AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Mastering Cloud Design for High-Impact Career Growth
You're under pressure. The cloud market is accelerating, and the gap between average professionals and elite architects is widening fast. You feel it - the urgency to prove your design expertise, to deliver solutions that scale, secure, and save costs, not just run workloads. Staying ahead means more than knowing AWS services. It means thinking like an architect, not a technician. It means confidently leading cloud strategy, earning trust at the executive level, and positioning yourself as the go-to expert when mission-critical systems are on the line. Without structured, battle-tested knowledge, even experienced engineers get stuck. They over-engineer, under-secure, or fail to align with real business needs. The accreditation feels out of reach. The job offers go to those with proven, systematic mastery. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Mastering Cloud Design for High-Impact Career Growth is your bridge from uncertainty to authority. This is not just preparation - it’s transformation. You’ll move from concept to cloud-ready architecture in weeks, equipped with a board-ready design portfolio and the confidence to pass the certification on your first attempt. Take it from Sarah K., Senior Infrastructure Lead in Frankfurt: “After six months of stalled job applications, I completed this course and passed the exam in 21 days. Three weeks later, I received two offers - one with a 42% salary increase and a lead architect title. The design frameworks alone were worth 10x the investment.” This isn’t luck. It’s method. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details This is a self-paced, on-demand program designed for working professionals who need clarity without compromise. Once enrolled, you gain immediate online access to the full curriculum, with no fixed dates, no live sessions, and no arbitrary deadlines. Study when it fits - during commutes, between meetings, or in deep focus blocks. Most learners complete the core modules in 4 to 6 weeks with consistent effort, and many report applying key principles to live projects within the first 72 hours. You’ll see measurable progress daily, from your first architecture decision matrix to your final validated design blueprint. You receive lifetime access to all course materials, including future updates at no additional cost. As AWS evolves, your knowledge stays current. The content is mobile-friendly, synchronised across devices, and available 24/7 from anywhere in the world, ensuring you learn on your terms. Continual Learning with Future-Proof Access
- Lifetime access to all core and advanced materials
- Ongoing curriculum updates reflecting the latest AWS features and compliance standards
- No expiration, no subscriptions, no forced renewals
- Progress tracking and learning checkpoints to reinforce retention
Personalised Support & Expert Guidance
You are not alone. Throughout the program, you have direct access to architect-level support. Our team of AWS-certified professionals provides detailed feedback on design submissions, answers technical queries, and helps you refine real-world solutions with precision. - Responsive instructor support via integrated messaging system
- Architecture review opportunities with expert annotations
- Guided troubleshooting for complex design challenges
- Specialised guidance for hybrid, multi-account, and enterprise-scale implementations
Trusted Certification & Recognition
Upon completion, you earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service - a globally recognised credential trusted by engineering leads, hiring managers, and IT directors across North America, Europe, and APAC. This is not a participation badge. It validates your ability to design secure, scalable, and cost-optimised cloud environments according to industry best practices. - Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Shareable, verifiable credential for LinkedIn and professional portfolios
- Recognised by AWS partner organisations and global tech employers
- Aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework and certification exam domains
Transparent, Risk-Free Enrollment
We remove all financial risk. If the course does not meet your expectations, you are covered by our full money-back guarantee. You can request a refund at any time - no questions, no forms, no friction. - One-time payment with no hidden fees or recurring charges
- Accepted payment methods: Visa, Mastercard, PayPal
- Immediate confirmation email post-enrollment
- Access details delivered separately once course materials are ready for optimal learning experience
- Full satisfied-or-refunded promise
“Will This Work for Me?” – Confidence You Can Count On
You might be thinking: “I’ve tried other resources. Will this be different?” Yes. This program was built for those who’ve already read the documentation, taken quizzes, and still lack the structural clarity to design confidently. It works even if you’re transitioning from on-prem environments, lack formal cloud experience, or have failed the certification before. The step-by-step methodology transforms ambiguity into action, turning service knowledge into architectural judgment. You’ll gain not just exam readiness, but real-world fluency - the kind that earns respect in architecture reviews and client meetings. With clear frameworks, repeatable processes, and proven patterns, you’ll build what matters: trust in your own decisions.
Module 1: Foundations of AWS Cloud Architecture - Understanding the AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
- Core principles of elasticity, scalability, and redundancy in cloud design
- Differentiating between Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service models
- Defining the role and responsibilities of a Solutions Architect
- Overview of the Shared Responsibility Model and its architectural implications
- Understanding IAM: Users, Groups, Roles, and Policies at scale
- Principles of least privilege and secure access design
- Multi-factor authentication and identity federation strategies
- Designing for fault tolerance across Availability Zones
- Implementing high availability with stateless application design
- Selecting the right EC2 instance families for performance and cost
- Understanding instance pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans
- Designing resilient storage with EBS, instance store, and root volume strategies
- Architecting with Amazon S3: durability, availability, and consistency models
- S3 storage classes and lifecycle policies for cost-optimised data management
- Securing data at rest with S3 encryption options and bucket policies
- Versioning, replication, and cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) configurations
Module 2: Designing for Scalability and Performance - Implementing Auto Scaling groups with dynamic scaling policies
- Designing for horizontal vs vertical scaling trade-offs
- Using launch templates and configuration best practices
- Integrating Elastic Load Balancing: Application, Network, and Gateway Load Balancers
- Routing strategies with target groups and health checks
- Session persistence and cross-zone load balancing considerations
- Performance optimisation using Amazon CloudFront and edge caching
- Configuring cache behaviours, invalidations, and signed URLs
- Integrating CloudFront with S3, EC2, and custom origins
- Using AWS Global Accelerator for latency-sensitive applications
- Designing for global user distribution and routing with Route 53
- Understanding DNS failover, latency-based, and geolocation routing
- Traffic flow and health check integration with Route 53
- Leveraging Amazon API Gateway for REST and WebSocket APIs
- Securing APIs with throttling, authorization, and request validation
- Optimising API performance with caching and usage plans
- Integrating with Lambda and backend services securely
Module 3: Security, Compliance, and Identity Governance - Designing secure network architectures with VPCs and subnets
- Public, private, and isolated subnet patterns
- IP addressing, CIDR blocks, and VPC peering strategies
- Implementing network access control with NACLs and security groups
- Differentiating stateful vs stateless filtering
- Understanding AWS WAF and Shield for DDoS protection
- Deploying Web Application Firewalls with custom rules and rate-based limiting
- Securing data in transit with TLS and ACM-managed certificates
- Using AWS Certificate Manager for certificate provisioning and renewal
- Managing secrets securely with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Integrating AWS Secrets Manager for automatic rotation and access control
- Using KMS for customer-managed keys and envelope encryption
- Key policies, grants, and encryption context best practices
- Implementing audit trails with AWS CloudTrail and integration patterns
- Monitoring API activity across regions and accounts
- Using Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection and anomaly identification
- Responding to findings with automated remediation workflows
- Designing compliance-ready architectures with AWS Config
- Evaluating resource configurations against predefined rules
- Creating custom compliance rules for internal standards
Module 4: Data Management and Storage Architecture - Selecting the right database for the workload: RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Aurora
- Understanding eventual consistency vs strong consistency models
- Designing highly available RDS with Multi-AZ and Read Replicas
- Failover strategies and backup retention policies
- Automated snapshots and point-in-time recovery implementation
- Scaling DynamoDB with provisioned and on-demand capacity modes
- Using Global Tables for multi-region replication
- Designing with secondary indexes and partition key strategies
- Architecting with Amazon ElastiCache: Redis and Memcached clusters
- Caching strategies: write-through, cache-aside, and TTL management
- Using Amazon FSx for Windows and Lustre file systems
- Integrating with EFS for scalable NFS storage in serverless environments
- Designing for data locality and throughput optimisation
- Migrating on-premises databases with AWS Database Migration Service
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous migration patterns
- Zero-downtime cutover planning and validation
- Using AWS Storage Gateway for hybrid storage integration
- Tape Gateway, Volume Gateway, and File Gateway use cases
- Backup and disaster recovery design with AWS Backup
- Centralised backup policies across services and accounts
Module 5: Advanced Networking and Hybrid Connectivity - Designing large-scale VPC architectures with AWS Transit Gateway
- Hub-and-spoke models for multi-account environments
- Route table propagation and attachment policies
- Inter-region peering with Transit Gateway and performance optimisation
- Establishing secure site-to-site connectivity with AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- IPSec configurations and customer gateway setup
- Failover and redundancy with multiple tunnels
- Using AWS Direct Connect for dedicated private connections
- Dedicated vs hosted connections and partner models
- Designing with Direct Connect Gateways for multi-region access
- PrivateLink for secure service access without public exposure
- Creating VPC endpoints for S3, DynamoDB, and custom services
- Gateway vs interface endpoints and DNS resolution
- Securing inter-service communication with PrivateLink
- NAT Gateway vs NAT Instance design considerations
- Micro-segmentation and network zoning principles
- Traffic mirroring for security inspection and monitoring
- Using VPC Flow Logs for network diagnostics and security auditing
- Aggregating and analysing logs with CloudWatch Logs Insights
Module 6: Serverless and Event-Driven Architectures - Understanding the serverless execution model and its benefits
- Designing with AWS Lambda: concurrency, scaling, and execution context
- Managing cold starts and optimising function performance
- Using Lambda layers for shared code and dependency management
- Event sources: API Gateway, S3, SQS, DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis
- Asynchronous vs synchronous invocation patterns
- Error handling and DLQ integration for SQS and Lambda
- Building event-driven workflows with AWS Step Functions
- Orchestrating microservices with distributed state and error recovery
- Using Amazon SQS: standard vs FIFO queues and message visibility
- Long polling, batching, and message retention settings
- Implementing decoupled systems with Amazon SNS and topic filtering
- Push-based notifications and fan-out patterns
- Integrating with email, SMS, HTTP endpoints
- Building real-time data pipelines with Amazon Kinesis
- Using Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose, and Analytics
- Shard management and data retention policies
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns in cloud-native design
Module 7: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Applying the AWS Pricing Calculator for accurate forecasting
- Leveraging the AWS Total Cost of Ownership Tool for migration analysis
- Understanding cost allocation tags and their enforcement
- Creating cost and usage reports with detailed breakdowns
- Analysing spend with AWS Cost Explorer and custom views
- Setting up billing alarms and budget thresholds with AWS Budgets
- Using Reserved Instances and Savings Plans strategically
- Matching commitment levels to workload stability
- Right-sizing underutilised resources with Trusted Advisor
- Identifying idle and orphaned resources automatically
- Designing for Spot Instances: interruption handling and checkpointing
- Spot Fleets and diversified instance pools
- Using Compute Optimizer for machine learning-driven recommendations
- Implementing auto-tagging and policy-based governance
- Configuring AWS Organizations with Service Control Policies
- Enforcing cost control at the OU level
- Multi-account billing and consolidated payment strategies
Module 8: Reliability and Disaster Recovery Planning - Defining recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) for business alignment
- Backup strategies: full, incremental, and snapshot-based
- Implementing cross-region replication for S3 and EBS
- Using AWS Backup for centralised backup lifecycle management
- Recovery workflows and runbook automation
- Designing multi-region active/passive architectures
- DNS failover with Route 53 and health check integration
- Active/active multi-region patterns with DynamoDB and Aurora Global Database
- Failover testing and chaos engineering principles
- Using AWS CloudEndure for continuous replication and disaster recovery
- Planned and unplanned cutover procedures
- Testing recovery with controlled disruption scenarios
- Ensuring data consistency across regions
- Designing stateless applications for faster recovery
- Rehydrating caches and warming up environments post-failover
- Documenting disaster recovery plans with runbooks and checklists
Module 9: Monitoring, Observability, and Continuous Improvement - Implementing comprehensive monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Custom metrics, dashboards, and alarms for architecture health
- Using CloudWatch Logs and structured logging patterns
- Log filtering, subscription filters, and ingestion control
- Centralised logging across accounts and regions
- Using AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing and latency analysis
- Analysing service maps and identifying bottlenecks
- Instrumenting Lambda, EC2, and containerised applications
- Integrating observability with container platforms like ECS and EKS
- Monitoring container health, scaling, and log aggregation
- Using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics for endpoint monitoring
- Canary scripts for uptime and functional validation
- Alerting integration with SNS and third-party tools
- Setting up incident response playbooks with AWS Systems Manager
- Using OpsItem tracking and automation documents
- Applying feedback loops to refine architecture over time
- Using AWS Well-Architected Tool for automated reviews
- Running workloads through the six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, sustainability
Module 10: Real-World Architectural Case Studies - Analysing a global e-commerce platform with multi-region failover
- Designing a serverless data lake for analytics and ML
- Architecture for a regulated financial services application
- Healthcare application with HIPAA compliance and audit trails
- Media processing pipeline with transcoding and delivery
- IoT architecture with device ingestion and stream processing
- Gaming backend with low-latency requirements and auto-scaling
- Enterprise SaaS platform with multi-tenancy and isolation
- Migration strategy for monolithic application refactoring
- Hybrid integration with legacy mainframe systems
- High-frequency trading system with microsecond latency design
- Content delivery network optimised for emerging markets
- AI/ML inference pipeline with SageMaker and model hosting
- Event-driven supply chain visibility platform
- Secure government workload with air-gapped environments
- Architecture for a serverless CRM with offline sync
- Automotive fleet management with real-time telemetry
- Education platform with burstable usage during exams
Module 11: Certification Readiness & Exam Strategy - Mapping the curriculum to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam domains
- Understanding the exam structure: multiple choice, multiple response
- Analysing scenario-based question patterns and decision trees
- Eliminating incorrect options using architectural first principles
- Mastering cost vs performance trade-off questions
- Identifying high availability anti-patterns in exam scenarios
- Decoding questions around data durability and consistency
- Security-focused questions: encryption, IAM, and network isolation
- Building a personal study plan with milestone tracking
- Using design templates for rapid solution sketching
- Practicing with annotated walkthroughs of complex scenarios
- Managing exam time: pacing, flagging, and review strategies
- Identifying distractors and misleading information
- Simulating the exam experience with timed assessments
- Post-exam validation and next steps for professional growth
Module 12: Building Your Architectural Portfolio - Creating a personal cloud design portfolio for career advancement
- Documenting architecture decisions with ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Visualising designs with AWS Architecture Icons and diagramming tools
- Writing compelling case studies that showcase business impact
- Translating technical depth into executive summaries
- Incorporating cost, security, and scalability metrics
- Using Well-Architected assessments as validation evidence
- Preparing for technical interviews with whiteboard scenarios
- Responding to real-time design questions with structured frameworks
- Articulating trade-offs confidently and concisely
- Networking with other architects through communities and forums
- Sharing designs on professional platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub
- Contributing to open-source infrastructure projects
- Positioning yourself for senior and lead roles
- Leveraging your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service as career proof
- Planning your path to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Understanding the AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
- Core principles of elasticity, scalability, and redundancy in cloud design
- Differentiating between Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service models
- Defining the role and responsibilities of a Solutions Architect
- Overview of the Shared Responsibility Model and its architectural implications
- Understanding IAM: Users, Groups, Roles, and Policies at scale
- Principles of least privilege and secure access design
- Multi-factor authentication and identity federation strategies
- Designing for fault tolerance across Availability Zones
- Implementing high availability with stateless application design
- Selecting the right EC2 instance families for performance and cost
- Understanding instance pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans
- Designing resilient storage with EBS, instance store, and root volume strategies
- Architecting with Amazon S3: durability, availability, and consistency models
- S3 storage classes and lifecycle policies for cost-optimised data management
- Securing data at rest with S3 encryption options and bucket policies
- Versioning, replication, and cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) configurations
Module 2: Designing for Scalability and Performance - Implementing Auto Scaling groups with dynamic scaling policies
- Designing for horizontal vs vertical scaling trade-offs
- Using launch templates and configuration best practices
- Integrating Elastic Load Balancing: Application, Network, and Gateway Load Balancers
- Routing strategies with target groups and health checks
- Session persistence and cross-zone load balancing considerations
- Performance optimisation using Amazon CloudFront and edge caching
- Configuring cache behaviours, invalidations, and signed URLs
- Integrating CloudFront with S3, EC2, and custom origins
- Using AWS Global Accelerator for latency-sensitive applications
- Designing for global user distribution and routing with Route 53
- Understanding DNS failover, latency-based, and geolocation routing
- Traffic flow and health check integration with Route 53
- Leveraging Amazon API Gateway for REST and WebSocket APIs
- Securing APIs with throttling, authorization, and request validation
- Optimising API performance with caching and usage plans
- Integrating with Lambda and backend services securely
Module 3: Security, Compliance, and Identity Governance - Designing secure network architectures with VPCs and subnets
- Public, private, and isolated subnet patterns
- IP addressing, CIDR blocks, and VPC peering strategies
- Implementing network access control with NACLs and security groups
- Differentiating stateful vs stateless filtering
- Understanding AWS WAF and Shield for DDoS protection
- Deploying Web Application Firewalls with custom rules and rate-based limiting
- Securing data in transit with TLS and ACM-managed certificates
- Using AWS Certificate Manager for certificate provisioning and renewal
- Managing secrets securely with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Integrating AWS Secrets Manager for automatic rotation and access control
- Using KMS for customer-managed keys and envelope encryption
- Key policies, grants, and encryption context best practices
- Implementing audit trails with AWS CloudTrail and integration patterns
- Monitoring API activity across regions and accounts
- Using Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection and anomaly identification
- Responding to findings with automated remediation workflows
- Designing compliance-ready architectures with AWS Config
- Evaluating resource configurations against predefined rules
- Creating custom compliance rules for internal standards
Module 4: Data Management and Storage Architecture - Selecting the right database for the workload: RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Aurora
- Understanding eventual consistency vs strong consistency models
- Designing highly available RDS with Multi-AZ and Read Replicas
- Failover strategies and backup retention policies
- Automated snapshots and point-in-time recovery implementation
- Scaling DynamoDB with provisioned and on-demand capacity modes
- Using Global Tables for multi-region replication
- Designing with secondary indexes and partition key strategies
- Architecting with Amazon ElastiCache: Redis and Memcached clusters
- Caching strategies: write-through, cache-aside, and TTL management
- Using Amazon FSx for Windows and Lustre file systems
- Integrating with EFS for scalable NFS storage in serverless environments
- Designing for data locality and throughput optimisation
- Migrating on-premises databases with AWS Database Migration Service
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous migration patterns
- Zero-downtime cutover planning and validation
- Using AWS Storage Gateway for hybrid storage integration
- Tape Gateway, Volume Gateway, and File Gateway use cases
- Backup and disaster recovery design with AWS Backup
- Centralised backup policies across services and accounts
Module 5: Advanced Networking and Hybrid Connectivity - Designing large-scale VPC architectures with AWS Transit Gateway
- Hub-and-spoke models for multi-account environments
- Route table propagation and attachment policies
- Inter-region peering with Transit Gateway and performance optimisation
- Establishing secure site-to-site connectivity with AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- IPSec configurations and customer gateway setup
- Failover and redundancy with multiple tunnels
- Using AWS Direct Connect for dedicated private connections
- Dedicated vs hosted connections and partner models
- Designing with Direct Connect Gateways for multi-region access
- PrivateLink for secure service access without public exposure
- Creating VPC endpoints for S3, DynamoDB, and custom services
- Gateway vs interface endpoints and DNS resolution
- Securing inter-service communication with PrivateLink
- NAT Gateway vs NAT Instance design considerations
- Micro-segmentation and network zoning principles
- Traffic mirroring for security inspection and monitoring
- Using VPC Flow Logs for network diagnostics and security auditing
- Aggregating and analysing logs with CloudWatch Logs Insights
Module 6: Serverless and Event-Driven Architectures - Understanding the serverless execution model and its benefits
- Designing with AWS Lambda: concurrency, scaling, and execution context
- Managing cold starts and optimising function performance
- Using Lambda layers for shared code and dependency management
- Event sources: API Gateway, S3, SQS, DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis
- Asynchronous vs synchronous invocation patterns
- Error handling and DLQ integration for SQS and Lambda
- Building event-driven workflows with AWS Step Functions
- Orchestrating microservices with distributed state and error recovery
- Using Amazon SQS: standard vs FIFO queues and message visibility
- Long polling, batching, and message retention settings
- Implementing decoupled systems with Amazon SNS and topic filtering
- Push-based notifications and fan-out patterns
- Integrating with email, SMS, HTTP endpoints
- Building real-time data pipelines with Amazon Kinesis
- Using Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose, and Analytics
- Shard management and data retention policies
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns in cloud-native design
Module 7: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Applying the AWS Pricing Calculator for accurate forecasting
- Leveraging the AWS Total Cost of Ownership Tool for migration analysis
- Understanding cost allocation tags and their enforcement
- Creating cost and usage reports with detailed breakdowns
- Analysing spend with AWS Cost Explorer and custom views
- Setting up billing alarms and budget thresholds with AWS Budgets
- Using Reserved Instances and Savings Plans strategically
- Matching commitment levels to workload stability
- Right-sizing underutilised resources with Trusted Advisor
- Identifying idle and orphaned resources automatically
- Designing for Spot Instances: interruption handling and checkpointing
- Spot Fleets and diversified instance pools
- Using Compute Optimizer for machine learning-driven recommendations
- Implementing auto-tagging and policy-based governance
- Configuring AWS Organizations with Service Control Policies
- Enforcing cost control at the OU level
- Multi-account billing and consolidated payment strategies
Module 8: Reliability and Disaster Recovery Planning - Defining recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) for business alignment
- Backup strategies: full, incremental, and snapshot-based
- Implementing cross-region replication for S3 and EBS
- Using AWS Backup for centralised backup lifecycle management
- Recovery workflows and runbook automation
- Designing multi-region active/passive architectures
- DNS failover with Route 53 and health check integration
- Active/active multi-region patterns with DynamoDB and Aurora Global Database
- Failover testing and chaos engineering principles
- Using AWS CloudEndure for continuous replication and disaster recovery
- Planned and unplanned cutover procedures
- Testing recovery with controlled disruption scenarios
- Ensuring data consistency across regions
- Designing stateless applications for faster recovery
- Rehydrating caches and warming up environments post-failover
- Documenting disaster recovery plans with runbooks and checklists
Module 9: Monitoring, Observability, and Continuous Improvement - Implementing comprehensive monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Custom metrics, dashboards, and alarms for architecture health
- Using CloudWatch Logs and structured logging patterns
- Log filtering, subscription filters, and ingestion control
- Centralised logging across accounts and regions
- Using AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing and latency analysis
- Analysing service maps and identifying bottlenecks
- Instrumenting Lambda, EC2, and containerised applications
- Integrating observability with container platforms like ECS and EKS
- Monitoring container health, scaling, and log aggregation
- Using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics for endpoint monitoring
- Canary scripts for uptime and functional validation
- Alerting integration with SNS and third-party tools
- Setting up incident response playbooks with AWS Systems Manager
- Using OpsItem tracking and automation documents
- Applying feedback loops to refine architecture over time
- Using AWS Well-Architected Tool for automated reviews
- Running workloads through the six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, sustainability
Module 10: Real-World Architectural Case Studies - Analysing a global e-commerce platform with multi-region failover
- Designing a serverless data lake for analytics and ML
- Architecture for a regulated financial services application
- Healthcare application with HIPAA compliance and audit trails
- Media processing pipeline with transcoding and delivery
- IoT architecture with device ingestion and stream processing
- Gaming backend with low-latency requirements and auto-scaling
- Enterprise SaaS platform with multi-tenancy and isolation
- Migration strategy for monolithic application refactoring
- Hybrid integration with legacy mainframe systems
- High-frequency trading system with microsecond latency design
- Content delivery network optimised for emerging markets
- AI/ML inference pipeline with SageMaker and model hosting
- Event-driven supply chain visibility platform
- Secure government workload with air-gapped environments
- Architecture for a serverless CRM with offline sync
- Automotive fleet management with real-time telemetry
- Education platform with burstable usage during exams
Module 11: Certification Readiness & Exam Strategy - Mapping the curriculum to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam domains
- Understanding the exam structure: multiple choice, multiple response
- Analysing scenario-based question patterns and decision trees
- Eliminating incorrect options using architectural first principles
- Mastering cost vs performance trade-off questions
- Identifying high availability anti-patterns in exam scenarios
- Decoding questions around data durability and consistency
- Security-focused questions: encryption, IAM, and network isolation
- Building a personal study plan with milestone tracking
- Using design templates for rapid solution sketching
- Practicing with annotated walkthroughs of complex scenarios
- Managing exam time: pacing, flagging, and review strategies
- Identifying distractors and misleading information
- Simulating the exam experience with timed assessments
- Post-exam validation and next steps for professional growth
Module 12: Building Your Architectural Portfolio - Creating a personal cloud design portfolio for career advancement
- Documenting architecture decisions with ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Visualising designs with AWS Architecture Icons and diagramming tools
- Writing compelling case studies that showcase business impact
- Translating technical depth into executive summaries
- Incorporating cost, security, and scalability metrics
- Using Well-Architected assessments as validation evidence
- Preparing for technical interviews with whiteboard scenarios
- Responding to real-time design questions with structured frameworks
- Articulating trade-offs confidently and concisely
- Networking with other architects through communities and forums
- Sharing designs on professional platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub
- Contributing to open-source infrastructure projects
- Positioning yourself for senior and lead roles
- Leveraging your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service as career proof
- Planning your path to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Designing secure network architectures with VPCs and subnets
- Public, private, and isolated subnet patterns
- IP addressing, CIDR blocks, and VPC peering strategies
- Implementing network access control with NACLs and security groups
- Differentiating stateful vs stateless filtering
- Understanding AWS WAF and Shield for DDoS protection
- Deploying Web Application Firewalls with custom rules and rate-based limiting
- Securing data in transit with TLS and ACM-managed certificates
- Using AWS Certificate Manager for certificate provisioning and renewal
- Managing secrets securely with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Integrating AWS Secrets Manager for automatic rotation and access control
- Using KMS for customer-managed keys and envelope encryption
- Key policies, grants, and encryption context best practices
- Implementing audit trails with AWS CloudTrail and integration patterns
- Monitoring API activity across regions and accounts
- Using Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection and anomaly identification
- Responding to findings with automated remediation workflows
- Designing compliance-ready architectures with AWS Config
- Evaluating resource configurations against predefined rules
- Creating custom compliance rules for internal standards
Module 4: Data Management and Storage Architecture - Selecting the right database for the workload: RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Aurora
- Understanding eventual consistency vs strong consistency models
- Designing highly available RDS with Multi-AZ and Read Replicas
- Failover strategies and backup retention policies
- Automated snapshots and point-in-time recovery implementation
- Scaling DynamoDB with provisioned and on-demand capacity modes
- Using Global Tables for multi-region replication
- Designing with secondary indexes and partition key strategies
- Architecting with Amazon ElastiCache: Redis and Memcached clusters
- Caching strategies: write-through, cache-aside, and TTL management
- Using Amazon FSx for Windows and Lustre file systems
- Integrating with EFS for scalable NFS storage in serverless environments
- Designing for data locality and throughput optimisation
- Migrating on-premises databases with AWS Database Migration Service
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous migration patterns
- Zero-downtime cutover planning and validation
- Using AWS Storage Gateway for hybrid storage integration
- Tape Gateway, Volume Gateway, and File Gateway use cases
- Backup and disaster recovery design with AWS Backup
- Centralised backup policies across services and accounts
Module 5: Advanced Networking and Hybrid Connectivity - Designing large-scale VPC architectures with AWS Transit Gateway
- Hub-and-spoke models for multi-account environments
- Route table propagation and attachment policies
- Inter-region peering with Transit Gateway and performance optimisation
- Establishing secure site-to-site connectivity with AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- IPSec configurations and customer gateway setup
- Failover and redundancy with multiple tunnels
- Using AWS Direct Connect for dedicated private connections
- Dedicated vs hosted connections and partner models
- Designing with Direct Connect Gateways for multi-region access
- PrivateLink for secure service access without public exposure
- Creating VPC endpoints for S3, DynamoDB, and custom services
- Gateway vs interface endpoints and DNS resolution
- Securing inter-service communication with PrivateLink
- NAT Gateway vs NAT Instance design considerations
- Micro-segmentation and network zoning principles
- Traffic mirroring for security inspection and monitoring
- Using VPC Flow Logs for network diagnostics and security auditing
- Aggregating and analysing logs with CloudWatch Logs Insights
Module 6: Serverless and Event-Driven Architectures - Understanding the serverless execution model and its benefits
- Designing with AWS Lambda: concurrency, scaling, and execution context
- Managing cold starts and optimising function performance
- Using Lambda layers for shared code and dependency management
- Event sources: API Gateway, S3, SQS, DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis
- Asynchronous vs synchronous invocation patterns
- Error handling and DLQ integration for SQS and Lambda
- Building event-driven workflows with AWS Step Functions
- Orchestrating microservices with distributed state and error recovery
- Using Amazon SQS: standard vs FIFO queues and message visibility
- Long polling, batching, and message retention settings
- Implementing decoupled systems with Amazon SNS and topic filtering
- Push-based notifications and fan-out patterns
- Integrating with email, SMS, HTTP endpoints
- Building real-time data pipelines with Amazon Kinesis
- Using Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose, and Analytics
- Shard management and data retention policies
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns in cloud-native design
Module 7: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Applying the AWS Pricing Calculator for accurate forecasting
- Leveraging the AWS Total Cost of Ownership Tool for migration analysis
- Understanding cost allocation tags and their enforcement
- Creating cost and usage reports with detailed breakdowns
- Analysing spend with AWS Cost Explorer and custom views
- Setting up billing alarms and budget thresholds with AWS Budgets
- Using Reserved Instances and Savings Plans strategically
- Matching commitment levels to workload stability
- Right-sizing underutilised resources with Trusted Advisor
- Identifying idle and orphaned resources automatically
- Designing for Spot Instances: interruption handling and checkpointing
- Spot Fleets and diversified instance pools
- Using Compute Optimizer for machine learning-driven recommendations
- Implementing auto-tagging and policy-based governance
- Configuring AWS Organizations with Service Control Policies
- Enforcing cost control at the OU level
- Multi-account billing and consolidated payment strategies
Module 8: Reliability and Disaster Recovery Planning - Defining recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) for business alignment
- Backup strategies: full, incremental, and snapshot-based
- Implementing cross-region replication for S3 and EBS
- Using AWS Backup for centralised backup lifecycle management
- Recovery workflows and runbook automation
- Designing multi-region active/passive architectures
- DNS failover with Route 53 and health check integration
- Active/active multi-region patterns with DynamoDB and Aurora Global Database
- Failover testing and chaos engineering principles
- Using AWS CloudEndure for continuous replication and disaster recovery
- Planned and unplanned cutover procedures
- Testing recovery with controlled disruption scenarios
- Ensuring data consistency across regions
- Designing stateless applications for faster recovery
- Rehydrating caches and warming up environments post-failover
- Documenting disaster recovery plans with runbooks and checklists
Module 9: Monitoring, Observability, and Continuous Improvement - Implementing comprehensive monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Custom metrics, dashboards, and alarms for architecture health
- Using CloudWatch Logs and structured logging patterns
- Log filtering, subscription filters, and ingestion control
- Centralised logging across accounts and regions
- Using AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing and latency analysis
- Analysing service maps and identifying bottlenecks
- Instrumenting Lambda, EC2, and containerised applications
- Integrating observability with container platforms like ECS and EKS
- Monitoring container health, scaling, and log aggregation
- Using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics for endpoint monitoring
- Canary scripts for uptime and functional validation
- Alerting integration with SNS and third-party tools
- Setting up incident response playbooks with AWS Systems Manager
- Using OpsItem tracking and automation documents
- Applying feedback loops to refine architecture over time
- Using AWS Well-Architected Tool for automated reviews
- Running workloads through the six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, sustainability
Module 10: Real-World Architectural Case Studies - Analysing a global e-commerce platform with multi-region failover
- Designing a serverless data lake for analytics and ML
- Architecture for a regulated financial services application
- Healthcare application with HIPAA compliance and audit trails
- Media processing pipeline with transcoding and delivery
- IoT architecture with device ingestion and stream processing
- Gaming backend with low-latency requirements and auto-scaling
- Enterprise SaaS platform with multi-tenancy and isolation
- Migration strategy for monolithic application refactoring
- Hybrid integration with legacy mainframe systems
- High-frequency trading system with microsecond latency design
- Content delivery network optimised for emerging markets
- AI/ML inference pipeline with SageMaker and model hosting
- Event-driven supply chain visibility platform
- Secure government workload with air-gapped environments
- Architecture for a serverless CRM with offline sync
- Automotive fleet management with real-time telemetry
- Education platform with burstable usage during exams
Module 11: Certification Readiness & Exam Strategy - Mapping the curriculum to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam domains
- Understanding the exam structure: multiple choice, multiple response
- Analysing scenario-based question patterns and decision trees
- Eliminating incorrect options using architectural first principles
- Mastering cost vs performance trade-off questions
- Identifying high availability anti-patterns in exam scenarios
- Decoding questions around data durability and consistency
- Security-focused questions: encryption, IAM, and network isolation
- Building a personal study plan with milestone tracking
- Using design templates for rapid solution sketching
- Practicing with annotated walkthroughs of complex scenarios
- Managing exam time: pacing, flagging, and review strategies
- Identifying distractors and misleading information
- Simulating the exam experience with timed assessments
- Post-exam validation and next steps for professional growth
Module 12: Building Your Architectural Portfolio - Creating a personal cloud design portfolio for career advancement
- Documenting architecture decisions with ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Visualising designs with AWS Architecture Icons and diagramming tools
- Writing compelling case studies that showcase business impact
- Translating technical depth into executive summaries
- Incorporating cost, security, and scalability metrics
- Using Well-Architected assessments as validation evidence
- Preparing for technical interviews with whiteboard scenarios
- Responding to real-time design questions with structured frameworks
- Articulating trade-offs confidently and concisely
- Networking with other architects through communities and forums
- Sharing designs on professional platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub
- Contributing to open-source infrastructure projects
- Positioning yourself for senior and lead roles
- Leveraging your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service as career proof
- Planning your path to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Designing large-scale VPC architectures with AWS Transit Gateway
- Hub-and-spoke models for multi-account environments
- Route table propagation and attachment policies
- Inter-region peering with Transit Gateway and performance optimisation
- Establishing secure site-to-site connectivity with AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- IPSec configurations and customer gateway setup
- Failover and redundancy with multiple tunnels
- Using AWS Direct Connect for dedicated private connections
- Dedicated vs hosted connections and partner models
- Designing with Direct Connect Gateways for multi-region access
- PrivateLink for secure service access without public exposure
- Creating VPC endpoints for S3, DynamoDB, and custom services
- Gateway vs interface endpoints and DNS resolution
- Securing inter-service communication with PrivateLink
- NAT Gateway vs NAT Instance design considerations
- Micro-segmentation and network zoning principles
- Traffic mirroring for security inspection and monitoring
- Using VPC Flow Logs for network diagnostics and security auditing
- Aggregating and analysing logs with CloudWatch Logs Insights
Module 6: Serverless and Event-Driven Architectures - Understanding the serverless execution model and its benefits
- Designing with AWS Lambda: concurrency, scaling, and execution context
- Managing cold starts and optimising function performance
- Using Lambda layers for shared code and dependency management
- Event sources: API Gateway, S3, SQS, DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis
- Asynchronous vs synchronous invocation patterns
- Error handling and DLQ integration for SQS and Lambda
- Building event-driven workflows with AWS Step Functions
- Orchestrating microservices with distributed state and error recovery
- Using Amazon SQS: standard vs FIFO queues and message visibility
- Long polling, batching, and message retention settings
- Implementing decoupled systems with Amazon SNS and topic filtering
- Push-based notifications and fan-out patterns
- Integrating with email, SMS, HTTP endpoints
- Building real-time data pipelines with Amazon Kinesis
- Using Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose, and Analytics
- Shard management and data retention policies
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns in cloud-native design
Module 7: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Applying the AWS Pricing Calculator for accurate forecasting
- Leveraging the AWS Total Cost of Ownership Tool for migration analysis
- Understanding cost allocation tags and their enforcement
- Creating cost and usage reports with detailed breakdowns
- Analysing spend with AWS Cost Explorer and custom views
- Setting up billing alarms and budget thresholds with AWS Budgets
- Using Reserved Instances and Savings Plans strategically
- Matching commitment levels to workload stability
- Right-sizing underutilised resources with Trusted Advisor
- Identifying idle and orphaned resources automatically
- Designing for Spot Instances: interruption handling and checkpointing
- Spot Fleets and diversified instance pools
- Using Compute Optimizer for machine learning-driven recommendations
- Implementing auto-tagging and policy-based governance
- Configuring AWS Organizations with Service Control Policies
- Enforcing cost control at the OU level
- Multi-account billing and consolidated payment strategies
Module 8: Reliability and Disaster Recovery Planning - Defining recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) for business alignment
- Backup strategies: full, incremental, and snapshot-based
- Implementing cross-region replication for S3 and EBS
- Using AWS Backup for centralised backup lifecycle management
- Recovery workflows and runbook automation
- Designing multi-region active/passive architectures
- DNS failover with Route 53 and health check integration
- Active/active multi-region patterns with DynamoDB and Aurora Global Database
- Failover testing and chaos engineering principles
- Using AWS CloudEndure for continuous replication and disaster recovery
- Planned and unplanned cutover procedures
- Testing recovery with controlled disruption scenarios
- Ensuring data consistency across regions
- Designing stateless applications for faster recovery
- Rehydrating caches and warming up environments post-failover
- Documenting disaster recovery plans with runbooks and checklists
Module 9: Monitoring, Observability, and Continuous Improvement - Implementing comprehensive monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Custom metrics, dashboards, and alarms for architecture health
- Using CloudWatch Logs and structured logging patterns
- Log filtering, subscription filters, and ingestion control
- Centralised logging across accounts and regions
- Using AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing and latency analysis
- Analysing service maps and identifying bottlenecks
- Instrumenting Lambda, EC2, and containerised applications
- Integrating observability with container platforms like ECS and EKS
- Monitoring container health, scaling, and log aggregation
- Using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics for endpoint monitoring
- Canary scripts for uptime and functional validation
- Alerting integration with SNS and third-party tools
- Setting up incident response playbooks with AWS Systems Manager
- Using OpsItem tracking and automation documents
- Applying feedback loops to refine architecture over time
- Using AWS Well-Architected Tool for automated reviews
- Running workloads through the six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, sustainability
Module 10: Real-World Architectural Case Studies - Analysing a global e-commerce platform with multi-region failover
- Designing a serverless data lake for analytics and ML
- Architecture for a regulated financial services application
- Healthcare application with HIPAA compliance and audit trails
- Media processing pipeline with transcoding and delivery
- IoT architecture with device ingestion and stream processing
- Gaming backend with low-latency requirements and auto-scaling
- Enterprise SaaS platform with multi-tenancy and isolation
- Migration strategy for monolithic application refactoring
- Hybrid integration with legacy mainframe systems
- High-frequency trading system with microsecond latency design
- Content delivery network optimised for emerging markets
- AI/ML inference pipeline with SageMaker and model hosting
- Event-driven supply chain visibility platform
- Secure government workload with air-gapped environments
- Architecture for a serverless CRM with offline sync
- Automotive fleet management with real-time telemetry
- Education platform with burstable usage during exams
Module 11: Certification Readiness & Exam Strategy - Mapping the curriculum to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam domains
- Understanding the exam structure: multiple choice, multiple response
- Analysing scenario-based question patterns and decision trees
- Eliminating incorrect options using architectural first principles
- Mastering cost vs performance trade-off questions
- Identifying high availability anti-patterns in exam scenarios
- Decoding questions around data durability and consistency
- Security-focused questions: encryption, IAM, and network isolation
- Building a personal study plan with milestone tracking
- Using design templates for rapid solution sketching
- Practicing with annotated walkthroughs of complex scenarios
- Managing exam time: pacing, flagging, and review strategies
- Identifying distractors and misleading information
- Simulating the exam experience with timed assessments
- Post-exam validation and next steps for professional growth
Module 12: Building Your Architectural Portfolio - Creating a personal cloud design portfolio for career advancement
- Documenting architecture decisions with ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Visualising designs with AWS Architecture Icons and diagramming tools
- Writing compelling case studies that showcase business impact
- Translating technical depth into executive summaries
- Incorporating cost, security, and scalability metrics
- Using Well-Architected assessments as validation evidence
- Preparing for technical interviews with whiteboard scenarios
- Responding to real-time design questions with structured frameworks
- Articulating trade-offs confidently and concisely
- Networking with other architects through communities and forums
- Sharing designs on professional platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub
- Contributing to open-source infrastructure projects
- Positioning yourself for senior and lead roles
- Leveraging your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service as career proof
- Planning your path to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Applying the AWS Pricing Calculator for accurate forecasting
- Leveraging the AWS Total Cost of Ownership Tool for migration analysis
- Understanding cost allocation tags and their enforcement
- Creating cost and usage reports with detailed breakdowns
- Analysing spend with AWS Cost Explorer and custom views
- Setting up billing alarms and budget thresholds with AWS Budgets
- Using Reserved Instances and Savings Plans strategically
- Matching commitment levels to workload stability
- Right-sizing underutilised resources with Trusted Advisor
- Identifying idle and orphaned resources automatically
- Designing for Spot Instances: interruption handling and checkpointing
- Spot Fleets and diversified instance pools
- Using Compute Optimizer for machine learning-driven recommendations
- Implementing auto-tagging and policy-based governance
- Configuring AWS Organizations with Service Control Policies
- Enforcing cost control at the OU level
- Multi-account billing and consolidated payment strategies
Module 8: Reliability and Disaster Recovery Planning - Defining recovery time and point objectives (RTO/RPO) for business alignment
- Backup strategies: full, incremental, and snapshot-based
- Implementing cross-region replication for S3 and EBS
- Using AWS Backup for centralised backup lifecycle management
- Recovery workflows and runbook automation
- Designing multi-region active/passive architectures
- DNS failover with Route 53 and health check integration
- Active/active multi-region patterns with DynamoDB and Aurora Global Database
- Failover testing and chaos engineering principles
- Using AWS CloudEndure for continuous replication and disaster recovery
- Planned and unplanned cutover procedures
- Testing recovery with controlled disruption scenarios
- Ensuring data consistency across regions
- Designing stateless applications for faster recovery
- Rehydrating caches and warming up environments post-failover
- Documenting disaster recovery plans with runbooks and checklists
Module 9: Monitoring, Observability, and Continuous Improvement - Implementing comprehensive monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Custom metrics, dashboards, and alarms for architecture health
- Using CloudWatch Logs and structured logging patterns
- Log filtering, subscription filters, and ingestion control
- Centralised logging across accounts and regions
- Using AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing and latency analysis
- Analysing service maps and identifying bottlenecks
- Instrumenting Lambda, EC2, and containerised applications
- Integrating observability with container platforms like ECS and EKS
- Monitoring container health, scaling, and log aggregation
- Using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics for endpoint monitoring
- Canary scripts for uptime and functional validation
- Alerting integration with SNS and third-party tools
- Setting up incident response playbooks with AWS Systems Manager
- Using OpsItem tracking and automation documents
- Applying feedback loops to refine architecture over time
- Using AWS Well-Architected Tool for automated reviews
- Running workloads through the six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, sustainability
Module 10: Real-World Architectural Case Studies - Analysing a global e-commerce platform with multi-region failover
- Designing a serverless data lake for analytics and ML
- Architecture for a regulated financial services application
- Healthcare application with HIPAA compliance and audit trails
- Media processing pipeline with transcoding and delivery
- IoT architecture with device ingestion and stream processing
- Gaming backend with low-latency requirements and auto-scaling
- Enterprise SaaS platform with multi-tenancy and isolation
- Migration strategy for monolithic application refactoring
- Hybrid integration with legacy mainframe systems
- High-frequency trading system with microsecond latency design
- Content delivery network optimised for emerging markets
- AI/ML inference pipeline with SageMaker and model hosting
- Event-driven supply chain visibility platform
- Secure government workload with air-gapped environments
- Architecture for a serverless CRM with offline sync
- Automotive fleet management with real-time telemetry
- Education platform with burstable usage during exams
Module 11: Certification Readiness & Exam Strategy - Mapping the curriculum to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam domains
- Understanding the exam structure: multiple choice, multiple response
- Analysing scenario-based question patterns and decision trees
- Eliminating incorrect options using architectural first principles
- Mastering cost vs performance trade-off questions
- Identifying high availability anti-patterns in exam scenarios
- Decoding questions around data durability and consistency
- Security-focused questions: encryption, IAM, and network isolation
- Building a personal study plan with milestone tracking
- Using design templates for rapid solution sketching
- Practicing with annotated walkthroughs of complex scenarios
- Managing exam time: pacing, flagging, and review strategies
- Identifying distractors and misleading information
- Simulating the exam experience with timed assessments
- Post-exam validation and next steps for professional growth
Module 12: Building Your Architectural Portfolio - Creating a personal cloud design portfolio for career advancement
- Documenting architecture decisions with ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Visualising designs with AWS Architecture Icons and diagramming tools
- Writing compelling case studies that showcase business impact
- Translating technical depth into executive summaries
- Incorporating cost, security, and scalability metrics
- Using Well-Architected assessments as validation evidence
- Preparing for technical interviews with whiteboard scenarios
- Responding to real-time design questions with structured frameworks
- Articulating trade-offs confidently and concisely
- Networking with other architects through communities and forums
- Sharing designs on professional platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub
- Contributing to open-source infrastructure projects
- Positioning yourself for senior and lead roles
- Leveraging your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service as career proof
- Planning your path to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Implementing comprehensive monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
- Custom metrics, dashboards, and alarms for architecture health
- Using CloudWatch Logs and structured logging patterns
- Log filtering, subscription filters, and ingestion control
- Centralised logging across accounts and regions
- Using AWS X-Ray for distributed tracing and latency analysis
- Analysing service maps and identifying bottlenecks
- Instrumenting Lambda, EC2, and containerised applications
- Integrating observability with container platforms like ECS and EKS
- Monitoring container health, scaling, and log aggregation
- Using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics for endpoint monitoring
- Canary scripts for uptime and functional validation
- Alerting integration with SNS and third-party tools
- Setting up incident response playbooks with AWS Systems Manager
- Using OpsItem tracking and automation documents
- Applying feedback loops to refine architecture over time
- Using AWS Well-Architected Tool for automated reviews
- Running workloads through the six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimisation, sustainability
Module 10: Real-World Architectural Case Studies - Analysing a global e-commerce platform with multi-region failover
- Designing a serverless data lake for analytics and ML
- Architecture for a regulated financial services application
- Healthcare application with HIPAA compliance and audit trails
- Media processing pipeline with transcoding and delivery
- IoT architecture with device ingestion and stream processing
- Gaming backend with low-latency requirements and auto-scaling
- Enterprise SaaS platform with multi-tenancy and isolation
- Migration strategy for monolithic application refactoring
- Hybrid integration with legacy mainframe systems
- High-frequency trading system with microsecond latency design
- Content delivery network optimised for emerging markets
- AI/ML inference pipeline with SageMaker and model hosting
- Event-driven supply chain visibility platform
- Secure government workload with air-gapped environments
- Architecture for a serverless CRM with offline sync
- Automotive fleet management with real-time telemetry
- Education platform with burstable usage during exams
Module 11: Certification Readiness & Exam Strategy - Mapping the curriculum to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam domains
- Understanding the exam structure: multiple choice, multiple response
- Analysing scenario-based question patterns and decision trees
- Eliminating incorrect options using architectural first principles
- Mastering cost vs performance trade-off questions
- Identifying high availability anti-patterns in exam scenarios
- Decoding questions around data durability and consistency
- Security-focused questions: encryption, IAM, and network isolation
- Building a personal study plan with milestone tracking
- Using design templates for rapid solution sketching
- Practicing with annotated walkthroughs of complex scenarios
- Managing exam time: pacing, flagging, and review strategies
- Identifying distractors and misleading information
- Simulating the exam experience with timed assessments
- Post-exam validation and next steps for professional growth
Module 12: Building Your Architectural Portfolio - Creating a personal cloud design portfolio for career advancement
- Documenting architecture decisions with ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Visualising designs with AWS Architecture Icons and diagramming tools
- Writing compelling case studies that showcase business impact
- Translating technical depth into executive summaries
- Incorporating cost, security, and scalability metrics
- Using Well-Architected assessments as validation evidence
- Preparing for technical interviews with whiteboard scenarios
- Responding to real-time design questions with structured frameworks
- Articulating trade-offs confidently and concisely
- Networking with other architects through communities and forums
- Sharing designs on professional platforms like LinkedIn and GitHub
- Contributing to open-source infrastructure projects
- Positioning yourself for senior and lead roles
- Leveraging your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service as career proof
- Planning your path to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Mapping the curriculum to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam domains
- Understanding the exam structure: multiple choice, multiple response
- Analysing scenario-based question patterns and decision trees
- Eliminating incorrect options using architectural first principles
- Mastering cost vs performance trade-off questions
- Identifying high availability anti-patterns in exam scenarios
- Decoding questions around data durability and consistency
- Security-focused questions: encryption, IAM, and network isolation
- Building a personal study plan with milestone tracking
- Using design templates for rapid solution sketching
- Practicing with annotated walkthroughs of complex scenarios
- Managing exam time: pacing, flagging, and review strategies
- Identifying distractors and misleading information
- Simulating the exam experience with timed assessments
- Post-exam validation and next steps for professional growth