AWS – Solution Architect Associate

Module 1 – Introduction to Cloud Computing & AWS

– What is Cloud Computing
– Create an aws account
– Introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI
– AWS architecture
– AWS Management Console
Module 2 – Elastic Compute and Storage Volumes
– Introduction to EC2
– Pre-EC2, EC2 instance types
– Comparing Public IP and Elastic IP
– Demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance
– Introduction to AMIs, Creating and Copying an AMI
– Introduction to EBS
– EBS volume types
– EBS Snapshots
– Introduction to EFS
Module 3 – ELB & ASG
– Elastic load balancing
– Classic load balancer
– Application Load balancer
– Network Load balancer
– Gateway load Balancer
– Introduction to Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, the
– lifecycle of Auto Scaling
– Components of Auto Scaling, scaling options and policy,
– instance termination
Module 4 – Simple Storage Service (S3)
– Introduction to AWS storagePre-S3 – online cloud storage
– S3 buckets and objects
– S3 versioning
– S3 encryption
– API, S3 consistency models
– Static website Hosting
– S3 CORS

– Security measures
Module 5 – Virtual Private Cloud
– What is Amazon VPC
– VPC as a networking layer for EC2,
– IP address and CIDR notations,
– Components of VPC – network interfaces, route tables,
– internet gateway, NAT,
– Security in VPC – security groups and NACL, types of VPC,
– what is a subnet, VPC peering with scenarios, VPC
– endpoints, VPC pricing and design patterns.
Module 6 – Databases and In-Memory DataStores
– What is a database, types of databases, databases on AWS
– Lunching an RDS instance
– AWS storage Gateway
– Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, Aurora
– Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB, components of Amazon DynamoDB,
– DynamoDB pricing and design patterns
– What is Amazon Redshift, advantages of Redshift
– What is ElastiCache, why ElastiCache
Module 7 – Access Management and Monitoring Services
– Pre-IAM, why access management
– Amazon Resource Name (ARN), IAM features
– Multi-factor authentication (MFA) in IAM, JSON
– IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, pricing
– Introduction to CloudWatch, metrics and namespaces,
– CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms,
– CloudWatch logs, pricing and design patterns
– Introduction to Cloud Trail, tracking API usage
Module 8 – Automation and Configuration management
– What is AWS Lambda
– How Lambda is different from EC2
– Benefits and limitations of Lambda
– How does Lambda work
– Use cases of Lambda, Lambda concepts
– Integration S3 with Lambda
– What is Elastic Beanstalk, how does Beanstalk work, Beanstalk concepts, Beanstalk pricing

– What is configuration management
– What is AWS OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks benefits
Module 9 – serve less solution Architecture
– Mobile Application
– Server less Website
– Micro service Architecture
– Distributing paid content
– Software updates pipeline
– Big data ingestion pipeline
Module 10 – Route 53
– What is DNS
– Route 53 – Registering a Domain
– Route 53 – EC2 Setup
– Route 53 CNAME vs. Alias
– Routing Policy – Simple
– Routing – weighted , Latency , health checks
– Routing – 3
rd party Domains & route 53
– Route policy – Geolocation and Geoproximity
Module 11 – Architecting AWS – whitepaper
– Important guidelines for creating a well-architected AWS
– framework that is resilient and performing
– Designing of fault-tolerant and high-availability architecture
– Resilient storage
– Decoupling mechanism
– Multi-tier architecture solution
– Disaster recovery solution
– Scalable and elastic solutions