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Our 3-day Amazon course prepares you to become an AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate, showing you understand how to design and deploy secure applications using AWS technologies.

The training demonstrates how to design effective AWS infrastructure using proven best practices and principles. It will show you how infrastructure can be designed for greater scalability, reliability and availability and prepare you for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam.

Who should take this course

  • Cloud Infrastructure Engineers
  • Cloud Solution Architects
  • Integration Architects
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Platform Engineers
  • Technical Leads
  • IT Operations/Architecture Leads
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Prerequisites

You should have good knowledge of the essentials of AWS and familiarity with networking and cloud computing concepts.

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What Will You Learn

  • Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
  • Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
  • Leverage AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
  • Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
  • Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions
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  Course Overview

As well as instructor-led training, the course also features 5 hands-on labs, allowing you to practice your skills and understand how to use technologies such as Amazon CloudFormation and Amazon CloudFront.

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  Course Content

AWS Foundations

  • Core AWS Computing
  • Cloud Concepts
  • AWS Storage
  • Event-Driven Scaling
  • Amazon VPC
  • VPC Networking Fundamentals
  • Elastic Network Interface
  • VPC Peering
  • Routing Inside VPC
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • CloudFront
  • Identity and Asset Management (IAM)
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
  • Route 53

Designing AWS-based Systems

  • Core AWS Architectural Principles
  • EC2
  • DynamoDB
  • Fault Tolerance
    • Amazon SQS
    • Amazon S3
    • Amazon SimpleDB
    • Amazon RDS
  • Cost Efficiency
  • Elastic Load Balancer

Implementation and Deployment

  • Scaling Applications
  • Direct Connect
  • Large Datastore Designs

Data Security

  • AWS Compliance
  • Secure AWS
  • Security Platform
  • Security, Identity, and Compliance Products
  • Cloud Deployment Models
  • Cloud Security Model
  • Shared Responsibility Model

 

Hands-On Labs

Lab 1 - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  • Creating a VPC
  • Creating the Subnets, Route Tables, and Internet Gateway
  • Launching a Web-Server Instance into the Public Subnet
  • Launching an EC2 Instance into the Private Subnet as a Mock Database Server
  • Connecting to the Machines
  • Setting Up Network Address Translation Gateway

Lab 2 – Identity Access and Management

  • Creating a New User
  • Create Administrators Group
  • Adding Users to the Administrators Group
  • Creating Developers Group
  • Adding Users to the Developers Group
  • Creating a Role
  • Launching an EC2 Instance with a Role
  • Checking Role Permissions

Lab 3 – Route 53

  • Registering a Domain Name
  • Configuring Domain for Use with Route 53
  • Configure Domain Record Sets
  • Creating a Route 53 DNS Failover Server

Lab 4 – Amazon CloudFormation

  • Creating a Stack
  • Deleting a Stack

Lab 5 – Amazon CloudFront

  • Creating an Amazon S3 Bucket and Populating it with Files
  • Starting up a WordPress Instance
  • Configuring a Cloud Distribution

 

Exam Preparation

  • Practice Assignments
  • Understanding the exam format
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About Buxton

Buxton is located at an elevation of 960 feet above sea level in Derbyshire, England. Buxton is also famous as the “gateway to the Peak District National Park”.

History

The town is believed to have been settled by the Romans who lived there throughout the occupation. Later, in the 18th century, the town was developed by the Dukes of Devonshire. After about a hundred years Buxton got introduced to the Victorians who developed it for the healing properties of the waters.

Healing Properties of the Water

Buxton has been known for its geothermal springs that emanate from the River Wye. The spring waters rise at a temperature of 28oC constantly. The fifth Duke of Devonshire is said to have developed the town as a spa from his own profits.

Festivals

The Buxton Festival

The Buxton Festival was founded in 1979 and continues for a three weeks period in July. It is an opera and arts festival that runs at various venues including the Opera House. Various programs are included in this festival. During the festival, literary events, concerts and recitals are also held.

The Buxton Festival Fringe

The festival runs just alongside The Buxton Festival and is a warm-up or prelude to the Edinburg Fringe. The Buxton fringe hosts various kinds of cultural events and films in different venues around the town. In 2014 it had featured 600 such events from 150 plus different entrants.

People

Many known names belong to the town of Buxton. They include

  • Robert Stevenson who directed many pictures for Disney
  • John Buxton Hilton – British Crime Writer

Misc

Buxton hosts the Four Four Time music Festival every Feburary. It  features    rock, pop, folk, blues, jazz and world music. Buxton has various museums and art galleries that feature collections of local artefacts. They also display geological and archaeological samples and 19th- and 20th-century paintings. 

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