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Course Outline

Day 1

· Introduction to AWS

- "The Internet Operating System"
- The Well-Architected Framework
- AWS Global Infrastructure

· The Simplest Architectures

- Amazon S3
- Amazon Glacier
- Choosing Regions for Your Architectures
- Lab 1 - Hosting a Static Website

· Adding a Compute Layer

- Adding Compute With Amazon EC2
- Launching Amazon EC2 Instances with Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
- Launching Amazon EC2 Instances with User Data
- Amazon EC2 and Storing Data
- Amazon EC2 Instance Types
- Amazon EC2 Pricing Options
- Amazon EC2 Considerations

· Adding a Database Layer

- Database Layer Considerations
- Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB
- Security Controls for Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB
- Migrating Data into your AWS Databases
- Lab 2 - Deploying a Web Application on AWS

· Networking in AWS Part 1

- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Security in the Cloud
- Lab 3 - Creating a Virtual Private Cloud

Day 2

· Networking in AWS Part 2

- Connecting Networks
- Load Balancing on AWS
- High Availability
- Multi-Region High Availability and DNS

· AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

- Account Users and IAM
- Organizing My Users
- Federating Users
- Multiple Accounts

· Elasticity, High Availability and Monitoring

- Understanding the Basics
- Monitoring
- Gaining Elasticity and Scaling your Architecture
- Scaling your Databases
- Lab 4 - Creating a Highly Available Environment

· Automation

- Why Should You Automate?
- Automating Your Infrastructure
- Automating Deployments
- A Little More Hands-Off
- Lab 5 - Automating Infrastructure Deployment with AWS CloudFormation

Day 3

· Caching

- Caching Overview
- Caching on AWS
- Caching Your Web Tier
- Caching Your Database

· Building Decoupled Architectures

- Decoupling Your Architecture
- Decoupling with Amazon SQS
- Decoupling with Amazon SNS

· Microservices and Serverless Architectures

- Building Microservices
- Container Services
- Going Serverless
- Lab 6 - Implementing a Serverless Architecture with AWS Managed Services

· RTO/RPO and Backup Recovery Setup

- Disaster Planning
- Recovery Strategies

· Optimizations and Review

- Questions to Ask Yourself
- Re-Architecting
- Best Practices: A Review
- Group Challenge
- Design an Architecture

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