AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Target Audience

The Course benefits both, students and experienced professionals, willing to achieve careers as Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, Infrastructure Manager, Cloud Network Manager and Cloud Administrator.

Pre-Requisites

No Pre-requisite. However, any prior experience in Networking will be an advantage

Course Breakdown

• Module 1: Introduction

• Cloud Computing
• AWS Global Infrastructure and its benefits
• Creating an AWS Free Tier Account, Tracking Resource Usage, and Billing

• Module 2: Networking Fundamentals

• Introduction to Networking and IP Addressing
• Subnetting and Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
• OSI Layers
• TCP / IP Protocols
• Network Security
• Concept of NAT (Network Address Translation)
• Public and Private IP Addresses
• Network Utilities: Ping, TraceRoute

• Modules 3: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

• EC2 Architecture
• EC2 Storage
• Security Groups
• Bootstrap
• AMI
• Vertical Scaling
• EBS Volume
• EBS Snapshot
• Placement Groups

• Module 4: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Route Tables
• Internet Gateways
• Elastic IP Addresses
• Elastic Network Interfaces
• Firewalls - Security Groups and Network Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• NAT Instances
• VPC Peering

• Module 5: Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling

• Load Balancing Fundamentals
• Classic Load Balancers
• Network Load Balancers
• Application Load Balancers
• Launch Templates and Configurations
• Auto Scaling Groups

• Module 6: Simple Storage Service (S3) - Architecture and Features

• Features of S3
• Transferring Data to S3
• Permissions - Bucket Policies and ACLs
• Data Encryption
• Hosting Static Website
• Object Versioning

• Module 7: Simple Storage Service (S3) - Performance and Resilience

• S3 Storage Tiers/Classes
• Lifecycle Management Policies
• Cross-Region Replication (CRR)

• Modules 8: Domain Name System (DNS) and Route 53

• DNS Fundamentals
• Domain Registration
• Private vs Public Hosted Zones
• DNS Record Types
• Health Checks
• Route 53 Fundamentals

• Module 9: Amazon Database Services

• Database overview
• Relational Database Service (RDS - SQL Databases)
• Amazon Redshift (Data Warehousing)
• Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL Databases)

• Module 10: IAM (Identity and Access Management)

• IAM Overview
• IAM Users and Groups
• IAM Roles
• IAM Policies

• Module 11: Containers and Kubernetes

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• Create ECS Cluster and Task
• Create service for cluster to run task
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• Deploy image in container from ECR Repository using ECS
• What is Kubernetes and why we need it - Overview
• Kubernetes Cluster Architecture
• Provision an EKS Cluster
• Deploy compute for EKS Cluster
• Connect to EKS Cluster using Kubectl tool
• AWS App Runner
• AWS App Runner Deployment

• Module 12: Application Integration

• CloudWatch
• CloudWatch Logs

• Module 13: Logging and Monitoring

• CloudWatch
• CloudWatch Logs

• Module 14: CloudFront (CDN - Content Delivery Network)

• CloudFront Architecture

• Module 15: Elasticache

• In-Memory Caching

• Module 16: Serverless Compute - Lambda

• Lambda Essentials