I took Advanced Architecting on AWS for the last three days. The course is part of the learning process for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional. I already have the certification based on the older version of the exam. The new version of the certification exam went live on February 4th. The course seems to follow the newer certification guide. Overall the course is good as it covers all the services required, the labs were a little disappointing as they lacked complexity. To become proficient and attempt the certification, one would need to a lot more learning and deep diving on the topics covered in this course. It reviews probably 35% of the material required to sit the exam.
Here is my summary by day of the course.
Day One
The morning was spent covering Account Management and multiple accounts, leading to AWS Organizations with service control policies. It finished on billing. The next two discussions where around Advanced Networking Architectures, then VPN and DirectConnect. The afternoon finished with a discussion on Deployments on AWS which was an abbreviation of material covered in the DevOps Course.
Day Two
The morning started with data specifically discussing S3 and Elasticache. Next, it was all about data import into AWS with Snowball, Snowmobile, S3 Transfer Acceleration, Storage Gateways(Tape Gateway, Volume Gateway, and File Gateway), and fished with Data Sync, and Database Migration,
The afternoon was spent on Big Data Architecture and Designing Large Scale Applications and finished with a lab on Blue-Green Deployments on Elastic BeanStalk.
Day Three
The last day was spent on Building Resilient Architectures, and encryption and Data Security. The day ended early with a Lab on KMS. The lab provided some basic KMS and OpenSSL encryption steps.
I thought the course, missed an opportunity to talk about DR architectures.
It’s an interesting course and worth taking if you’re interested in learning more or planning to take the certifications.
I took Advanced Architecting on AWS for the last three days. The course is part of the learning process for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional. I already have the certification based on the older version of the exam. The new version of the certification exam went live on February 4th. The course seems to follow the newer certification guide. Overall the course is good as it covers all the services required, the labs were a little disappointing as they lacked complexity. To become proficient and attempt the certification, one would need to a lot more learning and deep diving on the topics covered in this course. It reviews probably 35% of the material required to sit the exam.
Here is my summary by day of the course.
Day One
The morning was spent covering Account Management and multiple accounts, leading to AWS Organizations with service control policies. It finished on billing. The next two discussions where around Advanced Networking Architectures, then VPN and DirectConnect. The afternoon finished with a discussion on Deployments on AWS which was an abbreviation of material covered in the DevOps Course.
Day Two
The morning started with data specifically discussing S3 and Elasticache. Next, it was all about data import into AWS with Snowball, Snowmobile, S3 Transfer Acceleration, Storage Gateways(Tape Gateway, Volume Gateway, and File Gateway), and fished with Data Sync, and Database Migration,
The afternoon was spent on Big Data Architecture and Designing Large Scale Applications and finished with a lab on Blue-Green Deployments on Elastic BeanStalk.
Day Three
The last day was spent on Building Resilient Architectures, and encryption and Data Security. The day ended early with a Lab on KMS. The lab provided some basic KMS and OpenSSL encryption steps.
I thought the course, missed an opportunity to talk about DR architectures.
It’s an interesting course and worth taking if you’re interested in learning more or planning to take the certifications.
