Advanced Architecting on AWS-3 Days - AWS Authorised Instructor Led

🌐 Design, Secure, and Optimize Modern Cloud Architectures with AWS 🚀 Ready to level up your cloud architecture skills with real-world labs, hybrid network design, and modern DevOps practices?

In this expert-led, immersive course, you’ll go beyond theory and get hands-on with AWS technologies that power secure, high-performance, hybrid, and containerized environments. From securing S3 endpoints to designing hybrid networks and building containers—you’ll walk away with the skills to architect cloud solutions with confidence.

👨‍💻 Whether you're an architect, engineer, or cloud security specialist, this course gives you the hands-on experience and architectural best practices to drive scalable, secure, and modern AWS solutions.

👉 Enroll today to master modern cloud architecture with real AWS tools—from hybrid design to container deployment.

This course is intended for: • Cloud architects • Solutions architects • Anyone who designs solutions for cloud infrastructures

We recommend that attendees of this course have: • Knowledge and experience with core AWS services from the Compute, Storage, Networking, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) categories • Attended the Architecting on AWS classroom training OR • Achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification OR • Have at least 1 year of experience operating AWS workloads

Course outline Day 1 Module 1: Reviewing Architecting Concepts • Group Exercise: Review Architecting on AWS core best practices • Lab 1: Securing Amazon S3 VPC Endpoint Communications

Module 2: Single to Multiple Accounts • AWS Organizations for multi-account access and permissions • AWS SSO to simplify access and authentication across AWS accounts and third-party services • AWS Control Tower • Permissions, access, and authentication

Module 3: Hybrid Connectivity • AWS Client VPN authentication and control • AWS Site-to-Site VPN • AWS Direct Connect for hybrid public and private connections • Increasing bandwidth and reducing cost • Basic, high, and maximum resiliency • Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS resolution

Module 4: Specialized Infrastructure • AWS Storage Gateway solutions • On-demand VMware Cloud on AWS • Extending cloud infrastructure services with AWS Outposts • AWS Local Zones for latency-sensitive workloads • Your 5G network with and without AWS Wavelength

Module 5: Connecting Networks • Simplifying private subnet connections • VPC isolation with a shared services VPC • Transit Gateway Network Manager and VPC Reachability Analyzer • AWS Resource Access Manager • AWS PrivateLink and endpoint services • Lab 2: Configuring Transit Gateways

Day 2 Module 6: Containers • Container solutions compared to virtual machines • Docker benefits, components, solutions architecture, and versioning • Container hosting on AWS to reduce cost • Managed container services: Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) • AWS Fargate • Lab 3: Deploying an Application with Amazon ECS on Fargate

Module 7: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) • CI/CD solutions and impact • CI/CD automation with AWS CodePipeline • Deployment models • AWS CloudFormation StackSets to improve deployment management

Module 8: High Availability and DDoS Protection • Common DDoS attacks layers • AWS WAF • AWS WAF web access control lists (ACLs), real-time metrics, logs, and security automation • AWS Shield Advanced services and AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) services • AWS Network Firewall and AWS Firewall Manager to protect accounts at scale

Module 9: Securing Data • What cryptography is, why you would use it, and how to use it • AWS KMS • AWS CloudHSM architecture • FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and Level 3 encryption • Secrets Manager

Module 10: Large-Scale Data Stores • Amazon S3 data storage management including storage class, inventory, metrics, and policies • Data lake vs. data warehouse: Differences, benefits, and examples • AWS Lake Formation solutions, security, and control • Lab 4: Setting Up a Data Lake with Lake Formation

Day 3 Module 11: Large-Scale Applications • What edge services are and why you would use them • Improve performance and mitigate risk with Amazon CloudFront • Lambda@Edge • AWS Global Accelerator: IP addresses, intelligent traffic distribution, and health checks • Lab 5: Migrating an On-Premises NFS Share Using AWS DataSync and Storage Gateway

Module 12: Optimizing Cost • On-premises and cloud acquisition/deprecation cycles • Cloud cost management tools including reporting, control, and tagging • Examples and analysis of the five pillars of cost optimization

Module 13: Migrating Workloads • Business drivers and the process for migration • Successful customer practices • The 7 Rs to migrate and modernize • Migration tools and services from AWS • Migrating databases and large data stores • AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)

Module 14: Capstone Project