AWS
Amazon has come up with its wide array of ever-evolving cloud computing platforms known as Amazon Web Services, also known as remote computing or cloud services. Amazon launched the first type of AWS offering in the year 2006 to provide online support for client applications and websites.
About AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA C01)
- Choose reliable/resilient storage.
- Determine how to design decoupling mechanisms using AWS services.
- Determine how to design a multi-tier architecture solution.
- Determine how to design high availability and/or fault-tolerant architectures
- Choose performant storage and databases.
- Apply caching to improve performance.
- Design solutions for elasticity and scalability
- Determine how to secure application tiers.
- Determine how to secure data.
- Define the networking infrastructure for a single VPC application.
- Determine how to design cost-optimized storage.
- Determine how to design cost-optimized compute.
- Choose design features in solutions that enable operational excellence.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
- Demonstrate ability to architect the appropriate level of availability based on stakeholder requirements
- Demonstrate ability to implement DR for systems based on RPO and RTO
- Determine appropriate use of multi-Availability Zones vs. multi-Region architectures
- Demonstrate ability to implement self-healing capabilities.
- Demonstrate ability to make architectural decisions that minimize and optimize infrastructure cost
- Apply the appropriate AWS account and billing set-up options based on scenario
- Ability to compare and contrast the cost implications of different architectures
- Ability to manage the lifecycle of an application on AWS
- Demonstrate ability to implement the right architecture for development, testing, and staging environments
- Position and select the most appropriate AWS deployment mechanism based on a scenario
- Demonstrate ability to design and implement networking features of AWS
- Demonstrate ability to design and implement connectivity features of AWS
- Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade-off decisions involving storage options
- Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade-off decisions involving database options
- Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate data storage architecture
- Determine the use of synchronous versus asynchronous replication
- Design information security management systems and compliance controls
- Design security controls with the AWS shared responsibility model and global infrastructure
- Design identity and access management controls
- Design protection of Data at Rest controls
- Design protection of Data in Flight and Network Perimeter controls
- Demonstrate the ability to design a loosely coupled system
- Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate front-end scaling architecture
- Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate middle-tier scaling architecture
- Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate data storage scaling architecture
- Determine trade-offs between vertical and horizontal scaling
- Plan and execute applications migrations
- Demonstrate ability to design hybrid cloud architectures
AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty (ANS C00)
- Implement connectivity for hybrid IT
- Given a scenario, derive an appropriate hybrid IT architecture connectivity solution
- Explain the process to extend connectivity using AWS Direct Connect
- Evaluate design alternatives that leverage AWS Direct Connect
- Define routing policies for hybrid IT architectures
- Apply AWS networking concepts
- Given customer requirements, define network architectures on AWS
- Propose optimized designs based on the evaluation of an existing implementation
- Determine network requirements for a specialized workload
- Derive an appropriate architecture based on customer and application requirements
- Evaluate and optimize cost allocations given a network design and application data flow
- Evaluate automation alternatives within AWS for network deployments
- Evaluate tool-based alternatives within AWS for network operations and management
- Leverage the capabilities of Route 53
- Evaluate DNS solutions in a hybrid IT architecture
- Determine the appropriate configuration of DHCP within AWS
- Given a scenario, determine an appropriate load balancing strategy within the AWS ecosystem
- Determine a content distribution strategy to optimize for performance
- Reconcile AWS service requirements with network requirements.
- Evaluate design requirements for alignment with security and compliance objectives
- Evaluate monitoring strategies in support of security and compliance objectives
- Evaluate AWS security features for managing network traffic
- Utilize encryption technologies to secure network communications
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot and resolve a network issue.
AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS C01)
- Given an AWS abuse notice, evaluate the suspected compromised instance or exposed access keys.
- Verify that the Incident Response plan includes relevant AWS services.
- Evaluate the configuration of automated alerting, and execute possible remediation of security-related incidents and emerging issues.
- Design and implement security monitoring and alerting.
- Troubleshoot security monitoring and alerting.
- Design and implement a logging solution.
- Troubleshoot logging solutions.
- Design edge security on AWS.
- Design and implement a secure network infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot a secure network infrastructure.
- Design and implement host-based security.
- Design and implement a scalable authorization and authentication system to access AWS resources.
- Troubleshoot an authorization and authentication system to access AWS resources.
- Design and implement key management and use.
- Troubleshoot key management.
- Design and implement a data encryption solution for data at rest and data in transit.