AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional: Master Cloud Architecture
What you will learn:
- Design and implement complex, multi-account AWS environments aligned with organizational security, governance, and cost optimization requirements.
- Architect highly available and fault-tolerant AWS systems across multiple Availability Zones and Regions, leveraging AWS best practices.
- Develop comprehensive migration strategies for transitioning on-premises workloads to AWS, including both application and database migrations.
- Implement advanced security controls and compliance measures at scale, encompassing identity management and data encryption strategies.
- Optimize existing AWS solutions for enhanced performance, cost efficiency, and operational excellence through the use of monitoring tools and architectural best practices.
Description
Elevate your cloud expertise to the professional level with this comprehensive course designed for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) exam. Whether you're an experienced Solutions Architect looking to validate your skills or an ambitious cloud professional aiming to advance your career, this course delivers the in-depth knowledge and practical insights you need to excel.
You'll delve into the intricacies of designing, deploying, and optimizing complex AWS solutions, aligning with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This course covers four crucial domains:
Designing Solutions for Organizational Complexity: Master the art of crafting robust network connectivity strategies, implementing sophisticated security measures, and designing resilient architectures for complex enterprise environments.
Architecting New Solutions: Gain proficiency in developing deployment strategies that meet stringent business requirements, ensure business continuity, and optimize for peak performance and cost-efficiency.
Continuous Improvement for Existing Solutions: Learn the techniques to enhance operational excellence, fortify security, boost performance, and increase reliability in existing AWS deployments.
Accelerating Workload Migration & Modernization: Develop expertise in selecting suitable workloads for migration, determining optimal migration approaches, and identifying opportunities for modernization and enhancement.
Through interactive lectures, real-world case studies, and hands-on labs, you'll gain practical experience working with a wide range of AWS services. This course helps you make informed architectural decisions that effectively balance functional requirements with cost, security, and performance considerations.
By the end of this course, you'll be equipped to:
Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
Implement cost-effective solutions that optimize performance and resource utilization.
Migrate complex, multi-tier applications to AWS.
Implement robust security controls and ensure compliance at scale.
Design for large-scale data processing and analytics.
This course aligns with the latest SAP-C02 exam guide, covering all essential knowledge areas and skills. Whether you're preparing for the certification exam or seeking to bolster your real-world AWS architecture expertise, this course empowers you to confidently tackle the most challenging cloud projects.
Join me and unlock your full potential as an AWS Solutions Architect!
Curriculum
Analytics
Dive into the world of AWS analytics services. This section explores Amazon Athena, a serverless query engine, for interactive data analysis. You'll learn to utilize AWS Data Exchange for accessing and sharing curated datasets, and understand the workings of AWS Data Pipeline for orchestrating data processing workflows. Explore Amazon EMR, a managed Hadoop framework, for processing large datasets. Gain practical experience with AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, and delve into the intricacies of Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for real-time data processing. Uncover the power of AWS Lake Formation for managing data lakes and explore Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) for building real-time data streaming applications. Finally, you'll be introduced to Amazon OpenSearch Service, a fully managed Elasticsearch service, and Amazon QuickSight, a business intelligence service, to gain insights from your data.
Application Integration
This section focuses on AWS services that enable seamless integration between applications and systems. You'll learn about Amazon AppFlow, a service for transferring data between applications and AWS services. Discover AWS AppSync, a fully managed GraphQL API service, and explore Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus, for routing events between applications and AWS services. Explore the benefits of Amazon MQ, a managed message broker, for reliable message queuing. You'll also gain hands-on experience with Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), a fully managed push notification service, and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), a fully managed message queuing service. Finally, you'll delve into AWS Step Functions, a visual workflow service, for building and orchestrating complex workflows.
Business Applications
This section introduces you to Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) for sending and receiving emails, allowing you to integrate email capabilities into your applications.
Cloud Financial Management
Gain control over your AWS spending with this section. You'll learn about AWS Budgets, a service for setting spending limits and receiving alerts. Explore the AWS Cost and Usage Report for detailed cost analysis and gain insights with AWS Cost Explorer. Finally, delve into Savings Plans to optimize your AWS spending by committing to consistent usage levels.
Compute
Explore the vast compute offerings of AWS. This section covers AWS Batch, a fully managed batch computing service. You'll delve into Amazon EC2, the core compute service of AWS, and learn about Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling for managing the scale of your EC2 instances automatically. Discover AWS Elastic Beanstalk, a service for deploying and managing applications, and explore the world of AWS Lambda, a serverless compute service. Finally, you'll be introduced to Amazon Lightsail, a service for simplified cloud deployments, AWS Outposts for bringing AWS services to on-premises environments, and AWS Wavelength for deploying applications at the edge.
Containers
This section focuses on deploying and managing containerized applications using AWS services. You'll learn about Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) for storing and managing Docker images. Explore Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), a container orchestration service, and discover Amazon ECS Anywhere for running ECS clusters on-premises or on other cloud providers. Finally, you'll delve into Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for managing and deploying Kubernetes clusters on AWS.
Database
This section covers the diverse database offerings of AWS. You'll learn about Amazon Aurora, a fully managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database service. Explore Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service, and discover Amazon Neptune, a fully managed graph database service. Gain in-depth knowledge of Amazon RDS, a fully managed relational database service, and explore Amazon Redshift, a fully managed data warehouse service.
Developer Tools
This section equips you with the developer tools essential for building and deploying applications on AWS. You'll learn about AWS Cloud9, a cloud-based integrated development environment. Discover AWS CodeArtifact, a fully managed artifact repository, and explore AWS CodeBuild, a fully managed continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service. Gain knowledge of AWS CodeCommit, a fully managed source control service, AWS CodeDeploy, a service for deploying applications, and AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery service. Finally, you'll delve into AWS X-Ray, a service for debugging and monitoring applications.
End User Computing
This section focuses on delivering applications and desktops to end users. You'll learn about Amazon AppStream 2.0, a service for streaming applications, and explore Amazon WorkSpaces, a fully managed desktop virtualization service. Finally, discover WorkSpaces Web for accessing web-based desktops.
Frontend Web and Mobile
This section covers AWS services for building web and mobile applications. You'll learn about AWS Amplify, a service for building full-stack web and mobile applications. Explore Amazon API Gateway, a service for creating, managing, and securing APIs. Discover AWS Device Farm, a service for testing mobile applications.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Explore the world of connecting devices to the cloud. This section covers AWS IoT Core, a managed cloud platform for connecting and managing IoT devices. You'll also delve into AWS IoT Greengrass, a service for running AWS services on edge devices.
Machine Learning
This section unlocks the power of machine learning on AWS. You'll learn about Amazon Comprehend, a natural language processing service, and Amazon Kendra, a service for building intelligent search experiences. Explore Amazon Lex, a service for building conversational chatbots, and Amazon Polly, a service for converting text to speech. Discover Amazon Rekognition, a service for image and video analysis, and Amazon SageMaker, a service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models. Finally, you'll be introduced to Amazon Textract, a service for extracting text and data from documents, Amazon Transcribe, a service for converting speech to text, and Amazon Translate, a service for translating text.
Management and Governance
This section focuses on managing and governing your AWS resources. You'll learn about the AWS CLI, a command-line interface for interacting with AWS services. Explore AWS CloudFormation, a service for provisioning infrastructure as code, and delve into AWS CloudTrail, a service for auditing and logging AWS API calls. Gain knowledge of Amazon CloudWatch, a service for monitoring AWS resources, and explore AWS Compute Optimizer for optimizing your AWS resources. Discover AWS Config for continuously monitoring the configuration of your AWS resources, AWS Control Tower for managing multiple AWS accounts, and AWS Health Dashboard for monitoring the health of AWS services. You'll also learn about AWS License Manager for managing software licenses, AWS Management Console for managing AWS resources, AWS Organizations for managing multiple AWS accounts, AWS Service Catalog for managing and distributing AWS services, AWS Systems Manager for managing and automating your AWS infrastructure, AWS Trusted Advisor for identifying potential cost savings and security vulnerabilities, and the AWS Well-Architected Tool for assessing your AWS architecture.
Migration and Transfer
This section explores AWS services for migrating workloads to the cloud. You'll learn about AWS Application Discovery Service for discovering on-premises applications, AWS Application Migration Service for migrating applications to AWS, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) for migrating databases, and AWS Migration Hub for managing migrations to AWS. Discover AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) for converting database schemas, AWS Snow Family for transferring large datasets, and AWS Transfer Family for transferring files to and from AWS.
Networking and Content Delivery
This section covers AWS services for building and managing networks and delivering content. You'll learn about Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN) service, AWS Direct Connect for establishing dedicated connections to AWS, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for distributing traffic across multiple instances. Explore AWS Global Accelerator for improving application performance, Amazon Route 53 for managing DNS, and Amazon VPC for creating private virtual networks. Finally, you'll delve into AWS Client VPN for connecting to AWS resources, and AWS Site-to-Site VPN for connecting on-premises networks to AWS.
Security, Identity, and Compliance
This section focuses on securing your AWS resources and ensuring compliance. You'll learn about AWS Artifact, a service for accessing AWS security and compliance documentation. Explore AWS Audit Manager for managing security audits, and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for managing SSL/TLS certificates. Discover AWS CloudHSM for managing hardware security modules, Amazon Cognito for managing user identities, Amazon Detective for investigating security events, and AWS Directory Service for managing Active Directory in AWS. You'll also gain knowledge of AWS Firewall Manager for centrally managing security groups, Amazon GuardDuty for detecting threats, AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS Single Sign-On) for managing user identities, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for managing access to AWS resources, Amazon Inspector for scanning for security vulnerabilities, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) for managing encryption keys, Amazon Macie for detecting sensitive data, AWS Network Firewall for managing network firewalls, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) for sharing resources across accounts, AWS Secrets Manager for managing secrets, AWS Security Hub for managing security alerts, AWS Shield for protecting against DDoS attacks, AWS WAF for protecting against web attacks.
Storage
Explore the storage options available in AWS. This section covers AWS Backup for managing backups, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for persistent block storage, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for replicating on-premises workloads to AWS, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for shared file storage, and Amazon S3 for object storage.