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EXTENSIVE & DETAILED COURSE CURRICULUM
Module 1: Foundations of Enterprise Cloud Architecture - Understanding the evolution of enterprise IT and the cloud imperative
- Core principles of scalable, secure, and reliable system design
- Defining enterprise-grade vs. small-scale cloud architectures
- Key drivers: Agility, cost optimisation, resilience, and innovation
- The role of a solutions architect in digital transformation
- Mapping business objectives to technical architecture decisions
- Introduction to AWS as a platform for enterprise scalability
- Overview of AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
- Differentiating IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS in enterprise contexts
- Establishing a common language: Terms, models, and architectural patterns
- Principles of abstraction, decoupling, and loose coupling
- Designing for failure: Embracing fault tolerance from day one
- Security and compliance as foundational concerns, not afterthoughts
- Building organisational buy-in for cloud-first strategies
- Introducing the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Understanding the Five Pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation
Module 2: Enterprise-Scale AWS Core Services Deep Dive - Amazon EC2: Instance types, purchasing options, and enterprise use cases
- Designing multi-AZ deployments for high availability
- Amazon S3: Storage classes, lifecycle policies, and data durability
- Securing S3 buckets with policies, encryption, and access points
- Amazon VPC: Designing enterprise network topologies
- Subnet strategies: Public, private, isolated, and NAT usage
- Route tables, gateways, and network access control lists (NACLs)
- Security Groups: Stateful filtering best practices
- DNS and IP addressing in AWS: Route 53 and Private DNS
- Integrating on-premise networks via AWS Direct Connect
- Using AWS Transit Gateway for hub-and-spoke network models
- Amazon RDS: Managed relational databases at scale
- Multi-AZ vs. Read Replicas: Use cases and trade-offs
- Database backup, recovery, and snapshot automation
- Amazon DynamoDB: NoSQL for high-throughput applications
- DynamoDB auto-scaling, partitioning, and performance tuning
- Elastic Load Balancing: Application, Network, and Gateway Load Balancers
- Auto Scaling groups and lifecycle management
- CloudFront: Global content delivery and security integration
- WAF and Shield: Protecting applications at the edge
Module 3: Designing Enterprise-Grade Security and Identity Frameworks - Principle of least privilege in AWS IAM
- Creating granular IAM policies using condition keys and context
- Role-based access control (RBAC) for large teams
- Cross-account access and role delegation patterns
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement strategies
- Service Control Policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations
- Centralised logging and audit with AWS CloudTrail
- Monitoring API activity across multiple accounts
- Configuring AWS Config for compliance automation
- Using AWS Security Hub for unified security posture management
- Implementing detective and preventive controls
- Secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager
- Parameter Store for configuration data
- Key Management Service (KMS): Centralised encryption controls
- Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) vs. AWS Managed Keys
- Enforcing encryption at rest and in transit
- Secure API access with AWS API Gateway and IAM integration
- PrivateLink for secure service connectivity
- GuardDuty: Threat detection and anomaly monitoring
- Macie: Automated PII and sensitive data discovery
Module 4: High Availability and Disaster Recovery at Scale - Defining RTO and RPO for enterprise systems
- Architecting for redundancy across Availability Zones
- Cross-region failover using Route 53 and health checks
- Multi-region database replication with Aurora Global Database
- Backing up critical systems with AWS Backup
- Automated snapshot lifecycle policies
- Disaster recovery strategies: Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Hot Standby, Multi-Site
- Selecting the right DR model based on business criticality
- Testing disaster recovery plans safely and effectively
- Using AWS Fault Injection Simulator for resilience validation
- Recovery automation with AWS Systems Manager
- Monitoring health with Amazon CloudWatch and EventBridge
- Creating alarms and automated responses to system degradation
- Event-driven architecture for real-time response
- State management in distributed systems
- Self-healing architectures using Auto Scaling and Lambda
- Automated rollback mechanisms during deployment failures
- Monitoring system dependencies and inter-service health
- Failover testing documentation and organisational readiness
- Designing for zero downtime deployments
Module 5: Performance and Scalability Engineering - Understanding performance bottlenecks in distributed systems
- Latency, throughput, and concurrency considerations
- Designing stateless applications for horizontal scaling
- Caching strategies: ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached)
- Content delivery and edge caching with CloudFront
- Origin shielding and cache hit ratio optimisation
- Database read scaling with read replicas and sharding
- Partitioning strategies for DynamoDB and Kinesis
- Asynchronous processing with Amazon SQS and SNS
- Message buffering and decoupling for load smoothing
- Selecting between Standard, FIFO, and Delay Queues
- Using Lambda for event-driven compute scaling
- Provisioned vs. on-demand concurrency models
- Optimising Lambda cold start performance
- Containerised applications with Amazon ECS and EKS
- Kubernetes cluster design for production workloads
- Fargate for serverless containers
- Service mesh integration with AppMesh
- Real-time data processing with Kinesis Data Streams
- Building scalable analytics pipelines
Module 6: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding AWS pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans
- Calculating TCO for cloud vs. on-premise workloads
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimizer
- Identifying and eliminating idle resources
- Auto Scaling based on demand and cost thresholds
- S3 cost optimisation: Storage classes and lifecycle policies
- Monitoring unattached EBS volumes and orphaned snapshots
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for trend analysis
- Creating custom cost and usage reports (CUR)
- Tagging strategies for chargeback and showback
- Implementing AWS Budgets and cost anomaly detection
- Setting up alerts for budget overruns
- Trusted Advisor cost recommendations
- Negotiating pricing with AWS Enterprise Discount Program
- Using AWS Marketplace for third-party software optimisation
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions and AZs
- Analysing egress fees and minimising cross-region traffic
- Designing for cost-awareness in application architecture
- Establishing FinOps culture and cross-team accountability
- Integrating cost considerations into CI/CD pipelines
Module 7: Enterprise Data Strategy and Modern Analytics - Designing data lakes on Amazon S3 with metadata management
- Using AWS Glue for ETL and data cataloging
- Partitioning and compression for query performance
- Querying data with Amazon Athena (serverless SQL)
- Building data warehouses with Amazon Redshift
- Redshift Spectrum for querying external data
- Automating data pipelines with AWS Step Functions
- Orchestrating complex workflows with EventBridge
- Streaming data ingestion with Kinesis Data Firehose
- Real-time analytics dashboards with Amazon QuickSight
- Embedding analytics into enterprise applications
- Data governance and lineage tracking
- Classifying and protecting sensitive data assets
- Implementing data retention and deletion policies
- Secure data sharing across accounts and organisations
- Using Lake Formation for centralised data access control
- Integrating machine learning with data pipelines
- Feature store design with SageMaker
- Ensuring data consistency in distributed environments
- Backup and recovery for analytics workloads
Module 8: Leading Enterprise Cloud Migration Projects - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain
- Assessing application readiness with AWS Migration Hub
- Discovery and dependency mapping using Application Discovery Service
- Selecting the right migration strategy per application
- Lift-and-shift: Benefits, risks, and limitations
- Database migration with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques
- Data validation and reconciliation post-migration
- Application modernisation with microservices
- Refactoring monoliths into serverless components
- Managing change across technical and business teams
- Developing a migration roadmap with milestones and KPIs
- Stakeholder communication and executive updates
- Risk assessment and mitigation planning
- Post-migration optimisation and rightsizing
- Cultural change and team upskilling
- Creating repeatable migration patterns
- Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
- Defining cloud governance policies and enforcement
- Measuring migration success: Uptime, cost savings, agility gains
Module 9: Advanced Architectural Patterns and Integration - Event-driven architectures with EventBridge
- Building serverless backends with API Gateway and Lambda
- Microservices communication patterns: Sync vs. Async
- API versioning, rate limiting, and caching
- Service discovery and observability in distributed systems
- Managing configuration across environments
- Hybrid cloud architectures with AWS Outposts
- Extending AWS into on-premise data centres
- Using AWS Snow Family for offline data transfer
- Implementing hybrid identity with AD Connector
- Secure service-to-service communication with PrivateLink
- Cross-account and multi-environment design
- Managing shared services and central accounts
- Designing for regulatory isolation and data sovereignty
- Multi-Region active-active architectures
- Global application routing with Route 53
- Blue/Green and canary deployments in production
- Feature flagging and controlled rollouts
- Integrating third-party SaaS platforms securely
- Building API gateways for external partners
Module 10: Compliance, Governance, and Operational Excellence - Understanding compliance standards: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2
- AWS compliance programs and shared responsibility model
- Mapping controls to AWS services and configurations
- Automating compliance with AWS Config Rules
- Implementing audit trails and immutable logging
- Using AWS Audit Manager for compliance reporting
- Segregation of duties in cloud environments
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Organizations
- Service quotas and capacity planning
- Operational readiness: Checklists and playbooks
- Incident response planning in the cloud
- Using Systems Manager Run Command for remediation
- Creating runbooks for common operational issues
- Automating routine maintenance tasks
- Change management and approval workflows
- Monitoring operational health with CloudWatch Dashboards
- Setting operational metrics and SLOs
- Conducting operational reviews and post-mortems
- Building a culture of continuous improvement
- Scaling operations as the organisation grows
Module 11: Real-World Enterprise Projects and Hands-On Implementation - Project 1: Designing a global e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Building a secure financial reporting system with compliance controls
- Project 3: Migrating a legacy enterprise application to AWS
- Project 4: Creating a serverless data analytics pipeline
- Architecting a multi-tenant SaaS application
- Designing a hybrid cloud disaster recovery site
- Implementing a zero-trust security model
- Creating a cost-aware architecture with automated governance
- Developing a cloud operating model for large enterprises
- Documenting architecture decisions using ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Presenting architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Conducting peer reviews and architecture walkthroughs
- Using whiteboarding techniques for solution design
- Applying feedback loops to refine designs
- Validating architectures against the Well-Architected Framework
- Preparing for AWS certification exams through practical design
- Building a personal portfolio of enterprise-grade designs
- Using AWS Architecture Diagramming Tools effectively
- Generating documentation and design specifications
- Delivering production-ready architecture blueprints
Module 12: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - How this course aligns with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Mapping course content to official exam domains
- Preparing for scenario-based exam questions
- Studying architecture best practices and decision trade-offs
- Reviewing case studies from real exam simulations
- Building confidence in high-stakes technical interviews
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Adding verifiable credentials to LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher salaries with proven expertise
- Transitioning into cloud architecture or leadership roles
- Becoming a trusted advisor in your organisation
- Contributing to cloud strategy and digital transformation
- Joining professional communities and knowledge networks
- Continuing education with advanced AWS services
- Exploring specialisations: DevOps, Security, Data, Machine Learning
- Participating in open-source cloud tooling projects
- Presenting at internal tech talks or industry events
- Building a personal brand as a solutions architect
- Accessing alumni resources and continued learning materials
- Your final action plan: From learning to leadership
Module 1: Foundations of Enterprise Cloud Architecture - Understanding the evolution of enterprise IT and the cloud imperative
- Core principles of scalable, secure, and reliable system design
- Defining enterprise-grade vs. small-scale cloud architectures
- Key drivers: Agility, cost optimisation, resilience, and innovation
- The role of a solutions architect in digital transformation
- Mapping business objectives to technical architecture decisions
- Introduction to AWS as a platform for enterprise scalability
- Overview of AWS global infrastructure: Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
- Differentiating IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS in enterprise contexts
- Establishing a common language: Terms, models, and architectural patterns
- Principles of abstraction, decoupling, and loose coupling
- Designing for failure: Embracing fault tolerance from day one
- Security and compliance as foundational concerns, not afterthoughts
- Building organisational buy-in for cloud-first strategies
- Introducing the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Understanding the Five Pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation
Module 2: Enterprise-Scale AWS Core Services Deep Dive - Amazon EC2: Instance types, purchasing options, and enterprise use cases
- Designing multi-AZ deployments for high availability
- Amazon S3: Storage classes, lifecycle policies, and data durability
- Securing S3 buckets with policies, encryption, and access points
- Amazon VPC: Designing enterprise network topologies
- Subnet strategies: Public, private, isolated, and NAT usage
- Route tables, gateways, and network access control lists (NACLs)
- Security Groups: Stateful filtering best practices
- DNS and IP addressing in AWS: Route 53 and Private DNS
- Integrating on-premise networks via AWS Direct Connect
- Using AWS Transit Gateway for hub-and-spoke network models
- Amazon RDS: Managed relational databases at scale
- Multi-AZ vs. Read Replicas: Use cases and trade-offs
- Database backup, recovery, and snapshot automation
- Amazon DynamoDB: NoSQL for high-throughput applications
- DynamoDB auto-scaling, partitioning, and performance tuning
- Elastic Load Balancing: Application, Network, and Gateway Load Balancers
- Auto Scaling groups and lifecycle management
- CloudFront: Global content delivery and security integration
- WAF and Shield: Protecting applications at the edge
Module 3: Designing Enterprise-Grade Security and Identity Frameworks - Principle of least privilege in AWS IAM
- Creating granular IAM policies using condition keys and context
- Role-based access control (RBAC) for large teams
- Cross-account access and role delegation patterns
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement strategies
- Service Control Policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations
- Centralised logging and audit with AWS CloudTrail
- Monitoring API activity across multiple accounts
- Configuring AWS Config for compliance automation
- Using AWS Security Hub for unified security posture management
- Implementing detective and preventive controls
- Secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager
- Parameter Store for configuration data
- Key Management Service (KMS): Centralised encryption controls
- Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) vs. AWS Managed Keys
- Enforcing encryption at rest and in transit
- Secure API access with AWS API Gateway and IAM integration
- PrivateLink for secure service connectivity
- GuardDuty: Threat detection and anomaly monitoring
- Macie: Automated PII and sensitive data discovery
Module 4: High Availability and Disaster Recovery at Scale - Defining RTO and RPO for enterprise systems
- Architecting for redundancy across Availability Zones
- Cross-region failover using Route 53 and health checks
- Multi-region database replication with Aurora Global Database
- Backing up critical systems with AWS Backup
- Automated snapshot lifecycle policies
- Disaster recovery strategies: Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Hot Standby, Multi-Site
- Selecting the right DR model based on business criticality
- Testing disaster recovery plans safely and effectively
- Using AWS Fault Injection Simulator for resilience validation
- Recovery automation with AWS Systems Manager
- Monitoring health with Amazon CloudWatch and EventBridge
- Creating alarms and automated responses to system degradation
- Event-driven architecture for real-time response
- State management in distributed systems
- Self-healing architectures using Auto Scaling and Lambda
- Automated rollback mechanisms during deployment failures
- Monitoring system dependencies and inter-service health
- Failover testing documentation and organisational readiness
- Designing for zero downtime deployments
Module 5: Performance and Scalability Engineering - Understanding performance bottlenecks in distributed systems
- Latency, throughput, and concurrency considerations
- Designing stateless applications for horizontal scaling
- Caching strategies: ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached)
- Content delivery and edge caching with CloudFront
- Origin shielding and cache hit ratio optimisation
- Database read scaling with read replicas and sharding
- Partitioning strategies for DynamoDB and Kinesis
- Asynchronous processing with Amazon SQS and SNS
- Message buffering and decoupling for load smoothing
- Selecting between Standard, FIFO, and Delay Queues
- Using Lambda for event-driven compute scaling
- Provisioned vs. on-demand concurrency models
- Optimising Lambda cold start performance
- Containerised applications with Amazon ECS and EKS
- Kubernetes cluster design for production workloads
- Fargate for serverless containers
- Service mesh integration with AppMesh
- Real-time data processing with Kinesis Data Streams
- Building scalable analytics pipelines
Module 6: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding AWS pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans
- Calculating TCO for cloud vs. on-premise workloads
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimizer
- Identifying and eliminating idle resources
- Auto Scaling based on demand and cost thresholds
- S3 cost optimisation: Storage classes and lifecycle policies
- Monitoring unattached EBS volumes and orphaned snapshots
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for trend analysis
- Creating custom cost and usage reports (CUR)
- Tagging strategies for chargeback and showback
- Implementing AWS Budgets and cost anomaly detection
- Setting up alerts for budget overruns
- Trusted Advisor cost recommendations
- Negotiating pricing with AWS Enterprise Discount Program
- Using AWS Marketplace for third-party software optimisation
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions and AZs
- Analysing egress fees and minimising cross-region traffic
- Designing for cost-awareness in application architecture
- Establishing FinOps culture and cross-team accountability
- Integrating cost considerations into CI/CD pipelines
Module 7: Enterprise Data Strategy and Modern Analytics - Designing data lakes on Amazon S3 with metadata management
- Using AWS Glue for ETL and data cataloging
- Partitioning and compression for query performance
- Querying data with Amazon Athena (serverless SQL)
- Building data warehouses with Amazon Redshift
- Redshift Spectrum for querying external data
- Automating data pipelines with AWS Step Functions
- Orchestrating complex workflows with EventBridge
- Streaming data ingestion with Kinesis Data Firehose
- Real-time analytics dashboards with Amazon QuickSight
- Embedding analytics into enterprise applications
- Data governance and lineage tracking
- Classifying and protecting sensitive data assets
- Implementing data retention and deletion policies
- Secure data sharing across accounts and organisations
- Using Lake Formation for centralised data access control
- Integrating machine learning with data pipelines
- Feature store design with SageMaker
- Ensuring data consistency in distributed environments
- Backup and recovery for analytics workloads
Module 8: Leading Enterprise Cloud Migration Projects - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain
- Assessing application readiness with AWS Migration Hub
- Discovery and dependency mapping using Application Discovery Service
- Selecting the right migration strategy per application
- Lift-and-shift: Benefits, risks, and limitations
- Database migration with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques
- Data validation and reconciliation post-migration
- Application modernisation with microservices
- Refactoring monoliths into serverless components
- Managing change across technical and business teams
- Developing a migration roadmap with milestones and KPIs
- Stakeholder communication and executive updates
- Risk assessment and mitigation planning
- Post-migration optimisation and rightsizing
- Cultural change and team upskilling
- Creating repeatable migration patterns
- Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
- Defining cloud governance policies and enforcement
- Measuring migration success: Uptime, cost savings, agility gains
Module 9: Advanced Architectural Patterns and Integration - Event-driven architectures with EventBridge
- Building serverless backends with API Gateway and Lambda
- Microservices communication patterns: Sync vs. Async
- API versioning, rate limiting, and caching
- Service discovery and observability in distributed systems
- Managing configuration across environments
- Hybrid cloud architectures with AWS Outposts
- Extending AWS into on-premise data centres
- Using AWS Snow Family for offline data transfer
- Implementing hybrid identity with AD Connector
- Secure service-to-service communication with PrivateLink
- Cross-account and multi-environment design
- Managing shared services and central accounts
- Designing for regulatory isolation and data sovereignty
- Multi-Region active-active architectures
- Global application routing with Route 53
- Blue/Green and canary deployments in production
- Feature flagging and controlled rollouts
- Integrating third-party SaaS platforms securely
- Building API gateways for external partners
Module 10: Compliance, Governance, and Operational Excellence - Understanding compliance standards: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2
- AWS compliance programs and shared responsibility model
- Mapping controls to AWS services and configurations
- Automating compliance with AWS Config Rules
- Implementing audit trails and immutable logging
- Using AWS Audit Manager for compliance reporting
- Segregation of duties in cloud environments
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Organizations
- Service quotas and capacity planning
- Operational readiness: Checklists and playbooks
- Incident response planning in the cloud
- Using Systems Manager Run Command for remediation
- Creating runbooks for common operational issues
- Automating routine maintenance tasks
- Change management and approval workflows
- Monitoring operational health with CloudWatch Dashboards
- Setting operational metrics and SLOs
- Conducting operational reviews and post-mortems
- Building a culture of continuous improvement
- Scaling operations as the organisation grows
Module 11: Real-World Enterprise Projects and Hands-On Implementation - Project 1: Designing a global e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Building a secure financial reporting system with compliance controls
- Project 3: Migrating a legacy enterprise application to AWS
- Project 4: Creating a serverless data analytics pipeline
- Architecting a multi-tenant SaaS application
- Designing a hybrid cloud disaster recovery site
- Implementing a zero-trust security model
- Creating a cost-aware architecture with automated governance
- Developing a cloud operating model for large enterprises
- Documenting architecture decisions using ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Presenting architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Conducting peer reviews and architecture walkthroughs
- Using whiteboarding techniques for solution design
- Applying feedback loops to refine designs
- Validating architectures against the Well-Architected Framework
- Preparing for AWS certification exams through practical design
- Building a personal portfolio of enterprise-grade designs
- Using AWS Architecture Diagramming Tools effectively
- Generating documentation and design specifications
- Delivering production-ready architecture blueprints
Module 12: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - How this course aligns with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Mapping course content to official exam domains
- Preparing for scenario-based exam questions
- Studying architecture best practices and decision trade-offs
- Reviewing case studies from real exam simulations
- Building confidence in high-stakes technical interviews
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Adding verifiable credentials to LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher salaries with proven expertise
- Transitioning into cloud architecture or leadership roles
- Becoming a trusted advisor in your organisation
- Contributing to cloud strategy and digital transformation
- Joining professional communities and knowledge networks
- Continuing education with advanced AWS services
- Exploring specialisations: DevOps, Security, Data, Machine Learning
- Participating in open-source cloud tooling projects
- Presenting at internal tech talks or industry events
- Building a personal brand as a solutions architect
- Accessing alumni resources and continued learning materials
- Your final action plan: From learning to leadership
- Amazon EC2: Instance types, purchasing options, and enterprise use cases
- Designing multi-AZ deployments for high availability
- Amazon S3: Storage classes, lifecycle policies, and data durability
- Securing S3 buckets with policies, encryption, and access points
- Amazon VPC: Designing enterprise network topologies
- Subnet strategies: Public, private, isolated, and NAT usage
- Route tables, gateways, and network access control lists (NACLs)
- Security Groups: Stateful filtering best practices
- DNS and IP addressing in AWS: Route 53 and Private DNS
- Integrating on-premise networks via AWS Direct Connect
- Using AWS Transit Gateway for hub-and-spoke network models
- Amazon RDS: Managed relational databases at scale
- Multi-AZ vs. Read Replicas: Use cases and trade-offs
- Database backup, recovery, and snapshot automation
- Amazon DynamoDB: NoSQL for high-throughput applications
- DynamoDB auto-scaling, partitioning, and performance tuning
- Elastic Load Balancing: Application, Network, and Gateway Load Balancers
- Auto Scaling groups and lifecycle management
- CloudFront: Global content delivery and security integration
- WAF and Shield: Protecting applications at the edge
Module 3: Designing Enterprise-Grade Security and Identity Frameworks - Principle of least privilege in AWS IAM
- Creating granular IAM policies using condition keys and context
- Role-based access control (RBAC) for large teams
- Cross-account access and role delegation patterns
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement strategies
- Service Control Policies (SCPs) in AWS Organizations
- Centralised logging and audit with AWS CloudTrail
- Monitoring API activity across multiple accounts
- Configuring AWS Config for compliance automation
- Using AWS Security Hub for unified security posture management
- Implementing detective and preventive controls
- Secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager
- Parameter Store for configuration data
- Key Management Service (KMS): Centralised encryption controls
- Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) vs. AWS Managed Keys
- Enforcing encryption at rest and in transit
- Secure API access with AWS API Gateway and IAM integration
- PrivateLink for secure service connectivity
- GuardDuty: Threat detection and anomaly monitoring
- Macie: Automated PII and sensitive data discovery
Module 4: High Availability and Disaster Recovery at Scale - Defining RTO and RPO for enterprise systems
- Architecting for redundancy across Availability Zones
- Cross-region failover using Route 53 and health checks
- Multi-region database replication with Aurora Global Database
- Backing up critical systems with AWS Backup
- Automated snapshot lifecycle policies
- Disaster recovery strategies: Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Hot Standby, Multi-Site
- Selecting the right DR model based on business criticality
- Testing disaster recovery plans safely and effectively
- Using AWS Fault Injection Simulator for resilience validation
- Recovery automation with AWS Systems Manager
- Monitoring health with Amazon CloudWatch and EventBridge
- Creating alarms and automated responses to system degradation
- Event-driven architecture for real-time response
- State management in distributed systems
- Self-healing architectures using Auto Scaling and Lambda
- Automated rollback mechanisms during deployment failures
- Monitoring system dependencies and inter-service health
- Failover testing documentation and organisational readiness
- Designing for zero downtime deployments
Module 5: Performance and Scalability Engineering - Understanding performance bottlenecks in distributed systems
- Latency, throughput, and concurrency considerations
- Designing stateless applications for horizontal scaling
- Caching strategies: ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached)
- Content delivery and edge caching with CloudFront
- Origin shielding and cache hit ratio optimisation
- Database read scaling with read replicas and sharding
- Partitioning strategies for DynamoDB and Kinesis
- Asynchronous processing with Amazon SQS and SNS
- Message buffering and decoupling for load smoothing
- Selecting between Standard, FIFO, and Delay Queues
- Using Lambda for event-driven compute scaling
- Provisioned vs. on-demand concurrency models
- Optimising Lambda cold start performance
- Containerised applications with Amazon ECS and EKS
- Kubernetes cluster design for production workloads
- Fargate for serverless containers
- Service mesh integration with AppMesh
- Real-time data processing with Kinesis Data Streams
- Building scalable analytics pipelines
Module 6: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding AWS pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans
- Calculating TCO for cloud vs. on-premise workloads
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimizer
- Identifying and eliminating idle resources
- Auto Scaling based on demand and cost thresholds
- S3 cost optimisation: Storage classes and lifecycle policies
- Monitoring unattached EBS volumes and orphaned snapshots
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for trend analysis
- Creating custom cost and usage reports (CUR)
- Tagging strategies for chargeback and showback
- Implementing AWS Budgets and cost anomaly detection
- Setting up alerts for budget overruns
- Trusted Advisor cost recommendations
- Negotiating pricing with AWS Enterprise Discount Program
- Using AWS Marketplace for third-party software optimisation
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions and AZs
- Analysing egress fees and minimising cross-region traffic
- Designing for cost-awareness in application architecture
- Establishing FinOps culture and cross-team accountability
- Integrating cost considerations into CI/CD pipelines
Module 7: Enterprise Data Strategy and Modern Analytics - Designing data lakes on Amazon S3 with metadata management
- Using AWS Glue for ETL and data cataloging
- Partitioning and compression for query performance
- Querying data with Amazon Athena (serverless SQL)
- Building data warehouses with Amazon Redshift
- Redshift Spectrum for querying external data
- Automating data pipelines with AWS Step Functions
- Orchestrating complex workflows with EventBridge
- Streaming data ingestion with Kinesis Data Firehose
- Real-time analytics dashboards with Amazon QuickSight
- Embedding analytics into enterprise applications
- Data governance and lineage tracking
- Classifying and protecting sensitive data assets
- Implementing data retention and deletion policies
- Secure data sharing across accounts and organisations
- Using Lake Formation for centralised data access control
- Integrating machine learning with data pipelines
- Feature store design with SageMaker
- Ensuring data consistency in distributed environments
- Backup and recovery for analytics workloads
Module 8: Leading Enterprise Cloud Migration Projects - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain
- Assessing application readiness with AWS Migration Hub
- Discovery and dependency mapping using Application Discovery Service
- Selecting the right migration strategy per application
- Lift-and-shift: Benefits, risks, and limitations
- Database migration with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques
- Data validation and reconciliation post-migration
- Application modernisation with microservices
- Refactoring monoliths into serverless components
- Managing change across technical and business teams
- Developing a migration roadmap with milestones and KPIs
- Stakeholder communication and executive updates
- Risk assessment and mitigation planning
- Post-migration optimisation and rightsizing
- Cultural change and team upskilling
- Creating repeatable migration patterns
- Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
- Defining cloud governance policies and enforcement
- Measuring migration success: Uptime, cost savings, agility gains
Module 9: Advanced Architectural Patterns and Integration - Event-driven architectures with EventBridge
- Building serverless backends with API Gateway and Lambda
- Microservices communication patterns: Sync vs. Async
- API versioning, rate limiting, and caching
- Service discovery and observability in distributed systems
- Managing configuration across environments
- Hybrid cloud architectures with AWS Outposts
- Extending AWS into on-premise data centres
- Using AWS Snow Family for offline data transfer
- Implementing hybrid identity with AD Connector
- Secure service-to-service communication with PrivateLink
- Cross-account and multi-environment design
- Managing shared services and central accounts
- Designing for regulatory isolation and data sovereignty
- Multi-Region active-active architectures
- Global application routing with Route 53
- Blue/Green and canary deployments in production
- Feature flagging and controlled rollouts
- Integrating third-party SaaS platforms securely
- Building API gateways for external partners
Module 10: Compliance, Governance, and Operational Excellence - Understanding compliance standards: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2
- AWS compliance programs and shared responsibility model
- Mapping controls to AWS services and configurations
- Automating compliance with AWS Config Rules
- Implementing audit trails and immutable logging
- Using AWS Audit Manager for compliance reporting
- Segregation of duties in cloud environments
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Organizations
- Service quotas and capacity planning
- Operational readiness: Checklists and playbooks
- Incident response planning in the cloud
- Using Systems Manager Run Command for remediation
- Creating runbooks for common operational issues
- Automating routine maintenance tasks
- Change management and approval workflows
- Monitoring operational health with CloudWatch Dashboards
- Setting operational metrics and SLOs
- Conducting operational reviews and post-mortems
- Building a culture of continuous improvement
- Scaling operations as the organisation grows
Module 11: Real-World Enterprise Projects and Hands-On Implementation - Project 1: Designing a global e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Building a secure financial reporting system with compliance controls
- Project 3: Migrating a legacy enterprise application to AWS
- Project 4: Creating a serverless data analytics pipeline
- Architecting a multi-tenant SaaS application
- Designing a hybrid cloud disaster recovery site
- Implementing a zero-trust security model
- Creating a cost-aware architecture with automated governance
- Developing a cloud operating model for large enterprises
- Documenting architecture decisions using ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Presenting architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Conducting peer reviews and architecture walkthroughs
- Using whiteboarding techniques for solution design
- Applying feedback loops to refine designs
- Validating architectures against the Well-Architected Framework
- Preparing for AWS certification exams through practical design
- Building a personal portfolio of enterprise-grade designs
- Using AWS Architecture Diagramming Tools effectively
- Generating documentation and design specifications
- Delivering production-ready architecture blueprints
Module 12: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - How this course aligns with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Mapping course content to official exam domains
- Preparing for scenario-based exam questions
- Studying architecture best practices and decision trade-offs
- Reviewing case studies from real exam simulations
- Building confidence in high-stakes technical interviews
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Adding verifiable credentials to LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher salaries with proven expertise
- Transitioning into cloud architecture or leadership roles
- Becoming a trusted advisor in your organisation
- Contributing to cloud strategy and digital transformation
- Joining professional communities and knowledge networks
- Continuing education with advanced AWS services
- Exploring specialisations: DevOps, Security, Data, Machine Learning
- Participating in open-source cloud tooling projects
- Presenting at internal tech talks or industry events
- Building a personal brand as a solutions architect
- Accessing alumni resources and continued learning materials
- Your final action plan: From learning to leadership
- Defining RTO and RPO for enterprise systems
- Architecting for redundancy across Availability Zones
- Cross-region failover using Route 53 and health checks
- Multi-region database replication with Aurora Global Database
- Backing up critical systems with AWS Backup
- Automated snapshot lifecycle policies
- Disaster recovery strategies: Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Hot Standby, Multi-Site
- Selecting the right DR model based on business criticality
- Testing disaster recovery plans safely and effectively
- Using AWS Fault Injection Simulator for resilience validation
- Recovery automation with AWS Systems Manager
- Monitoring health with Amazon CloudWatch and EventBridge
- Creating alarms and automated responses to system degradation
- Event-driven architecture for real-time response
- State management in distributed systems
- Self-healing architectures using Auto Scaling and Lambda
- Automated rollback mechanisms during deployment failures
- Monitoring system dependencies and inter-service health
- Failover testing documentation and organisational readiness
- Designing for zero downtime deployments
Module 5: Performance and Scalability Engineering - Understanding performance bottlenecks in distributed systems
- Latency, throughput, and concurrency considerations
- Designing stateless applications for horizontal scaling
- Caching strategies: ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached)
- Content delivery and edge caching with CloudFront
- Origin shielding and cache hit ratio optimisation
- Database read scaling with read replicas and sharding
- Partitioning strategies for DynamoDB and Kinesis
- Asynchronous processing with Amazon SQS and SNS
- Message buffering and decoupling for load smoothing
- Selecting between Standard, FIFO, and Delay Queues
- Using Lambda for event-driven compute scaling
- Provisioned vs. on-demand concurrency models
- Optimising Lambda cold start performance
- Containerised applications with Amazon ECS and EKS
- Kubernetes cluster design for production workloads
- Fargate for serverless containers
- Service mesh integration with AppMesh
- Real-time data processing with Kinesis Data Streams
- Building scalable analytics pipelines
Module 6: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding AWS pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans
- Calculating TCO for cloud vs. on-premise workloads
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimizer
- Identifying and eliminating idle resources
- Auto Scaling based on demand and cost thresholds
- S3 cost optimisation: Storage classes and lifecycle policies
- Monitoring unattached EBS volumes and orphaned snapshots
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for trend analysis
- Creating custom cost and usage reports (CUR)
- Tagging strategies for chargeback and showback
- Implementing AWS Budgets and cost anomaly detection
- Setting up alerts for budget overruns
- Trusted Advisor cost recommendations
- Negotiating pricing with AWS Enterprise Discount Program
- Using AWS Marketplace for third-party software optimisation
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions and AZs
- Analysing egress fees and minimising cross-region traffic
- Designing for cost-awareness in application architecture
- Establishing FinOps culture and cross-team accountability
- Integrating cost considerations into CI/CD pipelines
Module 7: Enterprise Data Strategy and Modern Analytics - Designing data lakes on Amazon S3 with metadata management
- Using AWS Glue for ETL and data cataloging
- Partitioning and compression for query performance
- Querying data with Amazon Athena (serverless SQL)
- Building data warehouses with Amazon Redshift
- Redshift Spectrum for querying external data
- Automating data pipelines with AWS Step Functions
- Orchestrating complex workflows with EventBridge
- Streaming data ingestion with Kinesis Data Firehose
- Real-time analytics dashboards with Amazon QuickSight
- Embedding analytics into enterprise applications
- Data governance and lineage tracking
- Classifying and protecting sensitive data assets
- Implementing data retention and deletion policies
- Secure data sharing across accounts and organisations
- Using Lake Formation for centralised data access control
- Integrating machine learning with data pipelines
- Feature store design with SageMaker
- Ensuring data consistency in distributed environments
- Backup and recovery for analytics workloads
Module 8: Leading Enterprise Cloud Migration Projects - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain
- Assessing application readiness with AWS Migration Hub
- Discovery and dependency mapping using Application Discovery Service
- Selecting the right migration strategy per application
- Lift-and-shift: Benefits, risks, and limitations
- Database migration with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques
- Data validation and reconciliation post-migration
- Application modernisation with microservices
- Refactoring monoliths into serverless components
- Managing change across technical and business teams
- Developing a migration roadmap with milestones and KPIs
- Stakeholder communication and executive updates
- Risk assessment and mitigation planning
- Post-migration optimisation and rightsizing
- Cultural change and team upskilling
- Creating repeatable migration patterns
- Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
- Defining cloud governance policies and enforcement
- Measuring migration success: Uptime, cost savings, agility gains
Module 9: Advanced Architectural Patterns and Integration - Event-driven architectures with EventBridge
- Building serverless backends with API Gateway and Lambda
- Microservices communication patterns: Sync vs. Async
- API versioning, rate limiting, and caching
- Service discovery and observability in distributed systems
- Managing configuration across environments
- Hybrid cloud architectures with AWS Outposts
- Extending AWS into on-premise data centres
- Using AWS Snow Family for offline data transfer
- Implementing hybrid identity with AD Connector
- Secure service-to-service communication with PrivateLink
- Cross-account and multi-environment design
- Managing shared services and central accounts
- Designing for regulatory isolation and data sovereignty
- Multi-Region active-active architectures
- Global application routing with Route 53
- Blue/Green and canary deployments in production
- Feature flagging and controlled rollouts
- Integrating third-party SaaS platforms securely
- Building API gateways for external partners
Module 10: Compliance, Governance, and Operational Excellence - Understanding compliance standards: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2
- AWS compliance programs and shared responsibility model
- Mapping controls to AWS services and configurations
- Automating compliance with AWS Config Rules
- Implementing audit trails and immutable logging
- Using AWS Audit Manager for compliance reporting
- Segregation of duties in cloud environments
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Organizations
- Service quotas and capacity planning
- Operational readiness: Checklists and playbooks
- Incident response planning in the cloud
- Using Systems Manager Run Command for remediation
- Creating runbooks for common operational issues
- Automating routine maintenance tasks
- Change management and approval workflows
- Monitoring operational health with CloudWatch Dashboards
- Setting operational metrics and SLOs
- Conducting operational reviews and post-mortems
- Building a culture of continuous improvement
- Scaling operations as the organisation grows
Module 11: Real-World Enterprise Projects and Hands-On Implementation - Project 1: Designing a global e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Building a secure financial reporting system with compliance controls
- Project 3: Migrating a legacy enterprise application to AWS
- Project 4: Creating a serverless data analytics pipeline
- Architecting a multi-tenant SaaS application
- Designing a hybrid cloud disaster recovery site
- Implementing a zero-trust security model
- Creating a cost-aware architecture with automated governance
- Developing a cloud operating model for large enterprises
- Documenting architecture decisions using ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Presenting architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Conducting peer reviews and architecture walkthroughs
- Using whiteboarding techniques for solution design
- Applying feedback loops to refine designs
- Validating architectures against the Well-Architected Framework
- Preparing for AWS certification exams through practical design
- Building a personal portfolio of enterprise-grade designs
- Using AWS Architecture Diagramming Tools effectively
- Generating documentation and design specifications
- Delivering production-ready architecture blueprints
Module 12: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - How this course aligns with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Mapping course content to official exam domains
- Preparing for scenario-based exam questions
- Studying architecture best practices and decision trade-offs
- Reviewing case studies from real exam simulations
- Building confidence in high-stakes technical interviews
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Adding verifiable credentials to LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher salaries with proven expertise
- Transitioning into cloud architecture or leadership roles
- Becoming a trusted advisor in your organisation
- Contributing to cloud strategy and digital transformation
- Joining professional communities and knowledge networks
- Continuing education with advanced AWS services
- Exploring specialisations: DevOps, Security, Data, Machine Learning
- Participating in open-source cloud tooling projects
- Presenting at internal tech talks or industry events
- Building a personal brand as a solutions architect
- Accessing alumni resources and continued learning materials
- Your final action plan: From learning to leadership
- Understanding AWS pricing models: On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Savings Plans
- Calculating TCO for cloud vs. on-premise workloads
- Right-sizing EC2 instances using Compute Optimizer
- Identifying and eliminating idle resources
- Auto Scaling based on demand and cost thresholds
- S3 cost optimisation: Storage classes and lifecycle policies
- Monitoring unattached EBS volumes and orphaned snapshots
- Using AWS Cost Explorer for trend analysis
- Creating custom cost and usage reports (CUR)
- Tagging strategies for chargeback and showback
- Implementing AWS Budgets and cost anomaly detection
- Setting up alerts for budget overruns
- Trusted Advisor cost recommendations
- Negotiating pricing with AWS Enterprise Discount Program
- Using AWS Marketplace for third-party software optimisation
- Optimising data transfer costs across regions and AZs
- Analysing egress fees and minimising cross-region traffic
- Designing for cost-awareness in application architecture
- Establishing FinOps culture and cross-team accountability
- Integrating cost considerations into CI/CD pipelines
Module 7: Enterprise Data Strategy and Modern Analytics - Designing data lakes on Amazon S3 with metadata management
- Using AWS Glue for ETL and data cataloging
- Partitioning and compression for query performance
- Querying data with Amazon Athena (serverless SQL)
- Building data warehouses with Amazon Redshift
- Redshift Spectrum for querying external data
- Automating data pipelines with AWS Step Functions
- Orchestrating complex workflows with EventBridge
- Streaming data ingestion with Kinesis Data Firehose
- Real-time analytics dashboards with Amazon QuickSight
- Embedding analytics into enterprise applications
- Data governance and lineage tracking
- Classifying and protecting sensitive data assets
- Implementing data retention and deletion policies
- Secure data sharing across accounts and organisations
- Using Lake Formation for centralised data access control
- Integrating machine learning with data pipelines
- Feature store design with SageMaker
- Ensuring data consistency in distributed environments
- Backup and recovery for analytics workloads
Module 8: Leading Enterprise Cloud Migration Projects - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain
- Assessing application readiness with AWS Migration Hub
- Discovery and dependency mapping using Application Discovery Service
- Selecting the right migration strategy per application
- Lift-and-shift: Benefits, risks, and limitations
- Database migration with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques
- Data validation and reconciliation post-migration
- Application modernisation with microservices
- Refactoring monoliths into serverless components
- Managing change across technical and business teams
- Developing a migration roadmap with milestones and KPIs
- Stakeholder communication and executive updates
- Risk assessment and mitigation planning
- Post-migration optimisation and rightsizing
- Cultural change and team upskilling
- Creating repeatable migration patterns
- Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
- Defining cloud governance policies and enforcement
- Measuring migration success: Uptime, cost savings, agility gains
Module 9: Advanced Architectural Patterns and Integration - Event-driven architectures with EventBridge
- Building serverless backends with API Gateway and Lambda
- Microservices communication patterns: Sync vs. Async
- API versioning, rate limiting, and caching
- Service discovery and observability in distributed systems
- Managing configuration across environments
- Hybrid cloud architectures with AWS Outposts
- Extending AWS into on-premise data centres
- Using AWS Snow Family for offline data transfer
- Implementing hybrid identity with AD Connector
- Secure service-to-service communication with PrivateLink
- Cross-account and multi-environment design
- Managing shared services and central accounts
- Designing for regulatory isolation and data sovereignty
- Multi-Region active-active architectures
- Global application routing with Route 53
- Blue/Green and canary deployments in production
- Feature flagging and controlled rollouts
- Integrating third-party SaaS platforms securely
- Building API gateways for external partners
Module 10: Compliance, Governance, and Operational Excellence - Understanding compliance standards: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2
- AWS compliance programs and shared responsibility model
- Mapping controls to AWS services and configurations
- Automating compliance with AWS Config Rules
- Implementing audit trails and immutable logging
- Using AWS Audit Manager for compliance reporting
- Segregation of duties in cloud environments
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Organizations
- Service quotas and capacity planning
- Operational readiness: Checklists and playbooks
- Incident response planning in the cloud
- Using Systems Manager Run Command for remediation
- Creating runbooks for common operational issues
- Automating routine maintenance tasks
- Change management and approval workflows
- Monitoring operational health with CloudWatch Dashboards
- Setting operational metrics and SLOs
- Conducting operational reviews and post-mortems
- Building a culture of continuous improvement
- Scaling operations as the organisation grows
Module 11: Real-World Enterprise Projects and Hands-On Implementation - Project 1: Designing a global e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Building a secure financial reporting system with compliance controls
- Project 3: Migrating a legacy enterprise application to AWS
- Project 4: Creating a serverless data analytics pipeline
- Architecting a multi-tenant SaaS application
- Designing a hybrid cloud disaster recovery site
- Implementing a zero-trust security model
- Creating a cost-aware architecture with automated governance
- Developing a cloud operating model for large enterprises
- Documenting architecture decisions using ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Presenting architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Conducting peer reviews and architecture walkthroughs
- Using whiteboarding techniques for solution design
- Applying feedback loops to refine designs
- Validating architectures against the Well-Architected Framework
- Preparing for AWS certification exams through practical design
- Building a personal portfolio of enterprise-grade designs
- Using AWS Architecture Diagramming Tools effectively
- Generating documentation and design specifications
- Delivering production-ready architecture blueprints
Module 12: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - How this course aligns with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Mapping course content to official exam domains
- Preparing for scenario-based exam questions
- Studying architecture best practices and decision trade-offs
- Reviewing case studies from real exam simulations
- Building confidence in high-stakes technical interviews
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Adding verifiable credentials to LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher salaries with proven expertise
- Transitioning into cloud architecture or leadership roles
- Becoming a trusted advisor in your organisation
- Contributing to cloud strategy and digital transformation
- Joining professional communities and knowledge networks
- Continuing education with advanced AWS services
- Exploring specialisations: DevOps, Security, Data, Machine Learning
- Participating in open-source cloud tooling projects
- Presenting at internal tech talks or industry events
- Building a personal brand as a solutions architect
- Accessing alumni resources and continued learning materials
- Your final action plan: From learning to leadership
- The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain
- Assessing application readiness with AWS Migration Hub
- Discovery and dependency mapping using Application Discovery Service
- Selecting the right migration strategy per application
- Lift-and-shift: Benefits, risks, and limitations
- Database migration with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
- Zero-downtime cutover techniques
- Data validation and reconciliation post-migration
- Application modernisation with microservices
- Refactoring monoliths into serverless components
- Managing change across technical and business teams
- Developing a migration roadmap with milestones and KPIs
- Stakeholder communication and executive updates
- Risk assessment and mitigation planning
- Post-migration optimisation and rightsizing
- Cultural change and team upskilling
- Creating repeatable migration patterns
- Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
- Defining cloud governance policies and enforcement
- Measuring migration success: Uptime, cost savings, agility gains
Module 9: Advanced Architectural Patterns and Integration - Event-driven architectures with EventBridge
- Building serverless backends with API Gateway and Lambda
- Microservices communication patterns: Sync vs. Async
- API versioning, rate limiting, and caching
- Service discovery and observability in distributed systems
- Managing configuration across environments
- Hybrid cloud architectures with AWS Outposts
- Extending AWS into on-premise data centres
- Using AWS Snow Family for offline data transfer
- Implementing hybrid identity with AD Connector
- Secure service-to-service communication with PrivateLink
- Cross-account and multi-environment design
- Managing shared services and central accounts
- Designing for regulatory isolation and data sovereignty
- Multi-Region active-active architectures
- Global application routing with Route 53
- Blue/Green and canary deployments in production
- Feature flagging and controlled rollouts
- Integrating third-party SaaS platforms securely
- Building API gateways for external partners
Module 10: Compliance, Governance, and Operational Excellence - Understanding compliance standards: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2
- AWS compliance programs and shared responsibility model
- Mapping controls to AWS services and configurations
- Automating compliance with AWS Config Rules
- Implementing audit trails and immutable logging
- Using AWS Audit Manager for compliance reporting
- Segregation of duties in cloud environments
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Organizations
- Service quotas and capacity planning
- Operational readiness: Checklists and playbooks
- Incident response planning in the cloud
- Using Systems Manager Run Command for remediation
- Creating runbooks for common operational issues
- Automating routine maintenance tasks
- Change management and approval workflows
- Monitoring operational health with CloudWatch Dashboards
- Setting operational metrics and SLOs
- Conducting operational reviews and post-mortems
- Building a culture of continuous improvement
- Scaling operations as the organisation grows
Module 11: Real-World Enterprise Projects and Hands-On Implementation - Project 1: Designing a global e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Building a secure financial reporting system with compliance controls
- Project 3: Migrating a legacy enterprise application to AWS
- Project 4: Creating a serverless data analytics pipeline
- Architecting a multi-tenant SaaS application
- Designing a hybrid cloud disaster recovery site
- Implementing a zero-trust security model
- Creating a cost-aware architecture with automated governance
- Developing a cloud operating model for large enterprises
- Documenting architecture decisions using ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Presenting architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Conducting peer reviews and architecture walkthroughs
- Using whiteboarding techniques for solution design
- Applying feedback loops to refine designs
- Validating architectures against the Well-Architected Framework
- Preparing for AWS certification exams through practical design
- Building a personal portfolio of enterprise-grade designs
- Using AWS Architecture Diagramming Tools effectively
- Generating documentation and design specifications
- Delivering production-ready architecture blueprints
Module 12: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - How this course aligns with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Mapping course content to official exam domains
- Preparing for scenario-based exam questions
- Studying architecture best practices and decision trade-offs
- Reviewing case studies from real exam simulations
- Building confidence in high-stakes technical interviews
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Adding verifiable credentials to LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher salaries with proven expertise
- Transitioning into cloud architecture or leadership roles
- Becoming a trusted advisor in your organisation
- Contributing to cloud strategy and digital transformation
- Joining professional communities and knowledge networks
- Continuing education with advanced AWS services
- Exploring specialisations: DevOps, Security, Data, Machine Learning
- Participating in open-source cloud tooling projects
- Presenting at internal tech talks or industry events
- Building a personal brand as a solutions architect
- Accessing alumni resources and continued learning materials
- Your final action plan: From learning to leadership
- Understanding compliance standards: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2
- AWS compliance programs and shared responsibility model
- Mapping controls to AWS services and configurations
- Automating compliance with AWS Config Rules
- Implementing audit trails and immutable logging
- Using AWS Audit Manager for compliance reporting
- Segregation of duties in cloud environments
- Automated policy enforcement with AWS Organizations
- Service quotas and capacity planning
- Operational readiness: Checklists and playbooks
- Incident response planning in the cloud
- Using Systems Manager Run Command for remediation
- Creating runbooks for common operational issues
- Automating routine maintenance tasks
- Change management and approval workflows
- Monitoring operational health with CloudWatch Dashboards
- Setting operational metrics and SLOs
- Conducting operational reviews and post-mortems
- Building a culture of continuous improvement
- Scaling operations as the organisation grows
Module 11: Real-World Enterprise Projects and Hands-On Implementation - Project 1: Designing a global e-commerce platform with high availability
- Project 2: Building a secure financial reporting system with compliance controls
- Project 3: Migrating a legacy enterprise application to AWS
- Project 4: Creating a serverless data analytics pipeline
- Architecting a multi-tenant SaaS application
- Designing a hybrid cloud disaster recovery site
- Implementing a zero-trust security model
- Creating a cost-aware architecture with automated governance
- Developing a cloud operating model for large enterprises
- Documenting architecture decisions using ADRs (Architecture Decision Records)
- Presenting architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Conducting peer reviews and architecture walkthroughs
- Using whiteboarding techniques for solution design
- Applying feedback loops to refine designs
- Validating architectures against the Well-Architected Framework
- Preparing for AWS certification exams through practical design
- Building a personal portfolio of enterprise-grade designs
- Using AWS Architecture Diagramming Tools effectively
- Generating documentation and design specifications
- Delivering production-ready architecture blueprints
Module 12: Certification, Career Advancement, and Next Steps - How this course aligns with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Mapping course content to official exam domains
- Preparing for scenario-based exam questions
- Studying architecture best practices and decision trade-offs
- Reviewing case studies from real exam simulations
- Building confidence in high-stakes technical interviews
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Adding verifiable credentials to LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher salaries with proven expertise
- Transitioning into cloud architecture or leadership roles
- Becoming a trusted advisor in your organisation
- Contributing to cloud strategy and digital transformation
- Joining professional communities and knowledge networks
- Continuing education with advanced AWS services
- Exploring specialisations: DevOps, Security, Data, Machine Learning
- Participating in open-source cloud tooling projects
- Presenting at internal tech talks or industry events
- Building a personal brand as a solutions architect
- Accessing alumni resources and continued learning materials
- Your final action plan: From learning to leadership
- How this course aligns with AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Mapping course content to official exam domains
- Preparing for scenario-based exam questions
- Studying architecture best practices and decision trade-offs
- Reviewing case studies from real exam simulations
- Building confidence in high-stakes technical interviews
- How to showcase your Certificate of Completion from The Art of Service
- Adding verifiable credentials to LinkedIn and resumes
- Negotiating higher salaries with proven expertise
- Transitioning into cloud architecture or leadership roles
- Becoming a trusted advisor in your organisation
- Contributing to cloud strategy and digital transformation
- Joining professional communities and knowledge networks
- Continuing education with advanced AWS services
- Exploring specialisations: DevOps, Security, Data, Machine Learning
- Participating in open-source cloud tooling projects
- Presenting at internal tech talks or industry events
- Building a personal brand as a solutions architect
- Accessing alumni resources and continued learning materials
- Your final action plan: From learning to leadership