UNIT 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Leveraging Cloud Computing
- Cloud Economics and Total Cost of Ownership
UNIT 2: Getting Started with AWS
- AWS Compute, Storage, and Networking
- Lab: Creating Amazon EC2 instances with Microsoft Windows
- Lab: Build Your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Launch a Web Server
- Lab: Working with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
- AWS Security, Identity, and Access Management
- Lab: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Database Options
- Lab: Build Your Database Server and Interact with Your Database using an Application
- AWS Elasticity and Management Tools Lab: Scale and Load Balance Your Architecture
UNIT 3: Architecting on AWS
Part 1: Introduction to System Design
- AWS Essentials Review
- Designing Your Environment
- Lab: Deploy a Web Application on AWS
- Group discussion: Forklift an Existing Application onto AWS
- System Design for High Availability (Part I & II)
- Lab: Making Your Environment Highly Available
Part 2: Automation and Serverless Architectures
- Event-Driven Scaling
- Lab: Using Auto Scaling with AWS Lambda and Lifecycle Hooks
- Automating Your Infrastructure
- Lab: Creating an Amazon VPC with AWS CloudFormation Mid-curriculum project
- Decoupling Your Infrastructure
- Designing Web-Scale Storage
- Lab: Caching Static Files with Amazon CloudFront
- Lab: Implementing a Serverless Architecture with AWS Managed Services
- Group discussion: Build an Environment for a New Web Application
Part 3: Well-Architected Best Practices
- Introducing the Well-Architected Framework
- Well-Architected Pillar 1: Security
- Well Architected Pillar 2: Reliability
- Lab: Multi-Region Failover with Amazon Route 53
- Well Architected Pillar 3: Performance Efficiency
- Well Architected Pillar 4: Cost Optimization
- Lab: Launching EC2 Spot Instances with Auto Scaling and Amazon CloudWatch
Part 4: Deployment and Implementation
- Troubleshooting
- Design Patterns and Sample Architectures
- Lab: Using AWS Services to Enhance a Web Application
Final project Recommended
- AWS Certification Exam Readiness Workshop (e-learning)
- Testing Center Information and Expectations
- Exam Overview and Structure
- Content Domains and Question Breakdown
- Topics and Concepts with Content Domains
- Question Structure and Interpretation Techniques
- Practice Exam Questions