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 |