Architecting Solutions on AWS

Architecting Solutions on AWS

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Instructor: Rafael Lopes

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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There are 4 modules in this course

Are you looking to get more technical? Are you looking to begin working in the cloud, but don’t know where to go next? Are you looking to up your game by prepping for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam? Do you see yourself as a cloud consultant, but can’t quite envision how your days would be? Are you puzzled how to match a customer’s requirements with the right AWS services/solutions? If so, you are in the right place!! You’ll learn how to plan, think, and act like a Solution Architect in a real-life customer scenario.

In this course, you’ll get prepared to begin your career architecting solutions on AWS. Through a series of use case scenarios and practical learning, you’ll learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure, and highly available IT solutions in the AWS Cloud. Each week, a fictional customer will present a different need. We will then review the options, choose the best one for the use case and walk you through the architecture design on a whiteboard. You’ll learn about event-driven architectures with a focus on performance efficiency and cost. You’ll then gain knowledge on how to architect a solution using many purpose-built AWS services. With this understanding, you’ll get a sense of hybrid architectures with a refined focus on reliability and operational efficiency. Finally, you’ll wrap up your learning by understanding a multi-account strategy centered on security and cost.

The first week in this course follows a customer use case where an ecommerce company needs to migrate a backend web service to AWS. You will first hear from the customer about their requirements and the problems that they are trying to solve with this migration. Then, you will learn how to design the solution for this use case, step by step, by using services such as Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon DynamoDB.

What's included

16 videos10 readings1 assignment2 plugins

16 videos Total 116 minutes

Course Introduction 4 minutes
Course Feedback 2 minutes
Week 1 Introduction 4 minutes
Customer #1: Use Case and Requirements 8 minutes
Customer #1: Requirements Breakdown 3 minutes
Selecting a Serverless Compute Service 9 minutes
AWS Lambda Exploration 7 minutes
Choosing an AWS Database Service 10 minutes
DynamoDB Exploration 6 minutes
Building Event-Driven Architectures 10 minutes
SNS Exploration 4 minutes
Decoupling AWS Solutions 8 minutes
SQS Exploration 5 minutes
Customer #1: Solution Overview 4 minutes
Week Wrap-up: Taking this Architecture to the Next Level 7 minutes
Exercise 1 Walkthrough 24 minutes

10 readings Total 192 minutes

Welcome to the Course 10 minutes
Pre-Course Survey 1 minute
Introduction 25 minutes
Compute on AWS 25 minutes
Databases on AWS 25 minutes
Event-Driven Architectures on AWS 25 minutes
Decoupling Solutions on AWS 25 minutes
Architecture Optimizations for Week 1 25 minutes
Challenge: Building a Proof of Concept 30 minutes
Mid-Course Survey 1 minute

1 assignment Total 25 minutes

Week 1 Assessment 25 minutes

2 plugins Total 30 minutes

Pre-Course Survey 15 minutes
Mid-Course Survey 15 minutes

The second week in this course follows a customer use case where a software company needs a data analytics solution in AWS so that they can derive insights from clickstream data. You will first hear from the customer about their requirements and the problems that they are trying to solve with this solution. Then, you will learn how to design the solution for this use case, step by step, by using services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Athena, Amazon QuickSight, and more.

What's included

15 videos6 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

15 videos Total 105 minutes

Week 2 Introduction 1 minute
Customer #2: Use Case and Requirements 5 minutes
Customer #2: Requirements Breakdown 4 minutes
An Overview of Data Analytics on AWS 5 minutes
Why Amazon S3 for Storage? 6 minutes
Exploring Amazon S3 6 minutes
Choosing a Service for Data Ingestion 10 minutes
Exploring Amazon Kinesis 4 minutes
Accessing the Ingested Data 8 minutes
Exploring Amazon Athena 2 minutes
Visualizing the Data 6 minutes
Customer #2: Solution Overview 8 minutes
Week Wrap-Up: Taking this Architecture to the Next Level 8 minutes
Exercise 2 Walkthrough Part 1 22 minutes
Exercise 2 Walkthrough Part 2 11 minutes

6 readings Total 155 minutes

A Look into AWS Data Services 25 minutes
Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication and Object Lifecycle 25 minutes
Differences Between Amazon Kinesis Services 25 minutes
Amazon QuickSight Features 25 minutes
Architecture Optimizations for Week 2 25 minutes
Challenge: Build a Proof of Concept 30 minutes

1 assignment Total 25 minutes

Week 2 Assessment 25 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 10 minutes

Consider this Scenario 10 minutes

The third week in this course follows a customer use case where an enterprise insurance company needs to migrate some of their container workloads to AWS by using a hybrid model. You will first hear from the customer about their requirements and the problems that they are trying to solve with this migration. Then, you will learn how to design the solution for this use case, step by step, by using services such as AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon ECS Anywhere, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), AWS Systems Manager, and more.

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13 videos6 readings1 assignment

13 videos Total 74 minutes

Week 3 Introduction 1 minute
Customer #3: Use Case and Requirements 5 minutes
Customer #3: Requirements Breakdown 2 minutes
Hybrid Networking and Connectivity Services 5 minutes
Running Containers on AWS 10 minutes
Amazon Relational Database Service 7 minutes
Amazon RDS Exploration 5 minutes
Where Should Our Customer Store Their Data? 10 minutes
Storage Gateway Exploration 4 minutes
Hybrid Solutions on AWS 8 minutes
AWS Systems Manager Exploration 7 minutes
Customer #3: Solution Overview 5 minutes
Week Wrap-Up: Taking this Architecture to the Next Level 6 minutes

6 readings Total 150 minutes

Hybrid Networking and Connectivity 25 minutes
Running Containers on AWS and NAT Gateways 25 minutes
Amazon RDS 25 minutes
AWS Storage Services 25 minutes
AWS Services for Hybrid Deployments 25 minutes
Architecture Optimizations for Week 3 25 minutes

1 assignment Total 25 minutes

Week 3 Assessment 25 minutes

The fourth week in this course follows a customer use case where a startup company needs guidance about how to set up an account-management strategy that follows best practices for account governance and standards. You will first hear from the customer about their requirements and the problems that they are trying to solve with this strategy. Then, you will learn how to design the solution for this use case, step by step, by using services such as AWS Organizations, AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On), AWS CloudTrail, and more.

What's included

12 videos7 readings2 assignments1 plugin

12 videos Total 62 minutes

Week 4 Introduction 1 minute
Customer #4: Use Case and Requirements 6 minutes
Customer #4: Requirements Breakdown 3 minutes
Why Multi-Account Strategies? 3 minutes
IAM Roles - The AWS Authentication Core Mechanism 7 minutes
Organizing Your Accounts Together Using OUs (Organizational Units) 11 minutes
Moving from One Account to Another 6 minutes
Choosing Services for Logging 8 minutes
Automating Account Provisioning and Maintenance 6 minutes
Customer #4: Solution Overview 3 minutes
Week Wrap-Up: Taking this Architecture to the Next Level 6 minutes
Course Closing 2 minutes

7 readings Total 151 minutes

Multi-Account Strategies 25 minutes
IAM Roles, Trust Relationships, and Permissions 25 minutes
AWS IAM Identity Center 25 minutes
Logging Services 25 minutes
Automatic Account Provisioning 25 minutes
Multi-Account Best Practices 25 minutes
Post-Course Survey 1 minute

2 assignments Total 190 minutes

Capstone Project 120 minutes
Final Assessment 70 minutes

1 plugin Total 15 minutes

Post-Course Survey 15 minutes

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Reviewed on Sep 12, 2023

best tech video ever came across... would like to have a second part to architect some other different solutions from real world

Reviewed on Jul 23, 2024

Excellent presentation and discussion of competing architectural options, highly recommended!

Reviewed on Apr 2, 2025

Amazing course content. As someone very new to AWS and architecting solutions it was very insightful! The instructors and reading content was very clear and thorough.

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