Advanced Architecting on AWS

The Advanced Architecting on AWS (ADVARC) Course is designed for participants who already have a solid understanding of AWS and want to deepen their skills in architecting complex solutions on AWS. During the course, participants will learn to design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure solutions on AWS, using the most advanced services offered by the AWS platform. The course covers topics such as serverless architecture design, application deployment, data processing service integration, security and compliance, workload migration, and much more. At the end of the course, participants will be able to design and implement highly scalable and available cloud solutions on AWS. The course contributes to the preparation for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Certification .

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Course Objectives

Below is a summary of the main objectives of the Advanced Architecting on AWS Course (ADVARC) :

Designing and Implementing Scalable and Secure Solutions: Learn how to develop solutions that are scalable, reliable, and secure using advanced AWS services.
Serverless Architectures: Gain skills in designing serverless architectures and understand how they can be effectively implemented on AWS.
Application Deployment: Study methodologies and tools for effectively deploying applications on AWS, ensuring performance and reliability.
Data Processing Services Integration: Learn how to integrate various data processing services and understand how they can be used to improve and optimize cloud solutions.
Security, Compliance, and Workload Migration: Cover security and compliance aspects of AWS solutions, as well as explore strategies and techniques for migrating workloads to AWS.
High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Understand strategies and best practices for designing highly available and disaster recovery architectures on AWS to ensure business continuity.
Cost Optimization: Learn techniques for optimizing costs associated with AWS services and resources, including monitoring and managing costs effectively.
Advanced Networking and Hybrid Architectures: Explore advanced networking features of AWS and learn how to design hybrid architectures that integrate on-premises environments with AWS cloud servic

Course Certification

This course helps you prepare to take the:
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Exam ;

Course Outline

Module 1: Reviewing Architecting Concepts

Group Exercise: Review Architecting on AWS core best practices
Lab 1: Securing Amazon S3 VPC Endpoint Communications

Module 2: Single to Multiple Accounts

AWS Organizations for multi-account access and permissions
AWS SSO to simplify access and authentication across AWS accounts and third-party services
AWS Control Tower
Permissions, access, and authentication

Module 3: Hybrid Connectivity

AWS Client VPN authentication and control
AWS Site-to-Site VPN
AWS Direct Connect for hybrid public and private connections
Increasing bandwidth and reducing cost
Basic, high, and maximum resiliency
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS resolution

Module 4: Specialized Infrastructure

AWS Storage Gateway solutions
On-demand VMware Cloud on AWS
Extending cloud infrastructure services with AWS Outposts
AWS Local Zones for latency-sensitive workloads
Your 5G network with and without AWS Wavelength

Module 5: Connecting Networks

Simplifying private subnet connections
VPC isolation with a shared services VPC
Transit Gateway Network Manager and VPC Reachability Analyzer
AWS Resource Access Manager
AWS PrivateLink and endpoint services
Lab 2: Configuring Transit Gateways

Module 6: Containers

Container solutions compared to virtual machines
Docker benefits, components, solutions architecture, and versioning
Container hosting on AWS to reduce cost
Managed container services: Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon
Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
AWS Fargate
Lab 3: Deploying an Application with Amazon EKS on Fargate

Module 7: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

CI/CD solutions and impact
CI/CD automation with AWS CodePipeline
Deployment models
AWS CloudFormation StackSets to improve deployment management

Module 8: High Availability and DDoS Protection

Common DDoS attacks layers
AWS WAF
AWS WAF web access control lists (ACLs), real-time metrics, logs, and security automation
AWS Shield Advanced services and AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) services
AWS Network Firewall and AWS Firewall Manager to protect accounts at scale

Module 9: Securing Data

What cryptography is, why you would use it, and how to use it
AWS KMS
AWS CloudHSM architecture
FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and Level 3 encryption
Secrets Manager

Module 10: Large-Scale Data Stores

Amazon S3 data storage management including storage class, inventory, metrics, and policies
Data lake vs. data warehouse: Differences, benefits, and examples
AWS Lake Formation solutions, security, and control
Lab 4: Setting Up a Data Lake with Lake Formation

Module 11: Large-Scale Applications

What edge services are and why you would use them
Improve performance and mitigate risk with Amazon CloudFront
Lambda@Edge
AWS Global Accelerator: IP addresses, intelligent traffic distribution, and health checks
Lab 5: Migrating an On-Premises NFS Share Using AWS DataSync and Storage Gateway

Module 12: Optimizing Cost

On-premises and cloud acquisition/deprecation cycles
Cloud cost management tools including reporting, control, and tagging
Examples and analysis of the five pillars of cost optimization

Module 13: Migrating Workloads

Business drivers and the process for migration
Successful customer practices
The 7 Rs to migrate and modernize
Migration tools and services from AWS
Migrating databases and large data stores
AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)

Module 14: Capstone Project

Use the Online Course Supplement (OCS) to review use cases, investigate data, and answer
architecting design questions about Transit Gateway, hybrid connectivity, migration, and cost
optimization

Course Mode

Instructor-Led Remote Live Classroom Training;

Trainers

Trainers are Amazon AWS accredited instructors and certified in other IT technologies, with years of practical experience in the sector and in training.

Lab Topology

For all types of delivery, the participant can access the equipment and actual systems in our laboratories or directly in international data centers remotely, 24/7. Each participant has access to implement various configurations, Thus immediately applying the theory learned. Below are some scenarios drawn from laboratory activities.

Course Details

Course Prerequisites

Attendance at the Architecting on AWS course is recommended .

Course Duration

Intensive duration 3 days;

Course Frequency

Course Duration: 3 days (9.00 to 17.00) - Ask for other types of attendance.

Course Date

Advanced Architecting on AWS (Formula Intensiva) – On Request – 9:00 – 17:00

Steps to Enroll

Registration takes place by asking to be contacted from the following link, or by contacting the office at the international number +355 45 301 313 or by sending a request to the email info@hadartraining.com