Capstone: Following the AWS Well Architected Framework

Overview

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This course provides a thorough review of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to help you understand how to make informed decisions about your architecture in a cloud-native way and understand the impact of design decisions. By using the Well-Architected Framework, you can understand the risks in your architecture, and learn ways to mitigate them.

In the course, you'll walk through each of the framework's six pillars, which help you produce stable and efficient systems. The Operational Excellence pillar includes the ability to support development and run workloads effectively, gain insight into their operation, and continuously improve supporting processes and procedures to delivery business value. The Security pillar includes the ability to protect data, systems, and assets to take advantage of cloud technologies to improve your security. The Reliability pillar encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to. The Performance Efficiency pillar includes the ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements. The Cost Optimization pillar includes the ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point. The final pillar (Sustainability) addresses the long-term environmental, economic, and societal impact of your business activities.

Syllabus

Module 1: The AWS Well-Architected Framework

The first module of this course explores the AWS Well-Architected Framework, why it was created, and how to use it. In this module, you dive into three of the Well-Architected Framework pillars: Operational Excellence, Reliability, and Security. You learn about the basic design principles for each pillar, and you also review examples for applying these best practices.

Module 2: The Well-Architected Framework Continued

In the second module, you continue your journey with the Well-Architected Framework by learning about the next three pillars: Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. By following a similar pattern to the previous module, you first learn about each pillar’s design principles. You then review an example architecture, where you apply the AWS best practices that are outlined in the Well-Architected Framework.

Module 3: Preparing to be an AWS Cloud Consultant

In the third and final module, you start exploring your next steps for your cloud journey. To get a job working with AWS, it’s likely that you’ll need to work hands-on with AWS and build out your AWS experience. You learn about some of the different options that you have for building on AWS while you’re still learning, and you also learn how to highlight this experience to potential employers. You then explore interviewing tips and review a bank of sample technical interview questions, which you can use to practice your technical interviewing skills. Finally, you complete the capstone project, where you apply the Well-Architected Framework to an architecture and write a document that answers questions from each pillar.