Solutions Architect Associate Level Certification for AWS (2016)

There is no cloud service provider that comes even close to the depth and range of Amazon's AWS services, and there's no provider that can compete with the sheer size of Amazon Web Services. With an AWS Solutions Architect Associate level certification, you'll have the administration skills that are in heavy demand in an exploding market...and the credentials from the market leader to prove it.

This course - completely updated for 2016 by Cloud Academy's AWS Cloud expert Eric Magalhães - should be taken as part of the full Solutions Architect Associate Level Learning Path - 2016 edition. The courses included in that path will provide you with the foundations you'll absolutely need to work with AWS, while the videos in this course will take you to the level of Solutions Architect.

The AWS Foundation courses of the Learning Path are there to make sure that you're comfortable using and understanding the basic AWS services in the areas of Compute (EC2), Storage (S3, Glacier), Database (RDS, DynamoDB), and Networking. But this course will focus more on the practical application of Amazon's major strengths. Therefore, you will cover:

• Organizing your AWS resources using VPC endpoints, and controlling access through IAM users, groups, and roles.
• Automated and managed deployment services like CloudFront, CloudFormation,and Elastic Beanstalk.
• Application services like SNS, SES, SQS, and SWF that can closely integrate all the parts of an AWS infrastructure.
• Key design principles to leverage AWS tools like auto scaling, multiple availability zones, and load balancing to create more secure, reliable, and efficient applications.
• Eric will also discuss the AWS Solutions Architect certification itself and how it can be mastered, along with some thoughts about Amazon Web Services itself: the role it plays in the modern world of applications and what it can add to the quality of the services you offer to the world.

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