AWS Solution Architect Associate

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This course will enable you to design Scalable, Elastic, Secure and Highly available applications on AWS. In this course, we cover architecture patterns for common solutions running on AWS, including Web Applications, Batch Processing and Hosting Internal IT Applications.

Overview:

This three-day course will have ability in 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. Estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms.

Prerequisite:

Linux basic skills (like working file and directories)

Who should attend:

Targeted for Cloud Engineers, Solution Architects, Centre of Excellence Team, Microsoft Windows Server Administrators, Unix/Linux Administrators, Storage Administrators, Network Administrators, Virtualization Administrators.

Agenda:

Day 1 – AWS (EC2 with user data, Cloud Formation and s3,Glacier)

Module 1: Amazon EC2- Ubuntu 14.04 with user data (Hands on lab by students)

• Launch the EC2 Ubuntu cloud server
• Using User-data of web-server
• Validate user data is executed successfully
 

Module 2: Amazon EC2- Ubuntu 14.04 with Meta data (Hands on lab by students)


• Metadata an overview
• Fetch metadata information about your EC2 instance
• Terminate Ubuntu server
 

Module 3: Amazon Glacier (Hands on lab by students)


• Overview & Pricing
• Create life cycle policies for your bucket
• Access data from Glacier
• Setting auto delete to your data from S3 based on rules
 

Module 4: AWS – RDS


• Overview
• Read replica
• Snapshots

Lab 1 : Create a RDS instance

Lab 2 : Connecting to an RDS instance

Lab 3 : Creating a RDS snapshots and restoring snapshot

Lab 4: Deleting RDS snapshots

Lab 5 : Deleting RDS instance

 

Module 5: AWS – RDS


• Deploy Web application in Amazon Ec2 (Media wiki)
• Deploy Amazon RDS instances (Single AZ)
• Connect your Media wiki web application with RDS instances securely
• Make media wiki available on public url for user sign up and write knowledge wiki
 

Day 2 – AWS (IAM, Autoscaling)

Module 1: AWS- IAM (Identity and Access Management)


• Comprehensive Introduction
• AWS federation with Active directory- Theory
• Getting started
• Launching a EC2 instance using a S3 full access role (Hands on lab by students)
• Configure AWS cli client and making api calls to access S3 storage (Hands on lab by students)
• Roles – Delegation and federation (Hands on lab by students)

Creating a role

Assuming a role

Deleting a role

• User- groups (Hands on lab by students)

Creating a user and group

Adding a user to the group

Password policy setup for users

Attaching policy to users

Enabling dual factor authentication to the users

 

Module 2: Auto Scaling and Bootstrapping (Hands on lab by students)


• Overview of Autoscaling
• ELB: Configuring The Elastic Load Balancer for Autoscaling group
• Configuring The AMI For Our Web Application
• Auto Scaling And Bootstrapping
• Scale out VM’s though stress test
• Scaling VM’s based on low utilization
 

Module 3: Important services High level overview (One slide per service)


• Trusted Advisor
• CloudTrail
• Cloudwatch
• DynamoDB
• AWS workspace
• Cloudfront
 

Day 3 – AWS (VPC, Cloud formation, SNS, SQS, SWF)

Module 1: AWS- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)


• Comprehensive Introduction
• Understanding VPC configurations

VPC with single public subnet

VPC with public and private subnet

VPC Peering

Access control List

• Configuring VPC Instances (Hands on lab by students)

Creating a VPC

Subnets

Internet Gateway

Routing

Configuring a NAT instance

Creating security groups

Launching instances

VPC peering (Peer VPC 1 with VPC-02 within same account)

 

Module 2: AWS Cloud Formation


• Infrastructure as Code using Cloud Formation
• Cloud formation – Create a new stack
• Using AWS cloud former to create templates
• Create and deploy sample template in JSON format
• Use existing templates and deploy
 

Module 3: AWS- SNS-SQS and SWF


• Simple Notification Service (SNS) – Overview and use case
• Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Overview and Use case
• Simple Workflow (SWF) – Overview and Use case
• Live demo by Instructor on Using batch processing
 

On Completion of this program:

Participant should be able to deploy and use AWS services from Solution architect perspective standpoint and also design solution for customer workloads.

AWS Solution Architect Associate Training Schedules: