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Scenario: Selecting a Cloud Platform and Designing a Highly Available Business Solution

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LP Box Courses 3 Video Courses
LP Box quiz No quiz sessions
LP Box Lab 3 Hands-on Labs
Duration 4h 54m
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Learn how experienced professionals go about designing a cloud solution.

Description
Cloud projects often require you to be able to evaluate requirements, define priorities, and use your knowledge of the cloud services to come up with recommendations and designs that can best meet customers' requirements.

In this learning path, we work through a business scenario from start to finish that will help you learn how to approach and solve a business problem with a cloud solution. The Cloud Academy AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform teams tackle a customer brief to help you learn how it is done.

The scenario requires us to build a highly available campaign site for an online competition run by loungebeer.com - a craft beer brand launching a new product into the market at the Superbowl. While loungebeer and the campaign are fictitious, we treat them as a real project to help demonstrate you how you might go about delivering a cloud solution in a similar situation.

In a series of interactive discussions, we join the team as they evaluate the business requirements, define the project constraints, and agree on the scope and deliverables for the solution. We then work through the technical requirements we will use to evaluate how each of the three cloud platforms - Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Microsoft Azure - could be used to meet the technical requirements.

We follow each of the platform teams as they define solution architectures for Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. We then regroup to run a feature and price comparison before the team builds a proof of concept for our solution design.

Learning Objectives
This scenario lets you see how cloud professionals tackle and solve a business problem with each of the three cloud platforms. This scenario will prepare you for:

  • Thinking and reacting in live situations
  • Prioritizing technical requirements
  • Discussing and evaluating design ideas
  • Designing a solution on AWS, GCP and Azure
  • Evaluating design ideas against business requirements
Intended Audience
This scenario is highly recommended for anyone working as a cloud architect, specialist, or consultant.

Pre-requisites
No pre-requisites for this Learning Path, but this scenario is designed to help you learn how to apply cloud skills in live situations, so we recommend completing all the labs.

Feedback
We encourage you to send us your design so we can help you define your own solution design to the requirements: support@cloudacademy.com

Learning Path includes
Over 3 video courses, 2 Hands-On Labs and a Quiz Session.
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Introduction to Selecting a Cloud Platform and Designing a Highly Available Business Solution learning path.

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    In this group of live videos, we tackle a practical scenario to help you learn real-world cloud consulting skills. This is a unique and engaging live video format where we join the Cloud Academy AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform teams in a real-time work situation. The team listen to a customer brief, discuss and define technical requirements and then evaluate which of the public cloud ...

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Lab Overview In this lab you will learn how to deploy a highly available website using Amazon Web Services. The lab is built upon a scenario that draws upon real-world challenges facing many website and web application deployments. LoungeBeer.com is based on a fictitious  company that wants to run an advertising campaign during the half time of the Super Bowl. LoungeBeer.com faces many of the ...

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Create a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Distribution using Amazon CloudFront Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service. You can speed up the delivery of static files using the HTTP or the HTTPS protocols. You can stream audio or video contents in real time using the RTMP protocol. Each CloudFront distribution has a unique cloudfront.net domain name that can be used to ...

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Learn a simple procedure to create an inexpensive, highly available, low-latency static website with Amazon S3 and a CloudFront content delivery network Lab Overview You can easily and inexpensively use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host a website that uses client-side technologies (such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and does not require server-side technologies (such as PHP and ASP.NET). This ...

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