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Udacity

AWS Cloud Architect

via Udacity Nanodegree

Overview

Master the skills to design, deploy, and optimize cloud architectures using AWS. Learn to implement network connectivity strategies, manage multi-account environments with AWS Organizations and Control Tower, and optimize costs using tools like AWS Cost Explorer. Migrate and modernize data processing solutions by planning tailored migration strategies, optimizing analytics workloads, and enhancing scalability with AWS tools like Glue and Athena. Modernize legacy systems, design high-performance cloud solutions, and reduce costs by leveraging serverless and event-driven architectures, AWS Budgets, and CloudFormation. Through hands-on experience, gain real-world experience in architecting robust, scalable, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructures.

Syllabus

  • Welcome to the Nanodegree Program!
    • Welcome to Udacity! We're excited to share more about your Nanodegree program and start this journey with you!
  • Designing AWS Architecture for Organizations
    • Learn to design and implement secure and scalable AWS network architectures. Explore strategies for managing multi-account environments using AWS Organizations and Control Tower. Develop cost and visibility strategies, leveraging tools like AWS Cost Explorer and tagging for effective cost management. Through hands-on exercises, you'll gain the skills to configure VPCs, establish secure connectivity, enforce governance, and optimize costs. By the end of the course, you'll be prepared to architect robust, efficient, and compliant AWS infrastructures for real-world scenarios.
  • Designing AWS Architecture for Workloads
    • The course 'Designing AWS Architecture for Workloads' covers the essential lessons of selecting architecture, migrating workloads, determining new architecture for existing workloads, and creating infrastructure for analytics workloads. Students will learn how to design and implement AWS architecture tailored to various workloads, making informed decisions to optimize performance and efficiency.
  • Modernizing and Optimizing Architecture
    • Transform legacy systems and design high-performing, cost-efficient cloud architectures using AWS. Explore modernization techniques like serverless and event-driven designs, and implement optimization strategies for scalability and efficiency. Gain hands-on experience automating infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation, reducing latency with CloudFront, and optimizing resources with Auto Scaling and AWS Budgets. Architect and deploy a cloud-based AI solution using Amazon Bedrock for performance, security, and cost objectives. Modernize and optimize cloud infrastructures for real-world applications.
  • Congratulations!
    • Congratulations on finishing your program!

Taught by

Tom Verbiscer, Leslie Bell and Mehdi Razvi

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  • Anonymous
    Great. Just a recommendation on the second project. The instructions are too open so we had to struggle as student to complete it.

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