Architecting on AWS course material links

Please not that this is not a prep course for the “AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate” certification!

This document contains links mentioned in the “Architecting on AWS” course.

Module 0: Course Introduction

Full name: Architecting on AWS

Product code: 200-ARCHIT-78

These links are based on the course version 7.8.1.

The official course material: eVantage Bookshelf (VitalSource)

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Architecting on AWS - Online Course Supplement (OCS)

AWS Documentation

Additional material: AWS Skill Builder

AWS Services

• Amazon EC2 - Overview
• Amazon S3 - Overview
• Amazon RDS - Overview
• Amazon VPC - Overview
• AWS Lambda - Overview

Module 1: Architecting Fundamentals

Websites

• Migrate to the Cloud
• AWS Products
• AWS Data Centers
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• Regions & AZs
• AWS Local Zones
• Amazon CloudFront Features
• Successful Solutions Architects Do These Five Things
• AWS Well-Architected Labs
• AWS Well-Architected Tool
• AWS Well-Architected Tool Console
• New – AWS Well-Architected Tool
• AWS Well-Architected
• Installing the AWS CLI version 2
• Getting Started with the AWS CDK

AWS Services

• Amazon CloudFront - Overview
• AWS Well-Architected Tool - Overview
• AWS CloudFormation - Overview

Module 2: Account Security

Websites

• Security Best Practices in IAM
• IAM Best Practices: Grant Least Privilege
• What Is IAM?
• Access Management for AWS Resources
• Identity Federation - Amazon Web Services
• IAM Users
• AWS security credentials
• Managing Passwords for IAM Users
• Quick Configuration with AWS Configure
• IAM User Groups
• AWS Security Token Service (STS) API Reference
• Using IAM Roles
• Security best practices in IAM
• Policy Evaluation Logic
• Identity-Based Policies and Resource-Based Policies
• Service Control Policies (SCPs)
• How to Use Service Control Policies in AWS Organizations

AWS Services

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Overview
• AWS Organizations - Overview

Module 3: Networking 1/2

Websites

• What Is Amazon VPC?
• IP Addressing in Your VPC
• Internet Gateways
• Route Tables
• How do I modify the IPv4 CIDR block of my Amazon VPC?
• Network ACLs
• Security Groups
• Configuring Your VPC
• NAT Gateways

AWS Services

• Amazon VPC - Overview

Module 4: Compute

Websites

• Tagging AWS Resources
• Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
• Amazon EC2 Instance Types
• Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts
• Placement Groups
• What is Amazon Elastic Block Store?
• Amazon EBS Volume Types
• EBS Volume Types
• Using Spot Instances
• Western Digital HDD Simulation at Cloud Scale
• Serverless Computing - Amazon Web Services
• Lambda Function Scaling
• AWS Lambda Pricing
• Announcing AWS Lambda Function URLs
• AWS Lambda Applications and Use Cases

AWS Services

• Amazon EC2 - Overview
• AWS Lambda - Overview

Module 5: Storage

Websites

• How AWS Partners Are Utilizing Amazon S3 to Help Customers Solve for Scale
• Amazon S3 Object Keys
• Using Amazon S3 Block Public Access
• Setting Object Ownership
• Using Server-Side Encryption with Amazon S3-Managed Encryption Keys (SSE-S3)
• Amazon S3 Pricing
• Amazon S3 Glacier
• Using Versioning
• Amazon S3 Object Lock
• Lifecycle Transition - Considerations and Limitations
• Managing Your Storage Lifecycle
• How to Meet Business Data Resiliency with Amazon S3 Cross-Region Replication
• Amazon S3 Replication
• Uploading Objects Using Multipart Upload API
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Speed Comparison
• Reliable Event Processing with Amazon S3 Event Notifications
• AWS Pricing Calculator
• Multi-Attach Amazon EBS Volumes
• Amazon EFS for Enterprise Applications
• When to Choose Amazon FSx
• Comparing Your On-Premises Storage Patterns with AWS Storage Services
• AWS Snowball FAQs
• What is AWS Snowball Edge?
• AWS Snow Family

AWS Services

• Amazon S3 - Overview
• Amazon EFS - Overview
• Amazon FSx - Overview
• AWS Snowball - Overview

Module 6: Database Services

Websites

• AWS Database Services
• Relational Databases on AWS
• Non-Relational (NoSQL) Databases on AWS
• Read Replicas for Amazon RDS
• Amazon Aurora Storage and Reliability
• Amazon DynamoDB Gaming Use Cases and Design Patterns
• Amazon DynamoDB Auto Scaling Performance and Cost Optimization at Any Scale
• Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables
• Caching Strategies with Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached
• Amazon ElastiCache
• Redis vs Memcached - Amazon ElastiCache
• DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) User Guide
• AWS Schema Conversion Tool
• Performance at Scale with Amazon ElastiCache (PDF)

AWS Services

• Amazon RDS - Overview
• Amazon DynamoDB - Overview
• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis - Overview
• Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached - Overview
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) - Overview

Module 7: Monitoring and Scaling

Websites

• What is Amazon CloudWatch?
• Logging and events
• Store and Monitor OS & Application Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch
• Working with log groups and log streams
• Collect metrics, logs, and traces with the CloudWatch agent
• CloudTrail Supported Services and Integrations
• VPC Flow Logs
• Improve Security by Analyzing VPC Flow Logs with Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights
• Create Alarms That Send Email
• Amazon EventBridge Integrations
• Elastic Load Balancing Features
• AWS Application Load Balancer Supports AWS PrivateLink and Static IP Addresses for Network Load Balancer
• Create a Launch Template
• Create a Launch Configuration Using an EC2 Instance
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Groups
• Configure AWS CloudWatch Inputs - Splunk Documentation
• Amazon CloudWatch Architecture
• Amazon CloudWatch Concepts
• Use Multiple Instance Types and Purchase Options

AWS Services

• Amazon CloudWatch - Overview
• AWS CloudTrail - Overview

Module 8: Automation

Websites

• Complete CI/CD with AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
• Integrate GitHub with AWS CodePipeline
• Walkthrough: Refer to Resource Outputs in Another AWS CloudFormation Stack
• Updating Stacks Using Change Sets
• CloudFormation template sections
• Parameters - AWS CloudFormation
• Best Practices - AWS CloudFormation
• Working with AWS CloudFormation Templates Using AWS CloudFormation Designer
• AWS Solutions Library
• What is AWS Systems Manager?
• Accelerate Your Software Development Lifecycle with Amazon Q
• Using the Q Language and IDE Support
• AWS CDK Features

AWS Services

• AWS CodeCommit - Overview
• AWS CodePipeline - Overview
• AWS CodeBuild - Overview
• AWS CodeDeploy - Overview
• AWS CloudFormation - Overview
• AWS Systems Manager - Overview

Module 9: Containers

Websites

• Simple Microservices Architecture on AWS
• Service Discovery - Amazon Elastic Container Service
• Kubernetes on AWS
• Amazon EKS Features
• Amazon ECS Features
• Cluster Auto Scaling - Amazon ECS
• AWS Fargate – Serverless Compute for Containers
• Building, Deploying, and Operating Containerized Applications with AWS Fargate
• Using AWS CLI with Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate
• Building a Cloud Operating Model
• Amazon EKS Distro
• Amazon EKS Anywhere
• Amazon ECS Anywhere
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
• Amazon ECS Clusters

AWS Services

• Amazon ECS - Overview
• Amazon EKS - Overview
• AWS Fargate - Overview

Module 10: Networking 2/2

Websites

• Architecting on AWS - Online Course Supplement
• AWS PrivateLink - Endpoint Services Overview
• Gateway Endpoints for Amazon S3 and DynamoDB
• Interface VPC Endpoints (AWS PrivateLink)
• AWS Services That Integrate with AWS PrivateLink
• Amazon VPC Limits
• AWS Site-to-Site VPN - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
• AWS Direct Connect
• AWS VPN Pricing
• AWS Direct Connect Pricing
• AWS Transit Gateway
• AWS Transit Gateway Use Cases
• How AWS Transit Gateways Work

AWS Services

• Amazon VPC - Overview
• AWS VPN - Overview
• AWS Direct Connect - Overview
• AWS Transit Gateway - Overview

Module 11: Serverless

Websites

• Serverless Computing
• Signature Version 4 Signing Process
• Building Loosely Coupled Applications with SQS and SNS
• Loosely Coupled Scenarios
• Standard Queues - SQS
• FIFO Queues - SQS
• Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
• Amazon Kinesis
• What is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?
• Using AWS Step Functions with Other Services
• AWS Step Functions States
• Amazon States Language Specification
• Standard vs. Express Workflows - AWS Step Functions
• awslabs/statelint: A linter for Amazon States Language JSON files
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Features

AWS Services

• Amazon SQS - Overview
• Amazon SNS - Overview
• AWS Step Functions - Overview
• Amazon Kinesis - Overview

Module 12: Edge Services

Websites

• Monitoring Health Checks - Amazon Route 53
• Working with Hosted Zones - Amazon Route 53
• Routing Policy - Amazon Route 53
• Dynamic Content Acceleration - Amazon CloudFront
• Configuring Caching Behavior on CloudFront
• AWS Shield Pricing
• Getting Started with AWS WAF
• AWS WAF Rule Statements
• Use AWS Firewall Manager to Deploy Protection at Scale in AWS Organizations
• Centrally Manage AWS WAF and AWS Managed Rules at Scale with Firewall Manager
• AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency
• AWS Outposts Requirements
• What is AWS Outposts?
• AWS Shield
• AWS WAF

AWS Services

• Amazon Route 53 - Overview
• Amazon CloudFront - Overview
• AWS WAF - Overview
• AWS Shield - Overview
• AWS Firewall Manager - Overview
• AWS Outposts - Overview

Module 13: Backup and Recovery

Websites

• AWS Backup – Centralized Cloud Backup
• AWS Backup – Automate and Centrally Manage Your Backups
• Monitoring AWS Backup Jobs
• Managing Backups Across AWS Accounts
• Creating a Backup Plan - AWS Backup
• Identify AWS resources with Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)
• Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS – Part III: Pilot Light and Warm Standby
• Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS – Part IV: Multi-Site Active-Active
• AWS Backup Features

AWS Services

• AWS Backup - Overview

Module 14: Course Summary

Websites

• AWS Certification exam preparation
• AWS Certification
• AWS Recertification
• All AWS Certification exams
• Schedule an Exam
• AWS Skill Builder subscription
• AWS Training and Certification
• AWS Online Tech Talks
• AWS Ramp-Up Guides

Courses

• AWS Skill Builder
• AWS Builder Labs
• AWS Workshops