Architecting on AWS - Advanced Concepts

Course details

Overview:

Building on concepts introduced in the Architecting on AWS course, the Architecting on AWS Advanced Concepts course is designed for individuals who are experienced with designing scalable and elastic applications on the AWS platform. In this course, we cover how to build more complex solutions which incorporate data services, infrastructure configuration management, and security on AWS. This course introduces more specialized AWS services, including Amazon Elastic MapReduce, AWS OpsWorks, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, as well as demonstrates design components for building scalable, elastic, secure, and highly available applications on AWS.

Objectives:

This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Build more complex solutions with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud(Amazon VPC)
• Leverage bootstrapping and auto configuration in your designs
• Architect solutions with multiple regions, plus learn when and how to use Availability Zones for high availability and fault tolerance
• Employ Auto Scaling design patterns
• Become familiar with Amazon CloudFront for caching
• Become familiar with big data services including AWS DataPipeline, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce
• Plan for application management services including AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS OpsWorks
• Improve security with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Content:

This course will cover the following concepts on each day:

Day 1

• Course Overview
• Architecting with Amazon VPC
• High availability and Amazon VPC
• From Diagrams to AWS CloudFormation Bootstrapping and Auto Configuration

Day 2

• Command Line Tools and Auto Scaling
• Data Analysis
• Data Services
• line Storage Lifecycle Management
• Introduction to Application Management
• Services

Day 3

• identity and Access Management
• Leveraging Amazon CloudSearch
• Incorporating Amazon CloudFront
• Example: Microsoft SharePoint