AWS Cloud Architect

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In this lesson, you will review the course prerequisites and history of the high level concepts. You will learn what makes these topics important and you'll get a glimpse at the course project.

Overview of AWS Regions and Availability Zones and how they are used to enable high availability and geographic redundancy.

In this lesson you will learn how to make individual AWS services resilient. You'll look at native and non-native services and learn about the difference between them with regard to high availability

A look at how resilience and availability are measure by your business and how these engineering concepts integrate with the day-to-day business world.

Now that you've seen how to build highly available systems, you'll take a look at how to make sure that these systems are up and running and what to do when problems do occur.

Project Description - Recoverability In AWS

Project Rubric - Recoverability In AWS

Welcome to the course! In this lesson we'll start with a discussion of the importance of performance efficiency, look at the history of performance in the cloud and get you set up for the rest of the course.

Managing cloud spend is quoted as one of the major challenges facing organizations today. This lesson will help you understand the challenges of costs in the cloud and give you some tools to help you manage those costs.

Performance and cloud resources are closely related to costs and resource allocation. In this lesson, we will explore ways to utilize AWS services to optimize performance.

Writing Infrastructure as Code

Serverless computing is an architecture model where a cloud provider offers scalable, flexible, and low-cost backend services as needed.

In this project, you will plan, design, provision, and monitor infrastructure in AWS using industry-standard and open source tools.

Project Description - Design, Provision and Monitor AWS Infrastructure at Scale

Project Rubric - Design, Provision and Monitor AWS Infrastructure at Scale

The who, what, when, and why of Designing for Security in the cloud.

After this lesson, you will be able to secure access for both AWS users and applications, apply security best practices such as identity federation, and fine tune least privilege access permissions.

After this lesson, you will be able to access cloud resources securely, protect against data exfiltration, ensure compliance, and configure VPC endpoints to keep traffic within your VPC.

Our goal is to minimize the risk of a malicious actor accessing our networks and servers, invoke the AWS API, and, ultimately, perform destructive or unauthorized actions in our environments.

You will identify vulnerable misconfigurations, guard against malicious activity, and design a deployment pipeline that ensures that security practices are implemented early on.

Project Description - Securing the Recipe Vault Web Application

Project Rubric - Securing the Recipe Vault Web Application

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Project Description - Improve Your LinkedIn Profile

Project Rubric - Improve Your LinkedIn Profile

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Project Description - Optimize Your GitHub Profile

Project Rubric - Optimize Your GitHub Profile