UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS
- What is cloud computing?
- Public, private, and hybrid clouds
- Cloud service models – IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Setting up your AWS account
- The AWS management console
DESIGNING CLOUD APPLICATIONS – AN ARCHITECT’S PERSPECTIVE
- Multi-tier architecture
- Designing for multi-tenancy
- Designing for scale
- Automating infrastructure
- Designing for failure
- Designing for parallel processing
- Designing for performance
- Designing for eventual consistency
- Estimating your cloud computing costs
- A typical e-commerce web application
- Setting up our development environment
AWS COMPONENTS, COST MODEL, AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS
- AWS components
- Optimizing cloud infrastructure costs
- Application development environments
- Setting up the AWS infrastructure
DESIGNING FOR AND IMPLEMENTING SCALABILITY
- Defining scalability objectives
- Designing scalable application architectures
- Leveraging AWS infrastructure services for scalability
- Setting up auto scaling
DESIGNING FOR AND IMPLEMENTING HIGH AVAILABILITY
- Defining availability objectives
- The nature of failures
- Using AWS for disaster recovery
- Setting up high availability
DESIGNING FOR AND IMPLEMENTING SECURITY
- Defining security objectives
- Understanding security responsibilities
- Best practices in implementing AWS security
- Setting up security
DEPLOYING TO PRODUCTION AND GOING LIVE
- Managing infrastructure, deployments, and support at scale
- Using CloudWatch for monitoring
- Using AWS solutions for backup and archiving
- Planning for production go-live activities
- Setting up for production