Course SAA-C03 AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Objectives

• Identify and understand AWS infrastructure services
• Learn about and work with the security tools and features provided by AWS and how they integrate with other services.
• Acquire skills to identify how AWS services fulfill a specific role in a specific requirement.

Audience profile

This course is intended for Solution Architects, Solution Design Engineers, and other IT-related professionals, as well as for individuals planning to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exams.

Prerequisites

• Practical knowledge of distribution systems.
• Knowledge of general network concepts.
• Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures.
• Knowledge of cloud computing concepts.

Intensity and Schedules

• Live virtual training.
• With an intensity of 32 hours, the training is given 3 times a week from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm Colombia time.



Module 1 – Introduction to AWS

Lessons :

1. Cloud service model
2. Introduction to AWS
3. AWS Global Infrastructure
4. AWS Region Availability Zones
5. Replication of data between regions
6. AWS services

Lab – Exploring the AWS managing console

Module 2: AWS Security Management

Lessons:

1. Identity and access management IAM
2. Identity and credential management
3. IAM Best Practices
4. Creating api keys to access AWS services
5. Key Management System (MS AND CLOUD HSM)
6. AWS Billing and Alerts
7. GUARDDUTY detection control
8. lInfrastructure protection through WAF AND SHIELD
9. Data protection through KMS and CLOUD HSM

Activity Guide – Managing Users, Permissions, Groups, Policy, and Items with IAM.

Lab : AWS Billing and Alert Creation

Module 3: Object Storage Options

Lessons:

1. Traditions vs cloud storage
2. Different storage options on AWS
3. Difference between S3, EBS and EFS
4. Cross Region Replication (CRR) and its use case
5. AMAZON S3 Transfer Acceleration
6. CLOUDFRONT AND SNOWBALL
7. STORAGE GATEWAY

Lab 1 – Creating S3 BUCKET

Lab 2 – Static Website on S3

lab 3 : replication across regions (use cases)

laboratorio 4: CLOUDFRONT

Module 4: Computing Environment Design

Lessons:

1. Computational virtualization
2. AMAZON ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD (EC2)
3. IMAGEN AMAZON MACHINE IMAGE (AMI)
4. HARDWARE TENANCY – shared vs. dedicated
5. ELASTIC NETWORK INTERFACE (ENI)
6. INSTANCE STORE
7. ELASTIC BLOCK STORE (EBS)
8. Solid state drive & hard disk drive
9. ELASTIC FILE SYSTEM (EFS)

Activity Guide – Creating EC2 Instances

Activity Guide: Creating and Managing EBS and SHAPSHOTS Volumes

Lab – EC2 Launch with Custom AMI

Module 5: Network and Monitoring Services

Lessons:

1. Traditional and virtual network
2. VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD (VPC)
3. CIDR- CLASSLESS INTER-DOMAIN ROUTING
4. Subnet, Internet Gateway, and Route Tables
5. Control List, NACL, and Security Group
6. NAT devices, GATEWAY and instance
7. VPC PEERING and its operation
8. CIDR- CLASSLESS INTER-DOMAIN ROUTING
9. AWS CLOUDWATCH
10. CLOUDTRAIL
11. TRUSTED ADVISOR and its operation.

Lab 1 – Create Custom VPC

Laboratorio 2: NAT GATEWAY

Laboratorio 3: VPC PEERING

Módulo 6: ELASTIC LOAD BALANCER, AUTOSCALING & ROUTE 53

Lessons:

1. ELASTIC LOAD BALANCER
2. Application vs classic vs network load balancer
3. LOAD BALANCER TROUBLESHOOT
4. AUTO SCALING & LIFECYCLE
5. ROUTE 53
6. ROUTING POLICIES

Laboratory 1 : ROUTE 53

Laboratorio 2: AUTOSCALING GROUP

Laboratorio 3: CLASSIC LOAD BALANCER

Laboratorio 4: NETWORK LOAD BALANCER

Module 7: Database Server and Analytics

Lessons:

1. Databases and types of database services on AWS
2. Amazon RDS y read replica
3. IAM and Amazon RDS
4. SQL Y NOSQL DATABASES
5. Amazon DYNAMODB
6. AMAZON ELASTICACHE, MEMCACHED AND REDIS
7. AMAZON REDSHIFT Y ARCHITECTURE

Lab 1 : Creating and using DB RDS

Laboratory 2 : creating and using DYNAMODB

Laboratorio 3: IN MEMORY DB REDIS

Laboratorio 4: AWS ATHENA

Module 8: Messaging Applications and Services

Lessons:

1. SIMPLE EMAIL SERVICE (SES)
2. lSIMPLE NOTIFICATION SERVICE (SNS)
3. SAS MOBILE PUSH
4. SIMPLE QUEUE SERVICE (SQS)
5. Long polling, visibility timeout y dead – letter queues
6. SIMPLE WORKFLOW SERVICE SWF
7. AMAZON MQ, EVENTBRIDGE
8. SERVERLESS COMPUTING LAMBDA

Laboratory 1 : Creation of SIMPLE EMAIL SERVICE (SES)

Laboratory 2 : Creation of SIMPLE NOTIFICATION SERVICE (SNS)

Laboratory 3 : Creation of SIMPLE QUEUE SERVICE (SQS)

Laboratorio 4:  AWS LAMBDA

Module 9: Configuration Management and Automation

Lessons:

1. Infrastructure as Code on AWS
2. CLOUDFORMATION and its components
3. AWS OPSWORKS SERVICES
4. lAUTO HEALING
5. ELASTIC BEANSTALK
6. BEANSTALK VS OPSWORKS VS CLOUD FORMATION

Laboratorio 1: AWS CLOUD FORMATION

Lab 2:  AWS OPSWORKS WITH CHEF

Laboratorio 3: AWS ELASTICBEANSTALK

Laboratorio 4 : CLOUDTRAIL

Module 10: Architecture on AWS 

Lessons:

1. AWS WELL. ARCHITECTED FRAMEWORK
2. Pilares de AWS WELL-ARCHITECTED
3. Highly available and tolerant architectures
4. resilient storage
5. Multi-tier architecture
6. DR implementation plans in case of disasters
7. high performance architecture

Module 11: Additional AWS Services

Lessons:

1. Computer science for end users: (DESKTOP, APPSTREAM, WORKDOCS AND WORKLINK)
2. AMAZON LIGHTSAIL
3. AWS SYSTEMS MANAGER

laboratory: configuring and implementing AMAZON WORKSPACES

Lab 1 : Configuring AMAZON WORKDOCS in AMAZON WORKSPACES

Lab 2 : Implementing WORDPRESS WITH AMAZON LIGHTSAILLab 3 : Implementing and using AWS SYSTEMS MANAGER