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• AWSA: Course Overview

  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 Authorised Instructors emphasise 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.

• AWSA: Course Modules

  Module 1: Introductions & Course Map review

  Module 2: Architecting Fundamentals Review

  Module 3: Account Security

  Module 4: Networking, Part 1

  Module 5: Compute

  Module 6: Storage

  Module 7: Database Services

  Module 8: Monitoring and Scaling

  Module 9: Automation

  Module 10: Containers

  Module 11: Networking, Part 2

  Module 12: Serverless Architecture

  Module 13: Edge Services

  Module 14: Backup and Recovery

• AWSA: Course Objectives

  By the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Identify AWS architecting basic practices.
  • Explore using the AWS management tools: The AWS Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), and CloudFormation in a lab environment.
  • Examine the enforcement of accounts security using policies.
  • Identify the elements that build an elastic, secure, virtual network that includes private and public subnets.
  • Practice building an AWS core networking infrastructure.
  • Determine strategies for a layered security approach to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets.
  • Identify strategies to select the appropriate compute resources based on business use-cases.
  • Practice building a VPC and adding an Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance in a lab environment.
  • Practice installing an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the VPC you created.
  • Compare and contrast AWS storage products and services, based on business scenarios.
  • Compare and contrast the different types of AWS database services based on business needs.
  • Practice building a highly available, auto-scaling database layer in a lab.
  • Explore the business value of AWS monitoring solutions.
  • Identify and discuss AWS automation tools that will help you build, maintain and evolve your infrastructure.
  • Discuss network peering, VPC endpoints, gateway and routing solutions based on use-cases.
  • Discuss hybrid networking configurations to extend and secure your infrastructure.
  • Discuss the benefits of microservices as an effective decoupling strategy to power highly available applications at scale.
  • Explore AWS container services for the rapid implementation of an infrastructure-agnostic, portable application environment.
  • Identify the business and security benefits of AWS serverless services based on business examples.
  • Practice building a serverless infrastructure in a lab environment.
  • Discuss the ways in which AWS edge services address latency and security.
  • Practice building a CloudFront deployment with an S3 backend in a lab environment.
  • Explore AWS backup, recovery solutions, and best practices to ensure resiliency and business continuity.
  • Build a highly available and secure cloud architecture based on a business problem, in a project based facilitator-guided lab.

• AWSA: Prerequisites

  This course is intended for solutions architects, solution-design engineers, developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting and individuals seeking the AWS Solutions Architect-Associate certification.

  We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

  • Attended AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (CP-ESS)
  • Working knowledge of distributed systems
  • Familiarity with general networking concepts
  • Familiarity with IP addressing
  • Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
  • Familiarity with cloud computing concepts.

• AWSAA: Course Overview

  In this course, each module presents a scenario with an architectural challenge to be solved. You will examine available AWS services and features as solutions to the problem. You will gain insights by participating in problem-based discussions and learning about the AWS services that you could apply to meet the challenges. Over 3 days, the course goes beyond the basics of a cloud infrastructure and covers topics to meet a variety of needs for AWS customers.

  Course modules focus on managing multiple AWS accounts, hybrid connectivity and devices, networking with a focus on AWS Transit Gateway connectivity, container services, automation tools for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), security and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, data lakes and data stores, edge services, migration options, and managing costs. The course concludes by presenting you with scenarios and challenging you to identify the best solutions.

  The final day is an AWS Jam, a gamified event, with teams competing to score points by completing a series of challenges according to established best practices based on concepts covered in the course. You get to experience a wide range of AWS services in a series of real-world scenarios that represent common operational and troubleshooting tasks. The end result is developing, enhancing, and validating your skillsets in the AWS Cloud through real-world problem solving, exploring new services, features, and understanding how they interoperate.

• AWSAA: Course Modules

  Module 1: Reviewing Architecting Concepts

  Module 2: Single to Multiple Accounts

  Module 3: Hybrid Connectivity

  Module 4: Specialised Infrastructure

  Module 5: Connecting Networks

  Module 6: Containers

  Module 7: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

  Module 8: High Availability and DDoS Protection

  Module 9: Securing Data

  Module 10: Large-Scale Data Stores

  Module 11: Large-Scale Applications

  Module 12: Optimising Cost

  Module 13: Migrating Workloads

  Module 14: Review Projects

  Module 15: AWS Jam

• AWSAA: Course Objectives

  By the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Review the AWS Well-Architected Framework to ensure understanding of best cloud design practices by responding to poll questions while following a graphic presentation.
  • Demonstrate the ability to secure Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint connections in a lab environment.
  • Identify how to implement centralised permissions management and reduce risk using AWS Organisations organisational units (OUs) and service control policies (SCPs) with AWS Single Sign-On.
  • Compare the permissions management capabilities of OUs, SCPs, and AWS SSO with and without AWS Control Tower to determine best practices based on use cases.
  • Discuss AWS hybrid network designs to address traffic increases and streamline remote work while ensuring FIPS 140-2 Level 2, or Level 3 security compliance.
  • Explore the solutions and products available to design a hybrid infrastructure, including access to 5G networks, to optimize service and reduce latency while maintaining high security for critical on-premises applications.
  • Explore ways to simplify the connection configurations between applications and high-performance workloads across global networks.
  • Demonstrate the ability to configure a transit gateway in a lab environment
    Identify and discuss container solutions and define container management options.
  • Build and test a container in a lab environment.
  • Examine how the AWS developer tools optimise the CI/CD pipeline with updates based on near-real-time data.
  • Identify the anomaly detection and protection services that AWS offers to defend against DDoS attacks.
  • Identify ways to secure data in transit, at rest, and in use with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) and AWS Secrets Manager.
  • Determine the best data management solution based on frequency of access, and data query and analysis needs.
  • Set up a data lake and examine the advantages of this type of storage configuration to crawl and query data in a lab environment.
  • Identify solutions to optimise edge services to eliminate latency, reduce inefficiencies, and mitigate risks.
  • Identify the components used to automate the scaling of global applications using geolocation and traffic control.
  • Deploy and activate an AWS Storage Gateway file gateway and AWS DataSync in a lab environment.
  • Review AWS cost management tools to optimise costs while ensuring speed and performance.
  • Review migration tools, services, and processes that AWS provides to implement effective cloud operation models based on use cases and business needs.
  • Provide evidence of your ability to apply the technical knowledge and experience gained in the course to improve business practices by completing Review Projects.
  • Work in a team environment to solve real AWS use-case challenges in an AWS Jam.

• AWSAA: Prerequisites

  This course is intended for cloud architects, solutions architects, and anyone who designs solutions for cloud infrastructures.

  We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

  • Knowledge and experience with core AWS services from the Compute, Storage, Networking, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) categories
  • Attended the Architecting on AWS (AWSA) classroom training OR
  • Achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification OR
  • Have at least 1 year of experience operating AWS workloads.