| About

AWS holds 69% of the global market share in the cloud computing market. Some of the prominent companies who use AWS as their backbone are Kellogg, Netflix, Adobe, Airbnb and General Electric. Irrespective of the size of an organization, everyone has started to adopt cloud services in one way or the other, and AWS is the major player among the cloud services industry.
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Mindteck Academy’s 30-hour AWS Architect course is designed to provide in-depth knowledge about AWS architectural principles and its services. The sessions will be conducted by industry practitioners who will train you to leverage AWS services to make the AWS infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available. The training is completely aligned to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Exam.

What you will learn:
  • AWS Architecture and different models of Cloud Computing
  • Compute Services: AWS EC2, Auto Scaling and Load Balancing, AWS Lambda, and Elastic Beanstalk
  • Storage Services: AWS EBS, AWS S3, AWS Glacier, AWS CloudFront, AWS Snowball, and Storage Gateway
  • Database Services: AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and AWS RedShift
  • Security and Identity Services: IAM and KMS
  • Networking Services: Amazon VPC, Route 53, and Direct Connect
  • Management Tools: AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, and Trusty Advisor
  • Application Services: SES, SNS, SQS
Why should I take an AWS Architect course?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer of, and leading the pack in,  cloud computing. With the emergence of SaaS (Software as a Service) and the micro-services economy, many organizations are building their service offering via Cloud Oriented Architecture. Whether you are a web developer, database admin, system admin, data analyst or a solution architect, it is imperative that you know how to build cloud-based applications or services. This AWS Architect course will help you to progress your career as a AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect, and more.
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The course provides structured AWS training with an updated curriculum as per the current industry requirements and best practices. Besides strong theoretical understanding, the course provides a hands-on approach with lab exercises. You will also get to work on a real-life Capstone Project in order for you to apply all of the skills learned as part of the course.
Who should take this course:
This AWS Architect course is designed for IT professionals who want to pursue a career in Cloud Computing, and become AWS Certified Solutions Architect. It is best suited for:
  • Application Developers, Solution Architects and Senior Managers who want to get a start on Cloud Computing
  • System Admins and IT Infrastructure or Virtualization professionals
  • Test Engineers, QA Leads and QA managers who want to upgrade their skills to be able to work in a Cloud-based environment
  • DevOps professionals
  • Network admins and individuals who in the security and compliance industry

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| AWS Curriculum - 30 Hours

Module 1 - Introduction and getting started with aws​
Learning Objectives: In this module you will learn about different products and services in the AWS ecosystem, the global infrastructure of AWS, different types of EC2 instances, and instance purchasing options.
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Topics:
  • What is Cloud Computing?
    AWS Certification
    AWS Product and Services
    AWS Global Infrastructure and its benefits
    AWS Regions
    EC2 and EC2 Instances
    EC2 Purchasing Options 

Hands On / Demo Activities:
  • Signing up for a free tier account with AWS
Module 2 - Amazon ec2 ​
Learning Objectives: This module covers the compute offering from AWS called EC2. It includes a demonstration on launching an AWS EC2 instance, connecting to/working with an instance and hosting a website on the AWS EC2 instance. We will also cover different AMIs (Amazon Machine Images).

Topics:​
  • EC2 Instance
    Security Group
    AMI
    Create a Security Group
    Ubuntu and Windows Instance

Hands On / Demo Activities:
  • Creating an Elastic IP​
module 3 - storage services and aws cli
​Learning Objectives: In this module you will learn about the different storage services offered by AWS and transfer data from one storage service to another.

Topics:
  • Traditional Storage Tiers
    Cloud Storage
    Type of AWS Storage and Storage options
    AWS Storage Services
    EBS, EBS Volume and EBS Storage
    S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    AWS Glacier Service
    AWS Storage Gateway
    AWS Snowball Service
    AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

Hands On / Demo Activities:​
  • Restoring an Amazon EBS Volume from a Snapshot
  • Hosting a Website on Amazon S3
    Create a Volume Snapshot through AWS Command Line Interface
Module 4 - virtual private cloud and direct connect
Learning Objectives: This module covers Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. It will help you understand how to make public and private subnets with AWS VPC along with a demonstration on creating a VPC. This module will also provide an overview of AWS Direct Connect.

Topics:
  • VPC and Components of VPC
    Direct Connect
    CIDR Notations
    VPC Components
    Benefits of VPC

Hands On / Demo Activities:
  • ​Build the Non-Default VPC
Module 5 - database services
Learning Objectives: In this module you will learn about different database services offered by AWS to deal with structured and unstructured data.

Topics:
  • Amazon RDS
    Benefits of RDS
    Types of databases instances
    Amazon Aurora
    VPC
    Amazon DynamoDB
    Amazon RedShift
    ElastiCache

Hands On / Demo Activities:​
  • Creating a MySQL DB Instance via Relational Database Service (RDS)
    Creating Tables, Loading Sample Data and running queries
    Create a Memcached Clust    er​​
Module 6 - elastic load balancing and auto scaling
Learning Objectives: In this module, you will learn concepts like ‘Scaling’ and ‘Load distribution techniques’ in AWS. It also includes a demo for load distribution and scaling your resources horizontally based on time or activity.

Topics:
  • Components and types of load balancing
    Auto-scaling and its benefits
    The life cycle of auto-scaling
    Components and policies of auto-scaling

Hands On / Demo Activities:​
  • Working with Elastic Load Balancer
  • Maintaining high availability with Auto-Scaling
Module 7 - route 53 and management tools
Learning Objectives: In this module you will learn about Route 53 and different AWS management tools. We cover monitoring, setting up alerts and notifications for AWS resources, and AWS usage billing with AWS CloudWatch.

Topics:
  • Domain Name and DNS Server
    Auto Scaling
    Route 53
    Management tools in AWS
    CloudTrail
    CloudWatch
    Setting up a Billing Alert
    Cloud Formation
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Hands On / Demo Activities:
  • Pay As You Go
    Auto Scaling
    Enabling CloudTrail Log Delivery to an S3 Bucket
    Graph of EC2 Instances
    CloudWatch Dashboard
    Cloud Formation
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Module 8 - application services. aws lambda and elastic beanstalk
Learning Objectives: In this module you will learn about different application services of AWS that are used for sending emails and notifications. It also covers various compute services of AWS through which you can run your existing code in the cloud.

Topics:
  • Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
    Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
    Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
    AWS Lambda
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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​Hands On / Demo Activities:
  • SNS
    SQS
    Create a Lambda Function for saving an Object in Amazon S3
    Launch an Application using Elastic Beanstalk    ​
Module 9 - opsworks, security and identity services
Learning Objectives: In this module you will know more about ‘OpsWorks’, its various components and how to create Chef recipes for ‘OpsWorks’. You will also learn how to achieve a distribution of access control with AWS using IAM.

Topics:
  • OpsWorks Security and Identity Services
    Components of AWS OpsWorks
    Security and Identify Services
    Key Management Service

Hands On / Demo Activities:​
  • Creating an OpsWorks stack and deploy an app in the stack
    Creating an IAM user in AWS account, encrypt data stored in an S3 bucket using an encryption key
Module 10 - project discussions and mock test
Learning Objectives: This module is primarily a demo of an AWS Project using a real-life case study. It also has a Q&A session to prepare learners for AWS certifications.

Topics:
  • Hands-on workshop
    Q&A
    An overview of AWS certifications

Hands On / Demo Activities:
  • Hands-on workshop
Schedule
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Option 1 - Weekday Schedule – Monday thru Friday
Starts Monday February 18th promptly at 8PM ET with Orientation, continuing on with the initial lecture until 10PM.  The remainder of the live, instructor-led online course occurs Monday – Friday, from 8PM to 10PM ET.

Option 2 - Weekend Schedule – Saturdays and Sundays
Starts Saturday, TBD promptly at 9AM ET with Orientation, continuing on with the initial lecture until 1PM.  The remainder of the live, instructor-led online course occurs every Saturday and Sunday from 9AM to 1PM ET.

Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course. Anyone in the IT industry will benefit from this training. A basic understanding of any operating systems, virtualization and the software development life cycle (SDLC) will be useful. To brush up your skills, our training partner provides a complimentary, self-paced Linux essentials course when you enroll in this course.

System Requirements
The system requirements include Minimum 4 GB RAM, i3 processor or above with around 20 GB HDD. You will be working on the cloud servers and various other services that Amazon provides. You can create a Free Tier account on AWS which will give you an access to all the AWS services. The step-wise guide for accessing these services will be available in the LMS and our support team will assist you 24*7 in case any queries.​

Cost::$300.00 
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