AWS Architect Certification Training

In this module, you will learn about the different services provided by AWS. You will be provided with an overview of important resources required for architecting an application.

• Cloud and Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Service Models
• Cloud Computing Deployment Models
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• AWS Regions and Replication of Data between the Regions
• Availability in AWS and How to Measure Availability
• High Availability and Availability Zones
• AWS Edge Location
• AWS Services
• AWS CLI, SDKs And Management Console

• Sign-up for AWS free-tier account
• Create a S3 bucket through Console
• Create a S3 bucket through AWS CLI
• Launch an EC2 instance

In this module, you will learn about security management in AWS using Identity Access Management (IAM) and Key Management Service.

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Components of IAM
• Managing Users with IAM
• Managing Permissions with Groups
• IAM Policy and Its Elements
• Best Practises of IAM
• Identity and Credential Management
• Access and Permission Management
• Delegation and Audit
• Creating API Keys for Accessing AWS Services
• Key Management System (KMS) and its Usage
• AWS Billings
• AWS Alerts and How to create Alerts

• Create new users who can log in to AWS console
• Create a role for an application to access S3
• Create policies for new user to have either admin or limited privileges
• Credential rotation for IAM users
• Login to AWS console via MFA
• Create API keys for accessing AWS Services
• Create a Budget

In this module, you will learn about the different Object Storage Services offered by AWS, identify when to use a specific service, how to store/transfer data using these services and optimize the storage cost.

• Traditional Storage
• Need to move to the cloud storage
• Traditional Vs Cloud Storage (Cost)
• Cloud Storage
• Working of S3
• Difference Between S3, EBS, and EFS
• Bucket Policy
• Access Control List (ACL)
• Versioning
• Cross-Region Replication (CRR) and its Use case
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
• Choice of Storage Classes on S3
• Life Cycle Policy of S3 Bucket
• Access S3 And Glacier
• CloudFront and Snowball
• Storage Gateway
• Different modes of Gateway: File, Volume and Tape Gateway

• Hosting a Static Website on Amazon S3
• Versioning in AWS S3
• Replicating data across regions
• S3 Transfer acceleration
• Transfer and retrieve data from Glacier through lifecycle policy
• Upload a file to AWS S3 through a Website
• Accessing a static website through Cloud Front

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is the backbone of AWS. In this module, you will learn about the concepts associated with an EC2 instance and their usage. This module covers different Amazon AMIs, a demo on launching an AWS EC2 instance, ways to connect with an instance and how to host a website on AWS EC2 instance.

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Security Groups In AWS
• Authentication Through Key-Pair
• Hardware Tenancy – Shared v/s Dedicated
• The network layer in EC2: VPC
• Elastic Network Interface and its Attributes
• Different Categories of IP Address
• Public IP v/s Elastic IP
• AWS Storage Services and how to select them
• Instance Store
• Elastic Block Store (EBS), its features and volume types
• Solid State Drive: General Purpose SSD and Provisioned IOPS
• Hard Disk Drive: Throughput Optimised HDD and Cold HDD
• Snapshots
• Elastic File System (EFS) and its Features
• EBS v/s EFS

• Host your website inside EC2
• Create an AMI
• Create an Elastic IP
• Attaching an EBS volume externally
• To create a snapshot
• Mount EFS volumes

In this module, you will learn the concepts of Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling and Route 53 to manage traffic.

• Elastic Load Balancer
• Classic Load Balancer
• Network Load Balancer
• Application Load Balancer
• Components of Application Load Balancer
• Application V/S Classic V/S Network Load Balancer
• Load Balancer Troubleshoot
• Auto-Scaling Groups
• Auto-Scaling Components
• Lifecycle of Auto-Scaling
• Working of Load Balancer and Auto-Scaling
• Scaling Policy
• Use case of DNS
• The need of Route 53
• Route 53 and it's working
• Various Routing Policies: Simple, Weighted, Latency-Based, Geolocation and Failover

• Create a Classic Load Balancer
• Create a Network Load Balancer
• Work with Application Load Balancer and Auto-Scaling
• Auto-Scaling and Scaling policy
• Point a sub-domain to EC2 box in Route 53

In this module, you will learn about the different database services offered by AWS to handle structured and unstructured data. This module also gives you knowledge on how to analyze your data.

• Database and Types of AWS Database Services
• Need of Managed Database Services
• Amazon RDS and its Benefits
• Amazon RDS Database Engines
• Amazon RDS – DB Instance
• Read Replica
• DB Instance – Regions, Availability Zones and Failover Scenarios
• Backup and Restore
• Aurora Database
• Storage And I/O Traffic in Aurora
• Crash Recovery in AWS Aurora
• Difference Between SQL And NoSQL Databases
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Read Consistency and Calculation of Throughput Capacity
• Benefits of DynamoDB, use case and working
• Amazon ElastiCache: Memcached and Redis
• Amazon RedShift, its features and Architectures
• AWS Redshift Architecture
• Streaming Data
• Kinesis

• Storing application data in MySQL DB using Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Creating Tables, loading sample data and running queries
• Redis Cache
• Visualize the web traffic using Kinesis Data Stream

This module introduces you to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. You will learn to implement networking using public and private subnets with VPC. Also, this module demonstrates how to monitor your services.

• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and its benefits
• Default and Non-Default VPC
• IP Address
• CIDR- Classless Inter-domain Routing
• Subnet: Subnet Mask and Subnet Mask Classes
• Private and Public Subnet
• IPv4 v/s IPv6 – As in AWS Infrastructure
• Internet Gateway and Route Tables
• Security Group with VPC
• Access Control List, NACL and Security Group
• NAT Devices: NAT Gateway and NAT Instance
• VPC Peering and its working
• VPN and Direct Connect
• The need for Monitoring Services
• AWS CloudWatch and it's working
• CloudTrail, its working and use case
• Trusted Advisor

• Create a Non-default VPC and attach it to an EC2 instance
• Accessing Internet Inside Private Subnet Using NAT Gateway
• Connect two instances in different VPC’s using VPC peering
• Monitoring an EC2 instance using CloudWatch
• Enable CloudTrail and Store Logs in S3
• Explore Trusted Advisor

In this module, you will learn about different Application services offered by AWS, that are used for sending e-mails, notifications and processing message queues. This module also deals with the latest trend of Serverless architecture using AWS Lambda.

• Application Services
• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and its working
• SNS Mobile Push
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Long Polling
• SQS Visibility Timeout
• Dead-Letter Queues
• AWS SWF and its workflow
• Architecture of SWF
• Serverless Computing
• Amazon Lambda and it's working
• Event Sources –Integration with Lambda

• Send an email through AWS SES
• Send notification through SNS
• Send an e-mail through Lambda when an object is added to S3
• Send notification through Lambda when a message is sent to SQS

This module helps you gain knowledge on various AWS services and tools used for configuration management and Automation.

• Need of CloudFormation
• CloudFormation and its components
• Templates in CloudFormation
• Stack in CloudFormation
• AWS OpsWorks
• AWS OpsWorks services
• OpsWorks for Chef Automate
• Cookbooks and Recipies
• AWS OpsWorks Stack
• Components of AWS OpsWorks Stack
• AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Components of Elastic Beanstalk
• Beanstalk v/s OpsWorks v/s CloudFormation

• Installation of LAMP server in EC2 through CloudFormation
• AWS OpsWorks Stack
• Deploy a Web Application with DynamoDB using Beanstalk

This module gives you an idea on the importance of AWS guidelines for Well Architected Framework. You will also learn about the Resilient and Performant architecture designs.

• Basics of Resilient Architecture
• Basics of Performant Architecture

Adding to Module 10, this module covers the remaining three concepts behind AWS Well-Architected Framework – Securing Applications and Architectures, Designing Cost-Optimized Architectures, Defining Operationally Excellent Architectures.

• Well-Architected Framework