Advanced Architecting on AWS

Day 1

Resources

The following resource links will provide more information and help reinforce topics covered during Day 1:

Module 0: Architecting on AWS Review

• Architecting for the Cloud AWS Best Practices
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Building Big Data Storage Solutions (Data Lakes) for Maximum Flexibility

Module 1: AWS Account Management

• Consolidated billing for AWS Organizations
• Resource Groups Tagging API
• AWS License Manager
• AWS Multi Account Security Strategy
• Enable a New Feature in the AWS Management Console: Cross-Account Access
• Switching to an IAM role (AWS API)
• Test access by switching roles
• AWS Organizations Supports AWS Directory Service Multi-Account Capabilities
• AWS Directory Service
• What Is AWS Directory Service?
• Simple Active Directory
• AWS Managed Microsoft AD
• Active Directory Connector
• What is AWS Resource Groups?

Module 2a: Advanced Networking on AWS Part A

• VPC networking components
• VPC endpoints
• Enhanced networking types
• Enhanced networking on Linux
• Enabling enhanced networking with the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on Linux instances
• Enabling enhanced networking with the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on Windows instances
• Jumbo frames (9001 MTU)
• Network maximum transmission unit (MTU) for your EC2 instance
• Amazon FSx for Lustre
• Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
• Elastic Fabric Adapter
• Route tables
• Route tables and VPN route priority
• Advanced Encryption Standard
• SHA-2
• High Availability for Amazon VPC NAT Instances: An Example
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Connectivity Options

Module 2b: Advanced Networking on AWS Part B

• What is AWS Direct Connect?
• Setting network MTU for private virtual interfaces or transit virtual interfaces
• Link aggregation groups
• Classic - AWS Direct Connect
• Amazon EFS Update – On-Premises Access via Direct Connect
• Configure redundant connections Direct Connections
• AWS Direct Connect Resiliency Recommendations
• AWS Direct Connect pricing
• Use an AWS Transit Gateway to Simplify Your Network Architecture
• How transit gateways work
• What is a transit gateway?
• Direct Connect gateways
• Transit gateway associations
• Transit Network VPC (Cisco CSR)
• AWS Site-to-Site VPN and Accelerated Site-to-Site VPN Connection Pricing
• Resolving DNS queries between VPCs and your network
• VPC Ingress Routing – Simplifying Integration of Third-Party Appliances
• RFC 2784 - Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
• Overlay Multicast in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
• AWS re:Invent 2014 | (ARC401) Black-Belt Networking for the Cloud Ninja

Module 3: Deployment Management on AWS

• Overview of Deployment Options on AWS
• Managing Your AWS Infrastructure at Scale
• AWS CloudFormation stack updates
• Resource attribute reference
• Updating stacks using change sets
• Build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Your Container Images with Amazon ECR as Source
• AWS CodeDeploy product integrations
• CodeDeploy deployments
• AppSpec 'hooks' section
• Deploying applications to Elastic Beanstalk environments
• Adding Apps with AWS OpsWorks
• Deploying Apps with AWS OpsWorks
• Cookbooks and Recipes with AWS OpsWorks
• Amazon ECS Supports Windows Server Containers
• Amazon ECS clusters
• Amazon ECS container instances
• Amazon ECS services
• Use AWS CodeDeploy to Implement Blue/Green Deployments for AWS Fargate and Amazon ECS