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AWS Architecture Principles

  • Reviewing AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • Designing for security, reliability, performance, cost optimisation, and operational excellence
  • Selecting the right AWS services for enterprise workloads
  • Architecture design patterns and best practices

Designing Complex Cloud Solutions

  • Multi-tier and distributed application architectures
  • Hybrid cloud and multi-account strategies
  • Designing for high availability and disaster recovery
  • Architectural trade-offs and decision-making

Advanced Networking

  • Designing complex Amazon VPC environments
  • VPC peering, Transit Gateway, and PrivateLink
  • Hybrid networking with VPN and AWS Direct Connect
  • Route 53, DNS strategies, and traffic management
  • Load balancing and global application delivery

Advanced Security and Identity Management

  • IAM policies, roles, and permission boundaries
  • AWS Organizations and multi-account governance
  • Encryption using AWS KMS and Secrets Manager
  • Network security with Security Groups, NACLs, and AWS WAF
  • Monitoring and compliance using AWS CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and Security Hub

Compute and Container Architecture

  • Advanced Amazon EC2 deployment strategies
  • Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
  • Designing serverless applications with AWS Lambda
  • Container orchestration using Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS
  • Choosing the appropriate compute service for different workloads

Scalability, Resilience, and Performance

  • Designing fault-tolerant architectures
  • Performance optimisation techniques
  • Caching with Amazon ElastiCache
  • Content delivery using Amazon CloudFront
  • Resilience testing and recovery strategies

Storage and Database Architecture

  • Advanced Amazon S3 design and lifecycle management
  • Designing storage solutions with Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx
  • Selecting appropriate database services
  • Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Redshift architecture
  • Backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies

Data Processing and Analytics

  • Designing data lakes on AWS
  • Batch and real-time data processing
  • Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR
  • Data warehousing and analytics with Amazon Redshift
  • Visualising business data with Amazon QuickSight

Monitoring, Automation, and Operations

  • Infrastructure as Code using AWS CloudFormation
  • Operational monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
  • Centralised logging and observability
  • Automating deployments and operational tasks
  • Cost management and optimisation techniques

Migration and Modernisation

  • Assessing workloads for cloud migration
  • Migration planning and execution strategies
  • AWS Migration Hub and AWS Application Migration Service
  • Modernising legacy applications
  • Validating migrated environments

Troubleshooting and Architecture Review

  • Diagnosing networking, security, and performance issues
  • Troubleshooting application deployments
  • Reviewing architecture against AWS best practices
  • Optimising existing cloud environments

Hands-on Architecture Workshop

  • Designing and deploying an enterprise AWS solution
  • Implementing scalability, security, and resilience
  • Validating architecture decisions
  • Course review, best practices, and next steps

Requirements

  • An understanding of AWS services

Audience

  • Cloud engineers wishing to become architecture engineers
 28 Hours

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