AWS Solution Architect (ASS-C02)

 

Introduction

 The AWS Solution Architect (ASS-C02) This will give you an idea of where to focus your time on learning new topics. We’ll discuss some basics below.

• Domain 1:Design Resilient Architectures
  • AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations, Regions Edge Caches)
  • Multi-tiered architectures within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
  • Decoupled and event-driven architectures
  • AWS storage services


• Domain 2:Design High-Performing Architectures
  • Auto-scaling and application and network elastic load balancers
  • Amazon EC2, ECS, and Elastic Beanstalk
  • Storage performance with the Elastic File System and Amazon S3 features
  • VPC Networking components: Subnets/ENIs/ENA’s/NACLs/Security Groups/NAT Gateways/ Bastion hosts/VPC Endpoints/VPN/Direct Connect/Transit Gateway/AWS Global Accelerator
  • AWS Databases
  • High availability across Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)


• Domain 3:Design Secure Applications and Architecturesy
  • Deep dive on AWS Identity & Access Management
  • Amazon Cognito for web & mobile security
  • AWS Organizations – Service Control Policies (SCPs)
  • Protecting application with AWS WAF, Firewall Manager, and Shield
  • Understand AWS logging mechanisms
  • Audit, monitor and evaluate with AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail
  • Data encryption using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS)


• Domain 4:Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
  • AWS storage costs across Amazon S3, Glacier, EFS, Storage Gateway, AWS Backup
  • Savings plans and reserved instances for compute instances
  • Cost optimization across the network infrastructure