Learning Objectives
The Objectives of this course are as follows:
- Architect complex, scalable, and secure applications on AWS, taking into consideration advanced concepts and services.
- Design and deploy multi-region architectures to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Use automation tools and techniques to streamline the deployment process, ensuring consistent and reliable application delivery.
- 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 optimize 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 optimize 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
Target Audience
The course is intended for:
- Solutions Architects
- Systems Engineers
- DevOps engineers
- DevOps architects
- Operations engineers
- Developers
Prerequisite Experience
- Knowledge and experience with core AWS services
- Architecting on AWS Training OR the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification
- At least 1 year of experience operating AWS workloads
Course Outline
Reviewing Architecting Concepts
- Group Exercise: Review Architecting on AWS core best practices
- Lab 1: Securing Amazon S3 VPC Endpoint Communications
Single to Multiple Accounts
- AWS Organizations for multi-account access and permissions
- AWS SSO to simplify access and authentication across AWS accounts and third-party services
- AWS Control Tower
- Permissions, access, and authentication
- AWS Client VPN authentication and control
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- AWS Direct Connect for hybrid public and private connections
- Increasing bandwidth and reducing cost
- Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS resolution
Specialized Infrastructure
- AWS Storage Gateway solutions
- On-demand VMware Cloud on AWS
- Extending cloud infrastructure services with AWS Outposts
- AWS Local Zones for latency-sensitive workloads
- Private subnet connections
- VPC isolation with a shared services VPC
- Transit Gateway Network Manager and VPC Reachability Analyzer
- AWS Resource Access Manager
- AWS PrivateLink and endpoint services
- Lab 2: Configuring Transit Gateways
- Container solutions compared to virtual machines
- Docker benefits, components, solutions architecture, and versioning
- Container hosting on AWS to reduce cost
- Managed container services: Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
- AWS Fargate
- Lab 3: Deploying an Application with Amazon ECS on Fargate
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- CI/CD solutions and impact
- CI/CD automation with AWS CodePipeline
- Deployment models
- AWS CloudFormation StackSets to improve deployment management
High Availability and DDoS Protection
- Common DDoS attacks layers
- AWS WAF
- AWS WAF web Access Control Lists (ACLs), real-time metrics, logs, and security automation
- AWS Shield Advanced services and AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) services
- AWS Network Firewall and AWS Firewall Manager to protect accounts at scale
- Cryptography; why you would use it, and how to use it
- AWS KMS
- AWS CloudHSM architecture
- FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and Level 3 encryption
- Secrets Manager
- Amazon S3 data storage management
- Data lake vs. data warehouse: Differences, benefits, and examples
- AWS Lake Formation solutions, security, and control
- Lab 4: Setting Up a Data Lake with Lake Formation
- Edge services are and why you would use them
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Global Accelerator: IP addresses, intelligent traffic distribution
- Lab 5: Migrating an On-Premises NFS Share Using AWS DataSync and Storage Gateway
- On-premises and cloud acquisition/deprecation cycles
- Cloud cost management tools
- The five pillars of cost optimization
- Business drivers and the migration process
- Successful customer practices
- The 7 Rs to migrate and modernize
- Migration tools and services from AWS
- Migrating databases and large data stores
- AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
