Why is the AWS certification so desirable?
AWS certification will verify your technical understanding and skills in the AWS domain and is highly desired by recruiters. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate is consistently ranked as one of the top certification programs and the AWS market is expected to reach $236B by 2020 at a CAGR of 22 per cent. According to Indeed.com average annual salary of AWS Solutions Architect is $129,000. There are more than 380,000 cloud computing jobs available around the world, and the need for certified cloud computing professionals is increasing every year.
What are the course objectives?
This AWS certification course is aligned to the latest exam released by AWS. It will help you learn the key concepts, latest trends, and best practices for working with the AWS architecture – and become industry-ready. Practice assignments and three live projects are designed to give you hands-on experience with the AWS management console.
The course begins with an overview of the AWS platform before diving into its individual elements: IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, ELB, CDN, S3, EIP, KMS, Route 53, RDS, Glacier, Snowball, Cloudfront, Dynamo DB, Redshift, Auto Scaling, Cloudwatch, Elastic Cache, CloudTrail, and Security.
What skills will you learn in the AWS training course?
This AWS training course will make you exam-ready for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification and will enable you to leverage your skills and expertise involving advanced cloud-based solutions, and migrating existing workloads to the cloud.
By the end of this AWS training you will be able to:
- Formulate solution plans and provide guidance on AWS architectural best practices
- Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
- Identify the lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS
- Decipher the ingress and egress of data to and from AWS
- Select the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements
- Estimate AWS costs and identify cost control mechanisms
Who should take this online AWS solutions architect course?
This online AWS solutions architect certification course is ideal for:
- Solutions Architects
- Programmers
- Cloud Developers
- Cloud Software Engineers
- DevOps Professionals
- Professionals interested in hosting highly scalable, fault-tolerant applications on the AWS cloud
What projects will I complete as part of the course?
- The following projects are part of the AWS training course from Simplilearn.
- Create a custom VPC with public and private subnets on two availability zones and launch instances into each subnet
- Launch two web servers and configure a load balancer and auto-scaling.
- Configure RD Gateway on a VPC with a public and private subnet.
What is the AWS Certification?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most well-known cloud platforms, comprising a collection of more than 70 cloud computing services, covering storage, networking, compute, database, analytics, application services, deployment and developer tools. The AWS certification will enable you to design, plan and scale AWS implementations and pave the way for an exciting career path in the cloud computing domain. The AWS certification will add weight to your technical understanding and skills in working with AWS principles
What types of jobs require AWS Solutions Architect certified professionals?
AWS Solutions Architect Certified Professionals are required for solving operational issues in an organization and are also responsible for implementing new software for complex deployment, infrastructure, design and troubleshooting of cloud solutions. Cloud Developer, Cloud Software Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer are examples of jobs that require AWS certification.
Course preview
- Lesson 00 - Course Overview
- Lesson 01 - AWS Overview
- 1.1 AWS Overview
- 1.2 History and Evolution of AWS
- 1.3 Knowledge Check
- 1.4 Overview of AWS Products and Services
- 1.5 Quiz
- 1.6 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 02 - Designing Highly Available, Cost-efficient, Fault-tolerant, and Scalable Systems
- 2.1 Designing Highly Available, Cost-efficient, Fault-tolerant, and Scalable Systems
- 2.2 How to design Cloud Services
- 2.3 Knowledge Check
- 2.4 Planning and Designing
- 2.5 Knowledge Check
- 2.6 Monitoring and Logging
- 2.7 Knowledge Check
- 2.8 Hybrid IT architectures
- 2.9 Knowledge Check
- 2.10 Practice Assignment Designing Hybrid Storage
- 2.11 Quiz
- 2.12 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 03 - Identity Access Management (IAM)
- 3.1 Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- 3.2 IAM Overview and Policies
- 3.3 Knowledge Check
- 3.4 IAM Users, Groups, and Roles
- 3.5 Knowledge Check
- 3.6 IAM Best Practices
- 3.7 Practice Assignment Configuring IAM Access
- 3.8 Quiz
- 3.9 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 04 - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- 4.1 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- 4.2 Amazon VPC and Subnets
- 4.3 Knowledge Check
- 4.4 Networking
- 4.5 Knowledge Check
- 4.6 Using Security Groups and Network ACLs
- 4.7 Knowledge Check
- 4.8 Amazon VPC Best Practices and Costs
- 4.9 Practice Assignment Designing a Custom VPC
- 4.10 Quiz
- 4.11 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 05 - Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- 5.1 Cloud Compute with AWS
- 5.2 Amazon EC2 Overview
- 5.3 Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
- 5.4 Launch and connect to an EC2 Linux instance Demo 1 06:49
- 5.5 Launch and connect to an EC2 Windows instance Demo 2 03:30
- 5.6 Create an AMI Demo 3 14:19
- 5.7 Knowledge Check
- 5.8 Introduction to EC2 Instance Types 06:24
- 5.9 Knowledge Check
- 5.10 Overview of Amazon EBS 40:50
- 5.11 Knowledge Check
- 5.12 EC2 Pricing 06:37
- 5.13 Knowledge Check
- 5.14 Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) 05:51
- 5.15 Knowledge Check
- 5.16 Auto Scaling 09:13
- 5.17 Knowledge Check
- 5.18 AWS Services 11:41
- 5.19 AWS Lambda Demo 06:07
- 5.20 Amazon Elastic Container Service 07:06
- 5.21 Knowledge Check 01:06
- 5.22 EC2 Best Practices and Costs 03:26
- 5.23 Practice Assignment Configure ELB 01:06
- 5.24 Quiz
- 5.25 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 06 - Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) 1:10:59
- 6.1 Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) 01:40
- 6.2 S3 Overview and Buckets 23:35
- 6.3 Knowledge Check
- 6.4 Version Control and Lifecycle Management 12:30
- 6.5 Knowledge Check
- 6.6 CloudFront and CDNs 14:30
- 6.7 Knowledge Check
- 6.8 Security and Encryption 07:56
- 6.9 Knowledge Check
- 6.10 Amazon Import - Export Snowball 03:56
- 6.11 Knowledge Check
- 6.12 S3 Best Practices and Costs 02:41
- 6.13 Practice Assignment Create an Amazon S3 bucket 01:01
- 6.14 Quiz
- 6.15 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 07 - Amazon Route 53
- 7.1 Amazon Route 53
- 7.2 Amazon Route 53 Concepts
- 7.3 Knowledge Check
- 7.4 Amazon Route 53 Best Practices and Costs
- 7.5 Practice Assignment Amazon Route 53 Hosted Zone
- 7.6 Quiz
- 7.7 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 08 - Databases
- 8.1 Databases
- 8.2 Databases Overview
- 8.3 Knowledge Check
- 8.4 Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- 8.5 Knowledge Check
- 8.6 AMI Databases
- 8.7 Knowledge Check
- 8.8 Amazon DynamoDB
- 8.9 Knowledge Check
- 8.10 Amazon Redshift
- 8.11 Knowledge Check
- 8.12 Amazon ElastiCache
- 8.13 Knowledge Check
- 8.14 Amazon Aurora
- 8.15 Knowledge Check
- 8.16 AWS Database Migration Services (DMS)
- 8.17 Knowledge Check
- 8.18 Database Best Practices and Costs
- 8.19 Practice Assignment Amazon RDS
- 8.20 Quiz
- 8.21 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 09 - Application Services
- 9.1 Application Services
- 9.2 AWS Application Services
- 9.3 Knowledge Check
- 9.4 Amazon Elastic Transcoder
- 9.5 Knowledge Check
- 9.6 Amazon Workspaces
- 9.7 Knowledge Check
- 9.8 Application Services Best Practices and Costs
- 9.9 Practice Assignment Amazon SNS
- 9.10 Quiz
- 9.11 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 10 - Security Practices for optimum Cloud Deployment
- 10.1 Security Practices for Optimum Cloud Deployment
- 10.2 AWS Responsibilities and Security Attributes
- 10.3 Knowledge Check
- 10.4 AWS CloudFormation and Design patterns
- 10.5 Practice Assignment AWS CloudWatch
- 10.6 Quiz
- 10.7 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 11 - Disaster Recovery
- 11.1 Disaster Recovery
- 11.2 Overview and Products for Disaster Recovery
- 11.3 Practice Assignment Disaster Recovery
- 11.4 Quiz
- 11.5 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 12 - Troubleshooting
- 12.1 Troubleshooting
- 12.2 Troubleshooting and Support
- 12.3 Quiz
- 12.4 Key Takeaways
- Lesson 13 - AWS Solutions Architect Exam
- 13.1 AWS Solutions Architect Exam
- 13.2 Exam Overview and Study Tips
- 13.3 Knowledge Check
- 13.4 Key Takeaways
