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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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Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne is also known as Newcastle is a city located in North East of England. Newcastle is 166 km south of Edinburgh, 466 km north of London on River Tyne northern bank. It is a populous city in Northeast and also forms the core of Tyneside conurbation. This core of Tyneside is the eighth most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Earlier, Newcastle was part of Northumberland County until 1400 when it became country itself. Newcastle is a home to Newcastle University. University is a member of Russel group and Northumbria University.

The city was developed during ancient settlement. Newcastle got its name after a castle built in 1080 by Robert Curthose. It grew as an important wool trade centre in the 14th century and later as major coal mining area. In Newcastle port was developed in the 16th century. Shipyards down the River Tyne was among the world largest shipbuilding as well as ship repairing centres. Newcastle economy includes digital technology, tourism, retail, cultural centres, corporate headquarters and learning. With the help of these city contributes 13 Billion Euro toward GVA of United Kingdom. Icons of Newcastle are Tyne Bridge and Newcastle United Football.

History

Electric trams started in Newcastle upon Tyne streets in 1901. Later these trams were replaced by buses. In 1901 Laing Art Gallery was established. Shipley Art Gallery was opened in 1917. The first cinema in Newcastle was opened in 1909. In 1900 Redneugh Road Bridge was built. In 1906 King Edward VII Railways Bridge was established. In 1925 Hatton Gallery was founded and In 1928 Tyne Bridge, a Suspension bridge was erected. In 20th-century coal exports decreased. In 1956 last coal mine that was located within boundaries of Newcastle was closed. Shipbuilding also decreased. During 1930’s mass unemployment occurred in Newcastle. In 2000 Life Science Centre was opened and In 2001 Millennium Bridge was opened. The present population of Newcastle Upon Tyne is 284,000.

Economy

During the 19th century, Newcastle played a significant role in the industrial revolution. Newcastle was leading centre for shipbuilding, coal mining, engineering, manufacturing and munitions. In the second half of 20th century, heavy industries declined. The city is known for its commitment to environment related issues. A programme was planned for Newcastle to become ‘the first Carbon Neutral town’. These plans slowly slipped, and now it hopes to become carbon neutral by 2050. Newcastle is a commercial and educational focus for North East England. The economy of Newcastle contributes around 13 billion Euros to UK GVA. Central Business District is situated in the Centre of the city. This is bounded by the central station, Haymarket and Quayside areas.

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