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Architecting Solutions on AWS

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There are 4 modules in this course

Are you looking to get more technical? Are you looking to begin working in the cloud, but don’t know where to go next? Are you looking to up your game by prepping for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam? Do you see yourself as a cloud consultant, but can’t quite envision how your days would be? Are you puzzled how to match a customer’s requirements with the right AWS services/solutions? If so, you are in the right place!! You’ll learn how to plan, think, and act like a Solution Architect in a real-life customer scenario.

In this course, you’ll get prepared to begin your career architecting solutions on AWS. Through a series of use case scenarios and practical learning, you’ll learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure, and highly available IT solutions in the AWS Cloud. Each week, a fictional customer will present a different need. We will then review the options, choose the best one for the use case and walk you through the architecture design on a whiteboard. You’ll learn about event-driven architectures with a focus on performance efficiency and cost. You’ll then gain knowledge on how to architect a solution using many purpose-built AWS services. With this understanding, you’ll get a sense of hybrid architectures with a refined focus on reliability and operational efficiency. Finally, you’ll wrap up your learning by understanding a multi-account strategy centered on security and cost.

The first week in this course follows a customer use case where an ecommerce company needs to migrate a backend web service to AWS. You will first hear from the customer about their requirements and the problems that they are trying to solve with this migration. Then, you will learn how to design the solution for this use case, step by step, by using services such as Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon DynamoDB.

What's included

16 videos10 readings1 assignment2 plugins

16 videos•Total 116 minutes
  • Course Introduction•4 minutes
  • Course Feedback•2 minutes
  • Week 1 Introduction•4 minutes
  • Customer #1: Use Case and Requirements•8 minutes
  • Customer #1: Requirements Breakdown•3 minutes
  • Selecting a Serverless Compute Service•9 minutes
  • AWS Lambda Exploration•7 minutes
  • Choosing an AWS Database Service•10 minutes
  • DynamoDB Exploration•6 minutes
  • Building Event-Driven Architectures•10 minutes
  • SNS Exploration•4 minutes
  • Decoupling AWS Solutions•8 minutes
  • SQS Exploration•5 minutes
  • Customer #1: Solution Overview•4 minutes
  • Week Wrap-up: Taking this Architecture to the Next Level•7 minutes
  • Exercise 1 Walkthrough •24 minutes
10 readings•Total 192 minutes
  • Welcome to the Course•10 minutes
  • Pre-Course Survey•1 minute
  • Introduction•25 minutes
  • Compute on AWS•25 minutes
  • Databases on AWS•25 minutes
  • Event-Driven Architectures on AWS•25 minutes
  • Decoupling Solutions on AWS•25 minutes
  • Architecture Optimizations for Week 1•25 minutes
  • Challenge: Building a Proof of Concept•30 minutes
  • Mid-Course Survey•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 25 minutes
  • Week 1 Assessment•25 minutes
2 plugins•Total 30 minutes
  • Pre-Course Survey•15 minutes
  • Mid-Course Survey•15 minutes

The second week in this course follows a customer use case where a software company needs a data analytics solution in AWS so that they can derive insights from clickstream data. You will first hear from the customer about their requirements and the problems that they are trying to solve with this solution. Then, you will learn how to design the solution for this use case, step by step, by using services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Athena, Amazon QuickSight, and more.

What's included

15 videos6 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

15 videos•Total 105 minutes
  • Week 2 Introduction•1 minute
  • Customer #2: Use Case and Requirements•5 minutes
  • Customer #2: Requirements Breakdown•4 minutes
  • An Overview of Data Analytics on AWS•5 minutes
  • Why Amazon S3 for Storage?•6 minutes
  • Exploring Amazon S3•6 minutes
  • Choosing a Service for Data Ingestion•10 minutes
  • Exploring Amazon Kinesis•4 minutes
  • Accessing the Ingested Data•8 minutes
  • Exploring Amazon Athena•2 minutes
  • Visualizing the Data•6 minutes
  • Customer #2: Solution Overview•8 minutes
  • Week Wrap-Up: Taking this Architecture to the Next Level•8 minutes
  • Exercise 2 Walkthrough Part 1•22 minutes
  • Exercise 2 Walkthrough Part 2•11 minutes
6 readings•Total 155 minutes
  • A Look into AWS Data Services•25 minutes
  • Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication and Object Lifecycle•25 minutes
  • Differences Between Amazon Kinesis Services•25 minutes
  • Amazon QuickSight Features•25 minutes
  • Architecture Optimizations for Week 2•25 minutes
  • Challenge: Build a Proof of Concept•30 minutes
1 assignment•Total 25 minutes
  • Week 2 Assessment•25 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Consider this Scenario•10 minutes

The third week in this course follows a customer use case where an enterprise insurance company needs to migrate some of their container workloads to AWS by using a hybrid model. You will first hear from the customer about their requirements and the problems that they are trying to solve with this migration. Then, you will learn how to design the solution for this use case, step by step, by using services such as AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon ECS Anywhere, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), AWS Systems Manager, and more.

What's included

13 videos6 readings1 assignment

13 videos•Total 74 minutes
  • Week 3 Introduction•1 minute
  • Customer #3: Use Case and Requirements•5 minutes
  • Customer #3: Requirements Breakdown•2 minutes
  • Hybrid Networking and Connectivity Services•5 minutes
  • Running Containers on AWS•10 minutes
  • Amazon Relational Database Service•7 minutes
  • Amazon RDS Exploration•5 minutes
  • Where Should Our Customer Store Their Data?•10 minutes
  • Storage Gateway Exploration•4 minutes
  • Hybrid Solutions on AWS•8 minutes
  • AWS Systems Manager Exploration•7 minutes
  • Customer #3: Solution Overview•5 minutes
  • Week Wrap-Up: Taking this Architecture to the Next Level•6 minutes
6 readings•Total 150 minutes
  • Hybrid Networking and Connectivity•25 minutes
  • Running Containers on AWS and NAT Gateways•25 minutes
  • Amazon RDS•25 minutes
  • AWS Storage Services•25 minutes
  • AWS Services for Hybrid Deployments•25 minutes
  • Architecture Optimizations for Week 3•25 minutes
1 assignment•Total 25 minutes
  • Week 3 Assessment•25 minutes

The fourth week in this course follows a customer use case where a startup company needs guidance about how to set up an account-management strategy that follows best practices for account governance and standards. You will first hear from the customer about their requirements and the problems that they are trying to solve with this strategy. Then, you will learn how to design the solution for this use case, step by step, by using services such as AWS Organizations, AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On), AWS CloudTrail, and more.

What's included

12 videos7 readings2 assignments1 plugin

12 videos•Total 62 minutes
  • Week 4 Introduction•1 minute
  • Customer #4: Use Case and Requirements•6 minutes
  • Customer #4: Requirements Breakdown•3 minutes
  • Why Multi-Account Strategies?•3 minutes
  • IAM Roles - The AWS Authentication Core Mechanism•7 minutes
  • Organizing Your Accounts Together Using OUs (Organizational Units)•11 minutes
  • Moving from One Account to Another•6 minutes
  • Choosing Services for Logging•8 minutes
  • Automating Account Provisioning and Maintenance•6 minutes
  • Customer #4: Solution Overview•3 minutes
  • Week Wrap-Up: Taking this Architecture to the Next Level•6 minutes
  • Course Closing•2 minutes
7 readings•Total 151 minutes
  • Multi-Account Strategies•25 minutes
  • IAM Roles, Trust Relationships, and Permissions•25 minutes
  • AWS IAM Identity Center•25 minutes
  • Logging Services•25 minutes
  • Automatic Account Provisioning•25 minutes
  • Multi-Account Best Practices•25 minutes
  • Post-Course Survey•1 minute
2 assignments•Total 190 minutes
  • Capstone Project•120 minutes
  • Final Assessment•70 minutes
1 plugin•Total 15 minutes
  • Post-Course Survey•15 minutes

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Excellent presentation and discussion of competing architectural options, highly recommended!

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