AWS Solution Architect

Description

Course Content 

1- AWS Overview
Cloud Computing Fundamentals

• History of AWS
• Characteristics of AWS
• Overview of AWS Infrastructure (Regions, Availability Zones, CDNs)
• Overview of Local Zones, Wavelength Zones and Outposts.
• AWS Managed Services vs Unmanaged Services
• Well Architected Framework
• Overview of AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), SDK and APIs

2- EC2
Overview of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

• EC2 AMIs
  EC2 Instance Types
• EC2 User Data – Bootstrapping EC2 instances (Linux and Windows)
• EC2 Instance Metadata
• EBS Volumes
• EBS Snapshots
• Instance Store Volumes
• Security Groups
• Key Pairs
• On-demand vs Spot vs Reserved vs Scheduled vs Dedicated
• Elastic Load Balancers
• Auto scaling with Cloud-watch alarms setup
• Placement Groups
• EC2 Limits and Pricing

3- VPC
Overview of VPC

• VPC Wizard
• Subnets
• Route Tables
• Network ACLs
• Security Groups
• Bastion Hosts
• Elastic IPs
• Internet Gateway
• NAT Instances and NAT Gateway
• VPC Peering
• VPC Transit Gateway
• Global Accelerator
• Virtual Private Gateway
• Customer Gateway
• VPN Connection
• Direct Connect
• Flow Logs

4- S3, Glacier and Other Storage Types
Overview of S3 Object Storage

• S3 Entities – Buckets, Folders, Objects
• Glacier Storage Overview and Glacier vs S3 comparison
• S3 and Glacier Storage – Classes
• S3 Security
• Bucket Policies,
• ACLs,
• Encryption Types,
• Object Lock
• S3 Properties
• Static Website Hosting,
• Versioning,
• Events,
• Transfer Acceleration
• S3 Management – Lifecycle, Cross Region Replication
• CloudFront & CDNs
• Import/Export
• Snow Family
• Snowcone,
• Snowball,
• Snowball Edge and
• Snowmobile
• Storage Gateway
• Elastic File System (EFS)
• FSx for Lustre
• FSx for Windows Server

5- Databases
Overview of databases

• RDS
  Licensing and Management (IaaS vs PaaS)
• Multi-AZ Deployment
• Read Replicas
  Automated Backups
• Database Snapshots
• DynamoDB (No SQL Database)
• RedShift (Data-warehouse)
• Elasticache (Redis, Memcached)
• Database Migration Services (DMS)
• Other Databases (Time Series, Graph, Ledger, etc.)

6- IAM
Overview of Identity and Access Management

• Policies
• Groups
  Users (Root, Admin, Power, General)
  Roles
  Security Token Service (STS)
• Multi-Factor Authentication
• Identity Providers
  Federated Identity (Active Directory, Web Identity)
• Cognito

7- Route 53

• Overview of DNS (Hosted Zones, Record Sets)
• Routing Policies (Simple, Weighted, Latency, Failover and Geo-location)

8- Application Services

• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Simple Queue Service (SQS)

9- Management Tools, Serverless Computing and Containers

• Cloud Formation
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Opsworks
• Microservices
• Lambda
• Serverless Applications with an Event-Driven Architecture
• Containers – AWS ECR, ECS / EKS, Fargate

10- Monitoring and Auditing

• Cloud Watch (Events, Logs, Alarms, Notifications)
• Cloud Trail
• AWS Config
• Trusted Advisor

11- Security and Disaster Recovery

• Security considerations and best practices
• AWS Shared Responsibility Model
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• AWS Shield
• AWS Inspector
• Cloud HSM
• Key Management Service (KMS)
• Compliance
• Disaster Recovery

12- Analytics

• Elasticsearch
• EMR

13- Certification Preparation

• Domain 1 – Design Resilient Architectures
• Domain 2 – Design High Performance Architectures
• Domain 3 – Design Secure Application and Architectures
• Domain 4 – Design Cost Optimized Architectures

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