COURSE FORMAT & DELIVERY DETAILS Designed for maximum flexibility, unmatched reliability, and career-transforming results — this self-paced, on-demand course ensures you gain mastery over AWS Solutions Architect Professional-level concepts without compromising your busy schedule, location, or learning style. Self-Paced Learning with Immediate Online Access
The moment you enroll, you gain full, instant access to every module, resource, and tool. No waiting, no orientation weeks, no gatekeeping — just immediate entry into a world-class certification preparation experience. - Begin studying the same minute you sign up — no delays, no prerequisites
- Progress at your own speed: accelerate through familiar topics or spend extra time mastering complex domains
- Zero mandatory timelines — pause, resume, or revisit any section at any time
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This is not a cohort-based program. There are no fixed start dates, no live sessions to miss, and no rigid schedules to follow. Whether you're an early riser in Sydney or a night worker in New York, the course adapts to you — not the other way around. - Access all materials 24/7 from any internet-connected device
- Train during lunch breaks, late-night study sessions, or weekend deep dives — your pace, your rules
- Return to any module years later for a refresher — lifetime access means lifeline access
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Most learners complete the full course in 6–10 weeks with consistent, focused study (8–12 hours per week). However, because every topic is bite-sized, action-oriented, and strategically sequenced, many report confidently passing mock exams and securing promotions even before finishing — thanks to immediate ROI on learned skills. - Clear learning milestones guide you from foundational knowledge to advanced architecture design in record time
- Integrated practice frameworks and scenario-based exercises ensure rapid skill transfer
- Progress tracking and gamified checkpoints keep motivation high and knowledge retention stronger
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Once enrolled, you own permanent access to the entire course — forever. But that's not all. As AWS evolves and new exam blueprints emerge, we continuously update the curriculum at no additional cost. - Receive automatic updates to reflect the latest AWS services, best practices, and certification changes
- Maintain your technical edge for years — no re-purchasing, no subscription traps
- Confidently return to the material during job interviews, promotions, or cloud migration projects
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Train on the go with seamless compatibility across desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Whether you’re commuting, traveling, or working from home, your learning journey stays uninterrupted. - Download key reference guides for offline study
- Synchronize progress across devices — pick up exactly where you left off
- Responsive design ensures crisp readability and intuitive navigation on all screen sizes
Direct Instructor Support & Expert Guidance
You're not learning in isolation. Our industry-certified AWS architects provide ongoing guidance through structured Q&A channels, detailed troubleshooting workflows, and architectural feedback on practice designs. - Submit complex scenario questions and receive personalized, expert-reviewed responses
- Access real-world design critique templates used by enterprise cloud teams
- Benefit from curated insights drawn from actual AWS migration case studies and large-scale implementations
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Upon finishing the course, you'll earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service — a globally recognized credential trusted by IT professionals, hiring managers, and certification boards across 167 countries. This isn’t just a participation badge. It's proof of rigorous, structured, and industry-aligned mastery. - Digital certificate instantly available for download and sharing
- Verified credential link you can add to LinkedIn, resumes, and job applications
- Recognized by employers as a benchmark for serious AWS professionals preparing for top-tier certification
EXTENSIVE & DETAILED COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1: Foundations of Advanced Cloud Architecture - Understanding the evolution from Associate to Professional-level AWS architecture
- Core principles of scalable, secure, and resilient system design
- Defining business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
- Architectural decision-making frameworks for enterprise environments
- Cost optimization strategies at scale using AWS pricing models
- Security-first design: embedding compliance and governance early in the lifecycle
- Multi-account AWS Organizations structures for enterprise governance
- Designing with the AWS Well-Architected Framework as a baseline standard
- Principles of loose coupling, fault tolerance, and stateless design
- High availability vs. fault tolerance: practical distinctions and implementation strategies
- Disaster recovery planning and RTO/RPO analysis for mission-critical workloads
- Designing for predictable performance under variable load conditions
- Selecting appropriate storage classes based on durability, availability, and access patterns
- Implementing monitoring, logging, and tracing from day one of design
- Understanding global infrastructure: regions, availability zones, and edge locations
- Architectural anti-patterns to avoid in enterprise cloud environments
- Transitioning legacy systems to cloud-native architectures
- Managing technical debt in cloud transformation roadmaps
- Stakeholder communication: aligning business goals with technical feasibility
- Documentation standards for enterprise architecture proposals and reviews
Module 2: Enterprise Networking & Hybrid Connectivity - Advanced VPC design: multi-VPC architectures with shared services
- VPC peering limitations and best practices for large-scale environments
- Implementing AWS Transit Gateway for centralized network management
- Transit Gateway routing strategies: multicast, inter-AZ, and cross-account
- Site-to-Site VPN configurations with high resiliency and failover
- AWS Direct Connect: private connectivity options and redundancy models
- Direct Connect gateway integration for multi-region access
- Hybrid DNS strategies using Route 53 and on-premises systems
- IP address management (IPAM) across complex network topologies
- Network Access Control Lists (NACLs) vs. Security Groups: layered defense
- Implementing AWS Network Firewall for centralized threat inspection
- Traffic mirroring for packet analysis and security monitoring
- DNS failover and health checking with Amazon Route 53
- Latency-based and geolocation routing strategies for global applications
- PrivateLink for secure service exposure without public endpoints
- Endpoint policies and access controls for PrivateLink services
- Using Route 53 Resolver for inbound and outbound DNS resolution
- Firewall Manager integration for centralized network policy enforcement
- Designing for network performance: jumbo frames, enhanced networking
- Network diagnostics: VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch Metrics, and Insights
Module 3: Scalable Compute & Container Orchestration - EC2 placement groups: cluster, partition, and spread strategies
- Instance optimization using instance families and generations
- Implementing EC2 Auto Scaling with predictive scaling policies
- Scaling based on custom CloudWatch metrics and application signals
- Spot Fleet strategies with diversified instance types and fallback mechanisms
- Capacity Reservations and Savings Plans integration for cost control
- Launch templates vs. launch configurations: best practices for maintainability
- Container architecture patterns: microservices, sidecars, and service mesh
- Amazon ECS: task definitions, services, and cluster management
- Fargate vs. EC2 launch types: trade-offs and selection criteria
- Amazon EKS: control plane architecture and node group design
- EKS networking: CNI plugins and IP address management
- Managing IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) in EKS
- Cluster autoscaling with Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter
- Configuring ingress controllers (ALB/NLB) for containerized applications
- Blue/green and canary deployments in Kubernetes using AWS App Mesh
- Serverless containers with AWS Fargate: use cases and limitations
- Runtime security for containers using Amazon Inspector
- Image scanning and vulnerability detection in ECR repositories
- Designing for zero-downtime deployments in containerized environments
Module 4: High-Performance Storage & Data Management - Choosing between Amazon EBS, instance store, and ephemeral storage
- Provisioned IOPS and GP3 tuning for high-throughput applications
- Multi-attach EBS volumes for clustered applications (e.g., SAP)
- Amazon S3: consistency models, versioning, and replication
- Cross-Region Replication (CRR) with KMS encryption and access controls
- S3 Batch Operations for large-scale object management
- Intelligent-Tiering lifecycle policies with cost forecasting
- S3 Access Points and access point aliases for simplified access
- Object ownership and access control models in multi-account setups
- Enforcing S3 Block Public Access across organizational units
- Amazon FSx: selecting between Lustre, Windows File Server, and OpenZFS
- FSx for Lustre burst configurations and throughput optimization
- Integrating FSx with S3 for machine learning and analytics workloads
- Amazon EFS: performance modes and throughput scaling
- EFS file system policies and IAM integration
- DataSync architecture for automated data migrations
- Migration workflows using DataSync with validation and monitoring
- Implementing S3 Replication Time Control (RTC) for compliance
- Storage gateway: file, volume, and tape gateway deployment models
- Designing for immutability using S3 Object Lock and legal hold
Module 5: Enterprise Security & Identity Governance - Identity Federation with SAML 2.0 and OIDC for enterprise SSO
- Cross-account access using IAM Roles and organizational policies
- Permission boundaries for delegated administrative control
- Service control policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations for guardrails
- Backup and recovery strategies for IAM policies and roles
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement across accounts
- Key Management Service (KMS) architectures: customer-managed vs. AWS-managed keys
- Key rotation policies and automating cryptographic best practices
- Using KMS grants for temporary access delegation
- Encrypting EBS volumes, RDS instances, and S3 objects with KMS
- CloudTrail organization trails and event logging at scale
- Configuring CloudTrail Lake for centralized query and analysis
- Config Rule packs for automated compliance checks (e.g., CIS, NIST)
- Config conformance packs for standardized governance enforcement
- Security Hub: automated findings aggregation and remediation workflows
- Integration with third-party SIEM tools using event APIs
- Macie: automated PII detection and data classification at scale
- GuardDuty: threat detection using ML and behavioral analytics
- Detector configuration, threat list integration, and custom findings
- Automated remediation playbooks using AWS Systems Manager
Module 6: Advanced Database & Data Analytics Architectures - Multi-AZ vs. global database deployments in Amazon RDS
- Read replica strategies across regions and engine constraints
- RDS Proxy for connection pooling and failover resilience
- Aurora Serverless v2: auto-scaling configurations and performance
- Aurora Global Databases: cross-region replication with low latency
- Backtrack and cloning features for development and testing
- DynamoDB: partition key design for even distribution and performance
- Global Tables for multi-region active-active applications
- Accelerators (DAX) for microsecond read performance
- On-Demand vs. Provisioned capacity modes and cost implications
- Time to Live (TTL) and Streams for event-driven applications
- Using Redshift for petabyte-scale data warehousing
- RA3 node types and managed storage scaling
- Spectrum for querying S3-resident data without loading
- Kinesis Data Streams: shard management and throughput scaling
- Kinesis Data Firehose: transformation and delivery pipelines
- Apache Spark on EMR: cluster tuning and Spot integration
- Delta Lake and Iceberg table formats on S3 for data lakehouse patterns
- Glue Data Catalog: schema registry and cross-service integration
- Athena engine versions and performance optimization techniques
Module 7: Automation, CI/CD & DevOps Integration - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CloudFormation vs. third-party tools
- Nested stacks and stack sets for multi-account deployments
- Change sets and drift detection for safe rollouts
- CodePipeline: pipeline stages, actions, and integration patterns
- Source actions: CodeCommit, GitHub, S3, and third-party repos
- Build actions using CodeBuild: environment controls and caching
- Test automation: unit, integration, and security scanning stages
- Blue/green deployments with CodeDeploy and Route 53
- Canary deployments using Traffic Shifting and health checks
- Custom actions and Lambda-based pipeline extensions
- EventBridge for workflow orchestration and cross-service triggers
- Event patterns and input transformation for complex workflows
- Step Functions for serverless workflow orchestration
- Standard vs. Express workflows: use case selection
- Error handling, retries, and circuit breaking in state machines
- Systems Manager Automation: runbooks for operational tasks
- Parameter Store: secure storage for configuration and secrets
- Session Manager for auditable, proxy-free instance access
- OpsItem management and incident response workflows
- Launch templates and EC2 Image Builder for golden image creation
Module 8: Migration Strategies & Modernization Frameworks - Assessment methodologies: cost, risk, complexity, and TCO analysis
- Application discovery using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Database migration using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous migration strategies (e.g., Oracle to Aurora)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques with change data capture (CDC)
- Replication instance sizing and network optimization for DMS
- Server migration with AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
- CloudEndure Migration: replication windows and failback planning
- Rehosting (lift-and-shift) vs. refactoring (re-architecting)
- Containerizing monolithic applications using modernization accelerators
- Application modernization with Strangler Fig pattern
- Using the AWS Migration Hub for centralized tracking
- Portfolio management and migration prioritization
- Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) frameworks
- Replatforming strategies: moving to RDS, Elasticache, etc.
- Refactoring with serverless: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB
- Decommissioning on-premises infrastructure securely
- Post-migration optimization and performance tuning
- Cost allocation tagging and chargeback models post-migration
- Training teams on operational ownership in the cloud
Module 9: Advanced Cost Management & Financial Governance - Cost allocation tags: implementation and enforcement at scale
- Cost Explorer: forecasting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis
- Trusted Advisor cost checks and remediation plans
- Curated Savings Plans recommendations using Compute Optimizer
- Mixed Savings Plan and Reserved Instance utilization strategies
- Cost and usage reports (CUR): schema, filtering, and analysis
- Blended vs. unblended costs: understanding billing perspectives
- Multi-account billing strategies using Consolidated Billing
- Budgets with alert thresholds and action triggers
- Automated cost responses using Lambda and SNS
- Custom cost dashboards using QuickSight and CUR data
- Reserved Instance Marketplace and exchange strategies
- Oversized instance identification and rightsizing recommendations
- Idle resource detection and shutdown automation
- FinOps principles: cross-functional cost accountability
- Chargeback and showback models for internal pricing
- Tag coverage enforcement using Config and Service Catalog
- Managing free-tier and promotional credits strategically
- Cost impact analysis for architectural decisions
- Presenting cost optimization results to executive stakeholders
Module 10: Certification Mastery & Career Advancement - Breakdown of AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam domains
- Understanding the depth vs. breadth expectations of professional-level exams
- Analyzing scenario-based questions: identifying hidden requirements
- Time management strategies for 4-hour, 75-question exam format
- Elimination techniques for multiple-correct-answer questions
- Official AWS exam guides: decoding weightings and topic shifts
- Practice exam walkthroughs with detailed explanations
- Common failure points and how to avoid them
- Study schedules for 60-, 30-, and 14-day prep timelines
- Mindset training: managing exam anxiety and focus
- Building a personal knowledge repository for rapid review
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for resume enhancement
- Optimizing LinkedIn profiles with AWS keywords and achievements
- Networking strategies within the AWS partner and user group ecosystem
- Salary negotiation tactics post-certification
- Transitioning to roles: Cloud Architect, Principal Engineer, Consultant
- Using the credential for internal promotions and visibility
- Earning continuing education credits (CEUs) for recertification
- Staying current: AWS blogs, re:Invent sessions, and technical whitepapers
- Career roadmap: from Professional to Specialty and beyond
Module 1: Foundations of Advanced Cloud Architecture - Understanding the evolution from Associate to Professional-level AWS architecture
- Core principles of scalable, secure, and resilient system design
- Defining business requirements and translating them into technical specifications
- Architectural decision-making frameworks for enterprise environments
- Cost optimization strategies at scale using AWS pricing models
- Security-first design: embedding compliance and governance early in the lifecycle
- Multi-account AWS Organizations structures for enterprise governance
- Designing with the AWS Well-Architected Framework as a baseline standard
- Principles of loose coupling, fault tolerance, and stateless design
- High availability vs. fault tolerance: practical distinctions and implementation strategies
- Disaster recovery planning and RTO/RPO analysis for mission-critical workloads
- Designing for predictable performance under variable load conditions
- Selecting appropriate storage classes based on durability, availability, and access patterns
- Implementing monitoring, logging, and tracing from day one of design
- Understanding global infrastructure: regions, availability zones, and edge locations
- Architectural anti-patterns to avoid in enterprise cloud environments
- Transitioning legacy systems to cloud-native architectures
- Managing technical debt in cloud transformation roadmaps
- Stakeholder communication: aligning business goals with technical feasibility
- Documentation standards for enterprise architecture proposals and reviews
Module 2: Enterprise Networking & Hybrid Connectivity - Advanced VPC design: multi-VPC architectures with shared services
- VPC peering limitations and best practices for large-scale environments
- Implementing AWS Transit Gateway for centralized network management
- Transit Gateway routing strategies: multicast, inter-AZ, and cross-account
- Site-to-Site VPN configurations with high resiliency and failover
- AWS Direct Connect: private connectivity options and redundancy models
- Direct Connect gateway integration for multi-region access
- Hybrid DNS strategies using Route 53 and on-premises systems
- IP address management (IPAM) across complex network topologies
- Network Access Control Lists (NACLs) vs. Security Groups: layered defense
- Implementing AWS Network Firewall for centralized threat inspection
- Traffic mirroring for packet analysis and security monitoring
- DNS failover and health checking with Amazon Route 53
- Latency-based and geolocation routing strategies for global applications
- PrivateLink for secure service exposure without public endpoints
- Endpoint policies and access controls for PrivateLink services
- Using Route 53 Resolver for inbound and outbound DNS resolution
- Firewall Manager integration for centralized network policy enforcement
- Designing for network performance: jumbo frames, enhanced networking
- Network diagnostics: VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch Metrics, and Insights
Module 3: Scalable Compute & Container Orchestration - EC2 placement groups: cluster, partition, and spread strategies
- Instance optimization using instance families and generations
- Implementing EC2 Auto Scaling with predictive scaling policies
- Scaling based on custom CloudWatch metrics and application signals
- Spot Fleet strategies with diversified instance types and fallback mechanisms
- Capacity Reservations and Savings Plans integration for cost control
- Launch templates vs. launch configurations: best practices for maintainability
- Container architecture patterns: microservices, sidecars, and service mesh
- Amazon ECS: task definitions, services, and cluster management
- Fargate vs. EC2 launch types: trade-offs and selection criteria
- Amazon EKS: control plane architecture and node group design
- EKS networking: CNI plugins and IP address management
- Managing IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) in EKS
- Cluster autoscaling with Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter
- Configuring ingress controllers (ALB/NLB) for containerized applications
- Blue/green and canary deployments in Kubernetes using AWS App Mesh
- Serverless containers with AWS Fargate: use cases and limitations
- Runtime security for containers using Amazon Inspector
- Image scanning and vulnerability detection in ECR repositories
- Designing for zero-downtime deployments in containerized environments
Module 4: High-Performance Storage & Data Management - Choosing between Amazon EBS, instance store, and ephemeral storage
- Provisioned IOPS and GP3 tuning for high-throughput applications
- Multi-attach EBS volumes for clustered applications (e.g., SAP)
- Amazon S3: consistency models, versioning, and replication
- Cross-Region Replication (CRR) with KMS encryption and access controls
- S3 Batch Operations for large-scale object management
- Intelligent-Tiering lifecycle policies with cost forecasting
- S3 Access Points and access point aliases for simplified access
- Object ownership and access control models in multi-account setups
- Enforcing S3 Block Public Access across organizational units
- Amazon FSx: selecting between Lustre, Windows File Server, and OpenZFS
- FSx for Lustre burst configurations and throughput optimization
- Integrating FSx with S3 for machine learning and analytics workloads
- Amazon EFS: performance modes and throughput scaling
- EFS file system policies and IAM integration
- DataSync architecture for automated data migrations
- Migration workflows using DataSync with validation and monitoring
- Implementing S3 Replication Time Control (RTC) for compliance
- Storage gateway: file, volume, and tape gateway deployment models
- Designing for immutability using S3 Object Lock and legal hold
Module 5: Enterprise Security & Identity Governance - Identity Federation with SAML 2.0 and OIDC for enterprise SSO
- Cross-account access using IAM Roles and organizational policies
- Permission boundaries for delegated administrative control
- Service control policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations for guardrails
- Backup and recovery strategies for IAM policies and roles
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement across accounts
- Key Management Service (KMS) architectures: customer-managed vs. AWS-managed keys
- Key rotation policies and automating cryptographic best practices
- Using KMS grants for temporary access delegation
- Encrypting EBS volumes, RDS instances, and S3 objects with KMS
- CloudTrail organization trails and event logging at scale
- Configuring CloudTrail Lake for centralized query and analysis
- Config Rule packs for automated compliance checks (e.g., CIS, NIST)
- Config conformance packs for standardized governance enforcement
- Security Hub: automated findings aggregation and remediation workflows
- Integration with third-party SIEM tools using event APIs
- Macie: automated PII detection and data classification at scale
- GuardDuty: threat detection using ML and behavioral analytics
- Detector configuration, threat list integration, and custom findings
- Automated remediation playbooks using AWS Systems Manager
Module 6: Advanced Database & Data Analytics Architectures - Multi-AZ vs. global database deployments in Amazon RDS
- Read replica strategies across regions and engine constraints
- RDS Proxy for connection pooling and failover resilience
- Aurora Serverless v2: auto-scaling configurations and performance
- Aurora Global Databases: cross-region replication with low latency
- Backtrack and cloning features for development and testing
- DynamoDB: partition key design for even distribution and performance
- Global Tables for multi-region active-active applications
- Accelerators (DAX) for microsecond read performance
- On-Demand vs. Provisioned capacity modes and cost implications
- Time to Live (TTL) and Streams for event-driven applications
- Using Redshift for petabyte-scale data warehousing
- RA3 node types and managed storage scaling
- Spectrum for querying S3-resident data without loading
- Kinesis Data Streams: shard management and throughput scaling
- Kinesis Data Firehose: transformation and delivery pipelines
- Apache Spark on EMR: cluster tuning and Spot integration
- Delta Lake and Iceberg table formats on S3 for data lakehouse patterns
- Glue Data Catalog: schema registry and cross-service integration
- Athena engine versions and performance optimization techniques
Module 7: Automation, CI/CD & DevOps Integration - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CloudFormation vs. third-party tools
- Nested stacks and stack sets for multi-account deployments
- Change sets and drift detection for safe rollouts
- CodePipeline: pipeline stages, actions, and integration patterns
- Source actions: CodeCommit, GitHub, S3, and third-party repos
- Build actions using CodeBuild: environment controls and caching
- Test automation: unit, integration, and security scanning stages
- Blue/green deployments with CodeDeploy and Route 53
- Canary deployments using Traffic Shifting and health checks
- Custom actions and Lambda-based pipeline extensions
- EventBridge for workflow orchestration and cross-service triggers
- Event patterns and input transformation for complex workflows
- Step Functions for serverless workflow orchestration
- Standard vs. Express workflows: use case selection
- Error handling, retries, and circuit breaking in state machines
- Systems Manager Automation: runbooks for operational tasks
- Parameter Store: secure storage for configuration and secrets
- Session Manager for auditable, proxy-free instance access
- OpsItem management and incident response workflows
- Launch templates and EC2 Image Builder for golden image creation
Module 8: Migration Strategies & Modernization Frameworks - Assessment methodologies: cost, risk, complexity, and TCO analysis
- Application discovery using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Database migration using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous migration strategies (e.g., Oracle to Aurora)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques with change data capture (CDC)
- Replication instance sizing and network optimization for DMS
- Server migration with AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
- CloudEndure Migration: replication windows and failback planning
- Rehosting (lift-and-shift) vs. refactoring (re-architecting)
- Containerizing monolithic applications using modernization accelerators
- Application modernization with Strangler Fig pattern
- Using the AWS Migration Hub for centralized tracking
- Portfolio management and migration prioritization
- Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) frameworks
- Replatforming strategies: moving to RDS, Elasticache, etc.
- Refactoring with serverless: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB
- Decommissioning on-premises infrastructure securely
- Post-migration optimization and performance tuning
- Cost allocation tagging and chargeback models post-migration
- Training teams on operational ownership in the cloud
Module 9: Advanced Cost Management & Financial Governance - Cost allocation tags: implementation and enforcement at scale
- Cost Explorer: forecasting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis
- Trusted Advisor cost checks and remediation plans
- Curated Savings Plans recommendations using Compute Optimizer
- Mixed Savings Plan and Reserved Instance utilization strategies
- Cost and usage reports (CUR): schema, filtering, and analysis
- Blended vs. unblended costs: understanding billing perspectives
- Multi-account billing strategies using Consolidated Billing
- Budgets with alert thresholds and action triggers
- Automated cost responses using Lambda and SNS
- Custom cost dashboards using QuickSight and CUR data
- Reserved Instance Marketplace and exchange strategies
- Oversized instance identification and rightsizing recommendations
- Idle resource detection and shutdown automation
- FinOps principles: cross-functional cost accountability
- Chargeback and showback models for internal pricing
- Tag coverage enforcement using Config and Service Catalog
- Managing free-tier and promotional credits strategically
- Cost impact analysis for architectural decisions
- Presenting cost optimization results to executive stakeholders
Module 10: Certification Mastery & Career Advancement - Breakdown of AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam domains
- Understanding the depth vs. breadth expectations of professional-level exams
- Analyzing scenario-based questions: identifying hidden requirements
- Time management strategies for 4-hour, 75-question exam format
- Elimination techniques for multiple-correct-answer questions
- Official AWS exam guides: decoding weightings and topic shifts
- Practice exam walkthroughs with detailed explanations
- Common failure points and how to avoid them
- Study schedules for 60-, 30-, and 14-day prep timelines
- Mindset training: managing exam anxiety and focus
- Building a personal knowledge repository for rapid review
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for resume enhancement
- Optimizing LinkedIn profiles with AWS keywords and achievements
- Networking strategies within the AWS partner and user group ecosystem
- Salary negotiation tactics post-certification
- Transitioning to roles: Cloud Architect, Principal Engineer, Consultant
- Using the credential for internal promotions and visibility
- Earning continuing education credits (CEUs) for recertification
- Staying current: AWS blogs, re:Invent sessions, and technical whitepapers
- Career roadmap: from Professional to Specialty and beyond
- Advanced VPC design: multi-VPC architectures with shared services
- VPC peering limitations and best practices for large-scale environments
- Implementing AWS Transit Gateway for centralized network management
- Transit Gateway routing strategies: multicast, inter-AZ, and cross-account
- Site-to-Site VPN configurations with high resiliency and failover
- AWS Direct Connect: private connectivity options and redundancy models
- Direct Connect gateway integration for multi-region access
- Hybrid DNS strategies using Route 53 and on-premises systems
- IP address management (IPAM) across complex network topologies
- Network Access Control Lists (NACLs) vs. Security Groups: layered defense
- Implementing AWS Network Firewall for centralized threat inspection
- Traffic mirroring for packet analysis and security monitoring
- DNS failover and health checking with Amazon Route 53
- Latency-based and geolocation routing strategies for global applications
- PrivateLink for secure service exposure without public endpoints
- Endpoint policies and access controls for PrivateLink services
- Using Route 53 Resolver for inbound and outbound DNS resolution
- Firewall Manager integration for centralized network policy enforcement
- Designing for network performance: jumbo frames, enhanced networking
- Network diagnostics: VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch Metrics, and Insights
Module 3: Scalable Compute & Container Orchestration - EC2 placement groups: cluster, partition, and spread strategies
- Instance optimization using instance families and generations
- Implementing EC2 Auto Scaling with predictive scaling policies
- Scaling based on custom CloudWatch metrics and application signals
- Spot Fleet strategies with diversified instance types and fallback mechanisms
- Capacity Reservations and Savings Plans integration for cost control
- Launch templates vs. launch configurations: best practices for maintainability
- Container architecture patterns: microservices, sidecars, and service mesh
- Amazon ECS: task definitions, services, and cluster management
- Fargate vs. EC2 launch types: trade-offs and selection criteria
- Amazon EKS: control plane architecture and node group design
- EKS networking: CNI plugins and IP address management
- Managing IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) in EKS
- Cluster autoscaling with Cluster Autoscaler and Karpenter
- Configuring ingress controllers (ALB/NLB) for containerized applications
- Blue/green and canary deployments in Kubernetes using AWS App Mesh
- Serverless containers with AWS Fargate: use cases and limitations
- Runtime security for containers using Amazon Inspector
- Image scanning and vulnerability detection in ECR repositories
- Designing for zero-downtime deployments in containerized environments
Module 4: High-Performance Storage & Data Management - Choosing between Amazon EBS, instance store, and ephemeral storage
- Provisioned IOPS and GP3 tuning for high-throughput applications
- Multi-attach EBS volumes for clustered applications (e.g., SAP)
- Amazon S3: consistency models, versioning, and replication
- Cross-Region Replication (CRR) with KMS encryption and access controls
- S3 Batch Operations for large-scale object management
- Intelligent-Tiering lifecycle policies with cost forecasting
- S3 Access Points and access point aliases for simplified access
- Object ownership and access control models in multi-account setups
- Enforcing S3 Block Public Access across organizational units
- Amazon FSx: selecting between Lustre, Windows File Server, and OpenZFS
- FSx for Lustre burst configurations and throughput optimization
- Integrating FSx with S3 for machine learning and analytics workloads
- Amazon EFS: performance modes and throughput scaling
- EFS file system policies and IAM integration
- DataSync architecture for automated data migrations
- Migration workflows using DataSync with validation and monitoring
- Implementing S3 Replication Time Control (RTC) for compliance
- Storage gateway: file, volume, and tape gateway deployment models
- Designing for immutability using S3 Object Lock and legal hold
Module 5: Enterprise Security & Identity Governance - Identity Federation with SAML 2.0 and OIDC for enterprise SSO
- Cross-account access using IAM Roles and organizational policies
- Permission boundaries for delegated administrative control
- Service control policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations for guardrails
- Backup and recovery strategies for IAM policies and roles
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement across accounts
- Key Management Service (KMS) architectures: customer-managed vs. AWS-managed keys
- Key rotation policies and automating cryptographic best practices
- Using KMS grants for temporary access delegation
- Encrypting EBS volumes, RDS instances, and S3 objects with KMS
- CloudTrail organization trails and event logging at scale
- Configuring CloudTrail Lake for centralized query and analysis
- Config Rule packs for automated compliance checks (e.g., CIS, NIST)
- Config conformance packs for standardized governance enforcement
- Security Hub: automated findings aggregation and remediation workflows
- Integration with third-party SIEM tools using event APIs
- Macie: automated PII detection and data classification at scale
- GuardDuty: threat detection using ML and behavioral analytics
- Detector configuration, threat list integration, and custom findings
- Automated remediation playbooks using AWS Systems Manager
Module 6: Advanced Database & Data Analytics Architectures - Multi-AZ vs. global database deployments in Amazon RDS
- Read replica strategies across regions and engine constraints
- RDS Proxy for connection pooling and failover resilience
- Aurora Serverless v2: auto-scaling configurations and performance
- Aurora Global Databases: cross-region replication with low latency
- Backtrack and cloning features for development and testing
- DynamoDB: partition key design for even distribution and performance
- Global Tables for multi-region active-active applications
- Accelerators (DAX) for microsecond read performance
- On-Demand vs. Provisioned capacity modes and cost implications
- Time to Live (TTL) and Streams for event-driven applications
- Using Redshift for petabyte-scale data warehousing
- RA3 node types and managed storage scaling
- Spectrum for querying S3-resident data without loading
- Kinesis Data Streams: shard management and throughput scaling
- Kinesis Data Firehose: transformation and delivery pipelines
- Apache Spark on EMR: cluster tuning and Spot integration
- Delta Lake and Iceberg table formats on S3 for data lakehouse patterns
- Glue Data Catalog: schema registry and cross-service integration
- Athena engine versions and performance optimization techniques
Module 7: Automation, CI/CD & DevOps Integration - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CloudFormation vs. third-party tools
- Nested stacks and stack sets for multi-account deployments
- Change sets and drift detection for safe rollouts
- CodePipeline: pipeline stages, actions, and integration patterns
- Source actions: CodeCommit, GitHub, S3, and third-party repos
- Build actions using CodeBuild: environment controls and caching
- Test automation: unit, integration, and security scanning stages
- Blue/green deployments with CodeDeploy and Route 53
- Canary deployments using Traffic Shifting and health checks
- Custom actions and Lambda-based pipeline extensions
- EventBridge for workflow orchestration and cross-service triggers
- Event patterns and input transformation for complex workflows
- Step Functions for serverless workflow orchestration
- Standard vs. Express workflows: use case selection
- Error handling, retries, and circuit breaking in state machines
- Systems Manager Automation: runbooks for operational tasks
- Parameter Store: secure storage for configuration and secrets
- Session Manager for auditable, proxy-free instance access
- OpsItem management and incident response workflows
- Launch templates and EC2 Image Builder for golden image creation
Module 8: Migration Strategies & Modernization Frameworks - Assessment methodologies: cost, risk, complexity, and TCO analysis
- Application discovery using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Database migration using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous migration strategies (e.g., Oracle to Aurora)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques with change data capture (CDC)
- Replication instance sizing and network optimization for DMS
- Server migration with AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
- CloudEndure Migration: replication windows and failback planning
- Rehosting (lift-and-shift) vs. refactoring (re-architecting)
- Containerizing monolithic applications using modernization accelerators
- Application modernization with Strangler Fig pattern
- Using the AWS Migration Hub for centralized tracking
- Portfolio management and migration prioritization
- Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) frameworks
- Replatforming strategies: moving to RDS, Elasticache, etc.
- Refactoring with serverless: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB
- Decommissioning on-premises infrastructure securely
- Post-migration optimization and performance tuning
- Cost allocation tagging and chargeback models post-migration
- Training teams on operational ownership in the cloud
Module 9: Advanced Cost Management & Financial Governance - Cost allocation tags: implementation and enforcement at scale
- Cost Explorer: forecasting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis
- Trusted Advisor cost checks and remediation plans
- Curated Savings Plans recommendations using Compute Optimizer
- Mixed Savings Plan and Reserved Instance utilization strategies
- Cost and usage reports (CUR): schema, filtering, and analysis
- Blended vs. unblended costs: understanding billing perspectives
- Multi-account billing strategies using Consolidated Billing
- Budgets with alert thresholds and action triggers
- Automated cost responses using Lambda and SNS
- Custom cost dashboards using QuickSight and CUR data
- Reserved Instance Marketplace and exchange strategies
- Oversized instance identification and rightsizing recommendations
- Idle resource detection and shutdown automation
- FinOps principles: cross-functional cost accountability
- Chargeback and showback models for internal pricing
- Tag coverage enforcement using Config and Service Catalog
- Managing free-tier and promotional credits strategically
- Cost impact analysis for architectural decisions
- Presenting cost optimization results to executive stakeholders
Module 10: Certification Mastery & Career Advancement - Breakdown of AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam domains
- Understanding the depth vs. breadth expectations of professional-level exams
- Analyzing scenario-based questions: identifying hidden requirements
- Time management strategies for 4-hour, 75-question exam format
- Elimination techniques for multiple-correct-answer questions
- Official AWS exam guides: decoding weightings and topic shifts
- Practice exam walkthroughs with detailed explanations
- Common failure points and how to avoid them
- Study schedules for 60-, 30-, and 14-day prep timelines
- Mindset training: managing exam anxiety and focus
- Building a personal knowledge repository for rapid review
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for resume enhancement
- Optimizing LinkedIn profiles with AWS keywords and achievements
- Networking strategies within the AWS partner and user group ecosystem
- Salary negotiation tactics post-certification
- Transitioning to roles: Cloud Architect, Principal Engineer, Consultant
- Using the credential for internal promotions and visibility
- Earning continuing education credits (CEUs) for recertification
- Staying current: AWS blogs, re:Invent sessions, and technical whitepapers
- Career roadmap: from Professional to Specialty and beyond
- Choosing between Amazon EBS, instance store, and ephemeral storage
- Provisioned IOPS and GP3 tuning for high-throughput applications
- Multi-attach EBS volumes for clustered applications (e.g., SAP)
- Amazon S3: consistency models, versioning, and replication
- Cross-Region Replication (CRR) with KMS encryption and access controls
- S3 Batch Operations for large-scale object management
- Intelligent-Tiering lifecycle policies with cost forecasting
- S3 Access Points and access point aliases for simplified access
- Object ownership and access control models in multi-account setups
- Enforcing S3 Block Public Access across organizational units
- Amazon FSx: selecting between Lustre, Windows File Server, and OpenZFS
- FSx for Lustre burst configurations and throughput optimization
- Integrating FSx with S3 for machine learning and analytics workloads
- Amazon EFS: performance modes and throughput scaling
- EFS file system policies and IAM integration
- DataSync architecture for automated data migrations
- Migration workflows using DataSync with validation and monitoring
- Implementing S3 Replication Time Control (RTC) for compliance
- Storage gateway: file, volume, and tape gateway deployment models
- Designing for immutability using S3 Object Lock and legal hold
Module 5: Enterprise Security & Identity Governance - Identity Federation with SAML 2.0 and OIDC for enterprise SSO
- Cross-account access using IAM Roles and organizational policies
- Permission boundaries for delegated administrative control
- Service control policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations for guardrails
- Backup and recovery strategies for IAM policies and roles
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement across accounts
- Key Management Service (KMS) architectures: customer-managed vs. AWS-managed keys
- Key rotation policies and automating cryptographic best practices
- Using KMS grants for temporary access delegation
- Encrypting EBS volumes, RDS instances, and S3 objects with KMS
- CloudTrail organization trails and event logging at scale
- Configuring CloudTrail Lake for centralized query and analysis
- Config Rule packs for automated compliance checks (e.g., CIS, NIST)
- Config conformance packs for standardized governance enforcement
- Security Hub: automated findings aggregation and remediation workflows
- Integration with third-party SIEM tools using event APIs
- Macie: automated PII detection and data classification at scale
- GuardDuty: threat detection using ML and behavioral analytics
- Detector configuration, threat list integration, and custom findings
- Automated remediation playbooks using AWS Systems Manager
Module 6: Advanced Database & Data Analytics Architectures - Multi-AZ vs. global database deployments in Amazon RDS
- Read replica strategies across regions and engine constraints
- RDS Proxy for connection pooling and failover resilience
- Aurora Serverless v2: auto-scaling configurations and performance
- Aurora Global Databases: cross-region replication with low latency
- Backtrack and cloning features for development and testing
- DynamoDB: partition key design for even distribution and performance
- Global Tables for multi-region active-active applications
- Accelerators (DAX) for microsecond read performance
- On-Demand vs. Provisioned capacity modes and cost implications
- Time to Live (TTL) and Streams for event-driven applications
- Using Redshift for petabyte-scale data warehousing
- RA3 node types and managed storage scaling
- Spectrum for querying S3-resident data without loading
- Kinesis Data Streams: shard management and throughput scaling
- Kinesis Data Firehose: transformation and delivery pipelines
- Apache Spark on EMR: cluster tuning and Spot integration
- Delta Lake and Iceberg table formats on S3 for data lakehouse patterns
- Glue Data Catalog: schema registry and cross-service integration
- Athena engine versions and performance optimization techniques
Module 7: Automation, CI/CD & DevOps Integration - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CloudFormation vs. third-party tools
- Nested stacks and stack sets for multi-account deployments
- Change sets and drift detection for safe rollouts
- CodePipeline: pipeline stages, actions, and integration patterns
- Source actions: CodeCommit, GitHub, S3, and third-party repos
- Build actions using CodeBuild: environment controls and caching
- Test automation: unit, integration, and security scanning stages
- Blue/green deployments with CodeDeploy and Route 53
- Canary deployments using Traffic Shifting and health checks
- Custom actions and Lambda-based pipeline extensions
- EventBridge for workflow orchestration and cross-service triggers
- Event patterns and input transformation for complex workflows
- Step Functions for serverless workflow orchestration
- Standard vs. Express workflows: use case selection
- Error handling, retries, and circuit breaking in state machines
- Systems Manager Automation: runbooks for operational tasks
- Parameter Store: secure storage for configuration and secrets
- Session Manager for auditable, proxy-free instance access
- OpsItem management and incident response workflows
- Launch templates and EC2 Image Builder for golden image creation
Module 8: Migration Strategies & Modernization Frameworks - Assessment methodologies: cost, risk, complexity, and TCO analysis
- Application discovery using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Database migration using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous migration strategies (e.g., Oracle to Aurora)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques with change data capture (CDC)
- Replication instance sizing and network optimization for DMS
- Server migration with AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
- CloudEndure Migration: replication windows and failback planning
- Rehosting (lift-and-shift) vs. refactoring (re-architecting)
- Containerizing monolithic applications using modernization accelerators
- Application modernization with Strangler Fig pattern
- Using the AWS Migration Hub for centralized tracking
- Portfolio management and migration prioritization
- Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) frameworks
- Replatforming strategies: moving to RDS, Elasticache, etc.
- Refactoring with serverless: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB
- Decommissioning on-premises infrastructure securely
- Post-migration optimization and performance tuning
- Cost allocation tagging and chargeback models post-migration
- Training teams on operational ownership in the cloud
Module 9: Advanced Cost Management & Financial Governance - Cost allocation tags: implementation and enforcement at scale
- Cost Explorer: forecasting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis
- Trusted Advisor cost checks and remediation plans
- Curated Savings Plans recommendations using Compute Optimizer
- Mixed Savings Plan and Reserved Instance utilization strategies
- Cost and usage reports (CUR): schema, filtering, and analysis
- Blended vs. unblended costs: understanding billing perspectives
- Multi-account billing strategies using Consolidated Billing
- Budgets with alert thresholds and action triggers
- Automated cost responses using Lambda and SNS
- Custom cost dashboards using QuickSight and CUR data
- Reserved Instance Marketplace and exchange strategies
- Oversized instance identification and rightsizing recommendations
- Idle resource detection and shutdown automation
- FinOps principles: cross-functional cost accountability
- Chargeback and showback models for internal pricing
- Tag coverage enforcement using Config and Service Catalog
- Managing free-tier and promotional credits strategically
- Cost impact analysis for architectural decisions
- Presenting cost optimization results to executive stakeholders
Module 10: Certification Mastery & Career Advancement - Breakdown of AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam domains
- Understanding the depth vs. breadth expectations of professional-level exams
- Analyzing scenario-based questions: identifying hidden requirements
- Time management strategies for 4-hour, 75-question exam format
- Elimination techniques for multiple-correct-answer questions
- Official AWS exam guides: decoding weightings and topic shifts
- Practice exam walkthroughs with detailed explanations
- Common failure points and how to avoid them
- Study schedules for 60-, 30-, and 14-day prep timelines
- Mindset training: managing exam anxiety and focus
- Building a personal knowledge repository for rapid review
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for resume enhancement
- Optimizing LinkedIn profiles with AWS keywords and achievements
- Networking strategies within the AWS partner and user group ecosystem
- Salary negotiation tactics post-certification
- Transitioning to roles: Cloud Architect, Principal Engineer, Consultant
- Using the credential for internal promotions and visibility
- Earning continuing education credits (CEUs) for recertification
- Staying current: AWS blogs, re:Invent sessions, and technical whitepapers
- Career roadmap: from Professional to Specialty and beyond
- Multi-AZ vs. global database deployments in Amazon RDS
- Read replica strategies across regions and engine constraints
- RDS Proxy for connection pooling and failover resilience
- Aurora Serverless v2: auto-scaling configurations and performance
- Aurora Global Databases: cross-region replication with low latency
- Backtrack and cloning features for development and testing
- DynamoDB: partition key design for even distribution and performance
- Global Tables for multi-region active-active applications
- Accelerators (DAX) for microsecond read performance
- On-Demand vs. Provisioned capacity modes and cost implications
- Time to Live (TTL) and Streams for event-driven applications
- Using Redshift for petabyte-scale data warehousing
- RA3 node types and managed storage scaling
- Spectrum for querying S3-resident data without loading
- Kinesis Data Streams: shard management and throughput scaling
- Kinesis Data Firehose: transformation and delivery pipelines
- Apache Spark on EMR: cluster tuning and Spot integration
- Delta Lake and Iceberg table formats on S3 for data lakehouse patterns
- Glue Data Catalog: schema registry and cross-service integration
- Athena engine versions and performance optimization techniques
Module 7: Automation, CI/CD & DevOps Integration - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CloudFormation vs. third-party tools
- Nested stacks and stack sets for multi-account deployments
- Change sets and drift detection for safe rollouts
- CodePipeline: pipeline stages, actions, and integration patterns
- Source actions: CodeCommit, GitHub, S3, and third-party repos
- Build actions using CodeBuild: environment controls and caching
- Test automation: unit, integration, and security scanning stages
- Blue/green deployments with CodeDeploy and Route 53
- Canary deployments using Traffic Shifting and health checks
- Custom actions and Lambda-based pipeline extensions
- EventBridge for workflow orchestration and cross-service triggers
- Event patterns and input transformation for complex workflows
- Step Functions for serverless workflow orchestration
- Standard vs. Express workflows: use case selection
- Error handling, retries, and circuit breaking in state machines
- Systems Manager Automation: runbooks for operational tasks
- Parameter Store: secure storage for configuration and secrets
- Session Manager for auditable, proxy-free instance access
- OpsItem management and incident response workflows
- Launch templates and EC2 Image Builder for golden image creation
Module 8: Migration Strategies & Modernization Frameworks - Assessment methodologies: cost, risk, complexity, and TCO analysis
- Application discovery using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Database migration using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous migration strategies (e.g., Oracle to Aurora)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques with change data capture (CDC)
- Replication instance sizing and network optimization for DMS
- Server migration with AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
- CloudEndure Migration: replication windows and failback planning
- Rehosting (lift-and-shift) vs. refactoring (re-architecting)
- Containerizing monolithic applications using modernization accelerators
- Application modernization with Strangler Fig pattern
- Using the AWS Migration Hub for centralized tracking
- Portfolio management and migration prioritization
- Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) frameworks
- Replatforming strategies: moving to RDS, Elasticache, etc.
- Refactoring with serverless: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB
- Decommissioning on-premises infrastructure securely
- Post-migration optimization and performance tuning
- Cost allocation tagging and chargeback models post-migration
- Training teams on operational ownership in the cloud
Module 9: Advanced Cost Management & Financial Governance - Cost allocation tags: implementation and enforcement at scale
- Cost Explorer: forecasting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis
- Trusted Advisor cost checks and remediation plans
- Curated Savings Plans recommendations using Compute Optimizer
- Mixed Savings Plan and Reserved Instance utilization strategies
- Cost and usage reports (CUR): schema, filtering, and analysis
- Blended vs. unblended costs: understanding billing perspectives
- Multi-account billing strategies using Consolidated Billing
- Budgets with alert thresholds and action triggers
- Automated cost responses using Lambda and SNS
- Custom cost dashboards using QuickSight and CUR data
- Reserved Instance Marketplace and exchange strategies
- Oversized instance identification and rightsizing recommendations
- Idle resource detection and shutdown automation
- FinOps principles: cross-functional cost accountability
- Chargeback and showback models for internal pricing
- Tag coverage enforcement using Config and Service Catalog
- Managing free-tier and promotional credits strategically
- Cost impact analysis for architectural decisions
- Presenting cost optimization results to executive stakeholders
Module 10: Certification Mastery & Career Advancement - Breakdown of AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam domains
- Understanding the depth vs. breadth expectations of professional-level exams
- Analyzing scenario-based questions: identifying hidden requirements
- Time management strategies for 4-hour, 75-question exam format
- Elimination techniques for multiple-correct-answer questions
- Official AWS exam guides: decoding weightings and topic shifts
- Practice exam walkthroughs with detailed explanations
- Common failure points and how to avoid them
- Study schedules for 60-, 30-, and 14-day prep timelines
- Mindset training: managing exam anxiety and focus
- Building a personal knowledge repository for rapid review
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for resume enhancement
- Optimizing LinkedIn profiles with AWS keywords and achievements
- Networking strategies within the AWS partner and user group ecosystem
- Salary negotiation tactics post-certification
- Transitioning to roles: Cloud Architect, Principal Engineer, Consultant
- Using the credential for internal promotions and visibility
- Earning continuing education credits (CEUs) for recertification
- Staying current: AWS blogs, re:Invent sessions, and technical whitepapers
- Career roadmap: from Professional to Specialty and beyond
- Assessment methodologies: cost, risk, complexity, and TCO analysis
- Application discovery using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Database migration using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous migration strategies (e.g., Oracle to Aurora)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques with change data capture (CDC)
- Replication instance sizing and network optimization for DMS
- Server migration with AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
- CloudEndure Migration: replication windows and failback planning
- Rehosting (lift-and-shift) vs. refactoring (re-architecting)
- Containerizing monolithic applications using modernization accelerators
- Application modernization with Strangler Fig pattern
- Using the AWS Migration Hub for centralized tracking
- Portfolio management and migration prioritization
- Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) frameworks
- Replatforming strategies: moving to RDS, Elasticache, etc.
- Refactoring with serverless: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB
- Decommissioning on-premises infrastructure securely
- Post-migration optimization and performance tuning
- Cost allocation tagging and chargeback models post-migration
- Training teams on operational ownership in the cloud
Module 9: Advanced Cost Management & Financial Governance - Cost allocation tags: implementation and enforcement at scale
- Cost Explorer: forecasting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis
- Trusted Advisor cost checks and remediation plans
- Curated Savings Plans recommendations using Compute Optimizer
- Mixed Savings Plan and Reserved Instance utilization strategies
- Cost and usage reports (CUR): schema, filtering, and analysis
- Blended vs. unblended costs: understanding billing perspectives
- Multi-account billing strategies using Consolidated Billing
- Budgets with alert thresholds and action triggers
- Automated cost responses using Lambda and SNS
- Custom cost dashboards using QuickSight and CUR data
- Reserved Instance Marketplace and exchange strategies
- Oversized instance identification and rightsizing recommendations
- Idle resource detection and shutdown automation
- FinOps principles: cross-functional cost accountability
- Chargeback and showback models for internal pricing
- Tag coverage enforcement using Config and Service Catalog
- Managing free-tier and promotional credits strategically
- Cost impact analysis for architectural decisions
- Presenting cost optimization results to executive stakeholders
Module 10: Certification Mastery & Career Advancement - Breakdown of AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam domains
- Understanding the depth vs. breadth expectations of professional-level exams
- Analyzing scenario-based questions: identifying hidden requirements
- Time management strategies for 4-hour, 75-question exam format
- Elimination techniques for multiple-correct-answer questions
- Official AWS exam guides: decoding weightings and topic shifts
- Practice exam walkthroughs with detailed explanations
- Common failure points and how to avoid them
- Study schedules for 60-, 30-, and 14-day prep timelines
- Mindset training: managing exam anxiety and focus
- Building a personal knowledge repository for rapid review
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for resume enhancement
- Optimizing LinkedIn profiles with AWS keywords and achievements
- Networking strategies within the AWS partner and user group ecosystem
- Salary negotiation tactics post-certification
- Transitioning to roles: Cloud Architect, Principal Engineer, Consultant
- Using the credential for internal promotions and visibility
- Earning continuing education credits (CEUs) for recertification
- Staying current: AWS blogs, re:Invent sessions, and technical whitepapers
- Career roadmap: from Professional to Specialty and beyond
- Breakdown of AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam domains
- Understanding the depth vs. breadth expectations of professional-level exams
- Analyzing scenario-based questions: identifying hidden requirements
- Time management strategies for 4-hour, 75-question exam format
- Elimination techniques for multiple-correct-answer questions
- Official AWS exam guides: decoding weightings and topic shifts
- Practice exam walkthroughs with detailed explanations
- Common failure points and how to avoid them
- Study schedules for 60-, 30-, and 14-day prep timelines
- Mindset training: managing exam anxiety and focus
- Building a personal knowledge repository for rapid review
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for resume enhancement
- Optimizing LinkedIn profiles with AWS keywords and achievements
- Networking strategies within the AWS partner and user group ecosystem
- Salary negotiation tactics post-certification
- Transitioning to roles: Cloud Architect, Principal Engineer, Consultant
- Using the credential for internal promotions and visibility
- Earning continuing education credits (CEUs) for recertification
- Staying current: AWS blogs, re:Invent sessions, and technical whitepapers
- Career roadmap: from Professional to Specialty and beyond