The AWS Certified Solutions Architect â?? Associate is intended for individuals with experience designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform.
- Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
- Lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS
- Ingress and egress of data to and from AWS
- Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements
- Identifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices
Course Outline |
Selecting and Configuring Amazon EC2 Instances |
Introduction |
Choosing the right AWS EC2 instance types |
Preparing AWS CLI tools |
Launching EC2 instances using EC2-Classic and EC2-VPC |
Allocating Elastic IP addresses |
Creating an instance with multiple NIC cards and a static private IP address |
Selecting the right storage for your EC2 instance |
Creating tags for consistency |
Configuring security groups |
Creating an EC2 key pair |
Grouping EC2 instances using placement groups |
Configuring Elastic Load Balancing |
Architecting for high availability |
Creating instances for AWS Marketplace |
Configuring and Securing a Virtual Private Cloud |
Introduction |
Creating and configuring VPC |
Configuring VPC DHCP options |
Configuring networking connections between two VPCs (VPC peering) |
Connecting on-premise network to VPC using VPN |
Managing AWS Resources Using AWS CloudFormation |
Introduction |
Creating CloudFormation templates |
Creating CloudFormation templates from existing AWS resources |
Deploying applications on EC2 instances |
Updating a stack |
Securing Access to Amazon EC2 Instances |
Introduction |
Creating IAM users |
Creating IAM groups and assigning group-level permissions |
Creating IAM roles |
Connecting on-premise AD to AWS IAM |
Configuring AWS multifactor authentication |
Monitoring Amazon EC2 Instances |
Introduction |
Collecting EC2 metrics using AWS CloudWatch |
Collecting custom metrics from EC2 instances |
Monitoring costs using CloudWatch |
Sending an e-mail based on a CloudWatch alarm |
Using CloudWatch Logs |