Developing on AWS

Learning Objectives

This course covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the AWS platform. The participants will obtain a detailed overview and the necessary hands-on experience to apply AWS Cloud best practices and design patterns for architecting optimal IT solutions on AWS and build a variety of infrastructures. After completing successfully the proposed course, the participant can claim for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam. After the end of the proposed training course, the participant is expected to fulfill the following objectives:

• Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
• Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
• Leverage AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
• Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
• Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions

Duration

• This specific Code.Learn program lasts 2 weeks (2 Fridays & 2 Saturdays) and consists of  24 hours of lectures and hands-on exercise on real case studies and projects.

Training Program

The purpose of this training course is twofold: It can be viewed as the ideal training that helps the participants learn the basics of architecting on AWS, but it also acts as the preparation step for the interested participants to claim for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification and pass the respective exam with confidence. All topics covered in this study guide are accompanied by extensive and fully realistic hands-on exercises that help the participant understand the concepts in depth and enable him/her to apply the obtained knowledge to real-world cases. Overall, the training course, and the certification in particular, validates that the engineer effectively demonstrates knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies, that defines a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements and that provides implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the life cycle of the project.

To further help gauging the readiness to claim for the certification, the training program includes carefully designed self-assessment mock exams, guaranteeing that the participants will feel confident that have obtained all the information and knowledge required to fulfill the domain expectations, gaining a deep understanding within each area.

A non-exhaustive list of all topics covered by this training program is the following:

• Introduction to AWS
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Elastic Compute Cloud & Scalability (EC2, ELB, ASG, EBS)
• Databases (RDS, ElastiCache)
• Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, X-Ray)
• Encryption (KMS)
• Integration and Messaging (SQS, SNS, SES, Kinesis)
• Deployment (Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, SAM)
• CI/CD (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline)
• Docker Containers (ECS, ECR, Fargate)
• Advanced IAM (Web Identity Federation, Cognito)
• Monitoring (CloudWatch, CloudTrail)

Prerequisites

The training does not assume any prior experience on AWS and proactively tries to bridge the necessary gap in case of missing knowledge. However, it is recommended that the participant fulfills the following

prior AWS-related knowledge (although not mandatory):

• Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services
• Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services
• Ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application
• Ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement
• Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform
• An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS Cloud
• An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure
• An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS
• An understanding of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services

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