AWS Advanced – designing and implementing advanced cloud architectures

Course objectives

Providing an in-depth knowledge for software development teams and cloud administrator on Amazon Web Services technology. Implementing cloud cost control and  best cloud governance practices within the organization.

Benefits

The participants acquire the following knowledge:

• typical problems and challenges in scaling the AWS cloud infrastructure
• Libraries and approaches for programmatic control of the cloud infrastructure
• Rules and best practices for cloud cost control and optimization
• Data and security governance for the AWS cloud

The participants acquire the following capabilities:

• Manage and control cloud processing costs
• Programming and automating Amazon Web Services infrastructure with Python boto
• Creating AWS cloud formation scripts tat enable Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure automatization

Training scope

• Autoscaling application based on EC2 instances
  • Custom metrics for EC2 instances
  • Autoscaling configuration and optimal strategies
  • Purchase models for EC2 instances
• Scaling serverless architecture
  • Python boto Application programming interface
  • Advanced AWS Lambda performance issues
  • Decoupling serverless applications with queues and messaging mechanism
  • Integration of S3, Kinesis and DynamoDB
  • Automation and control of a serverless application
• Introduction to the AWS Cloud Formation
  • The concept of „infrastructure as a code”
  • Cloud Formation: template, stack, permissions
  • Creating YAML scripts for Cloud Formation
• Data warehouses and BI in the cloud
  • Building a data lake in the cloud
  • Redshift and managing ETL processes
  • Organizing BI processes with Amazon QuickSight
• Cost optimization for cloud infrastructure
  • Cost models for IaaS i serverless cloud services
  • Purchase models for computational resources (on-demand, reserved, spot)
  • Cost monitoring and optimization
• Recommended best practices and cloud governance
  • AWS Shared Responsibility Model
  • Managing cloud governance within an organization

Audience

Cloud infrastructure administrators, architects and developers of software implemented on the Amazon Web Services platform. Cloud migration teams. ICT managers.