• Module 1 – Welcome to AWS Cloud Architecting

1. Module 2 – Introducing Cloud Architecting

• Sections

• What is cloud architecting?

• The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework

• Best practices for building solutions on AWS

• AWS global infrastructure

2. Module 3 – Adding a Storage Layer

• Sections

• The simplest architecture

• Using Amazon S3

• Storing data in Amazon S3

• Moving data to and from Amazon S3

• Choosing Regions for your architecture

• Demonstrations

• Amazon S3 Versioning

• Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

• Labs

• Guided Lab: Hosting a Static Website

• Challenge Lab: Creating a Static Website for the Café

3. Module 4 – Adding a Compute Layer

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Adding compute with Amazon EC2

• Choosing an AMI to launch an Amazon EC2 instance

• Selecting an Amazon EC2 instance type

• Using user data to configure an Amazon EC2 instance

• Adding storage to an Amazon EC2 instance

• Amazon EC2 pricing options

• Amazon EC2 considerations

• Demonstrations
• Configuring an EC2 Instance with User Data

• Reviewing the Spot Instance History Page

• Labs

• Guided Lab: Introducing Amazon EFS

• Challenge Lab: Creating a Dynamic Website for the Café

4. Module 5 – Adding a Database Layer

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Database layer considerations

• Amazon RDS

• Amazon DynamoDB

• Database security controls

• Migrating data into AWS databases

• Demonstration

• Amazon RDS Automated Backup and Read Replicas

• Labs

• Guided Lab: Creating an Amazon RDS Database

• Challenge Lab: Migrating a Database to Amazon RDS

5. Module 6 – Creating a Networking Environment

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Creating an AWS networking environment

• Connecting your AWS networking environment to the internet

• Securing your AWS networking environment

• Demonstration

• Creating a Virtual Private Cloud

• Labs

• Guided Lab: Creating a Virtual Private Cloud

• Challenge Lab: Creating a VPC Networking Environment for the Café

6. Module 7 – Connecting Networks

• Sections
• Architectural need

• Connecting to your remote network with AWS Site-to-Site VPN

• Connecting to your remote network with AWS Direct Connect

• Connecting VPCs in AWS with VPC peering

• Scaling your VPC network with AWS Transit Gateway

• Connecting your VPC to supported AWS services

• Activity

• AWS Transit Gateway

• Lab

• Guided Lab: Creating a VPC Peering Connection

7. Module 8 – Securing User and Application Access

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Account users and IAM

• Organizing users

• Federating users

• Multiple accounts

• Demonstration

• EC2 Instance Profile

• Activity

• Examining IAM policies

• Lab

• Challenge Lab: Controlling AWS Account Access by Using IAM

8. Module 9 – Implementing Elasticity, High Availability, and Monitoring

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Scaling your compute resources

• Scaling your databases

• Designing an environment that’s highly available

• Monitoring

• Demonstrations
• Creating Scaling Policies for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

• Creating a Highly Available Web Application

• Amazon Route 53

• Labs

• Guided Lab: Creating a Highly Available Environment

• Challenge Lab: Creating a Scalable and Highly Available Environment for the Café

9. Module 10 – Automating Your Architecture

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Reasons to automate

• Automating your infrastructure

• Automating deployments

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk

• Demonstration

• Analyzing AWS CloudFormation Template Structure and Creating a Stack

• Labs

• Guided Lab: Automating Infrastructure Deployment with AWS CloudFormation

• Challenge Lab: Automating Infrastructure Deployment

10. Module 11 – Caching Content

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Overview of caching

• Edge caching

• Caching web sessions

• Caching databases

• Lab

• Guided Lab: Streaming Dynamic Content Using Amazon CloudFront

11. Module 12 – Building Decoupled Architectures

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Decoupling your architecture

• Decoupling with Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

• Sending messages between cloud applications and on-premises with Amazon MQ

12. Module 13 – Building Microservices and Serverless Architectures

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Introducing microservices

• Building microservice applications with AWS container services

• Introducing serverless architectures

• Building serverless architectures with AWS Lambda

• Extending serverless architectures with Amazon API Gateway

• Orchestrating microservices with AWS Step Functions

• Demonstrations

• Creating an AWS Lambda function

• Using AWS Lambda with Amazon S3

• Labs

• (Optional) Guided Lab 1: Breaking a Monolithic Node.js Application into Microservices

• Guided Lab 2: Implementing a Serverless Architecture on AWS

• Challenge Lab: Implementing a Serverless Architecture for the Café

13. Module 14 – Planning for Disaster

• Sections

• Architectural need

• Disaster planning strategies

• Disaster recovery patterns

• Lab

• Guided Lab: Hybrid Storage and Data Migration with AWS Storage Gateway File Gateway

• Module 15 – Bridging to Certification