Alibaba Cloud Professional (ACP) Cloud Architect [Course]

Explore cloud service models—IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS—using the pizza analogy, from on-prem to fully managed solutions, with use cases like email, document collaboration, and CRM/ERP.

Explore public, private, and hybrid cloud models, including multi-tenant public clouds and private networks. Assess advantages like cost and scalability and disadvantages such as security, data privacy, and data integration.

Explore how cloud providers use regions and zones to optimize latency and availability. Learn how data centers, with independent power and network, interconnect within and between regions for resilience.

Discover Alibaba Cloud's global infrastructure with 30 regions and 89 availability zones, highlighting international regions, mainland China regions, Wuhan deployment, and upcoming expansions in South Africa and LatAm.

Explore cloud security concepts, including encryption, multi-factor authentication, and protective tools like firewalls and web application firewalls, and grasp compliance with GDPR and HIPAA as a business imperative.

Explore elastic compute service concepts, including virtual machines, infrastructure as a service, regions and zones, private networks, security groups, monitoring with Cloud Monitor, and flexible billing options.

Learn how Alibaba Cloud ECS instances provide fully customizable virtual machines, with diverse instance families and generation names, plus failover within a zone, status states, and IP address behavior.

Explore Alibaba Cloud cloud disks, snapshots, and images; block storage for ECS with redundancy, resizing rules, and per volume billing. Compare SSD and ultra disks for databases and IO workloads.

Explore three common scenarios where ECS powers scalable websites, big data processing with Hadoop, Spark, or Flink, and development environments with snapshots and SSH access.

Learn to create an ECS instance on Alibaba Cloud by selecting the region, choosing an instance type and image, configuring storage and networking, and using a key pair for SSH.

Explore Alibaba Cloud's server load balancer (slb), including Alb, NLB, and CLB types, which distribute traffic for high availability and scalability with health checks and security.

Learn how a load balancer instance distributes traffic to ECS backend servers via listeners, with health checks and scheduling algorithms like round robin, weighted round robin, and weighted least connections.

Leverage SLB disaster recovery to switch between primary and backup zones within 30 seconds and implement cross-region readiness with standby regions and DNS failover.

Explore three scenarios where slb boosts availability: web apps, scalable e-commerce with session persistence and ssl termination, and microservices routing by url, path, or header with container service for kubernetes.

Explore Alibaba Cloud auto scaling as an intelligent conductor that automatically adjusts resources with elastic scale up, scale down, self-healing, predictive scaling, and cost-aware custom metrics.

Learn Alibaba Cloud auto scaling components, including scaling group, cooldown period, scaling configuration, scaling rule, scaling activity, and scaling trigger tasks such as schedule tasks and cloud monitor alert tasks.

Explore Alibaba Cloud's virtual private cloud (VPC) as a private, logically isolated network you control, with CIDR blocks, subnets, switches, and routers. Learn to connect VPCs and on-premises via hybrid cloud, deploy resources like ECS, databases, and server load balancers, and manage route tables, NAT gateway, and elastic IPs with IPv4/IPv6 support.

Create and manage a vpc in Alibaba Cloud by planning a cidr block, configuring switches and route tables, and understanding the default routing behavior.

Discover how security groups function as virtual firewalls for ECS instances, governing inbound and outbound traffic and are stateful, while NACLs operate at the subnet level and are stateless.

Create a security group in Alibaba Cloud's elastic compute service, attach it to a VPC, and configure firewall rules for http and https while managing access sources.

Explore three common scenarios where Alibaba Cloud VPC enables secure, scalable cloud architectures. See how VPC supports hybrid connectivity and multi-region high availability with subnets, peering, and DNS routing.

Explore common RDS scenarios for powering web apps, analytics, and enterprise ERP and CRM with scalable, secure, high-availability databases featuring automatic failover, backups, and read replicas.

Explore Alibaba Cloud IMG, the OSS image service, with APIs to convert formats, resize, crop, rotate, watermark, and apply color effects on image URLs via x-oss-process.

Demonstrate using the OSS image service on Alibaba Cloud to resize images on the fly by appending image processing parameters to the object URL in a bucket.

Learn how to host a static website on Alibaba Cloud OSS, create the bucket for hosting, compare static and dynamic sites, and bind a scalable, low-cost custom domain with CNAME.

Discover the object storage service security features, including server-side, client-side, and transmission encryption with kms and bring-your-own-key options, along with acl, ram policy, and bucket policy access controls.

Explore oss common scenarios for backup, archiving, static website hosting, and data-intensive apps, highlighting nine nines durability, cost efficiency, and compliance.

Understand content delivery networks, where edge servers cache content to reduce latency, and how Alibaba Cloud CDN offers accelerated domains, pay-as-you-go pricing, and security features.

Explore Alibaba Cloud security services and the shared responsibility model, covering cloud infrastructure security, RAM for identity and access control, Security Center, anti-DDoS, and WAF protection.

Explore RAM, Alibaba Cloud's resource access management service, by creating users, groups, roles, and custom policies, enabling console or open API access, and enforcing MFA for secure permissions.

Explore Alibaba Cloud Log Service, a real-time log store that collects, stores, queries, and analyzes logs from applications, servers, containers, and IoT devices with scalable storage and dashboards.