About the course

Learn the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS so you can build scalable and resilient solutions in the cloud.

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.

This course is intended for:

• Solutions Architects
• Solution Design Engineers

Course Details

• Gain a basic understanding of the AWS Cloud and core & application services.
• Complete hands-on exercises to reinforce your learning and understanding.
• Get your questions answered by our AWS certified trainer.
• Network with your industry peers and the Nordcloud team.

This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Make architectural decisions based on the AWS recommended architectural principles and best practices
• Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
• Leverage AWS managed services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
• Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient in order to increase performance and reduce costs
• Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions

Agenda

Day One

• Introduction
• The Simplest Architectures
• Adding a Compute Layer
• Adding a Database Layer
• Networking on AWS Part 1

Day Two

• Networking on AWS Part 2
• AWS Identity and Access Management
• Elasticity, High Availability and Monitoring
• Build an Environment for an Application

Day Three

• Automation
• Caching
• Building Decoupled Architectures
• Microservices and Serverless Architectures
• RTO/RPO and Backup Recovery Setup
• Optimizations and Review