AWS

Architecting Fundamentals

Lab 1
Question How far is your organization in its
journey to the AWS Cloud?
A. We’re just getting started.

B. We already have prototypes running.

C. We have production workloads running.

D. We run 100 percent of our operations in

the AWS Cloud.

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Module overview
• Business request
• AWS services
• AWS infrastructure
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Present solutions
• Knowledge check
• Lab 1: Explore and interact with the AWS Management
Console and AWS Command Line Interface
 Business The chief technology officer (CTO)
wants you to explore the following
requests questions:

• What are the benefits of using AWS

services?
• How is the AWS global infrastructure
organized?
• How can we build our cloud
infrastructure according to best
Chief Technology practices?
Officer

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AWS services

“What are the benefits of using AWS services?”

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Amazon Web Services

• Global data
centers
• More than 200
services
• Secure and robust
• Pay as you go
• Built for business
needs
Why customers move to AWS

Agility

Accelerate time to Optimize costs.

market.

Increase innovation. Minimize security

vulnerabilities.

Scale seamlessly. Reduce management

complexity.

Complexity
and risk
 AWS service categories

Analytics Customer Developer Customer Business Application Migration End user Machine
enablement tools engagement applications integration and transfer computing learning

Serverless Networking Database Security Management Storage AWS cost Compute Containers
and identity and management
content and governance
delivery compliance

Game Satellite Front-end Robotics AR and VR Internet of Media Blockchain Quantum

Developmen and Mobile Things (IoT) services technologies
t
AWS infrastructure

“How is AWS global infrastructure organized?”

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AWS infrastructure topics

Data centers

Availability Zones

AWS
Regions
infrastructure

AWS Local Zones

Edge locations
AWS data centers
• AWS services
operate within
AWS data
centers.
• Data centers host
thousands of
servers.
• Each location
uses AWS
proprietary
network
equipment.
• Data centers are
organized into
Availability Zones.
Availability Zones (AZs)
AWS Region
Availability Zones AZ
are:
• Data centers in a
Region AZ

• Designed for fault

isolation AZ
• Interconnected
using high-speed
Availability Zone
private links
• Used to achieve
high availability

Data center Data center Data center

AWS Regions

Each Region:
• Is completely
independent
• Uses AWS
network
infrastructure
• Has multiple
Availability
Zones
Factors impacting Region selection

Governance Latency

Service Cost
availability
AWS Local Zones

Use cases:
• Media and
entertainment
content creation
• Real-time
gaming
• Machine learning
inference
• Live video AWS infrastructure Local compute, Connecting to Delivering new
streaming at the edge storage, services in low-latency
• Augmented databases, and AWS Regions applications
other services
reality (AR) and
virtual reality
(VR)
Edge locations

Edge
locations:
• Run in
major cities
around the
world
• Support
AWS
services like
Amazon
Route 53
and Edge
Amazon locations
Multiple edge
CloudFront locations
Regional edge
caches
Edge location use case

Edge location

Custome
r

Amazon S3
AWS Local Zone and edge location features

AWS Local Zones Edge Locations

• Low latency • Caching of data
• Local data processing • Fast delivery of content
• Consistent AWS experience • Better user experience
AWS Well-Architected
Framework
“How can we build our cloud infrastructure according to
best practices?”

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AWS architect responsibilities

Plan Research Build

• Set technical cloud • Investigate cloud • Design the
strategy with business services specs and transformation roadmap
leads. workload requirements. with milestones, work
streams, and owners.
• Analyze solutions for • Review existing workload
business needs and architectures. • Manage the adoption and
requirements. migration.
• Design prototype
solutions.
AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars

Security Performance Efficiency

• Apply at all layers • Reduce latency
• Enforce the principle of least • Use serverless architecture
privilege • Incorporate monitoring
• Use multi-factor authentication
(MFA)
Cost Optimization Operational Excellence
• Analyze and attribute • Perform operations with code
expenditures • Test response for unexpected
• Use cost-effective resources events
• Stop guessing

Reliability Sustainability
• Recover from failure • Understand your impact
• Test recovery procedures • Maximize utilization
• Scale to increase availability
 AWS Well-Architected Tool

• Based on the
AWS Well-
Architected
Framework
• Can review your
applications and
workloads
• Central place for AWS Well-
best practices Architected Tool Conduct
and guidance Define Apply
workload architectura
l review best
• Used in tens of practices
thousands of
workload
reviews
Review

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 Present Consider how you would answer
solutions the following questions:
• What are the benefits of using AWS
services?
• How is the AWS global infrastructure
organized?
• How can we build our cloud
infrastructure according to best
practices?
Chief Technology
Officer

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Module review

In this module you learned about:

 AWS services
 AWS infrastructure
 AWS Well-Architected Framework

Next, you will review:

Knowledge check

Lab introduction
Knowledge check

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Knowledge check question 1

Which of the following is the best example of one responsibility of an AWS architect?

A Monitor alarms for disaster response.

B Maintain application-level code in the AWS Cloud.

C Manage access to a group of AWS accounts.

D Analyze solutions for business needs and requirements.

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 Knowledge check question 1 and answer

Which of the following is the best example of one responsibility of an AWS architect?

A Monitor alarms for disaster response.

B Maintain application-level code in the AWS Cloud.

C Manage access to a group of AWS accounts.

D
correct Analyze solutions for business needs and requirements.

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Knowledge check question 2

Which of the following is a cluster of data centers within a geographic location with low
latency network connectivity?

A Availability Zone

B Region

C Edge location

D Outposts

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 Knowledge check question 2 and answer

Which of the following is a cluster of data centers within a geographic location with low
latency network connectivity?

A
correct Availability Zone

B Region

C Edge location

D Outposts

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Knowledge check question 3

Which of the following factors do you consider when picking an AWS Region? (Select TWO.)

A Local data regulations

B Operating system requirements

C Latency to end users

D Support for hybrid networking

E Programming language of your application

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 Knowledge check question 3 and answer

Which of the following factors do you consider when picking an AWS Region? (Select TWO.)

A
correct
Local data regulations

B Operating system requirements

C
correct
Latency to end users

D Support for hybrid networking

E Programming language of your application

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Knowledge check question 4

What is the primary benefit of deploying your applications into multiple Availability Zones?

A Stronger security policies for resources

B Decreased latency to resources

C High availability for resources

D There is no benefit to this design

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 Knowledge check question 4 and answer

What is the primary benefit of deploying your applications into multiple Availability Zones?

A Stronger security policies for resources

B Decreased latency to resources

C
correct High availability for resources

D There is no benefit to this design

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Knowledge check question 5

The principle of least privilege is a principle under which Well-Architected Framework pillar?

A Operational excellence

B Security

C Resilience

D Performance efficiency

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 Knowledge check question 5 and answer

The principle of least privilege is a principle under which Well-Architected Framework pillar?

A Operational excellence

B
correct Security

C Resilience

D Performance efficiency

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Lab 1:
Explore and interact with the AWS Management
Console and AWS Command Line Interface

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Connecting to an AWS service

AWS Management Console

AWS Command Line Interface

API
User (AWS CLI)
AWS application AWS
programming Cloud
interface (API)
Software development kits
(SDKs)
Lab tasks

Task 1: Explore and configure the AWS Management Console.

Task 2: Create an Amazon S3 bucket using the AWS Management

Console.

Task 3: Upload an object into the Amazon S3 bucket using the S3

console.

Task 4: Create an Amazon S3 bucket and upload an object using the

AWS CLI.