Advanced Architecting on AWS

In this course, each module presents a scenario with an architectural challenge to be solved. You will examine available AWS services and features as solutions to the problem. You will gain insights by participating in problem-based discussions and learning about the AWS services that you could apply to meet the challenges. 

Over 3 days, the course goes beyond the basics of a cloud infrastructure and covers topics to meet a variety of needs for AWS customers. Course modules focus on managing multiple AWS accounts, hybrid connectivity and devices, networking with a focus on AWS Transit Gateway connectivity, container services, automation tools for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), security and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, data lakes and data stores, edge services, migration options, and managing costs. The course concludes by presenting you with scenarios and challenging you to identify the best solutions.

Target Audience and Prerequisites

This course is intended for cloud architects, solutions architects, and anyone who designs solutions for cloud infrastructures.

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Knowledge and experience with core AWS services from the Compute, Storage, Networking, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) categories
• Attended the Architecting on AWS classroom training or
• Achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification or
• Have at least 1 year of experience operating AWS workloads

Course Details

Reviewing Architecting Concepts

• Group Exercise: Review Architecting on AWS core best practices

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

Hybrid Connectivity

• 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
• Basic, high, and maximum resiliency
• 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
• Your 5G network with and without AWS Wavelengt

Connecting Networks · Simplifying 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

Containers

• 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

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

Securing Data

• What cryptography is, 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

Large-Scale Data Stores

• Amazon S3 data storage management including storage class, inventory, metrics, and policies
• Data lake vs. data warehouse: Differences, benefits, and examples
• AWS Lake Formation solutions, security, and control

Large-Scale Applications

• What edge services are and why you would use them
• Improve performance and mitigate risk with Amazon CloudFront
• Lambda@Edge
• AWS Global Accelerator: IP addresses, intelligent traffic distribution, and health checks

Optimizing Cost

• On-premises and cloud acquisition/deprecation cycles
• Cloud cost management tools including reporting, control, and tagging
• Examples and analysis of the five pillars of cost optimization

Migrating Workloads

• Business drivers and the process for migration
• 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)

Capstone Project

Use the Online Course Supplement (OCS) to review use cases, investigate data, and answer architecting design questions about Transit Gateway, hybrid connectivity, migration, and cost optimization