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AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate
Amazon Web Services

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

Start here to become an AWS Solutions Architect. Gain the skills and knowledge to design architectural solutions on AWS and prepare for your AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam.

Alex G.
Julie Elkins
Morgan Willis

Instructors: Alex G.

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Intermediate level

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2 months, 10 hours a week
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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
4.8

(1,466 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

Flexible schedule
2 months, 10 hours a week
Learn at your own pace
Build toward a degree

What you'll learn

  • Make informed decisions about when and how to apply key AWS Services for compute, storage, database, networking, monitoring, and security.

  • Design architectural solutions, whether designing for cost, performance, and/or operational excellence, to address common business challenges.

  • Create and operate a data lake in a secure and scalable way, ingest and organize data into the data lake, and optimize performance and costs.

  • Prepare for the certification exam, identify your strengths and gaps for each domain area, and build strategies for identifying incorrect responses.

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Professional Certificate - 4 course series

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

Course 121 hours4.8 (5,798 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe terminology and concepts related to AWS services   

  • Articulate key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)    

  • You will learn to distinguish among several AWS compute services, including Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS.

  • Understand AWS database and storage offerings, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.    

Skills you'll gain

Category: Load Balancing
Category: Amazon S3
Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Category: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Scalability
Category: Virtual Machines
Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Category: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: General Networking
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Amazon DynamoDB
Category: Databases
Category: Containerization

Architecting Solutions on AWS

Course 222 hours4.8 (445 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Amazon S3
Category: AWS Kinesis
Category: Containerization
Category: Cloud Solutions
Category: Solution Architecture
Category: Hybrid Cloud Computing
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Amazon DynamoDB
Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: Information Technology Architecture
Category: Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Event-Driven Programming
Category: API Gateway
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Performance Tuning

Building Data Lakes on AWS

Course 311 hours4.7 (283 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Apply data lake methodologies in planning and designing a data lake.

  • Describe the components and services required for building an AWS data lake.

  • Compare the ways data can be ingested, stored, and transformed in a data lake.

  • Explain how to secure a data lake with appropriate permissions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Lakes
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Data Architecture
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Data Cleansing
Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Category: Query Languages
Category: Amazon Redshift
Category: Data Processing
Category: Amazon S3
Category: Data Management
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Data Warehousing
Category: Data Visualization
Category: Data Governance

Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Course 48 hours4.7 (203 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • The 4 domains -Designing Resilient, High-Performing, Secure, Cost-optimized Architectures- in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam

  • Certification exam-level practice questions written by experts from AWS

  • Optional hands-on exercises designed to solidify understanding of cloud concepts you need to know for the exam

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Computing Architecture
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Solution Architecture
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: Scalability
Category: Amazon DynamoDB
Category: Disaster Recovery
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Network Architecture
Category: Amazon S3
Category: Infrastructure Architecture
Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Category: Serverless Computing

Instructors

Alex G.
Amazon Web Services
9 Courses65,857 learners

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