Amazon Web Services: Architecting on AWS

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The UIS are hosting this 3rd party delivered course.

This course covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on the AWS platform. Students learn how to optimize the AWS Cloud by understanding how AWS services fit into cloud-based solutions. In addition, students explore AWS Cloud best practices and design patterns for architecting optimal IT solutions on AWS, and build a variety of infrastructures in guided, hands-on activities. The course also covers how to create fledgling architectures and build them into robust and adaptive solutions.

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Please see the fee section below before booking on the course.

• University IT Officers, Researchers and University Students who are or developing into:
  • Solutions architects
  • Solution design engineers

• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available

We recommend that attendees of this course have on of the following prerequisites:

• Taken the free online course Amazon Web Services: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• Working knowledge of distributed systems
• Familiarity with general networking concepts
• Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

Number of sessions: 6

• The Well-Architected Framework
• Networking with AWS
• Core AWS concepts, knowledge, and services, including designing your environment and making your environment highly available
• Event-driven scaling
• Automation
• Decoupling
• Serverless designs
• How to grow your architecture from small to extremely large

In this course, you will learn to:

• Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices
• Leverage AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
• Leverage AWS Managed Services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
• Make an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient to increase performance and reduce costs
• Use the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions

• Presentation, demonstrations and hand-on labs

• UIS staff who book will receive a provisional booking in the first instance which will be reviewed for approval
• There is a fee of £300 plus VAT per person for non-UIS staff who will be required to raise a Purchase Order in order that their places can be confirmed.

The fee includes:

• Instructor-led tuition
• Courseware

• Amazon Web Services: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
• Amazon Web Services: Systems Operations on AWS

• Business Improvement
• Cloud Computing