This repository contains supplemental material for covering the fundamentals of building infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The focus is on architecting solutions on the AWS Cloud.
This material teaches you how to:
- Make architectural decisions based on the AWS-recommended architectural principles and best practices.
- Explore using AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available.
- Use AWS managed services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure.
- Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient in order to increase performance and reduce costs.
- Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions.
This material is used during COMP 3215. The goal for COMP 3215 course is for all students to be prepared to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate examination.
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate examination is intended for a Solutions Architect role. The exam validates an examinee’s ability to effectively demonstrate knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies. It validates an examinee’s ability to:
- Define a solution using architectural design principles based on customer requirements.
- Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the lifecycle of the project.
- One year (or equivalent) of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS
- Hands-on experience using compute, networking, storage, and database AWS services
- Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services
- Ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application
- Ability to identify which AWS services meet a given technical requirement
- Knowledge of recommended best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform
- An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS cloud
- An understanding of the AWS global infrastructure
- An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS
- An understanding of security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services
This repository is structured with content provided in a weekly format and is designed for delivery (or self-study) over a twelve week period. Content includes lectures, labs, assignments, and quizzes.
For additional reading or self-study review, please see the following recommended resources: