Architecting on AWS - Accelerator

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In this course, you will learn how to:

• Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices.
• Use AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available.
• Use AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure.
• Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs.
• Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions.

Intended audience:
This course is intended for:

• Solutions Architects who are new to designing and building cloud architectures.
• Data Center Architects who are migrating from on-premises environment to cloud architectures.
• Other IT/cloud roles who want to understand how to design and build cloud architectures.

Prerequisites:
We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Attended AWS Technical Essentials classroom training or have equivalent experience.
• Working knowledge of distributed systems.
• Familiarity with general networking concepts.
• Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts.

Day One
Module 1: Introduction:

• The real story of AWS.
• Well-Architected Framework.
• Six advantages of the cloud.
• Global infrastructure.

Module 2: The Simplest Architectures:

• S3.
• Glacier.
• Choosing your regions.
• Hands-on lab: Static Website.

Module 3: Adding a Compute Layer:

• EC2.
• Storage solutions for instances.
• Purchasing options such as dedicated host vs instances.

Module 4: Adding a Database Layer:

• Relational vs non-relational.
• Managed databases.
• RDS.
• Dynamo DB.
• Neptune.
• Hands-on lab: Deploying a web application on AWS.

Module 5: Networking in AWS Part 1:

• VPC.
• CIDR and subnets.
• Public vs private subnets.
• NAT and internet gateway.
• Security groups.

Day Two:
Module 6: Networking in AWS Part 2:

• Virtual Private Gateway.
• VPN.
• Direct Connect.
• VPC peering.
• Transit Gateway.
• VPC Endpoints.
• Elastic Load Balancer.
• Route 53.
• Hands-on lab: Creating a VPC.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM):

• IAM.
• Identity federation.
• Cognito.

Module 8: Organizations:

• Organizations.
• Multiple account management.
• Tagging strategies.

Module 9: Elasticity, High Availability, and Monitoring:

• Elasticity vs inelasticity.
• Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs.
• Auto scaling.
• Scaling databases.
• Hands-on lab: Creating a highly available environment.

Module 10: Automation:

• Why automate?.
• CloudFormation.
• AWS Quick Starts.
• AWS Systems Manager.
• AWS OpsWorks.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Day Three:
Module 11: Deployment Methods:

• Why use a deployment method?.
• Blue green and canary deployment.
• Tools to implement your deployment methods.
• CI/CD.
• Hands-on lab: Automating infrastructure deployment.

Module 12: Caching:

• When and why you should cache your data.
• Cloudfront.
• Elasticache (Redis/Memcached).
• DynamoDB Accelerator.

Module 13: Security of Your Data:

• Shared responsibility model.
• Data classification.
• Encryption.
• Automatic data security.

Module 14: Building Decoupled Architecture:

• Tight coupling vs loose coupling.
• SQS.
• SNS.

Module 15: Optimizations and Review:

• Review questions.
• Best practices.
• Activity: Design and architecture – two trues and one lie.

Day Four:
Module 16: Microservices:

• What is a microservice?.
• Containers.
• ECS.
• Fargate.
• EKS.

Module 17: Microservices:

• Why use serverless?.
• Lambda.
• API Gateway.
• AWS Step Functions.
• Hands-on lab: Implementing a serverless architecture with AWS Managed Services.

Module 18: Microservices:

• Using managed services greatly increases resiliency.
• Serverless for resiliency.
• Issues with microservices to be aware of.
• DDoS.
• Hands-on lab: Amazon CloudFront content delivery and automating WAF rules.

Module 19: Networking in AWS Part 3:

• Elastic Network Adapter.
• Maximum transmission units.
• Global Accelerator.
• Site to site VPN.
• Transit Gateway.

Module 20: Understanding Costs:

• Simple monthly calculator.
• Right sizing your instances.
• Price sensitive architecture examples.

Day Five:
Module 21: Migration Strategies:

• Cloud migration strategies.
• Planning.
• Migrating.
• Optimizing.
• Hands-on lab: Application deployment using AWS Fargate.

Module 22: RTO/RPO and Backup Recovery Setup:

• Disaster planning.
• Recovery options.

Module 23: Final Review :

• Architecting advice.
• Service use case questions.
• Example test questions.