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Amazon Web Services - Architecting on AWS (July 9 - 11)

Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 9:00am to Wednesday, July 10, 2019 - 4:59pm
Birch Hall, RM: 105 Birch Lab A

Learn the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS, optimizing the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services, and how they fit into cloud-based solutions. Explore best practices and design patterns to architect optimal IT solutions on AWS.

This course is intended for:

  • Solutions architects
  • Solution design engineers
  • Anyone who needs to understand the scope of cloud architectures

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how 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

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

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
  • Working knowledge of distributed systems
  • Familiarity with general networking concepts
  • Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
  • Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

This course covers the following concepts:

  • 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

University IT Technology Training classes are only available to Stanford University staff, faculty, or students. A valid SUNet ID is needed in order to enroll in a class.

Event Sponsor

University IT Technology Training

Contact Email

techtraining@stanford.edu

Contact Phone

650-723-4391