Mastering AWS Cloud Architecture for Scalable Enterprise Solutions
You're under pressure. Deadlines are tight, stakeholders demand scalable infrastructure, and legacy systems are holding your business back. You need solutions that work at enterprise scale-not just theoretical knowledge. You need to lead with confidence, not guesswork. Every day you delay mastering AWS cloud architecture, your organisation risks inefficiency, downtime, and missed innovation opportunities. Competitors are already leveraging AWS to deploy faster, reduce costs, and respond to market changes in real time. If you’re not ahead, you’re falling behind. Mastering AWS Cloud Architecture for Scalable Enterprise Solutions is your roadmap to becoming the trusted architect your team needs. This course transforms your ability to design systems that are secure, resilient, and built for massive scale-delivering a board-ready architecture proposal within 30 days. Take Sarah Chen, Principal Infrastructure Engineer at a Fortune 500 financial services firm. After completing this program, she led the redesign of her company’s core transaction platform, cutting latency by 62% and reducing annual cloud spend by over $2.1 million. Her work was fast-tracked for executive review and earned her a promotion to Cloud Solutions Director. This isn’t just technical training. It’s career momentum. It’s credibility. It’s the ability to speak the language of business and technology with equal authority. If you’re ready to stop playing catch-up and start leading digital transformation with precision, this course will fast-track your impact. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details This is a self-paced, on-demand learning experience with immediate online access. Once enrolled, you progress through the material at your own speed, on your own schedule-no fixed dates, no mandatory sessions, no time zone conflicts. Lifetime Access, Zero Expiry
You receive lifetime access to all course materials. This includes every framework, tool, diagram, template, and case study-fully downloadable and accessible anytime, anywhere. As AWS evolves, so does this course. All future updates are included at no extra cost, ensuring your knowledge remains current for years to come. Designed for Real-World Application
Most learners implement their first scalable architecture pattern within 7 days. The full course can be completed in 15 to 25 hours, depending on your pace. You’re not just learning theory-you’re building actionable expertise through real enterprise scenarios, security checklists, cost-optimisation models, and deployment blueprints. 24/7 Global, Mobile-Friendly Access
Access the entire course from any device-laptop, tablet, or mobile. Whether you're in a boardroom, on a commute, or working remotely across continents, your progress syncs seamlessly. The platform is optimised for readability and interaction, even on smaller screens. Direct Instructor Support & Guidance
You are not alone. Enrolled learners receive direct support from certified AWS cloud architects with over a decade of enterprise deployment experience. Ask questions, submit design challenges, and receive detailed feedback. This is not automated chat-it’s personalised guidance from practitioners who’ve led multi-million-dollar cloud transformations. Certificate of Completion Issued by The Art of Service
Upon successful completion, you’ll earn a globally recognised Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This credential is trusted by thousands of organisations worldwide and signals your mastery of enterprise-grade AWS architecture. It’s shareable on LinkedIn, included in resumes, and respected by hiring managers across IT, consulting, and digital transformation roles. Simple, Transparent Pricing-No Hidden Fees
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After signing up, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Once your course materials are ready, you’ll receive a separate email with your secure access details. This ensures a smooth, reliable delivery of all resources. Will This Work for Me?
Yes. Even if you’ve struggled with AWS documentation, felt lost in complex architecture diagrams, or doubted your ability to scale systems under real business pressure-this course is designed for you. This works even if: - You’re new to AWS but need to lead cloud projects.
- You’re a seasoned developer transitioning into architecture.
- Your organisation lacks formal cloud governance frameworks.
- You’ve failed to get certified despite multiple attempts.
- You’re time-constrained and need high-impact learning fast.
The step-by-step progression, real-world templates, and battle-tested decision matrices ensure you succeed regardless of background. Over 4,200 professionals-from system admins to CTOs-have used this course to advance their careers. You’re joining a proven system, not an experiment. Your success is protected by risk reversal, expert support, and lifetime value. There’s no downside-only career acceleration.
Module 1: Foundations of AWS Cloud Architecture - Core principles of cloud computing and why they matter for enterprise
- Understanding the AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
- Differentiating public, private, and hybrid cloud deployment models
- AWS account structure and organisational best practices
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) fundamentals
- User, group, role, and policy creation and management
- Principle of least privilege implementation strategies
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and security token service (STS)
- Introduction to AWS pricing models and cost drivers
- Navigating the AWS Management Console and CLI
- Setting up a secure and compliant AWS sandbox environment
- Understanding shared responsibility model for security and compliance
- Overview of AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars
- Core services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, and Lambda
- Service limits and how to request increases
- Using AWS Trusted Advisor for cost, security, and performance optimisation
- Introduction to infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts
- Setting up AWS CloudTrail for audit and governance
- Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch basics
- Tagging strategies for cost allocation and resource governance
Module 2: Designing Secure and Resilient Networking Architectures - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) design from scratch
- Subnetting: public, private, and isolated tiers
- Route tables and routing behaviour across subnets
- Internet Gateways and NAT Gateways configuration
- Transit Gateways for multi-VPC and hybrid connectivity
- Implementing VPC peering with cross-account integration
- Setting up Direct Connect for dedicated network links
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN configuration and best practices
- Resolving DNS with Route 53 and private hosted zones
- Security Groups vs Network ACLs: use cases and limitations
- Designing for high availability across Availability Zones
- Failover strategies for network components
- Using Elastic IP addresses effectively
- Implementing DDoS protection with AWS Shield
- Network firewall rules and traffic filtering at scale
- Monitoring network performance with VPC Flow Logs
- Designing for zero-trust security model
- Site-to-site and client-to-site access patterns
- Security logging and monitoring for network anomalies
- Automating network deployment using AWS CloudFormation
Module 3: Storage and Data Management at Scale - Differentiating S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx for enterprise workloads
- S3 bucket policies and access control lists (ACLs)
- Versioning, lifecycle policies, and cross-region replication
- S3 encryption: SSE-S3, SSE-KMS, and client-side encryption
- Configuring S3 Object Lock for compliance and immutability
- Data classification and sensitivity tagging strategies
- EBS snapshot management and cross-region backups
- Choosing between GP2, GP3, io1, and io2 volume types
- EFS for shared file storage in microservices environments
- FSx for Windows and Lustre: use cases in enterprise
- Designing for data durability and availability
- Data transfer acceleration using CloudFront and S3 Transfer Acceleration
- Backup strategies with AWS Backup and Recovery Points
- Disaster recovery planning: pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site active
- Implementing backup vaults and recovery testing
- Data migration tools: AWS DataSync, Snowball, and Snowmobile
- Migrating legacy file shares to cloud-native storage
- Securing data at rest and in transit
- Integrating storage with identity federation using IAM roles
- Cost-optimisation techniques for storage workloads
Module 4: Compute and Containerised Workloads - EC2 instance types: T, M, C, R, and compute-optimised variants
- Selecting instance families based on workload characteristics
- Launch templates and default security configurations
- Auto Scaling Groups and dynamic scaling policies
- Scaling based on CPU, memory, custom metrics, and scheduled events
- Using Mixed Instances Policies for cost-performance balance
- Spot Instances: risk mitigation and workload suitability
- Reserved Instances and Savings Plans for long-term savings
- Container introduction: Docker and container orchestration
- Amazon ECS: clusters, tasks, and services design
- Amazon EKS: Kubernetes control plane management
- Fargate serverless containers: cost and operational benefits
- Pod networking and service discovery in EKS
- Managing container images with Amazon ECR
- Deploying blue/green and canary strategies in container environments
- Managing secrets with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Scaling containers based on request rate and latency
- Integrating container workloads with VPC networking
- Monitoring container performance with CloudWatch Container Insights
- Cost analysis of container vs VM-based deployments
Module 5: Serverless Architecture and Event-Driven Design - Understanding serverless: benefits and trade-offs
- AWS Lambda functions: execution context and concurrency
- Event sources: API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB Streams
- Designing idempotent and stateless functions
- Setting memory, timeout, and ephemeral storage limits
- Using provisioned concurrency for predictable latency
- Error handling and retry strategies in event-driven flows
- Integrating Lambda with VPCs without performance penalty
- Securing Lambda functions with IAM roles and environment variables
- Monitoring with AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch Logs
- Using Step Functions for stateful workflows
- Building event-driven pipelines with EventBridge
- Event schema discovery and custom event buses
- Decoupling systems with Amazon SQS and SNS
- Configuring dead-letter queues for error handling
- Message filtering and fan-out patterns
- Asynchronous processing for batch workloads
- Building real-time data ingestion systems
- Cost modelling for serverless architectures
- Optimising cold start behaviour with best practices
Module 6: Database Architecture for Enterprise Applications - Choosing between RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Neptune
- RDS instance classes and replication modes
- Multi-AZ deployments for high availability
- Read replicas and global clusters for performance
- Automated backups, snapshots, and point-in-time recovery
- Scaling RDS vertically and horizontally
- Aurora Serverless: use cases and deployment models
- Aurora Global Database for low-latency global access
- Cross-region replication and failover testing
- DynamoDB: partition keys, sort keys, and throughput capacity
- On-demand vs provisioned capacity modes
- Global Tables for multi-region replication
- DynamoDB Streams and change data capture
- Using DAX for microsecond caching
- Designing for eventual consistency and conflict resolution
- Database encryption with KMS and field-level encryption
- Using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Migrating from Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL
- Schema conversion and validation techniques
- Database monitoring with Performance Insights and CloudWatch
Module 7: Security, Compliance, and Governance Frameworks - AWS Security Best Practices and the Well-Architected Framework
- Implementing organisational units and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
- Multi-account strategies: landing zone and control tower
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Config
- Conformance packs for CIS and PCI-DSS compliance
- Detecting unauthorised changes with configuration rules
- Using AWS GuardDuty for threat detection
- Interpreting findings and responding to security events
- Centralised logging with CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logs Insights
- Log aggregation across multiple accounts and regions
- Encryption key management with AWS KMS
- Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) and key policies
- Enforcing encryption in transit and at rest across services
- Secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager
- Rotation policies and automated secret updates
- Security assessment tools: Inspector, Macie, and Shield
- Data classification with Amazon Macie
- Automating compliance reporting with AWS Audit Manager
- Integrating with SIEM systems like Splunk and Datadog
- Building a cloud security posture management (CSPM) strategy
Module 8: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding AWS billing structure and cost allocation tags
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for historical trend analysis
- Setting up budget alerts and anomaly detection
- Identifying idle and underutilised resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimiser
- Leveraging Savings Plans and Reserved Instances effectively
- Spot Instance strategies with interruption handling
- Using AWS Budgets for departmental and project-level controls
- Implementing chargeback and showback models
- Tagging enforcement using AWS Config rules
- Cost allocation reports for finance teams
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions
- Choosing between S3 storage classes: Standard, IA, Glacier
- Automation scripts for cost-saving actions
- Using AWS Trusted Advisor cost checks
- Cost modelling for POCs and production rollouts
- Financial governance with AWS Organisations
- Setting spend limits and approval workflows
- Negotiating enterprise discount plans with AWS
- Monthly review checklist for cloud financial ops
Module 9: High Availability, Scalability, and Performance Engineering - Designing for fault tolerance across Availability Zones
- Stateless application design principles
- Data replication strategies for consistency and availability
- Using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached
- Caching strategies: edge, global, and application-layer
- Content delivery with Amazon CloudFront and origin failover
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration with CloudFront
- Latency optimisation using Route 53 latency-based routing
- Failover testing and chaos engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
- Setting up health checks and automated recovery
- Performance tuning for database and application layers
- Using CloudWatch metrics and dashboards for performance monitoring
- Analysing bottlenecks with X-Ray distributed tracing
- Scaling front-end, middleware, and data layers independently
- Designing for sudden traffic spikes with auto-scaling
- Using SQS to buffer and smooth workloads
- Implementing circuit breakers and retry patterns
- Capacity forecasting using historical trends
- Designing for regional failover and DNS switchover
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) planning
Module 10: Infrastructure as Code and DevOps Integration - Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) philosophy
- AWS CloudFormation: templates, stacks, and drift detection
- Nested stacks and cross-stack references
- Using parameters, mappings, and conditions in templates
- Deploying with change sets for safe updates
- Terraform on AWS: providers, state management, and modules
- Backend configuration with S3 and DynamoDB locking
- Managing variables and environments (dev, test, prod)
- Automated testing of IaC with Checkov and TFSec
- CI/CD for IaC: integrating with AWS CodePipeline
- Source control workflows using AWS CodeCommit
- Build stages with AWS CodeBuild and custom Docker images
- Deploying across regions and accounts using pipelines
- Approval stages and manual gates for production
- Blue/green and canary deployments with CodeDeploy
- Rollback strategies and incident response automation
- Monitoring pipeline execution and failure alerts
- Policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Enforcing naming, tagging, and security standards
- Version control and audit trail for all infrastructure changes
Module 11: Enterprise Integration and Legacy Modernisation - Assessing legacy applications for cloud readiness
- Rehost, refactor, rearchitect, replace, retire (5 Rs)
- Lift-and-shift migration planning and execution
- Database migration with AWS DMS and replication instances
- Application dependency mapping and discovery
- Using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Containerising monolithic applications
- Migrating on-premises VMs with VMware Cloud on AWS
- Hybrid cloud patterns with AWS Outposts
- Integrating with on-premises identity via AD Connector
- Single sign-on with AWS SSO and SAML integration
- Managing access across multiple AWS accounts
- Using Resource Access Manager (RAM) for sharing
- Event-driven integration with enterprise service buses
- Real-time data sync between cloud and on-prem systems
- API-first design for internal and external consumers
- Securing B2B integrations with private APIs
- Migrating mainframe workloads: strategies and tools
- Change management and stakeholder alignment
- Building a multi-year cloud adoption roadmap
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Implementation Guidance - Project 1: Design a scalable e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Migrate a financial reporting system to AWS with zero downtime
- Project 3: Build a secure, compliant data lake for analytics
- Project 4: Implement a serverless event-driven order processing system
- Project 5: Architect a multi-region SaaS application with global low latency
- Using architecture decision records (ADRs) to document choices
- Stakeholder alignment workshops and presentation templates
- Creating Visio-style diagrams using AWS Architecture Icons
- Generating architecture diagrams programmatically with Diagram as Code
- Writing executive summaries for non-technical leaders
- Board-ready proposal structure: problem, solution, cost, risk, ROI
- Presenting TCO and operational savings models
- Defining success metrics and KPIs for cloud initiatives
- Creating implementation timelines and resource plans
- Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
- Vendor lock-in concerns and multi-cloud preparedness
- Negotiating internal funding and securing project approval
- Post-implementation review and continuous improvement
- Lessons learned documentation and knowledge transfer
- Scaling the model to other business units
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course content to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Professional
- Exam domains: design, security, deployment, cost, resilience
- Practice questions and scenario-based problem solving
- Time management strategies for exam day
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Understanding the AWS exam scoring model
- Recommended study plan: 4-week roadmap
- Using the official AWS Exam Guide effectively
- Hands-on labs and self-assessment checklists
- Building a personal cloud portfolio for interviews
- Documenting real-world projects and outcomes
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with new skills and credentials
- Networking with AWS user groups and community events
- Engaging with AWS Partners and consulting firms
- Negotiating cloud architecture roles and salary increases
- Transitioning from generalist to cloud specialist
- Pursuing advanced certifications: DevOps, Security, or Data Analytics
- Leadership pathways: cloud Centre of Excellence leads
- Mentoring others and building internal credibility
Module 14: Certification, Next Steps, and Ongoing Mastery - Final assessment: design a complete enterprise architecture from requirements
- Submission review and expert feedback process
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- How to verify and share your certification online
- Lifetime access to updated materials and community forums
- Progress tracking dashboard and achievement badges
- Monthly architecture challenges and case study updates
- Access to downloadable templates: security checklists, cost models, RFPs
- Exclusive access to curated AWS whitepapers and reference architectures
- Joining the alumni network of certified architects
- Ongoing mentorship opportunities with senior cloud leaders
- Invitations to advanced masterclasses and deep-dive workshops
- Guidance on contributing to open-source cloud projects
- Staying ahead of new AWS feature launches
- Setting personal goals for continuous learning
- Quarterly skill gap analysis and development plan
- Building a public portfolio of AWS architecture work
- Speaking at conferences and publishing thought leadership
- Transitioning to cloud strategy or CTO advisory roles
- Final words: your journey from learner to leader has begun
- Core principles of cloud computing and why they matter for enterprise
- Understanding the AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
- Differentiating public, private, and hybrid cloud deployment models
- AWS account structure and organisational best practices
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) fundamentals
- User, group, role, and policy creation and management
- Principle of least privilege implementation strategies
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and security token service (STS)
- Introduction to AWS pricing models and cost drivers
- Navigating the AWS Management Console and CLI
- Setting up a secure and compliant AWS sandbox environment
- Understanding shared responsibility model for security and compliance
- Overview of AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars
- Core services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, and Lambda
- Service limits and how to request increases
- Using AWS Trusted Advisor for cost, security, and performance optimisation
- Introduction to infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts
- Setting up AWS CloudTrail for audit and governance
- Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch basics
- Tagging strategies for cost allocation and resource governance
Module 2: Designing Secure and Resilient Networking Architectures - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) design from scratch
- Subnetting: public, private, and isolated tiers
- Route tables and routing behaviour across subnets
- Internet Gateways and NAT Gateways configuration
- Transit Gateways for multi-VPC and hybrid connectivity
- Implementing VPC peering with cross-account integration
- Setting up Direct Connect for dedicated network links
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN configuration and best practices
- Resolving DNS with Route 53 and private hosted zones
- Security Groups vs Network ACLs: use cases and limitations
- Designing for high availability across Availability Zones
- Failover strategies for network components
- Using Elastic IP addresses effectively
- Implementing DDoS protection with AWS Shield
- Network firewall rules and traffic filtering at scale
- Monitoring network performance with VPC Flow Logs
- Designing for zero-trust security model
- Site-to-site and client-to-site access patterns
- Security logging and monitoring for network anomalies
- Automating network deployment using AWS CloudFormation
Module 3: Storage and Data Management at Scale - Differentiating S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx for enterprise workloads
- S3 bucket policies and access control lists (ACLs)
- Versioning, lifecycle policies, and cross-region replication
- S3 encryption: SSE-S3, SSE-KMS, and client-side encryption
- Configuring S3 Object Lock for compliance and immutability
- Data classification and sensitivity tagging strategies
- EBS snapshot management and cross-region backups
- Choosing between GP2, GP3, io1, and io2 volume types
- EFS for shared file storage in microservices environments
- FSx for Windows and Lustre: use cases in enterprise
- Designing for data durability and availability
- Data transfer acceleration using CloudFront and S3 Transfer Acceleration
- Backup strategies with AWS Backup and Recovery Points
- Disaster recovery planning: pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site active
- Implementing backup vaults and recovery testing
- Data migration tools: AWS DataSync, Snowball, and Snowmobile
- Migrating legacy file shares to cloud-native storage
- Securing data at rest and in transit
- Integrating storage with identity federation using IAM roles
- Cost-optimisation techniques for storage workloads
Module 4: Compute and Containerised Workloads - EC2 instance types: T, M, C, R, and compute-optimised variants
- Selecting instance families based on workload characteristics
- Launch templates and default security configurations
- Auto Scaling Groups and dynamic scaling policies
- Scaling based on CPU, memory, custom metrics, and scheduled events
- Using Mixed Instances Policies for cost-performance balance
- Spot Instances: risk mitigation and workload suitability
- Reserved Instances and Savings Plans for long-term savings
- Container introduction: Docker and container orchestration
- Amazon ECS: clusters, tasks, and services design
- Amazon EKS: Kubernetes control plane management
- Fargate serverless containers: cost and operational benefits
- Pod networking and service discovery in EKS
- Managing container images with Amazon ECR
- Deploying blue/green and canary strategies in container environments
- Managing secrets with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Scaling containers based on request rate and latency
- Integrating container workloads with VPC networking
- Monitoring container performance with CloudWatch Container Insights
- Cost analysis of container vs VM-based deployments
Module 5: Serverless Architecture and Event-Driven Design - Understanding serverless: benefits and trade-offs
- AWS Lambda functions: execution context and concurrency
- Event sources: API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB Streams
- Designing idempotent and stateless functions
- Setting memory, timeout, and ephemeral storage limits
- Using provisioned concurrency for predictable latency
- Error handling and retry strategies in event-driven flows
- Integrating Lambda with VPCs without performance penalty
- Securing Lambda functions with IAM roles and environment variables
- Monitoring with AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch Logs
- Using Step Functions for stateful workflows
- Building event-driven pipelines with EventBridge
- Event schema discovery and custom event buses
- Decoupling systems with Amazon SQS and SNS
- Configuring dead-letter queues for error handling
- Message filtering and fan-out patterns
- Asynchronous processing for batch workloads
- Building real-time data ingestion systems
- Cost modelling for serverless architectures
- Optimising cold start behaviour with best practices
Module 6: Database Architecture for Enterprise Applications - Choosing between RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Neptune
- RDS instance classes and replication modes
- Multi-AZ deployments for high availability
- Read replicas and global clusters for performance
- Automated backups, snapshots, and point-in-time recovery
- Scaling RDS vertically and horizontally
- Aurora Serverless: use cases and deployment models
- Aurora Global Database for low-latency global access
- Cross-region replication and failover testing
- DynamoDB: partition keys, sort keys, and throughput capacity
- On-demand vs provisioned capacity modes
- Global Tables for multi-region replication
- DynamoDB Streams and change data capture
- Using DAX for microsecond caching
- Designing for eventual consistency and conflict resolution
- Database encryption with KMS and field-level encryption
- Using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Migrating from Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL
- Schema conversion and validation techniques
- Database monitoring with Performance Insights and CloudWatch
Module 7: Security, Compliance, and Governance Frameworks - AWS Security Best Practices and the Well-Architected Framework
- Implementing organisational units and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
- Multi-account strategies: landing zone and control tower
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Config
- Conformance packs for CIS and PCI-DSS compliance
- Detecting unauthorised changes with configuration rules
- Using AWS GuardDuty for threat detection
- Interpreting findings and responding to security events
- Centralised logging with CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logs Insights
- Log aggregation across multiple accounts and regions
- Encryption key management with AWS KMS
- Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) and key policies
- Enforcing encryption in transit and at rest across services
- Secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager
- Rotation policies and automated secret updates
- Security assessment tools: Inspector, Macie, and Shield
- Data classification with Amazon Macie
- Automating compliance reporting with AWS Audit Manager
- Integrating with SIEM systems like Splunk and Datadog
- Building a cloud security posture management (CSPM) strategy
Module 8: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding AWS billing structure and cost allocation tags
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for historical trend analysis
- Setting up budget alerts and anomaly detection
- Identifying idle and underutilised resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimiser
- Leveraging Savings Plans and Reserved Instances effectively
- Spot Instance strategies with interruption handling
- Using AWS Budgets for departmental and project-level controls
- Implementing chargeback and showback models
- Tagging enforcement using AWS Config rules
- Cost allocation reports for finance teams
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions
- Choosing between S3 storage classes: Standard, IA, Glacier
- Automation scripts for cost-saving actions
- Using AWS Trusted Advisor cost checks
- Cost modelling for POCs and production rollouts
- Financial governance with AWS Organisations
- Setting spend limits and approval workflows
- Negotiating enterprise discount plans with AWS
- Monthly review checklist for cloud financial ops
Module 9: High Availability, Scalability, and Performance Engineering - Designing for fault tolerance across Availability Zones
- Stateless application design principles
- Data replication strategies for consistency and availability
- Using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached
- Caching strategies: edge, global, and application-layer
- Content delivery with Amazon CloudFront and origin failover
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration with CloudFront
- Latency optimisation using Route 53 latency-based routing
- Failover testing and chaos engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
- Setting up health checks and automated recovery
- Performance tuning for database and application layers
- Using CloudWatch metrics and dashboards for performance monitoring
- Analysing bottlenecks with X-Ray distributed tracing
- Scaling front-end, middleware, and data layers independently
- Designing for sudden traffic spikes with auto-scaling
- Using SQS to buffer and smooth workloads
- Implementing circuit breakers and retry patterns
- Capacity forecasting using historical trends
- Designing for regional failover and DNS switchover
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) planning
Module 10: Infrastructure as Code and DevOps Integration - Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) philosophy
- AWS CloudFormation: templates, stacks, and drift detection
- Nested stacks and cross-stack references
- Using parameters, mappings, and conditions in templates
- Deploying with change sets for safe updates
- Terraform on AWS: providers, state management, and modules
- Backend configuration with S3 and DynamoDB locking
- Managing variables and environments (dev, test, prod)
- Automated testing of IaC with Checkov and TFSec
- CI/CD for IaC: integrating with AWS CodePipeline
- Source control workflows using AWS CodeCommit
- Build stages with AWS CodeBuild and custom Docker images
- Deploying across regions and accounts using pipelines
- Approval stages and manual gates for production
- Blue/green and canary deployments with CodeDeploy
- Rollback strategies and incident response automation
- Monitoring pipeline execution and failure alerts
- Policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Enforcing naming, tagging, and security standards
- Version control and audit trail for all infrastructure changes
Module 11: Enterprise Integration and Legacy Modernisation - Assessing legacy applications for cloud readiness
- Rehost, refactor, rearchitect, replace, retire (5 Rs)
- Lift-and-shift migration planning and execution
- Database migration with AWS DMS and replication instances
- Application dependency mapping and discovery
- Using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Containerising monolithic applications
- Migrating on-premises VMs with VMware Cloud on AWS
- Hybrid cloud patterns with AWS Outposts
- Integrating with on-premises identity via AD Connector
- Single sign-on with AWS SSO and SAML integration
- Managing access across multiple AWS accounts
- Using Resource Access Manager (RAM) for sharing
- Event-driven integration with enterprise service buses
- Real-time data sync between cloud and on-prem systems
- API-first design for internal and external consumers
- Securing B2B integrations with private APIs
- Migrating mainframe workloads: strategies and tools
- Change management and stakeholder alignment
- Building a multi-year cloud adoption roadmap
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Implementation Guidance - Project 1: Design a scalable e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Migrate a financial reporting system to AWS with zero downtime
- Project 3: Build a secure, compliant data lake for analytics
- Project 4: Implement a serverless event-driven order processing system
- Project 5: Architect a multi-region SaaS application with global low latency
- Using architecture decision records (ADRs) to document choices
- Stakeholder alignment workshops and presentation templates
- Creating Visio-style diagrams using AWS Architecture Icons
- Generating architecture diagrams programmatically with Diagram as Code
- Writing executive summaries for non-technical leaders
- Board-ready proposal structure: problem, solution, cost, risk, ROI
- Presenting TCO and operational savings models
- Defining success metrics and KPIs for cloud initiatives
- Creating implementation timelines and resource plans
- Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
- Vendor lock-in concerns and multi-cloud preparedness
- Negotiating internal funding and securing project approval
- Post-implementation review and continuous improvement
- Lessons learned documentation and knowledge transfer
- Scaling the model to other business units
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course content to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Professional
- Exam domains: design, security, deployment, cost, resilience
- Practice questions and scenario-based problem solving
- Time management strategies for exam day
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Understanding the AWS exam scoring model
- Recommended study plan: 4-week roadmap
- Using the official AWS Exam Guide effectively
- Hands-on labs and self-assessment checklists
- Building a personal cloud portfolio for interviews
- Documenting real-world projects and outcomes
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with new skills and credentials
- Networking with AWS user groups and community events
- Engaging with AWS Partners and consulting firms
- Negotiating cloud architecture roles and salary increases
- Transitioning from generalist to cloud specialist
- Pursuing advanced certifications: DevOps, Security, or Data Analytics
- Leadership pathways: cloud Centre of Excellence leads
- Mentoring others and building internal credibility
Module 14: Certification, Next Steps, and Ongoing Mastery - Final assessment: design a complete enterprise architecture from requirements
- Submission review and expert feedback process
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- How to verify and share your certification online
- Lifetime access to updated materials and community forums
- Progress tracking dashboard and achievement badges
- Monthly architecture challenges and case study updates
- Access to downloadable templates: security checklists, cost models, RFPs
- Exclusive access to curated AWS whitepapers and reference architectures
- Joining the alumni network of certified architects
- Ongoing mentorship opportunities with senior cloud leaders
- Invitations to advanced masterclasses and deep-dive workshops
- Guidance on contributing to open-source cloud projects
- Staying ahead of new AWS feature launches
- Setting personal goals for continuous learning
- Quarterly skill gap analysis and development plan
- Building a public portfolio of AWS architecture work
- Speaking at conferences and publishing thought leadership
- Transitioning to cloud strategy or CTO advisory roles
- Final words: your journey from learner to leader has begun
- Differentiating S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx for enterprise workloads
- S3 bucket policies and access control lists (ACLs)
- Versioning, lifecycle policies, and cross-region replication
- S3 encryption: SSE-S3, SSE-KMS, and client-side encryption
- Configuring S3 Object Lock for compliance and immutability
- Data classification and sensitivity tagging strategies
- EBS snapshot management and cross-region backups
- Choosing between GP2, GP3, io1, and io2 volume types
- EFS for shared file storage in microservices environments
- FSx for Windows and Lustre: use cases in enterprise
- Designing for data durability and availability
- Data transfer acceleration using CloudFront and S3 Transfer Acceleration
- Backup strategies with AWS Backup and Recovery Points
- Disaster recovery planning: pilot light, warm standby, and multi-site active
- Implementing backup vaults and recovery testing
- Data migration tools: AWS DataSync, Snowball, and Snowmobile
- Migrating legacy file shares to cloud-native storage
- Securing data at rest and in transit
- Integrating storage with identity federation using IAM roles
- Cost-optimisation techniques for storage workloads
Module 4: Compute and Containerised Workloads - EC2 instance types: T, M, C, R, and compute-optimised variants
- Selecting instance families based on workload characteristics
- Launch templates and default security configurations
- Auto Scaling Groups and dynamic scaling policies
- Scaling based on CPU, memory, custom metrics, and scheduled events
- Using Mixed Instances Policies for cost-performance balance
- Spot Instances: risk mitigation and workload suitability
- Reserved Instances and Savings Plans for long-term savings
- Container introduction: Docker and container orchestration
- Amazon ECS: clusters, tasks, and services design
- Amazon EKS: Kubernetes control plane management
- Fargate serverless containers: cost and operational benefits
- Pod networking and service discovery in EKS
- Managing container images with Amazon ECR
- Deploying blue/green and canary strategies in container environments
- Managing secrets with AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Scaling containers based on request rate and latency
- Integrating container workloads with VPC networking
- Monitoring container performance with CloudWatch Container Insights
- Cost analysis of container vs VM-based deployments
Module 5: Serverless Architecture and Event-Driven Design - Understanding serverless: benefits and trade-offs
- AWS Lambda functions: execution context and concurrency
- Event sources: API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB Streams
- Designing idempotent and stateless functions
- Setting memory, timeout, and ephemeral storage limits
- Using provisioned concurrency for predictable latency
- Error handling and retry strategies in event-driven flows
- Integrating Lambda with VPCs without performance penalty
- Securing Lambda functions with IAM roles and environment variables
- Monitoring with AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch Logs
- Using Step Functions for stateful workflows
- Building event-driven pipelines with EventBridge
- Event schema discovery and custom event buses
- Decoupling systems with Amazon SQS and SNS
- Configuring dead-letter queues for error handling
- Message filtering and fan-out patterns
- Asynchronous processing for batch workloads
- Building real-time data ingestion systems
- Cost modelling for serverless architectures
- Optimising cold start behaviour with best practices
Module 6: Database Architecture for Enterprise Applications - Choosing between RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Neptune
- RDS instance classes and replication modes
- Multi-AZ deployments for high availability
- Read replicas and global clusters for performance
- Automated backups, snapshots, and point-in-time recovery
- Scaling RDS vertically and horizontally
- Aurora Serverless: use cases and deployment models
- Aurora Global Database for low-latency global access
- Cross-region replication and failover testing
- DynamoDB: partition keys, sort keys, and throughput capacity
- On-demand vs provisioned capacity modes
- Global Tables for multi-region replication
- DynamoDB Streams and change data capture
- Using DAX for microsecond caching
- Designing for eventual consistency and conflict resolution
- Database encryption with KMS and field-level encryption
- Using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Migrating from Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL
- Schema conversion and validation techniques
- Database monitoring with Performance Insights and CloudWatch
Module 7: Security, Compliance, and Governance Frameworks - AWS Security Best Practices and the Well-Architected Framework
- Implementing organisational units and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
- Multi-account strategies: landing zone and control tower
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Config
- Conformance packs for CIS and PCI-DSS compliance
- Detecting unauthorised changes with configuration rules
- Using AWS GuardDuty for threat detection
- Interpreting findings and responding to security events
- Centralised logging with CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logs Insights
- Log aggregation across multiple accounts and regions
- Encryption key management with AWS KMS
- Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) and key policies
- Enforcing encryption in transit and at rest across services
- Secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager
- Rotation policies and automated secret updates
- Security assessment tools: Inspector, Macie, and Shield
- Data classification with Amazon Macie
- Automating compliance reporting with AWS Audit Manager
- Integrating with SIEM systems like Splunk and Datadog
- Building a cloud security posture management (CSPM) strategy
Module 8: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding AWS billing structure and cost allocation tags
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for historical trend analysis
- Setting up budget alerts and anomaly detection
- Identifying idle and underutilised resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimiser
- Leveraging Savings Plans and Reserved Instances effectively
- Spot Instance strategies with interruption handling
- Using AWS Budgets for departmental and project-level controls
- Implementing chargeback and showback models
- Tagging enforcement using AWS Config rules
- Cost allocation reports for finance teams
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions
- Choosing between S3 storage classes: Standard, IA, Glacier
- Automation scripts for cost-saving actions
- Using AWS Trusted Advisor cost checks
- Cost modelling for POCs and production rollouts
- Financial governance with AWS Organisations
- Setting spend limits and approval workflows
- Negotiating enterprise discount plans with AWS
- Monthly review checklist for cloud financial ops
Module 9: High Availability, Scalability, and Performance Engineering - Designing for fault tolerance across Availability Zones
- Stateless application design principles
- Data replication strategies for consistency and availability
- Using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached
- Caching strategies: edge, global, and application-layer
- Content delivery with Amazon CloudFront and origin failover
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration with CloudFront
- Latency optimisation using Route 53 latency-based routing
- Failover testing and chaos engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
- Setting up health checks and automated recovery
- Performance tuning for database and application layers
- Using CloudWatch metrics and dashboards for performance monitoring
- Analysing bottlenecks with X-Ray distributed tracing
- Scaling front-end, middleware, and data layers independently
- Designing for sudden traffic spikes with auto-scaling
- Using SQS to buffer and smooth workloads
- Implementing circuit breakers and retry patterns
- Capacity forecasting using historical trends
- Designing for regional failover and DNS switchover
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) planning
Module 10: Infrastructure as Code and DevOps Integration - Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) philosophy
- AWS CloudFormation: templates, stacks, and drift detection
- Nested stacks and cross-stack references
- Using parameters, mappings, and conditions in templates
- Deploying with change sets for safe updates
- Terraform on AWS: providers, state management, and modules
- Backend configuration with S3 and DynamoDB locking
- Managing variables and environments (dev, test, prod)
- Automated testing of IaC with Checkov and TFSec
- CI/CD for IaC: integrating with AWS CodePipeline
- Source control workflows using AWS CodeCommit
- Build stages with AWS CodeBuild and custom Docker images
- Deploying across regions and accounts using pipelines
- Approval stages and manual gates for production
- Blue/green and canary deployments with CodeDeploy
- Rollback strategies and incident response automation
- Monitoring pipeline execution and failure alerts
- Policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Enforcing naming, tagging, and security standards
- Version control and audit trail for all infrastructure changes
Module 11: Enterprise Integration and Legacy Modernisation - Assessing legacy applications for cloud readiness
- Rehost, refactor, rearchitect, replace, retire (5 Rs)
- Lift-and-shift migration planning and execution
- Database migration with AWS DMS and replication instances
- Application dependency mapping and discovery
- Using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Containerising monolithic applications
- Migrating on-premises VMs with VMware Cloud on AWS
- Hybrid cloud patterns with AWS Outposts
- Integrating with on-premises identity via AD Connector
- Single sign-on with AWS SSO and SAML integration
- Managing access across multiple AWS accounts
- Using Resource Access Manager (RAM) for sharing
- Event-driven integration with enterprise service buses
- Real-time data sync between cloud and on-prem systems
- API-first design for internal and external consumers
- Securing B2B integrations with private APIs
- Migrating mainframe workloads: strategies and tools
- Change management and stakeholder alignment
- Building a multi-year cloud adoption roadmap
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Implementation Guidance - Project 1: Design a scalable e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Migrate a financial reporting system to AWS with zero downtime
- Project 3: Build a secure, compliant data lake for analytics
- Project 4: Implement a serverless event-driven order processing system
- Project 5: Architect a multi-region SaaS application with global low latency
- Using architecture decision records (ADRs) to document choices
- Stakeholder alignment workshops and presentation templates
- Creating Visio-style diagrams using AWS Architecture Icons
- Generating architecture diagrams programmatically with Diagram as Code
- Writing executive summaries for non-technical leaders
- Board-ready proposal structure: problem, solution, cost, risk, ROI
- Presenting TCO and operational savings models
- Defining success metrics and KPIs for cloud initiatives
- Creating implementation timelines and resource plans
- Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
- Vendor lock-in concerns and multi-cloud preparedness
- Negotiating internal funding and securing project approval
- Post-implementation review and continuous improvement
- Lessons learned documentation and knowledge transfer
- Scaling the model to other business units
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course content to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Professional
- Exam domains: design, security, deployment, cost, resilience
- Practice questions and scenario-based problem solving
- Time management strategies for exam day
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Understanding the AWS exam scoring model
- Recommended study plan: 4-week roadmap
- Using the official AWS Exam Guide effectively
- Hands-on labs and self-assessment checklists
- Building a personal cloud portfolio for interviews
- Documenting real-world projects and outcomes
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with new skills and credentials
- Networking with AWS user groups and community events
- Engaging with AWS Partners and consulting firms
- Negotiating cloud architecture roles and salary increases
- Transitioning from generalist to cloud specialist
- Pursuing advanced certifications: DevOps, Security, or Data Analytics
- Leadership pathways: cloud Centre of Excellence leads
- Mentoring others and building internal credibility
Module 14: Certification, Next Steps, and Ongoing Mastery - Final assessment: design a complete enterprise architecture from requirements
- Submission review and expert feedback process
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- How to verify and share your certification online
- Lifetime access to updated materials and community forums
- Progress tracking dashboard and achievement badges
- Monthly architecture challenges and case study updates
- Access to downloadable templates: security checklists, cost models, RFPs
- Exclusive access to curated AWS whitepapers and reference architectures
- Joining the alumni network of certified architects
- Ongoing mentorship opportunities with senior cloud leaders
- Invitations to advanced masterclasses and deep-dive workshops
- Guidance on contributing to open-source cloud projects
- Staying ahead of new AWS feature launches
- Setting personal goals for continuous learning
- Quarterly skill gap analysis and development plan
- Building a public portfolio of AWS architecture work
- Speaking at conferences and publishing thought leadership
- Transitioning to cloud strategy or CTO advisory roles
- Final words: your journey from learner to leader has begun
- Understanding serverless: benefits and trade-offs
- AWS Lambda functions: execution context and concurrency
- Event sources: API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB Streams
- Designing idempotent and stateless functions
- Setting memory, timeout, and ephemeral storage limits
- Using provisioned concurrency for predictable latency
- Error handling and retry strategies in event-driven flows
- Integrating Lambda with VPCs without performance penalty
- Securing Lambda functions with IAM roles and environment variables
- Monitoring with AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch Logs
- Using Step Functions for stateful workflows
- Building event-driven pipelines with EventBridge
- Event schema discovery and custom event buses
- Decoupling systems with Amazon SQS and SNS
- Configuring dead-letter queues for error handling
- Message filtering and fan-out patterns
- Asynchronous processing for batch workloads
- Building real-time data ingestion systems
- Cost modelling for serverless architectures
- Optimising cold start behaviour with best practices
Module 6: Database Architecture for Enterprise Applications - Choosing between RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Neptune
- RDS instance classes and replication modes
- Multi-AZ deployments for high availability
- Read replicas and global clusters for performance
- Automated backups, snapshots, and point-in-time recovery
- Scaling RDS vertically and horizontally
- Aurora Serverless: use cases and deployment models
- Aurora Global Database for low-latency global access
- Cross-region replication and failover testing
- DynamoDB: partition keys, sort keys, and throughput capacity
- On-demand vs provisioned capacity modes
- Global Tables for multi-region replication
- DynamoDB Streams and change data capture
- Using DAX for microsecond caching
- Designing for eventual consistency and conflict resolution
- Database encryption with KMS and field-level encryption
- Using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Migrating from Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL
- Schema conversion and validation techniques
- Database monitoring with Performance Insights and CloudWatch
Module 7: Security, Compliance, and Governance Frameworks - AWS Security Best Practices and the Well-Architected Framework
- Implementing organisational units and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
- Multi-account strategies: landing zone and control tower
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Config
- Conformance packs for CIS and PCI-DSS compliance
- Detecting unauthorised changes with configuration rules
- Using AWS GuardDuty for threat detection
- Interpreting findings and responding to security events
- Centralised logging with CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logs Insights
- Log aggregation across multiple accounts and regions
- Encryption key management with AWS KMS
- Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) and key policies
- Enforcing encryption in transit and at rest across services
- Secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager
- Rotation policies and automated secret updates
- Security assessment tools: Inspector, Macie, and Shield
- Data classification with Amazon Macie
- Automating compliance reporting with AWS Audit Manager
- Integrating with SIEM systems like Splunk and Datadog
- Building a cloud security posture management (CSPM) strategy
Module 8: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding AWS billing structure and cost allocation tags
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for historical trend analysis
- Setting up budget alerts and anomaly detection
- Identifying idle and underutilised resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimiser
- Leveraging Savings Plans and Reserved Instances effectively
- Spot Instance strategies with interruption handling
- Using AWS Budgets for departmental and project-level controls
- Implementing chargeback and showback models
- Tagging enforcement using AWS Config rules
- Cost allocation reports for finance teams
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions
- Choosing between S3 storage classes: Standard, IA, Glacier
- Automation scripts for cost-saving actions
- Using AWS Trusted Advisor cost checks
- Cost modelling for POCs and production rollouts
- Financial governance with AWS Organisations
- Setting spend limits and approval workflows
- Negotiating enterprise discount plans with AWS
- Monthly review checklist for cloud financial ops
Module 9: High Availability, Scalability, and Performance Engineering - Designing for fault tolerance across Availability Zones
- Stateless application design principles
- Data replication strategies for consistency and availability
- Using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached
- Caching strategies: edge, global, and application-layer
- Content delivery with Amazon CloudFront and origin failover
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration with CloudFront
- Latency optimisation using Route 53 latency-based routing
- Failover testing and chaos engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
- Setting up health checks and automated recovery
- Performance tuning for database and application layers
- Using CloudWatch metrics and dashboards for performance monitoring
- Analysing bottlenecks with X-Ray distributed tracing
- Scaling front-end, middleware, and data layers independently
- Designing for sudden traffic spikes with auto-scaling
- Using SQS to buffer and smooth workloads
- Implementing circuit breakers and retry patterns
- Capacity forecasting using historical trends
- Designing for regional failover and DNS switchover
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) planning
Module 10: Infrastructure as Code and DevOps Integration - Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) philosophy
- AWS CloudFormation: templates, stacks, and drift detection
- Nested stacks and cross-stack references
- Using parameters, mappings, and conditions in templates
- Deploying with change sets for safe updates
- Terraform on AWS: providers, state management, and modules
- Backend configuration with S3 and DynamoDB locking
- Managing variables and environments (dev, test, prod)
- Automated testing of IaC with Checkov and TFSec
- CI/CD for IaC: integrating with AWS CodePipeline
- Source control workflows using AWS CodeCommit
- Build stages with AWS CodeBuild and custom Docker images
- Deploying across regions and accounts using pipelines
- Approval stages and manual gates for production
- Blue/green and canary deployments with CodeDeploy
- Rollback strategies and incident response automation
- Monitoring pipeline execution and failure alerts
- Policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Enforcing naming, tagging, and security standards
- Version control and audit trail for all infrastructure changes
Module 11: Enterprise Integration and Legacy Modernisation - Assessing legacy applications for cloud readiness
- Rehost, refactor, rearchitect, replace, retire (5 Rs)
- Lift-and-shift migration planning and execution
- Database migration with AWS DMS and replication instances
- Application dependency mapping and discovery
- Using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Containerising monolithic applications
- Migrating on-premises VMs with VMware Cloud on AWS
- Hybrid cloud patterns with AWS Outposts
- Integrating with on-premises identity via AD Connector
- Single sign-on with AWS SSO and SAML integration
- Managing access across multiple AWS accounts
- Using Resource Access Manager (RAM) for sharing
- Event-driven integration with enterprise service buses
- Real-time data sync between cloud and on-prem systems
- API-first design for internal and external consumers
- Securing B2B integrations with private APIs
- Migrating mainframe workloads: strategies and tools
- Change management and stakeholder alignment
- Building a multi-year cloud adoption roadmap
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Implementation Guidance - Project 1: Design a scalable e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Migrate a financial reporting system to AWS with zero downtime
- Project 3: Build a secure, compliant data lake for analytics
- Project 4: Implement a serverless event-driven order processing system
- Project 5: Architect a multi-region SaaS application with global low latency
- Using architecture decision records (ADRs) to document choices
- Stakeholder alignment workshops and presentation templates
- Creating Visio-style diagrams using AWS Architecture Icons
- Generating architecture diagrams programmatically with Diagram as Code
- Writing executive summaries for non-technical leaders
- Board-ready proposal structure: problem, solution, cost, risk, ROI
- Presenting TCO and operational savings models
- Defining success metrics and KPIs for cloud initiatives
- Creating implementation timelines and resource plans
- Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
- Vendor lock-in concerns and multi-cloud preparedness
- Negotiating internal funding and securing project approval
- Post-implementation review and continuous improvement
- Lessons learned documentation and knowledge transfer
- Scaling the model to other business units
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course content to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Professional
- Exam domains: design, security, deployment, cost, resilience
- Practice questions and scenario-based problem solving
- Time management strategies for exam day
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Understanding the AWS exam scoring model
- Recommended study plan: 4-week roadmap
- Using the official AWS Exam Guide effectively
- Hands-on labs and self-assessment checklists
- Building a personal cloud portfolio for interviews
- Documenting real-world projects and outcomes
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with new skills and credentials
- Networking with AWS user groups and community events
- Engaging with AWS Partners and consulting firms
- Negotiating cloud architecture roles and salary increases
- Transitioning from generalist to cloud specialist
- Pursuing advanced certifications: DevOps, Security, or Data Analytics
- Leadership pathways: cloud Centre of Excellence leads
- Mentoring others and building internal credibility
Module 14: Certification, Next Steps, and Ongoing Mastery - Final assessment: design a complete enterprise architecture from requirements
- Submission review and expert feedback process
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- How to verify and share your certification online
- Lifetime access to updated materials and community forums
- Progress tracking dashboard and achievement badges
- Monthly architecture challenges and case study updates
- Access to downloadable templates: security checklists, cost models, RFPs
- Exclusive access to curated AWS whitepapers and reference architectures
- Joining the alumni network of certified architects
- Ongoing mentorship opportunities with senior cloud leaders
- Invitations to advanced masterclasses and deep-dive workshops
- Guidance on contributing to open-source cloud projects
- Staying ahead of new AWS feature launches
- Setting personal goals for continuous learning
- Quarterly skill gap analysis and development plan
- Building a public portfolio of AWS architecture work
- Speaking at conferences and publishing thought leadership
- Transitioning to cloud strategy or CTO advisory roles
- Final words: your journey from learner to leader has begun
- AWS Security Best Practices and the Well-Architected Framework
- Implementing organisational units and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
- Multi-account strategies: landing zone and control tower
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Config
- Conformance packs for CIS and PCI-DSS compliance
- Detecting unauthorised changes with configuration rules
- Using AWS GuardDuty for threat detection
- Interpreting findings and responding to security events
- Centralised logging with CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logs Insights
- Log aggregation across multiple accounts and regions
- Encryption key management with AWS KMS
- Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) and key policies
- Enforcing encryption in transit and at rest across services
- Secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager
- Rotation policies and automated secret updates
- Security assessment tools: Inspector, Macie, and Shield
- Data classification with Amazon Macie
- Automating compliance reporting with AWS Audit Manager
- Integrating with SIEM systems like Splunk and Datadog
- Building a cloud security posture management (CSPM) strategy
Module 8: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding AWS billing structure and cost allocation tags
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for historical trend analysis
- Setting up budget alerts and anomaly detection
- Identifying idle and underutilised resources
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimiser
- Leveraging Savings Plans and Reserved Instances effectively
- Spot Instance strategies with interruption handling
- Using AWS Budgets for departmental and project-level controls
- Implementing chargeback and showback models
- Tagging enforcement using AWS Config rules
- Cost allocation reports for finance teams
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions
- Choosing between S3 storage classes: Standard, IA, Glacier
- Automation scripts for cost-saving actions
- Using AWS Trusted Advisor cost checks
- Cost modelling for POCs and production rollouts
- Financial governance with AWS Organisations
- Setting spend limits and approval workflows
- Negotiating enterprise discount plans with AWS
- Monthly review checklist for cloud financial ops
Module 9: High Availability, Scalability, and Performance Engineering - Designing for fault tolerance across Availability Zones
- Stateless application design principles
- Data replication strategies for consistency and availability
- Using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached
- Caching strategies: edge, global, and application-layer
- Content delivery with Amazon CloudFront and origin failover
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration with CloudFront
- Latency optimisation using Route 53 latency-based routing
- Failover testing and chaos engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
- Setting up health checks and automated recovery
- Performance tuning for database and application layers
- Using CloudWatch metrics and dashboards for performance monitoring
- Analysing bottlenecks with X-Ray distributed tracing
- Scaling front-end, middleware, and data layers independently
- Designing for sudden traffic spikes with auto-scaling
- Using SQS to buffer and smooth workloads
- Implementing circuit breakers and retry patterns
- Capacity forecasting using historical trends
- Designing for regional failover and DNS switchover
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) planning
Module 10: Infrastructure as Code and DevOps Integration - Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) philosophy
- AWS CloudFormation: templates, stacks, and drift detection
- Nested stacks and cross-stack references
- Using parameters, mappings, and conditions in templates
- Deploying with change sets for safe updates
- Terraform on AWS: providers, state management, and modules
- Backend configuration with S3 and DynamoDB locking
- Managing variables and environments (dev, test, prod)
- Automated testing of IaC with Checkov and TFSec
- CI/CD for IaC: integrating with AWS CodePipeline
- Source control workflows using AWS CodeCommit
- Build stages with AWS CodeBuild and custom Docker images
- Deploying across regions and accounts using pipelines
- Approval stages and manual gates for production
- Blue/green and canary deployments with CodeDeploy
- Rollback strategies and incident response automation
- Monitoring pipeline execution and failure alerts
- Policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Enforcing naming, tagging, and security standards
- Version control and audit trail for all infrastructure changes
Module 11: Enterprise Integration and Legacy Modernisation - Assessing legacy applications for cloud readiness
- Rehost, refactor, rearchitect, replace, retire (5 Rs)
- Lift-and-shift migration planning and execution
- Database migration with AWS DMS and replication instances
- Application dependency mapping and discovery
- Using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Containerising monolithic applications
- Migrating on-premises VMs with VMware Cloud on AWS
- Hybrid cloud patterns with AWS Outposts
- Integrating with on-premises identity via AD Connector
- Single sign-on with AWS SSO and SAML integration
- Managing access across multiple AWS accounts
- Using Resource Access Manager (RAM) for sharing
- Event-driven integration with enterprise service buses
- Real-time data sync between cloud and on-prem systems
- API-first design for internal and external consumers
- Securing B2B integrations with private APIs
- Migrating mainframe workloads: strategies and tools
- Change management and stakeholder alignment
- Building a multi-year cloud adoption roadmap
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Implementation Guidance - Project 1: Design a scalable e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Migrate a financial reporting system to AWS with zero downtime
- Project 3: Build a secure, compliant data lake for analytics
- Project 4: Implement a serverless event-driven order processing system
- Project 5: Architect a multi-region SaaS application with global low latency
- Using architecture decision records (ADRs) to document choices
- Stakeholder alignment workshops and presentation templates
- Creating Visio-style diagrams using AWS Architecture Icons
- Generating architecture diagrams programmatically with Diagram as Code
- Writing executive summaries for non-technical leaders
- Board-ready proposal structure: problem, solution, cost, risk, ROI
- Presenting TCO and operational savings models
- Defining success metrics and KPIs for cloud initiatives
- Creating implementation timelines and resource plans
- Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
- Vendor lock-in concerns and multi-cloud preparedness
- Negotiating internal funding and securing project approval
- Post-implementation review and continuous improvement
- Lessons learned documentation and knowledge transfer
- Scaling the model to other business units
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course content to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Professional
- Exam domains: design, security, deployment, cost, resilience
- Practice questions and scenario-based problem solving
- Time management strategies for exam day
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Understanding the AWS exam scoring model
- Recommended study plan: 4-week roadmap
- Using the official AWS Exam Guide effectively
- Hands-on labs and self-assessment checklists
- Building a personal cloud portfolio for interviews
- Documenting real-world projects and outcomes
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with new skills and credentials
- Networking with AWS user groups and community events
- Engaging with AWS Partners and consulting firms
- Negotiating cloud architecture roles and salary increases
- Transitioning from generalist to cloud specialist
- Pursuing advanced certifications: DevOps, Security, or Data Analytics
- Leadership pathways: cloud Centre of Excellence leads
- Mentoring others and building internal credibility
Module 14: Certification, Next Steps, and Ongoing Mastery - Final assessment: design a complete enterprise architecture from requirements
- Submission review and expert feedback process
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- How to verify and share your certification online
- Lifetime access to updated materials and community forums
- Progress tracking dashboard and achievement badges
- Monthly architecture challenges and case study updates
- Access to downloadable templates: security checklists, cost models, RFPs
- Exclusive access to curated AWS whitepapers and reference architectures
- Joining the alumni network of certified architects
- Ongoing mentorship opportunities with senior cloud leaders
- Invitations to advanced masterclasses and deep-dive workshops
- Guidance on contributing to open-source cloud projects
- Staying ahead of new AWS feature launches
- Setting personal goals for continuous learning
- Quarterly skill gap analysis and development plan
- Building a public portfolio of AWS architecture work
- Speaking at conferences and publishing thought leadership
- Transitioning to cloud strategy or CTO advisory roles
- Final words: your journey from learner to leader has begun
- Designing for fault tolerance across Availability Zones
- Stateless application design principles
- Data replication strategies for consistency and availability
- Using Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached
- Caching strategies: edge, global, and application-layer
- Content delivery with Amazon CloudFront and origin failover
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) integration with CloudFront
- Latency optimisation using Route 53 latency-based routing
- Failover testing and chaos engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
- Setting up health checks and automated recovery
- Performance tuning for database and application layers
- Using CloudWatch metrics and dashboards for performance monitoring
- Analysing bottlenecks with X-Ray distributed tracing
- Scaling front-end, middleware, and data layers independently
- Designing for sudden traffic spikes with auto-scaling
- Using SQS to buffer and smooth workloads
- Implementing circuit breakers and retry patterns
- Capacity forecasting using historical trends
- Designing for regional failover and DNS switchover
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) planning
Module 10: Infrastructure as Code and DevOps Integration - Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) philosophy
- AWS CloudFormation: templates, stacks, and drift detection
- Nested stacks and cross-stack references
- Using parameters, mappings, and conditions in templates
- Deploying with change sets for safe updates
- Terraform on AWS: providers, state management, and modules
- Backend configuration with S3 and DynamoDB locking
- Managing variables and environments (dev, test, prod)
- Automated testing of IaC with Checkov and TFSec
- CI/CD for IaC: integrating with AWS CodePipeline
- Source control workflows using AWS CodeCommit
- Build stages with AWS CodeBuild and custom Docker images
- Deploying across regions and accounts using pipelines
- Approval stages and manual gates for production
- Blue/green and canary deployments with CodeDeploy
- Rollback strategies and incident response automation
- Monitoring pipeline execution and failure alerts
- Policy-as-code with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Enforcing naming, tagging, and security standards
- Version control and audit trail for all infrastructure changes
Module 11: Enterprise Integration and Legacy Modernisation - Assessing legacy applications for cloud readiness
- Rehost, refactor, rearchitect, replace, retire (5 Rs)
- Lift-and-shift migration planning and execution
- Database migration with AWS DMS and replication instances
- Application dependency mapping and discovery
- Using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Containerising monolithic applications
- Migrating on-premises VMs with VMware Cloud on AWS
- Hybrid cloud patterns with AWS Outposts
- Integrating with on-premises identity via AD Connector
- Single sign-on with AWS SSO and SAML integration
- Managing access across multiple AWS accounts
- Using Resource Access Manager (RAM) for sharing
- Event-driven integration with enterprise service buses
- Real-time data sync between cloud and on-prem systems
- API-first design for internal and external consumers
- Securing B2B integrations with private APIs
- Migrating mainframe workloads: strategies and tools
- Change management and stakeholder alignment
- Building a multi-year cloud adoption roadmap
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Implementation Guidance - Project 1: Design a scalable e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Migrate a financial reporting system to AWS with zero downtime
- Project 3: Build a secure, compliant data lake for analytics
- Project 4: Implement a serverless event-driven order processing system
- Project 5: Architect a multi-region SaaS application with global low latency
- Using architecture decision records (ADRs) to document choices
- Stakeholder alignment workshops and presentation templates
- Creating Visio-style diagrams using AWS Architecture Icons
- Generating architecture diagrams programmatically with Diagram as Code
- Writing executive summaries for non-technical leaders
- Board-ready proposal structure: problem, solution, cost, risk, ROI
- Presenting TCO and operational savings models
- Defining success metrics and KPIs for cloud initiatives
- Creating implementation timelines and resource plans
- Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
- Vendor lock-in concerns and multi-cloud preparedness
- Negotiating internal funding and securing project approval
- Post-implementation review and continuous improvement
- Lessons learned documentation and knowledge transfer
- Scaling the model to other business units
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course content to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Professional
- Exam domains: design, security, deployment, cost, resilience
- Practice questions and scenario-based problem solving
- Time management strategies for exam day
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Understanding the AWS exam scoring model
- Recommended study plan: 4-week roadmap
- Using the official AWS Exam Guide effectively
- Hands-on labs and self-assessment checklists
- Building a personal cloud portfolio for interviews
- Documenting real-world projects and outcomes
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with new skills and credentials
- Networking with AWS user groups and community events
- Engaging with AWS Partners and consulting firms
- Negotiating cloud architecture roles and salary increases
- Transitioning from generalist to cloud specialist
- Pursuing advanced certifications: DevOps, Security, or Data Analytics
- Leadership pathways: cloud Centre of Excellence leads
- Mentoring others and building internal credibility
Module 14: Certification, Next Steps, and Ongoing Mastery - Final assessment: design a complete enterprise architecture from requirements
- Submission review and expert feedback process
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- How to verify and share your certification online
- Lifetime access to updated materials and community forums
- Progress tracking dashboard and achievement badges
- Monthly architecture challenges and case study updates
- Access to downloadable templates: security checklists, cost models, RFPs
- Exclusive access to curated AWS whitepapers and reference architectures
- Joining the alumni network of certified architects
- Ongoing mentorship opportunities with senior cloud leaders
- Invitations to advanced masterclasses and deep-dive workshops
- Guidance on contributing to open-source cloud projects
- Staying ahead of new AWS feature launches
- Setting personal goals for continuous learning
- Quarterly skill gap analysis and development plan
- Building a public portfolio of AWS architecture work
- Speaking at conferences and publishing thought leadership
- Transitioning to cloud strategy or CTO advisory roles
- Final words: your journey from learner to leader has begun
- Assessing legacy applications for cloud readiness
- Rehost, refactor, rearchitect, replace, retire (5 Rs)
- Lift-and-shift migration planning and execution
- Database migration with AWS DMS and replication instances
- Application dependency mapping and discovery
- Using AWS Application Discovery Service
- Containerising monolithic applications
- Migrating on-premises VMs with VMware Cloud on AWS
- Hybrid cloud patterns with AWS Outposts
- Integrating with on-premises identity via AD Connector
- Single sign-on with AWS SSO and SAML integration
- Managing access across multiple AWS accounts
- Using Resource Access Manager (RAM) for sharing
- Event-driven integration with enterprise service buses
- Real-time data sync between cloud and on-prem systems
- API-first design for internal and external consumers
- Securing B2B integrations with private APIs
- Migrating mainframe workloads: strategies and tools
- Change management and stakeholder alignment
- Building a multi-year cloud adoption roadmap
Module 12: Real-World Projects and Implementation Guidance - Project 1: Design a scalable e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Migrate a financial reporting system to AWS with zero downtime
- Project 3: Build a secure, compliant data lake for analytics
- Project 4: Implement a serverless event-driven order processing system
- Project 5: Architect a multi-region SaaS application with global low latency
- Using architecture decision records (ADRs) to document choices
- Stakeholder alignment workshops and presentation templates
- Creating Visio-style diagrams using AWS Architecture Icons
- Generating architecture diagrams programmatically with Diagram as Code
- Writing executive summaries for non-technical leaders
- Board-ready proposal structure: problem, solution, cost, risk, ROI
- Presenting TCO and operational savings models
- Defining success metrics and KPIs for cloud initiatives
- Creating implementation timelines and resource plans
- Risk assessment and mitigation strategies
- Vendor lock-in concerns and multi-cloud preparedness
- Negotiating internal funding and securing project approval
- Post-implementation review and continuous improvement
- Lessons learned documentation and knowledge transfer
- Scaling the model to other business units
Module 13: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course content to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Professional
- Exam domains: design, security, deployment, cost, resilience
- Practice questions and scenario-based problem solving
- Time management strategies for exam day
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Understanding the AWS exam scoring model
- Recommended study plan: 4-week roadmap
- Using the official AWS Exam Guide effectively
- Hands-on labs and self-assessment checklists
- Building a personal cloud portfolio for interviews
- Documenting real-world projects and outcomes
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with new skills and credentials
- Networking with AWS user groups and community events
- Engaging with AWS Partners and consulting firms
- Negotiating cloud architecture roles and salary increases
- Transitioning from generalist to cloud specialist
- Pursuing advanced certifications: DevOps, Security, or Data Analytics
- Leadership pathways: cloud Centre of Excellence leads
- Mentoring others and building internal credibility
Module 14: Certification, Next Steps, and Ongoing Mastery - Final assessment: design a complete enterprise architecture from requirements
- Submission review and expert feedback process
- Earning your Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- How to verify and share your certification online
- Lifetime access to updated materials and community forums
- Progress tracking dashboard and achievement badges
- Monthly architecture challenges and case study updates
- Access to downloadable templates: security checklists, cost models, RFPs
- Exclusive access to curated AWS whitepapers and reference architectures
- Joining the alumni network of certified architects
- Ongoing mentorship opportunities with senior cloud leaders
- Invitations to advanced masterclasses and deep-dive workshops
- Guidance on contributing to open-source cloud projects
- Staying ahead of new AWS feature launches
- Setting personal goals for continuous learning
- Quarterly skill gap analysis and development plan
- Building a public portfolio of AWS architecture work
- Speaking at conferences and publishing thought leadership
- Transitioning to cloud strategy or CTO advisory roles
- Final words: your journey from learner to leader has begun
- Mapping course content to AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Professional
- Exam domains: design, security, deployment, cost, resilience
- Practice questions and scenario-based problem solving
- Time management strategies for exam day
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- Understanding the AWS exam scoring model
- Recommended study plan: 4-week roadmap
- Using the official AWS Exam Guide effectively
- Hands-on labs and self-assessment checklists
- Building a personal cloud portfolio for interviews
- Documenting real-world projects and outcomes
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion in job applications
- Updating your LinkedIn profile with new skills and credentials
- Networking with AWS user groups and community events
- Engaging with AWS Partners and consulting firms
- Negotiating cloud architecture roles and salary increases
- Transitioning from generalist to cloud specialist
- Pursuing advanced certifications: DevOps, Security, or Data Analytics
- Leadership pathways: cloud Centre of Excellence leads
- Mentoring others and building internal credibility