AWS Essential Training for Architects

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This course is a part of Become an AWS Data and DevOps Specialist, a 8-course Learning Path series from LinkedIn Learning.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most widely used cloud platforms, and the top pick for many organizations looking to scale and reduce costs by adopting a cloud infrastructure strategy. This course explores AWS from the architect’s perspective, focusing on the foundations you need to build scalable and reliable cloud-based application architectures. Instructor Jeff Winesett covers everything from high-level principles and best practices to hands-on implementation, optimization, and security. He takes three different approaches—manual, automated, and serverless—so you can see how AWS fits a variety of workflows and architectures. Each lesson is backed with practical examples, grounding services like Elastic Load Balancing, RDS, DynamoDB, and CloudFront in a real-world context.

Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Cloud Concepts
• 2. Cloud Practices
• 3. Keep Things Secure
• 4. Designing for Failure
• 5. Implement Elasticity/Automate Infrastructure
• 6. Further Optimize for Performance
• 7. Going Serverless
• 8. Additional Services for Decoupling Components
• 9. Optimize for Cost
• Conclusion