This course is an excellent AWS exam prep guide for the Solutions Architect Associate certificate including multiple practice exams and hands-on Cloud Labs.
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271 Lessons
30h
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This course is an excellent AWS exam prep guide for the Solutions Architect Associate certificate including multiple practice exams and hands-on Cloud Labs.
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Course Overview
AWS is a popular cloud service provider that offers various services. The course prepares you to design secure, resilient, high-performing, and cost-optimized architectures. You’ll learn about services to secure your AWS resources and accounts against external threats. You’ll also cover various load balancing and replication techniques to make AWS applications highly available and resilient against failover. Next, you’ll cover several storage options and analytics tools that help design high-performing arc...
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What You'll Learn
Familiarity with fundamentals of cloud computing and AWS global infrastructure
An understanding of designing secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimized architectures for the cloud-based application
The ability to propose solutions and improvement suggestions in existing cloud architectures according to technical requirements
The ability to simulate AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam conditions using practice exams
Hands-on experience provisioning resources on AWS using Cloud Labs
What You'll Learn
Familiarity with fundamentals of cloud computing and AWS global infrastructure
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Course Content
Introduction
AWS Fundamentals
Understanding Cloud Computing Essentials— From Zero to Hero
Cloud Lab
Identity and Access Management
Securing AWS Resources: Managing Access with IAM
Cloud Lab
AWS IAM Permission Boundaries
Cloud Lab
Using AWS IAM Access Analyzer
Cloud Lab
Compute Services
Understanding AWS Compute Services — From Zero to Hero
Cloud Lab
Amazon EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud
Working with Instances: An Amazon EC2 Walkthrough
Cloud Lab
Managing Instance Volumes Using EBS
Cloud Lab
Networking
14 Lessons
Understanding Networking Services in AWS—From Zero to Hero
Cloud Lab
Controlling VPC Traffic Using Network ACLs
Cloud Lab
Managing Peer Connections between Amazon Virtual Private Clouds
Cloud Lab
Accessing AWS Services over AWS PrivateLink Using VPC Endpoints
Cloud Lab
Monitoring IP Traffic Using VPC Flow Logs
Cloud Lab
Route 53
6 Lessons
Serverless Computing
12 Lessons
Getting to Know AWS Lambda
Cloud Lab
Building and Deploying Serverless Applications with AWS SAM
Cloud Lab
Developing RESTful Microservices with API Gateway and DynamoDB
Cloud Lab
Building a WebSocket-Based Chat Application Using API Gateway
Cloud Lab
Mastering AWS AppSync Lambda Resolvers
Cloud Lab
Application Integration
11 Lessons
Getting Started with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Cloud Lab
Handling Amazon SNS Notifications with AWS Lambda
Cloud Lab
Build a Fanout Serverless Architecture using SNS, SQS, and Lambda
Cloud Lab
Decoupling Serverless Applications with Amazon EventBridge
Cloud Lab
Getting Started with AWS Step Functions
Cloud Lab
Containers
6 Lessons
Getting Started with Amazon ECS
Cloud Lab
Create an EKS Cluster and Deploy an Application
Cloud Lab
High Availability and Scalability
12 Lessons
Managing Application Traffic Using Elastic Load Balancers
Cloud Lab
Understanding Auto Scaling Group (ASG) in AWS
Cloud Lab
Mastering Amazon EC2 Dynamic Scaling Policies
Cloud Lab
Storage
6 Lessons
Understanding AWS Storage Options—From Zero to Hero
Cloud Lab
Simple Storage Service (S3)
14 Lessons
Working with AWS S3 Cross-Region Replication
Cloud Lab
Resizing Images with S3 Batch Operations and AWS Lambda
Cloud Lab
Managing Data Access with Amazon S3 Access Points
Cloud Lab
File Storage and Transfer
5 Lessons
Getting Started with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Cloud Lab
Databases
11 Lessons
Working with Relational Databases: A Beginner's Guide to AWS RDS
Cloud Lab
Getting Started with Amazon Aurora Database Engine
Cloud Lab
Working with NoSQL Databases: A Beginner's Guide to AWS DynamoDB
Cloud Lab
Exploring Graphs with Amazon Neptune
Cloud Lab
Getting Started with Amazon Keyspaces
Cloud Lab
Achieving Ultra-Fast Performance Using Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Cloud Lab
Improving Database Performance with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Cloud Lab
Migration and Transfer
9 Lessons
Use of AWS Database Migration Service from Aurora MySQL to S3
Cloud Lab
Security and Compliance
19 Lessons
Getting Started with AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Cloud Lab
Encrypting S3 Buckets and EBS Volumes Using KMS
Cloud Lab
Protecting Web Applications Using AWS WAF
Cloud Lab
Managing Aurora DB Credentials and API Keys Using Secrets Manager
Cloud Lab
Finding Vulnerabilities on EC2 Instances Using AWS Inspector
Cloud Lab
Deployment Services
4 Lessons
Mastering AWS Deployment Services—From Zero to Hero
Cloud Lab
CloudFormation
8 Lessons
Getting to Know AWS CloudFormation
Cloud Lab
AWS CloudFormation Updates: Change Sets and Stack Policies
Cloud Lab
Mastering AWS CloudFormation Helper Scripts
Cloud Lab
Machine Learning
13 Lessons
Understanding Machine Learning Services on AWS—From Zero to Hero
Cloud Lab
Deploying a Machine Learning Model with Amazon SageMaker
Cloud Lab
Getting Started with Amazon Fraud Detector
Cloud Lab
Build an Educative Chatbot with Conversational AI Using AWS Lex
Cloud Lab
Content Delivery and Optimization
8 Lessons
Analytics
13 Lessons
Analyzing S3 Data and CloudTrail Logs Using Amazon Athena
Cloud Lab
Getting Started with Amazon EMR
Cloud Lab
Getting Started with Amazon Redshift
Cloud Lab
Building ETL Pipelines on AWS
Cloud Lab
Create a Data Lake with Lake Formation and Analyze It with Athena
Cloud Lab
Building a Logs Processing Pipeline with Amazon Kinesis
Cloud Lab
Getting Started with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Cloud Lab
Monitoring and Auditing
6 Lessons
Monitoring EC2 Instances Using AWS CloudWatch
Cloud Lab
Getting Started with AWS Config
Cloud Lab
Management and Governance
9 Lessons
Getting Started with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
Cloud Lab
AWS Billing and Cost Management
6 Lessons
Practice Exam - 1
Assessment
Practice Exam Solution - 1
14 Lessons
Practice Exam - 2
Assessment
Practice Exam Solution - 2
15 Lessons
Practice Exam - 3
Assessment
Practice Exam Solution - 3
14 Lessons
Wrapping Up
1 Lesson
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