CLS
Cloud Architect

Architecting on AWS — Corporate Diploma

Hands-on cloud architecture training delivered for in-house teams and individuals.

Bestseller 4.9 (228 Ratings)
Total Duration
80 Hours
Level
Intermediate
Category
Software Development
About this course

Course Overview

Architecting on AWS covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. The course is designed to teach solutions architects how to optimize the use of AWS services and how these services fit into cloud-based solutions. It emphasizes AWS cloud best practices and recommended design patterns to help students think through the process of optimizing IT solutions.

Target Audience

Solutions Architects
DevOps Engineers
Corporate IT Teams

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of distributed systems
Familiarity with general networking concepts
Familiarity with multi-tier architectures

Course Outline

Define core cloud computing models, infrastructure regions, and availability zones.
Deploy virtual servers and configure basic access rights following the AWS shared responsibility model.
Understand account security flaws, cost overruns, and resource leakages.
Understand Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), public/private subnets, and classless routing rules.
Build custom VPC topologies, establish internet gateways, and secure traffic via security groups.
Address subnets size miscalculations, routing loops, and missing route table entries.
Study load balancing mechanisms, health checks, autoscaling groups, and failover concepts.
Provision an elastic load balancer distributing requests to autoscaling virtual machine instances.
Configure multi-AZ deployments to prevent single point of failures and avoid session state issues.
Differentiate object storage (S3), block storage (EBS), relational databases (RDS), and NoSQL engines (DynamoDB).
Create S3 buckets with lifecycle rules and launch multi-AZ RDS database instances.
Address slow queries by indexing keys, securing public bucket policies, and tuning write capacities.
Learning outcomes

What you'll learn

AWS Infrastructure Planning
Autoscaling & Load Balancing
CI/CD Pipelines & Tooling

Skills you'll learn

20 skills
AWS Global Infrastructure
Amazon VPC
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
AWS IAM
Amazon RDS
AWS Lambda
Amazon DynamoDB
Auto Scaling
Elastic Load Balancing

Certificate

CLS Corporate Cloud Architect Certificate

Official certificate awarded upon completing the AWS corporate diploma curriculum and hands-on labs.

  • Industry-recognized certification
  • AWS partner validated content
  • Hands-on design defense
Architecting on AWS — Corporate Diploma

Available Schedules

Potential Career Paths

AWS Solutions Architect
Cloud Systems Engineer
DevOps Cloud Specialist

Frequently Asked Questions

Architecting on AWS — Corporate Diploma is a practical training course at CLS designed to build job-relevant skills in AWS architect. It combines expert-led instruction, guided practice and applied learning so participants can understand the core concepts, use the relevant tools and prepare for real professional tasks. The detailed syllabus, duration, delivery options, learning outcomes and prerequisites are listed on this course page.
Vouchers can be bundled depending on your corporate training package.
We require at least 5 attendees to organize a private cohort.