hands-on Lab: Configure High Availability in Your Amazon VPC

Automation

  1. CloudFormation

  2. AWS Systems Manager

Containers

  1. Microservices

  2. Monitoring Microservices with X-Ray

  3. Containers

Networking Part 2

  1. VPC Peering & Endpoints

  2. Transit Gateway

  3. Hybrid Networking

  4. Route 53

Serverless Architecture

  1. Amazon API Gateway

  2. Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS

  3. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Kinesis Firehose

  4. Step Functions

  5. Compare Amazon SQS to Amazon MQ

  6. Hands-on Lab: Build a Serverless Architecture

Edge Services

  1. Amazon CloudFront

  2. AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS and Firewall Manager

  3. Compare AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront

  4. AWS Outposts

  5. Hands-On Lab: Configure an Amazon CloudFront Distribution with an Amazon S3 Origin

Backup and Recovery

  1. Planning for Disaster Recovery

  2. AWS Backup

  3. Recovery Strategies

Labs

  • Explore Using the AWS API Tools to Deploy an EC2 Instance

  • Build Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

  • Create a Database Layer in Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

  • Configure High Availability in Your Amazon VPC

  • Build a Serverless Architecture

  • Configure an Amazon CloudFront Distribution with an Amazon S3 Origin

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