AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2023 Edition!

Explore the basics of cloud and AWS, with a focus on the AWS Global Infrastructure, to build a strong foundation for all subsequent sections.

Explore identity and access management in AWS, creating users and groups with least privilege, assigning roles for resources, and enabling secure access to S3 and EC2.

Perform a hands-on IAM challenge to create an IAM group with read-only RDS access, attach a user to that group with console access, then delete resources using defaults.

Create an IAM group in the AWS management console, attach the Amazon RDS read-only access policy, then add a console-access user and clean up.

Learn AWS KMS for at-rest encryption, covering AWS managed and customer managed keys, symmetric vs asymmetric keys, automated key rotation, and applying a custom key to S3 encryption.

Explore sample exam questions on using IAM roles for interservice communication and selecting AWS Shield options for DDoS protection, with practical guidance for the solutions architect exam.

Review section four, secure architectures, and reinforce key AWS security concepts like identity and access management (IAM), IAM accounts, security groups, NACLs, WAF, encryption, and shared security model.

Explore using a single EC2 instance to host a multi-tier architecture, deploy a lamp stack from the AWS marketplace, and configure auto scaling, VPC, security groups, and elastic IP considerations.

Explore the advantages of the multi-tier design, including improved security, performance, and scalability, with decoupling enabled by AWS services and tier-focused management.

Demonstrates connecting to an EC2 Linux instance from Windows using the built-in ssh client, including creating a key pair and tightening permissions for secure login.

Learn to use AWS simple queue service (SQS) to loosely decouple services with standard and FIFO queues, leveraging visibility timeouts, exactly once processing, message deduplication, and Lambda integration.

Discover how AWS API gateway provides a managed, scalable REST API solution with private or public endpoints, enabling secure, highly available, high-performance APIs for a demo pet store.

AWS delivers resilient storage across regions and availability zones through S3 replication, EBS snapshots, and EFS and FSx options, with flexible storage classes, versioning, encryption, and access controls.

Archive bulk data to Glacier, a low-cost, durable storage option within S3, with daily inventory updates and retrieval notifications, using a vault and cli or programmatic uploads.

Learn how AWS autoscaling uses launch templates within auto scaling groups to maintain elasticity, set desired capacity, min and max, and trigger scaling by CPU utilization.

Provision an Active Directory domain in the cloud with CloudFormation, using a Windows Server 2012 R2 base image, updating the AMI in the template, and validating the deployment.

Learn to spin up a Windows Active Directory using AWS CloudFormation, update an outdated AMI ID, manage templates in S3, and verify via EC2 and RDP.

Review sample exam questions for the AWS certified solutions architect associate, focusing on FSx for Windows File Server, network load balancer layer four, and the simple Q service for messaging.

Explore resilient AWS architectures through multi-tier design, decoupling, API gateway, auto scaling, load balancing, and storage options (S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier) powered by CloudFormation.

Build secure, resilient, high-performance architectures on AWS and improve storage performance across services using proven techniques.

Explore AWS container options, from EC2-backed containers to the serverless AWS Fargate. Store images in the elastic container registry and orchestrate with elastic container service, including EKS for Kubernetes.

Explore how Snowball, Snowball Edge, and Snowmobile move data to the cloud securely, with edge services bringing AWS to your data center and Snowmobile handling massive transfers.

Demonstrate AWS VPC mastery by building a VPC with a public subnet 10.110.0.0/24, attaching internet gateway, configuring route table, launching Amazon Linux 2, and testing SSH in the free tier.

Explore Route 53 in AWS to register domains, manage hosted zones, and create DNS records A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, and TXT with alias to an IP address or another value.

Discover how CloudFront uses edge locations and regional caches within AWS’s global content delivery network to speed web and streaming content, with free tier and on-demand pricing.

Explore AWS RDS, the managed relational database service, compare engines like Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server, and learn easy create for backups, security, replication, and high availability.

Explore how DynamoDB enables NoSQL data modeling on AWS, using a single table design with partition keys, global secondary indexes, streams, and global tables, plus DynamoDB accelerator for caching.

Learn how AWS ElastiCache provides high performance caching with Redis or Memcached, compare simplicity versus complexity, and review DAX integration with DynamoDB and pricing.

Leverage Datasync to move non-database data from on-prem to cloud and back, using NFS, SMB, S3, EFS, or FSx, with agents, tasks, and archiving for protection.

Practice exam style questions for the aws certified solutions architect associate course, including selecting storage gateway for dynamic on-prem to cloud tiering and statements about the default vpc in hwc.

Explore cost optimized architectures for a cloud move, learning when moving to the cloud saves money and how to leverage services to maximize cost savings while balancing security and resiliency.

Learn cost optimization for compute and databases in AWS, from cost visibility and trusted advisor insights to choosing Lambda, S3 static hosting, and DB options like DynamoDB, Neptune, and Redshift.

Learn how to use AWS Organizations to consolidate billing across multiple root accounts, invite accounts, and centralize control from the master account, with propagation latency considerations.

Explore evolving S3 storage classes and how to balance costs with retrieval performance using storage class analysis, including standard, intelligent-tiering, infrequent access, and Glacier Deep Archive.

Thank you for attending the RWC solutions architect associate course and explore ongoing learning with additional certifications and a range of technologies and services in future training.