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Architecting Solutions on AWS (edX)

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Architecting Solutions on AWS (edX)

Are you looking to get more technical? Are you looking to begin working in the cloud, but don’t know where to go next? Are you puzzled how to match a customer’s requirements with the right AWS services/solutions? If so, you are in the right place!! You’ll learn how to plan, think, and act like a Solution Architect in a real-life customer scenario.

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In this course, you’ll get prepared to begin your career architecting solutions on AWS. Through a series of use case scenarios and practical learning, you’ll learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure, and highly available IT solutions in the AWS Cloud. Each week, a fictional customer will present a different need. We will then review the options, choose the best one for the use case and walk you through the architecture design on a whiteboard. You’ll learn about event-driven architectures with a focus on performance efficiency and cost. You’ll then gain knowledge on how to architect a solution using many purpose-built AWS services. With this understanding, you’ll get a sense of hybrid architectures with a refined focus on reliability and operational efficiency. Finally, you’ll wrap up your learning by understanding a multi-account strategy centered on security and cost.
This course is part of the Cloud Solutions Architecture Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

  • Develop a customer solution using Amazon API Gateway
  • Differentiate between Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS
  • Describe Amazon Lambda and when it is used
  • Summarize the various use cases for DynamoDB
  • Solve the customer's use case which needs a data analytics solution in AWS
  • Derive insights using clickstream data
  • Recall the various use cases for using Amazon Kinesis Firehose and Amazon Quicksight
  • Recognize when you would use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  • Evaluate ways to migrate container workloads to AWS using a hybrid model
  • Differentiate between Amazon ECS and Amazon ECS Anywhere
  • Learn different ways the solution could be optimized using container-based workloads
  • Evaluate when to use Amazon Relational Database Services
  • Formulate an account management strategy that follows best practices on governance and standards
  • Demonstrate when to use AWS Organizations
  • Discuss AWS IAM Identity Center in great detail
  • Recall when it is important to use AWS CloudTrail
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