Building Reliable Cloud Architectures on AWS

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