AWS: Building Reliable Architectures [SAA-C03]

Name: AWS: Building Reliable Architectures [SAA-C03]
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Learn To Design, Configure, and Automate Reliable AWS Cloud Architectures [EC2-VPC Networking, NAT, ELB, Route 53, CLI]

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Created byBen Piper

Last updated 4/2023

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What you'll learn

How to design AWS cloud architectures to meet specific availability and uptime requirements
Skills to attain the AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification
How to connect virtual private cloud (VPC) and on-premesis networks
How to implement elastic load balancers (ELBs) and EC2 Autoscaling
How to properly scope virtual private cloud (VPC) availability zones
How to use use Route 53 to build active-passive failover architectures
How to achieve extreme availability by using multiple AWS regions and Route 53
How and when to use a NAT gateway
How to design and implement always-on, active-active designs
How to automagically provision fully configured AWS resources in seconds using CloudFormation

Course content

5 sections • 40 lectures • 2h 34m total length

Availability, Reliability, Resiliency: What's the Difference?3:20
Welcome to the course!
Reliability is all about ensuring your cloud-based applications are not just "up and running," but that they’re performing as they should. In this course, you’ll learn how to build reliable, resilient architectures on AWS.

Here's what you'll learn:
How to calculate availability and design architectures to meet specific availability requirements
How to properly scope and configure virtual private cloud (VPC) availability zones
When and how to configure and use NAT gateways
How to implement highly available applications using elastic load balancers (ELBs) and Auto Scaling
How to achieve extreme availability by using multiple AWS regions
The difference between active-active and active-passive failover designs, and when to use each
How to deploy complex architectures in minutes using CloudFormation

There's no substitute for experience. This course includes many hands-on exercises that make use of the AWS Management Console and the AWS command line interface (CLI). The only way to really learn AWS is to do it, and you'll get the most out of this course by following along with the lab activities that are carefully and clearly demonstrated in the videos.

After you finish this course, you'll have the skills to design and build reliable, highly available architectures on AWS.

—Ben Piper (benpiper.com)
Designing for Five Nines (99.999%) Availability9:02
Design a two-tier Linux web app on EC2 with a shared FS and an elastic load balancer to achieve about 99.92% availability through multi-AZ RDS, meeting a 99.9% target.
Loose Coupling vs. Tight Coupling: The Key to Reliability4:38
Explore how loose coupling, enabled by an elastic load balancer and redundancy, decouples a single URL from multiple instances to improve availability and support independent scaling.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)3:37
Explore how loose coupling turns a monolithic video app into web and video processing microservices, using Amazon SQS and SDKs to enqueue and pass messages for asynchronous processing.
Elastic Container Service (ECS)5:04
Explore how breaking monoliths into microservices and deploying them in containers improves availability. Learn how ECS orchestrates Docker images, task definitions, and load balancers across clusters and registries.
Cloud Native Application Architecture: Is It worth It?5:11
Explore cloud native architectures and the tradeoffs of using elastic services like Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB for scalability and availability, including multi-region strategies for five nines.
AWS Service Limits: The Enemy of Reliability3:45
Examine how service limits cap availability, why eight nines may be unattainable, and how trusted advisor and quotas guide VPC and on-demand EC2 limits.
Lesson Review2:37
Learning Check
Applying It on the Job0:30
The Budget Battle: Good, Fast, or Cheap?0:23

Lesson Introduction: Subnets, Availability Zones, and EC2 Instances4:07
Allocating an Elastic IP Address3:29
Global Accelerator: Anycast for Anyone1:10
Creating a New VPC from Scratch9:18
Launching an EC2 Instance into a Public Subnet6:13
Launching an EC2 Instance into a Private Subnet2:15
Launch an EC2 instance in a private subnet to avoid public IP addresses, with access via NAT gateway. The lecture demonstrates deleting the NAT gateway and releasing its elastic IP.
Direct Connect and Transit Gateway: Connecting to On-prem Networks4:07
Discover reliable on-prem connectivity for AWS VPCs using direct connect and transit gateway, enabling multi-path VPNs, dedicated or hosted links, and centralized traffic routing.
Connecting VPCs using a Transit Gateway7:32
Lesson Review1:07
Learning Check

Lesson Introduction3:48
Interpreting the CloudFormation Templates4:49
Explore CloudFormation templates, nesting a network stack within an app stack, and how outputs share VPC and subnet identifiers to deploy gateways and routes.
Application Load Balancers: Internet-facing Vs. Internal6:57
Auto Scaling Groups6:54
Explore auto scaling groups for web and application tiers, with launch templates, docker deployment, CFN signals, health checks, and a 75% CPU target within min two and max bounds.
Deploying the CloudFormation Stack6:44
Validate and deploy the app and network cloud formation templates using the validate template commands, then verify the load balancer and certificate behavior while observing auto scaling replacing terminated instances.
Working in Regions Other than us-east-10:15
Deleting the CloudFormation Stack0:45
Lesson Review1:35
Learning Check

Requirements

An AWS account
The AWS command line interface (CLI)

Description

Reliability is all about ensuring your cloud-based applications are not just "up and running," but that they’re performing as they should. Learning to balance reliability, cost, and complexity are essential skills for an AWS Solutions Architect or and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

In this course, you’ll learn:

How to design AWS cloud architectures to meet specific availability and uptime requirements
Skills to attain the AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification
How to connect virtual private cloud (VPC) and on-premesis networks
How to implement elastic load balancers (ELBs) and EC2 Autoscaling
How to properly scope virtual private cloud (VPC) availability zones
How to use use Route 53 to build active-passive failover architectures
How to achieve extreme availability by using multiple AWS regions and Route 53
How and when to use a NAT gateway
How to design and implement always-on, active-active designs
How to automagically provision fully configured AWS resources in seconds using CloudFormation

This course is for you if:

You want to learn how to design, configure, and support reliable AWS architectures
You're studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect (SAA-C03) exam
You want to get AWS certified as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Prerequisites:

A hunger for learning and a drive to take the next step in your career
An AWS account
The free AWS command line interface (CLI) which you can download from Amazon AWS
A free secure shell (SSH) client such as PuTTy or Xshell

Thanks for watching!

—Ben Piper

Who this course is for:

Want to learn how to design, configure, and support reliable AWS architectures
Studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect (SAA-C03) exam
Want to get AWS certified as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS: Building Reliable Architectures [SAA-C03]

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Course content

Course Introduction10 lectures • 38min

Configuring Your AWS Environment7 lectures • 18min

Creating Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Networks9 lectures • 39min

Automation with CloudFormation8 lectures • 32min

Route 53 and Multi-region Architectures6 lectures • 28min

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