Architecting on AWS: Course Contents

1.   Introduction to Cloud Computing

• Overview of Cloud
• Benefits of Cloud
• Five Cloud Characteristics (NIST)
• Three Cloud Service Models (NIST)
• Four Cloud Deployment Models (NIST)
• Introduction to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)

2.   Introduction to Amazon Web Services

• Terminology and core concepts including:
  i. Autoscaling
  ii. Load Balancing
  iii. DNS
  iv. Segregation
  v. Routing
  vi. Switching
  vii. Structured & Unstructured datastores
• Overview of the IaaS and SaaS portal features and relevant AWS services
• Overview of AWS key security features
• Introduction to the AWS Well-Architected framework to develop solutions.

3.   Architecting your Solution using TOGAF

• Deeper dive into the following AWS services:
  i. Route 53
  ii. Elastic Load Balancing
  iii. EC2 & EC2 Systems Manager
  iv. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  v. S3, Elastic Block Storage and Elastic File Storage
  vi. CloudFront
  vii. Glacier, Snowball and SnowMobile
  viii. RDS
  ix. Direct Connect
  x. CloudWatch
  xi. CloudFormation
  xii. Identity & Access Management
  xiii. CloudHSM
  xiv. Simple Queue Service
  xv. Simple Notification & Email Service
  xvi. Directory Services
• Hands-On Labs
• Baseline discovery techniques aligned to TOGAF
• Future state architectures aligned to TOGAF
• Architecting public and hybrid cloud solutions using AWS components.

4.   Migrating Applications and Data

• Deeper dive into the following services:
  i. AWS Application Discovery Service
  ii. AWS Database Migration Service
  iii. AWS Schema Conversion Tool
• Hands-On Labs
• Baseline discovery techniques aligned to TOGAF
• Future state architectures aligned to TOGAF
• Common tools for data migration
• Event-Driven Scaling
• Automation & Decoupling

5.   The Well Architected Framework

• Key Design Principles
• The Five Pillars
  i. Security
  ii. Reliability
  iii. Performance
  iv. Cost Optimisation
  v. Operational Excellence
• Alignment to TOGAF.

6.   Design Patters and Use Cases

• Using the AWS Architecture Centre
• Quick Starts
• Key Reference Architectures:
  i. Web Application Hosting
  ii. Batch Processing
  iii. Fault Tolerance and High Availability
  iv. Content and Media Serving
• Large Scale Design Patterns
  i. Large Scale Processing and Huge Data Sets
  ii. Disaster Recovery
  iii. Backup
  iv. Grid Computing