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AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

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AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

Start here to become an AWS Solutions Architect. Gain the skills and knowledge to design architectural solutions on AWS and prepare for your AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam.

Alex G.
Julie Elkins
Morgan Willis

Instructors: Alex G.

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4.8

(1,334 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule
2 months, 10 hours a week
Learn at your own pace
Build toward a degree

What you'll learn

  • Make informed decisions about when and how to apply key AWS Services for compute, storage, database, networking, monitoring, and security.

  • Design architectural solutions, whether designing for cost, performance, and/or operational excellence, to address common business challenges.

  • Create and operate a data lake in a secure and scalable way, ingest and organize data into the data lake, and optimize performance and costs.

  • Prepare for the certification exam, identify your strengths and gaps for each domain area, and build strategies for identifying incorrect responses.

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Professional Certificate - 4 course series

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

Course 126 hours4.8 (5,475 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe terminology and concepts related to AWS services   

  • Articulate key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)    

  • You will learn to distinguish among several AWS compute services, including Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS.

  • Understand AWS database and storage offerings, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.    

Skills you'll gain

Category: AWS Identity and Access Management
Category: Networking on AWS
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: AWS Management Console
Category: aws security

Architecting Solutions on AWS

Course 222 hours4.9 (367 ratings)

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Skills you'll gain

Category: Software Architecture
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Visualization
Category: AWS Account Management

Building Data Lakes on AWS

Course 311 hours4.8 (261 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Apply data lake methodologies in planning and designing a data lake.

  • Describe the components and services required for building an AWS data lake.

  • Compare the ways data can be ingested, stored, and transformed in a data lake.

  • Explain how to secure a data lake with appropriate permissions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Machine learning
Category: Data lake architecture
Category: Data Analytics
Category: Data Governance
Category: Amazon Web Services (Amazon AWS)
Category: Data Engineering
Category: Data governance
Category: Data Science
Category: Data science
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Data analytics
Category: Data engineering

Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Course 48 hours4.7 (181 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • The 4 domains -Designing Resilient, High-Performing, Secure, Cost-optimized Architectures- in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam

  • Certification exam-level practice questions written by experts from AWS

  • Optional hands-on exercises designed to solidify understanding of cloud concepts you need to know for the exam

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Computing Security
Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: AWS cloud

Instructors

Alex G.
Amazon Web Services
9 Courses58,594 learners

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When you complete this Professional Certificate, you may be able to have your learning recognized for credit if you are admitted and enroll in one of the following online degree programs.¹

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