This three-day Architecting on AWS course equips architects, engineers, and technical decision-makers with the skills to design and evolve cloud architectures that are secure, scalable, and economically efficient. We begin by grounding every design in the AWS Well-Architected Framework—operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability—so your choices are defensible, auditable, and aligned to best practice.

Day 1 establishes the network and identity foundations upon which everything else depends. You will learn how to structure accounts with AWS Organizations and landing zone patterns; design Amazon VPCs with subnets, route tables, NAT, and DNS; and connect environments securely using VPC endpoints, AWS PrivateLink, and Transit Gateway. We implement identity and access with IAM roles, permission boundaries, and cross-account access patterns, then layer in data protection with AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, and managed encryption. Labs focus on deploying a baseline network and enforcing least-privilege access while instrumenting logs via CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs.

Day 2 moves into scalable compute and data services. We compare patterns using Amazon EC2 with Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing, containers with Amazon ECS and EKS, and serverless with AWS Lambda and API Gateway. You will select appropriate storage for workload characteristics—Amazon S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx—and match application requirements to database options including Amazon RDS/Aurora for relational needs and Amazon DynamoDB for serverless NoSQL at scale. We integrate event-driven components using Amazon SQS, SNS, and EventBridge to decouple systems, and apply caching with Amazon ElastiCache to improve performance. Labs guide you through deploying a multi-tier application, introducing health checks, scaling policies, and observability with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray.

Day 3 focuses on resilience, operations, and cost. You will evaluate business recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) and map them to disaster recovery strategies from backup-and-restore through active/active multi-Region architectures. We explore content delivery and global entry points with Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator, then implement automation using AWS CloudFormation and the AWS CDK for repeatable, testable infrastructure. You will practice cost modeling with AWS Pricing Calculator, apply guardrails using AWS Budgets and Cost Anomaly Detection, and establish operational readiness with alarms, dashboards, synthetic canaries, and incident response runbooks. The capstone design workshop challenges teams to translate a set of business and compliance requirements into an end-to-end reference architecture with a migration path and an operations plan.

Throughout, we highlight exam-relevant topics for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03), provide exam-style knowledge checks, and share field-tested patterns, anti-patterns, and decision trees you can adapt to your organization. By the end of the course, you will have the confidence and practical artifacts—templates, diagrams, and checklists—to design production-ready architectures on AWS.