Solutions Architect Professional Level Certification for AWS (3 of 3)

This is the final of three Cloud Academy courses preparing you for the AWS Solutions Architect Professional level certification exam. AWS solutions architects are the people who design, manage, and secure the cloud deployments for most of the busiest and most mission-critical applications online today. Those who have achieved professional level certification are at the very top of an industry that's growing as fast as just about anything around.

Besides having already passed the AWS Solutions Architect Associate level certification, a professional architect is expected to be able to use AWS services to successfully and securely design distributed systems and applications. That means being able to incorporate scalability, availability, and reliability into a client's infrastructure.

A Solutions Architect Professional should also know how to effectively and safely migrate multi-tiered applications from local environments to the Amazon cloud, and to build cost-effective deployments that use only those AWS services that will work best for their intended business goals.

This third part, taught by AWS Cloud expert Eric Magalhães, is meant to lead you through the actual exam process, and then discuss some critically important AWS design principles:

• Security and audit. Use Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM), CloudTrail and CloudWatch to control access to your account services and closely monitor activity.
• Disaster recovery. Plan for the worst and be prepared to meet your recovery goals.
• Failover strategies. Anticipate failure of individual resources in your infrastructure and automate the process of switching to backup or alternate compute sources.
• Self healing techniques and fault tolerance. Design automated healing right into your application.
• Hybrid clouds. When regulatory or practical considerations require it, you will need to understand how locally hosted services can effectively interact with infrastructure in the cloud.
• Multi-region deployments. While most AWS services are tightly bound to individual regions, there are times when specific goals require a more global reach.
• Application migration. Migration to the cloud is more than just copying existing applications in their original state. Learn about performing true lift-and-shift migrations.

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