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AWS Cloud Architecture
Master Curriculum

An enterprise-grade, 48-hour master curriculum designed for cloud architects and DevOps professionals. Master AWS Global Infrastructure, Custom VPCs & Transit Gateway, High-Availability Compute & Serverless, Aurora & DynamoDB Global Tables, CloudFormation IaC, AWS Organizations & Control Tower, Zero-Trust Edge Security (WAF/KMS), Live Database Migrations, Multi-Region DR, EKS Microservices, and FinOps aligned with AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) and Professional (SAP-C02).

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Format
Theory + Lab/Assignments (48 Hours)
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Certificate
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Course Code
AWS-ARCH
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L1
AWS-SAA · Associate Level
6 Modules · SAA-C03 Aligned
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L2
AWS-SAP · Professional Level
6 Modules · SAP-C02 Aligned
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📄 AWS Cloud Architecture — Associate Level (SAA-C03 Aligned)
L1
AWS-SAA-C03
Cloud Foundations, Networking, Compute, Storage & IaC
01
Cloud & AWS Essentials (Foundations & Identity)
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1.1 Cloud Fundamentals & Identity Governance: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS paradigms, AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions, AZs, Edge Locations)
AWS IAM Architecture: Users, Groups, Roles, Managed vs Inline Policies, Permission Boundaries
Identity & Access Governance: Principle of Least Privilege and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Hands-on Lab: AWS Console & CLI Setup; Author Fine-Grained IAM Policies and Configure MFA Enforcement
Mini-Capstone 1: Multi-Tenant Enterprise IAM Security & Governance Architecture
02
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) & Hybrid Networking
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2.1 Advanced Networking Fundamentals: Custom VPCs, Public/Private Subnets, Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways, Route Tables, Security Groups & NACLs
2.2 Hybrid & Enterprise Networking: VPC Peering, AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, VPC Interface & Gateway Endpoints
Hands-on Lab 1: Build a Secure Multi-AZ Custom VPC Infrastructure from Scratch with Bastion Hosts & NAT Gateways
Hands-on Lab 2: Configure Transit Gateway Routing across 3 VPCs and Setup S3 Gateway Endpoints
Mini-Capstone 2 & 3: Multi-Tier Isolated Enterprise VPC Design and Global Hybrid Hub-and-Spoke Interconnect Architecture
03
Compute Infrastructure & Serverless Microservices
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3.1 Scalable Compute & Load Balancing: EC2 Instance Types, Launch Templates, EBS Volumes, Application Load Balancers (ALB), Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)
3.2 Serverless & Microservices Architecture: AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon ECS (Fargate), Amazon ECR, EventBridge
Hands-on Lab 1: Deploy High-Availability Auto-Scaling Web Application behind ALB with Dynamic Target Group Scaling
Hands-on Lab 2: Build a Serverless RESTful API with Lambda, API Gateway & DynamoDB with CORS Enabled
Mini-Capstone 4 & 5: Elastic High-Traffic E-Commerce Compute Architecture & Serverless Event-Driven Order Processing Platform
04
Storage & Distributed Database Architectures
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4.1 Object & Block Storage: Amazon S3 Storage Classes, S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR), Lifecycle Archival, S3 Versioning, EBS Snapshots, EFS File Systems
4.2 Relational & NoSQL Databases: Amazon RDS Multi-AZ, Amazon Aurora Global Databases, DynamoDB Provisioned vs On-Demand, Global Tables
Hands-on Lab 1: Configure S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) with Lifecycle Archival to Glacier Deep Archive
Hands-on Lab 2: Provision Amazon Aurora Multi-AZ Cluster with Read Replicas and DynamoDB Global Tables
Mini-Capstone 6 & 7: Automated Multi-Region Data Lifecycle System & Low-Latency Global E-Commerce Database Infrastructure
05
Observability, DNS & Resilience Operations
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5.1 Route 53 & Monitoring: Amazon Route 53 Routing Policies (Weighted, Latency, Failover, Geolocation), Health Checks
AWS CloudWatch Metrics & Alarms, AWS CloudTrail Governance, AWS Config Continuous Compliance Auditing
Hands-on Lab: Configure Route 53 Failover & Latency Routing Policies with CloudWatch Alarms & SNS Notification Alerts
Mini-Capstone 8: Multi-Region Active-Passive Failover with Automated Health Checking & Disaster Recovery Routing
06
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with CloudFormation & CDK
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6.1 Automation with CloudFormation: Templates, Stacks, Nested Stacks, StackSets, Parameters, Mappings, Outputs, Drift Detection
Introduction to AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) & Declarative Infrastructure Automation
Hands-on Lab: Write and Deploy a Production Multi-Tier Web Application Infrastructure Stack using CloudFormation YAML
Mini-Capstone 9: Automated One-Click Deployment of Complete Multi-Tier Production Environments
📄 AWS Cloud Architecture — Professional Level (SAP-C02 Aligned)
L2
AWS-SAP-C02
Enterprise Governance, Zero-Trust Edge, Cloud Migration, Resiliency & FinOps
01
Enterprise Governance & Multi-Account Strategy
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7.1 Multi-Account Strategy: AWS Organizations, Organizational Units (OUs), AWS Control Tower, Account Factory
Service Control Policies (SCPs), AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO), AWS GuardDuty & Security Hub Integration
Hands-on Lab: Deploy AWS Control Tower, Configure Custom SCPs to Restrict Unapproved Regions, Services & Action Grants
Enterprise Capstone 10: Multi-Account Landing Zone Architecture with Automated Governance & Security Compliance
02
Advanced Zero-Trust Security & Global Edge Defense
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8.1 Zero-Trust & Network Defense: AWS Network Firewall, Amazon CloudFront Edge Delivery, AWS WAF Custom Rules
AWS Shield Advanced DDoS Protection, AWS KMS Customer Managed Keys (CMK), AWS Secrets Manager Automated Rotation
Hands-on Lab: Implement AWS WAF Rules on CloudFront Distribution with Custom KMS Key Encryption for S3 Origin Access Control (OAC)
Enterprise Capstone 11: Zero-Trust Global Edge Delivery & Distributed Security Perimeter Architecture
03
Enterprise Cloud Migration & Database Modernization
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9.1 Enterprise Migration Framework: 7 Rs of Cloud Migration, AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Schema Conversion Tool (SCT), Continuous CDC Replication
Hands-on Lab: Perform Live Near-Zero Downtime Replication of On-Premises SQL Database to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL via DMS
Enterprise Capstone 12: Large-Scale Enterprise Database & Server Cloud Migration Transformation Strategy
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Business Continuity, Active-Active Resiliency & Disaster Recovery
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10.1 Advanced Disaster Recovery: Multi-Region Active-Active Architectures, Global Data Replication, Sub-Minute RTO/RPO
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS), Cross-Region Route 53 ARC (Application Recovery Controller)
Hands-on Lab: Simulate Regional Outage and Execute Automated Disaster Recovery Failover with AWS DRS & Route 53 ARC
Enterprise Capstone 13: Mission-Critical Active-Active Multi-Region Resiliency & Business Continuity System
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Cloud-Native Architecture, Kubernetes & SRE
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11.1 Containerization & SRE: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Helm Charts, Managed Node Groups, Karpenter Autoscaling
AWS Step Functions Orchestration, Amazon SQS/SNS Decoupling, Microservices Design Patterns
Hands-on Lab: Build and Deploy Production EKS Microservices Application with Automated Step Functions Processing Workflow
Enterprise Capstone 14: Distributed Microservices & Event-Driven Cloud-Native Processing Platform
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Cost Engineering, FinOps & Major Program Capstone
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12.1 AWS FinOps Architecture: AWS Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Compute Optimizer, Resource Tagging Policies
Cost Allocation Tags, AWS Budgets, Anomaly Detection, Continuous Cost Optimization & Architectural Efficiency
Hands-on Lab: Analyze Enterprise Cost Profiles, Implement Auto-Tagging Policies, and Optimize Compute Fleet with Compute Optimizer
MAJOR PROGRAM CAPSTONE (AWS): Comprehensive Multi-Region Enterprise AWS Architecture, Security, Migration & FinOps Blueprint