Part 2: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (and CD,SO) - 2018

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***NEW: 2018 Fargate Serverless Containers, Aurora, Aurora Serverless RDBMSlectures and Hands-On-Labs are now live ***

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Guide & Question Bankprovides a structured introduction to AWSand prepares you to getcertified at theAssociate Level (Architect, Sysops Admin, Developer).

This is the second and concluding part of the two-part course series on getting certified at Associate Level.(NOTE: ForPart 1,Look for the course 1. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Guide & Question Bank)

In Part 1 of this course, we learned about core services that form the foundation of AWS Cloud Platform. That included networking, storage, compute, automatic scaling, security, monitoring and tools for estimating cost of a solution.

In this course, we will start with services that offer Queueing, Notification and Email capabilities. Then we will focus on Lambda server-less compute capability provided by AWS and APIGateway to provide RESTful front end for your Lambda functions. AWS also provides a range of Cloud Database offerings including RDS, NoSQL, In-Memory, Columnar, ElasticSearchand we will explore what their strengths and weaknesses are. Learn how to manage streaming data with Amazon Kinesis (Stream, Firehose, Analytics). Learn about Amazon ECS, Containers and Dockers. CloudFormation lectures teach how to manage your infrastructure as code. Elastic Beanstalk gives an overview on how you can quickly deploy your application and manage infrastructure automatically.This course also introduces programmatic integration of AWSServices from your application.

As we learn these topics, we will look into architectural best practices and patternsfor building cost-effective and highly scalable solutions. We will also look at disaster recovery options that are enabled by AWS.