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Advanced Architecting on AWS with AWS Jam

Course Summary:

In this course, each module presents a scenario with an architectural challenge to be solved. You will examine available AWS services and features as solutions to the problem. You will gain insights by participating in problem-based discussions and learning about the AWS services that you could apply to meet the challenges. Over 3 days, the course goes beyond the basics of a cloud infrastructure and covers topics to meet a variety of needs for AWS customers. Course modules focus on managing multiple AWS accounts, hybrid connectivity and devices, networking with a focus on AWS Transit Gateway connectivity, container services, automation tools for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), security and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, data lakes and data stores, edge services, migration options, and managing costs. The course concludes by presenting you with scenarios and challenging you to identify the best solutions. The final day is an AWS Jam, a gamified event, with teams competing to score points by completing a series of challenges according to established best practices based on concepts covered in the course. You get to experience a wide range of AWS services in a series of real-world scenarios that represent common operational and troubleshooting tasks. The end result is developing, enhancing, and validating your skillsets in the AWS Cloud through real-world problem solving, exploring new services, features, and understanding how they interoperate.

Course Duration: 1 Day

Course Content:

Day 1

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

Day 2

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 ECS 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

Day 3

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