Learn how to implement a reliable application architecture using AWS best practices. This training will sharpen your AWS architecture skills for the real world!

Course Overview
Getting Started
Configuring Additional IAM Best Practices
Configuring Additional IAM Best Practices
What We Will Cover
Managing Service Limits with Trusted Advisor
Protecting from DDoS Attacks Using AWS Shield
Implementing Change Management with AWS Config
Configuring Alarms and Notifications with CloudWatch
Key Takeaways
Understanding Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Audit Logging with CloudTrail
What We Will Cover
Eliminating Single Points of Failure
Launching an EC2 Instance into an Availability Zone
Regions and Availability Zones
Vertical and Horizontal Scaling
Key Takeaways
Implementing Loose Coupling
Architecting with Services Instead of Servers
What We Will Cover
Validating Outbound Internet Access Through NAT Gateways
Controlling Traffic with Security Groups and ACLs
Hybrid Networking with Amazon VPC
Key Takeaways
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Overview
Implementing a Load Balancer in a VPC
Adding Public and Private Subnets to an Existing VPC
Creating a Custom VPC with Public and Private Subnets
Domain and DNS Registration with Route 53
Building the Data Tier with Amazon RDS
Configuring SSL on the Load Balancer
Key Takeaways
Configuring Security Groups for the App and Data Tiers
What We Will Cover
Implementing Shared Storage Using Amazon EFS
Load Balancing the App Tier on EC2 Instances
Configuring the WordPress Installation
Validating Automatic Self Healing Servers
Infrastructure Automation with CloudFormation
Automating Deployments with Auto Scaling Groups
Automatic Recovery of a Failed Availability Zone
Common Automated Deployment Patterns
Key Takeaways
Scaling Dynamically Based on Resource Utilization
What We Will Cover
Active/Active Multi-region Architecture
Setting up Health Checks in Route 53
What We Will Cover
Creating a Route 53 Failover Record Set
Key Takeaways
Warm Standby Architecture
Pilot Light Architecture