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UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning · AWS

Architecting on AWS Training

LevelIntermediate
Duration3 Days
Experience2 years: Cloud Architecture
LabsYes

Offered to the Jacksonville and Northeast Florida community through UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning in partnership with Applied Technology Academy — live online or in person, taught by ATA's practitioner instructors.

Course Overview

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Identify AWS architecting basic practices.
  • Explore using the AWS management tools: The AWS Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), and CloudFormation in a lab environment.
  • Examine the enforcement of accounts security using policies.
  • Identify the elements that build an elastic, secure, virtual network that includes private and public subnets.
  • Practice building an AWS core networking infrastructure.
  • Determine strategies for a layered security approach to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets.
  • Identify strategies to select the appropriate compute resources based on business use-cases.
  • Practice building a VPC and adding an Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance in a lab environment.

Practice installing an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the VPC you created.

  • Compare and contrast AWS storage products and services, based on business scenarios.
  • Compare and contrast the different types of AWS database services based on business needs.
  • Practice building a highly available, auto-scaling database layer in a lab.
  • Explore the business value of AWS monitoring solutions.
  • Identify and discuss AWS automation tools that will help you build, maintain and evolve your infrastructure.
  • Discuss network peering, VPC endpoints, gateway and routing solutions based on use-cases.
  • Discuss hybrid networking configurations to extend and secure your infrastructure.
  • Discuss the benefits of microservices as an effective decoupling strategy to power highly available applications at scale.
  • Explore AWS container services for the rapid implementation of an infrastructure-agnostic, portable application environment.
  • Identify the business and security benefits of AWS serverless services based on business examples.
  • Practice building a serverless infrastructure in a lab environment.
  • Discuss the ways in which AWS edge services address latency and security.
  • Practice building a CloudFront deployment with an S3 backend in a lab environment.
  • Explore AWS backup, recovery solutions, and best practices to ensure resiliency and business continuity.
  • Build a highly available and secure cloud architecture based on a business problem, in a project-based facilitator-guided lab.
Course Outline
  • Lesson 1: Architecting Fundamentals Review
  • Lesson 2: Account Security
  • Lesson 3: Networking, Part 1
  • Lesson 4: Compute
  • Lesson 5: Storage
  • Lesson 6: Database Services
  • Lesson 7: Monitoring and Scaling
  • Lesson 8: Automation
  • Lesson 9: Containers
  • Lesson 10: Networking Part 2
  • Lesson 11: Serverless Architecture
  • Lesson 12: Edge Services
  • Lesson 13: Backup and Recovery
Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

  • Solutions architects
  • Solution design engineers
  • Anyone who needs to understand the scope of cloud architectures
Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
  • Working knowledge of distributed systems
  • Familiarity with general networking concepts
  • Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
  • Familiarity with cloud computing concepts