AWS Architecture Automation and Infrastructure Deployment
Published by Pearson
Master the Art of Architecture in AWS and Learn Key Concepts in the AWS Certified
- Explore multiple deployment technologies for provisioning AWS resources
- Focus on the popular services that most AWS customers use daily
- Experience different levels of complexity and difficulty for AWS resource deployment
AWS is an ever-growing ecosystem of services. Knowledge from several years ago is not always current or even valid when designing infrastructures to be deployed into AWS today. Infrastructure choices will dictate various outcomes, such as operational overhead and cost. AWS Architecture Automation and Infrastructure Deployment is designed to help AWS professionals of all skill levels learn infrastructure deployment patterns to help minimize manual effort and emphasize automation. Professional trainer and author Chad Smith will emphasize AWS guidance and best practices according to the Well-Architected Framework, focusing on the most commonly used infrastructure services in the AWS ecosystem. Examples and demonstrations will use both the AWS Console and automation tools.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Why multiple AWS deployment technologies are important, as all of them have benefits and drawbacks
- The connection between the AWS Well-Architected Framework and resource provisioning/operations and why all AWS technology professionals should learn the Six Pillars
- How operations can be wrapped into an event-driven pipeline when more complex actions are required
And you’ll be able to:
- Discern which automation framework is appropriate based on requirements and the tasks being performed
- Provision and manage resources using the AWS Command-Line Interface, Python, CloudFormation, and Terraform
- Use AWS-managed services to perform regular operations such as data backups
This live event is for you because...
- You are an infrastructure or application architect responsible for designing systems that will be deployed in AWS
- You are a DevOps engineer who will be managing and updating services designed for resilience or performance
- You are a SysOps professional responsible for maintaining existing AWS resources
- You are a functional or technical manager whose team is responsible for AWS infrastructure
Prerequisites
- Solid understanding of technology stacks including IPv4 networking, virtual machines, storage choices, and multi-tier application architecture
- Foundational knowledge of AWS infrastructure services, including EC2, S3, VPC, and RDS
Course Set-up
- Review course Github
- Access to an AWS account
Recommended Preparation
- Install and configure AWS CLI
- Become familiar with AWS CLI usage
Recommended Follow-up
- Watch: Amazon Web Services, 3rd Edition by Chad Smith
- Watch: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02) by Chad Smith
- Watch: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) by Chad Smith
- Watch: AWS Certified Database - Specialty Complete Video Course by Chad Smith
- Watch: AWS Certified Security - Specialty by Chad Smith
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Day 1
The Well-Architected Framework - 15m
- Foundational principles and best practices
DevOps Principles - 15m
- DevOps - more than just CI/CD
- Break - 10
Multiple-VPC Architecture Patterns - 60m
- Same Region
- Different Region
- Different Account
- Connectivity Options
- Break - 10
Compute Infrastructure with EC2 - 120m
- Deployment options
- EC2 Operations
- Break - 10m
- Auto Scaling with launch templates
- Golden AMI Pipeline
- Q&A - 10
Day 2
Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive - 60m
- Classic Load Balancer
- Application Load Balancer
- Network Load Balancer
- Break - 10
Data Storage Principles - 60m
- EBS
- S3
- Break - 10
- RDS Deep Dive - 60m
- Classic engines
- Aurora
- Break - 10
Backups and Retention - 20m
- AWS Backup
- Compliance features
- Q&A - 10
Your Instructor
Chad Smith
Chad Smith is a technology professional, author and trainer focused on cloud infrastructure and management. He is the Principal Cloud Architect at Brightkey.cloud and has a wealth of personal real-world experience in cloud adoption, infrastructure design, operations and security. Chad holds current AWS certifications in Architecture, SysOps, Security, Networking and Databases and is also certified in CompTIA Cloud+.