AWS Training Course for Solutions Architect Certification

• Efficient design and deployment of the AWS system
• Cost-evaluation and cost-control mechanisms
• Elastic Load Balancing on multiple EC2 instances
• Data ingress and egress on AWS
• Identifying relevant and suitable uses of AWS architecture
• Lift and shift mechanism of AWS on-premises applications
• Determining right AWS based on computational, database and security needs

Our AWS certification program is designed to help you pass the exam on your first try. You can build a successful career on AWS with our well-designed course, which also gives you access to Intellipaat’s extensive AWS community, lifetime access to course materials with lifetime upgrades, and more.

The cost for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam is $100. The total cost of an AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Assistant is US$150. Also, the AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam costs US$300.

If you sign up for the Intellipaat training program, you can easily pass these exams!

• Solution Architects or Programmers looking to build SaaS, PaaS and IaaS applications or migrate data to AWS from existing data centers
• System Administrators and Network Administrators
• Graduates and professionals looking to upgrade their skills in the cloud computing domain

Basic knowledge of any programming language will be beneficial.

• AWS has over 1 million customers from 190 countries – Amazon
• AWS is as big as its next four competitors combined – Business Insider
• An AWS Certified Solutions Architect can earn $125,000 – Indeed

Today, cloud computing is no longer optional but critical to the success of any of the biggest enterprises on earth. Hence, getting the AWS training and certification means that you can open the doors to virtually unlimited job opportunities that are offering highly competitive salaries. Intellipaat AWS course is completely oriented toward the practical applications, and hence it gives you a clear advantage.

What is Cloud Computing, Cloud Service & Deployment Models, how AWS is the leader in the cloud domain, various cloud computing products offered by AWS, introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI, starting off with AWS, getting a detailed understanding of the AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console, virtualization in AWS (Xen hypervisor), what is auto-scaling, AWS EC2 best practices and cost involved.

Hands-on Exercise – Setting up of AWS account, how to launch an EC2 instance, the process of hosting a website and launching a Linux Virtual Machine using an AWS EC2 instance.

Introduction to EC2, Regions & Availability Zones(AZs), Pre-EC2, EC2 instance types, introduction to AWS EC2, comparing Public IP and Elastic IP, demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance, introduction to AMIs, Creating and Copying an AMI, Introduction to EBS, EBS volume types, EBS Snapshots, Introduction to EFS, Instance tenancy, Reserved and Spot instances, Pricing and Design Patterns.

Hands-on Exercise – Launching an EC2 instance, creating an AMI of the launched instance, copying the AMI to another region, creating an EBS volume, attaching the EBS volume with an instance, taking backup of an EBS volume, creating an EFS volume and mounting the EFS volume to two instances.

Introduction to Elastic Load Balancer, types of ELB – Classic, Network and Application), load balancer architecture, cross-zone load balancing, introduction to Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, the lifecycle of Auto Scaling, components of Auto Scaling, scaling options and policy, instance termination, using load balancer with Auto Scaling, Pre-Route 53 – how DNS works, A Name record, CNAME, Alias and latency, routing policy, Route 53 terminologies, Pricing.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a Classic ELB, creating an Application ELB, creating an auto-scaling group, configuring an auto-scaling group, integrating ELB with Auto Scaling, redirect traffic from domain name to ELB using Route 53.

What is Amazon VPC, VPC as a networking layer for EC2, IP address and CIDR notations, components of VPC – network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, NAT, security in VPC – security groups and NACL, types of VPC, what is a subnet, VPC peering with scenarios, VPC endpoints, VPC pricing and design patterns.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a VPC and subnets, creating a 3 Tier architecture with security groups, NACL, Internet gateway and NAT gateway, creating a complete VPC architecture.

Introduction to AWS storage, Pre-S3 – online cloud storage, API, S3 consistency models, storage hierarchy, buckets in S3, objects in S3, metadata and storage classes, object versioning, object lifecycle management, cross-region replication, data encryption, connecting using VPC endpoint, S3 pricing.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating an S3 bucket, uploading objects to the S3 bucket, enabling object versioning in the S3 bucket, setting up lifecycle management for only a few objects, setting up lifecycle management for all objects with the same tag, static website hosting using S3.

What is a database, types of databases, databases on AWS, introduction to Amazon RDS, multi-AZ deployments, features of RDS, read replicas in RDS, reserved DB instances, RDS pricing and design patterns, Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, Aurora pricing and design patterns, Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB, DynamoDB pricing and design patterns, what is Amazon Redshift, advantages of Redshift, what is ElastiCache, why ElastiCache.

Hands-on Exercise – Launching a MySQL RDS instance, modifying an RDS instance, connecting to the DB instance from your machine, creating a multi-az deployment, create an Aurora DB cluster, creating an Aurora replica, creating a DynamoDB table.

Introduction to CloudFormation, CloudFormation components, CloudFormation templates, the concept of Infrastructure-as-a-code, functions and pseudo parameters, Introduction to Simple Notification Service, how does SNS work, Introduction to Simple Email Service, how does SES work, Introduction to Simple Queue Service, how does SQS work.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a CloudFormation stack, launching a t2.micro EC2 instance using CloudFormation, using CloudFormation to automate an architectural deployment, creating an SNS topic, creating a subscription within the topic, setting up SES and sending a mail, creating an SQS queue and sending a sample message.

Pre-IAM, why access management, Amazon Resource Name (ARN), IAM features, multi-factor authentication (MFA) in IAM, JSON, IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, pricing, pre-CloudWatch, Introduction to CloudWatch, metrics and namespaces, CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms, CloudWatch logs, pricing and design patterns, Introduction to CloudTrail, tracking API usage.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating IAM users and a group, creating an IAM policy and attach it to the group, creating an IAM role, setup MFA for a user, creating a CloudWatch dashboard and add metrics, create a CloudWatch alarm which triggers according to CPU Utilization of an EC2 instance, creating a billing alarm, creating a log group, creating a trail.

What is AWS Lambda, how Lambda is different from EC2, benefits and limitations of Lambda, how does Lambda work, use cases of Lambda, Lambda concepts, integration S3 with Lambda, what is Elastic Beanstalk, how does Beanstalk work, Beanstalk concepts, Beanstalk pricing, what is configuration management, what is AWS OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks benefits, CloudFormation vs OpsWorks, services in OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks Stacks, OpsWorks pricing.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a Lambda function, setting up Lambda triggers and destinations, creating an Elastic Beanstalk application, uploading a new version of the application to Beanstalk, creating a stack in OpsWorks, launching the instance using OpsWorks and automatically installing the application.

What is FSx, Types of FSx,FSx for Windows server, How does FSx for Windows File Server work, FSx for Lustre, Use cases of FSx, Automatic failover process, Supported clients and access methods, What is a Global Accelerator, How Global Accelerator works, Listeners and Endpoints, What are AWS Organizations, Features of AWS Organizations, Managing multiple accounts, What are ENIs, ENAs and EFAs, Working with network interfaces, Enhanced Networking with ENA, EFA with MPI, Monitoring an EFA

Hands-on Exercise: Creating a shared FSx file system between two windows instances, Accessing one instance with multiple Elastic IPS using ENI, Using Global Accelerator to map instances from 2 regions into one domain name, Enabling Enhhanced Networking on an Ubuntu instance

• Important guidelines for creating a well-architected AWS framework that is resilient and performant
• Designing of fault-tolerant and high-availability architecture
• Resilient storage
• Decoupling mechanism
• Multi-tier architecture solution
• Disaster recovery solution
• Scalable and elastic solutions.

What is DevOps, introduction to AWS DevOps, AWS Developer tools – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline, integrating GitHub with CodePipeline, creating a DevOps lifecycle using AWS DevOps tools.

What is Cloud migration, why migration is important, migration process in AWS, the 6 R’s migration strategy, virtual machine migration, migrating a local vm onto the AWS cloud, migrating databases using Database Migration Service (DMS), migrating a local database to RDS, migrating an on-premises database server to RDS using DMS, other migration services.

Guidance for clearing the exam, most probable interview questions and other helpful tips for clearing the exam and interview.

Project 1 – Deploy a multi-tier website on AWS

Problem Statement: Deploying a Custom PHP Website to AWS with functionalities for SQL, NoSQL and file storage

Topics – RDS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, EC2, NAT Gateways, Load Balancer and Auto Scaling

Highlights:

• Configuring AWS to send emails for every operation using the website
• Deploying the web application in private subnet with no internet access
• Using Load Balancer to expose the application in the private subnet
• Using NoSQL database for metadata storage
• Using Auto Scaling for varying traffic workloads

Project 2 – Deploying a website for High Availability and High Resilience

Problem Statement: Design an architecture which can automatically scale up and down based on traffic and is de coupled for components like Database, webapp etc.

Topics: Auto Scaling, Target Groups, Load Balancing, RDS, PaaS, Elastic Beanstalk

Highlights:

• Designing Architectures which are self-healing and auto scale
• Load Balancing across multiple instances using Load Balancer
• Deploying AWS RDS for connecting to Elastic Beanstalk

Project 3 – Sending Notifications to patients using push notifications

Problem Statement – Design an architecture on AWS, which can send notifications to patients based on Doctor Feedback

Topics: AWS SNS, VPC, EC2

Highlights:

• Sending messages through SNS for resiliency
• Integrating EC2 and SNS for message storing
• Securing the instances using Private and Public subnets in VPC.

Case Study 1 – Using different operations on EC2 and EBS

Problem Statement: Replicate EC2 instances to other regions for High Availability, extending the size of EBS volumes without losing data

Topics – EC2, EBS, AMIs

Highlights:

• Copying EC2 instance to another region
• Scaling EBS Volumes
• Mounting the same EBS Volumes to different EC2 instances one at a time

Case Study 2 – Autoscaling compute capacity in AWS

Problem Statement: Autoscaling and Load Balancing EC2 instances in AWS based on different metrics. Routing custom domain to AWS resources

Topics – Autoscaling, Load Balancing, Route 53

Highlights:

• Load Balancing among multiple EC2 instances
• Scaling up and scaling down instances automatically using Autoscaling
• Defining metrics for Autoscaling instances
• Routing custom domain to AWS resources

Case Study 3 – Creating custom VPCs in AWS

Problem Statement: Create a custom VPC in AWS, with multiple subnets having private and public access

Topics: VPC, Subnets, Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Route Tables

Highlights:

• Creating a custom VPC with various subnets
• Configuring routes to the subnets
• Using and configuring NAT Gateways

Case Study 4 – Using AWS S3 for Lifecycle Access Management

Problem Statement: Moving artifacts from on-premise to S3 in the most cost efficient manner

Topics: Lifecycle Management, Glacier, Access Tiers, Event in S3

Highlights:

• Creating Lifecycle rules for S3 objects
• Hosting Static Website
• Using Route 53

Case Study 5 – Highly available relational database in AWS

Problem Statement: Create a highly available and scalable AWS Database service in AWS using RDS

Topics – Multi Region Deployment, High Availability, RDS, Backups

Highlights:

• Build a highly scalable database
• Creating Database Architecture
• Collect data for real time analysis
• Resolving Latency Issues

Case Study 6 – CloudFormation for Infrastructure as a Code

Problem Statement: Provisioning AWS Resources using AWS CloudFormation

Topics: CloudFormation, VPC, Route 53, RDS

Highlights:

• Using CloudFormation to deploy resources
• Defining rules for deletion using IaC
• Minimize deployment time

Case Study 7 – Administering user access using AWS IAM

Problem Statement: Creating users for defining granular access to different users

Topics – AWS IAM Users, IAM Groups, Policies

Highlights:

• Creating users in IAM
• Defining custom policies
• Adding users to groups 

Case Study 8 – Appplication Services in AWS and Configuration Management

Problem Statement: Using application services in AWS to deploy code, configuration management using OpsWorks

Topics: Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, SNS

Highlights:

• Deploying code to AWS Lambda
• Deploying webapp to Elastic Beanstalk
• Configuration Management using OpsWorks