Architecting on AWS (SAA-C03 AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate)

Course Overview:

This course covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the AWS platform. Students learn how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding how AWS services fit into cloud-based solutions. In addition, students explore AWS Cloud best practices and design patterns for architecting optimal IT solutions on AWS, and build a variety of infrastructures in guided, hands-on activities. The course also covers how to create fledgling architectures and build them into robust and adaptive solutions.

Course Objectives:

• Identify AWS architecting basic practices.
• Explore using the AWS management tools: The AWS Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), and CloudFormation in a lab environment.
• Examine the enforcement of accounts security using policies.
• Identify the elements that build an elastic, secure, virtual network that includes private and public subnets.
• Practice building an AWS core networking infrastructure.
• Determine strategies for a layered security approach to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets.
• Identify strategies to select the appropriate compute resources based on business use-cases.
• Practice building a VPC and adding an Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance in a lab environment.
• Practice installing an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the VPC you created.
• Compare and contrast AWS storage products and services, based on business scenarios.
• Compare and contrast the different types of AWS database services based on business needs.
• Practice building a highly available, auto-scaling database layer in a lab.
• Explore the business value of AWS monitoring solutions.
• Identify and discuss AWS automation tools that will help you build, maintain and evolve your infrastructure.
• Discuss network peering, VPC endpoints, gateway and routing solutions based on use-cases.
• Discuss hybrid networking configurations to extend and secure your infrastructure.
• Discuss the benefits of microservices as an effective decoupling strategy to power highly available applications at scale.
• Explore AWS container services for the rapid implementation of an infrastructure-agnostic, portable application environment.
• Identify the business and security benefits of AWS serverless services based on business examples.
• Practice building a serverless infrastructure in a lab environment.
• Discuss the ways in which AWS edge services address latency and security.
• Practice building a CloudFront deployment with an S3 backend in a lab environment.
• Explore AWS backup, recovery solutions, and best practices to ensure resiliency and business continuity.
• Build a highly available and secure cloud architecture based on a business problem, in a project-based facilitator-guided lab.