AWS for Architects: Network and Storage Design

Discover how to properly scale applications in the Amazon ecosystem, and prepare for the Network Design domain in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• About using cloud services

1. Scaling Networks

• Scalability in AWS application design
• AWS infrastructure and service limits
• Scaling serverless vs. server-based applications
• X-ray tracing for serverless apps
• Scaling networks with VPCs and servers
• Networks in hybrid scenarios

2. Scaling Files

• Storage design approaches
• Moving files to the cloud
• Life cycle for file storage
• Scaling files in a data lake
• Scaling via a CDN or CloudFront
• Scaling files in hybrid scenarios

3. Scaling Data

• Data design approaches
• Moving data to the cloud
• Understanding Data Migration Service
• Scaling SQL queries
• Scaling data in a data warehouse
• Data in hybrid scenarios

4. Scaling Applications

• Application scaling patterns
• Scale a serverless website
• Scale a dynamic website
• Scale an internal business application
• Scale a big data pipeline
• Scale an IoT and machine learning application

Conclusion

• Next steps