AWS Essential Training for Architects

Explore AWS from a cloud architect’s perspective, focusing on the concepts and core skills you need to know to build scalable, reliable cloud-based application architectures.

Introduction

• Aligning solutions
• What you need to know
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Shared responsibility model

1. Keeping Things Secure

• Design a strategy for secure access
• Identity and Access Management
• Organizing multiple accounts with AWS Organizations
• Governing multiple accounts using AWS Control Tower
• IAM Identity Center
• VPC and subnets
• VPN and Direct Connect
• Controlling inbound traffic with security groups and network ACLs
• Securing keys and credentials
• Securing data in transit
• Security best practices

2. Architecting for Resilience and High Availability

• Design for failure
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Architecting loosely coupled applications with SNS and SQS
• Host your apps with Elastic Beanstalk
• AWS Fargate
• Use cloud-native storage
• Securing databases against failures
• Backing up

3. Automate Infrastructure

• Why should you automate?
• CloudFormation
• Going serverless with Lambda
• Event-driven architecture
• Orchestrating with Step Functions
• AWS Systems Manager
• Auto Scaling
• Other automation tools in AWS

4. Improving Performance

• Designing a strategy for improving performance
• Monitoring with CloudWatch
• Gathering performance insights
• Using a content delivery network
• Caching
• High-performance storage
• Hybrid Storage
• Managed databases

5. Optimize for Cost

• Strategies for optimizing costs
• Reducing compute costs
• Reducing storage costs
• Tools to track cost and usage

Conclusion

• Additional resources
• Conclusion