Why up skill to AWS

Organizations are constantly posting job requirements in the AWS domain growing 50% faster than all other IT jobs. IT professionals that seek positions need to understand the different kinds of AWS skills in demand and the certifications needed AWS is an ocean - with several aspects to it.

An IT job aspirant should know what the most popular and lucrative job roles are and train accordingly. Certain AWS tools need hands-on training at the AWS labs in the real world in order to use them effectively. Hands-on experience in AWS in the cloud labs in specific domains can be very hard to find. There needs to be a focus on automation with an in-depth understanding of the tools from the domain ecosystem.

AWS Certified Courses

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam is ideal for individuals who have experience designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform. Achieving AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification validates your understanding of these concepts:

·         Designing and deploying scalable, highly available and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.

·         Lift and shift of an existing on-premises application to AWS.

·         Ingress and egress of data to and from AWS.

·         Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database or security requirements.

·         Identifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices.

·         Estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms.

Before attempting the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam, you should have the following required knowledge and skills:

AWS Knowledge

·         Hands-on experience using computer, networking, storage, and database AWS services.

·         Professional experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.

·         Understanding of Elasticity and Scalability concepts.

·         Understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS.

·         A good understanding of all security features and tools that AWS provides and how they relate to traditional services.

·         A strong understanding of how to interact with AWS (AWS SDK, AWS API, Command Line Interface, AWS Cloud Formation).

·         Hands-on experience with AWS deployment and management services.

General IT Knowledge

·         Excellent understanding of typical multitier architectures: web servers (Apache, nginx, IIS), caching, application RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server), NoSQL.

·         On servers, and load balancers.

·         Knowledge of message queuing and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

·         Familiarity with loose coupling and stateless systems.

·         Understanding of different consistency models in distributed systems.

·         Experience with CDN and performance concepts.

·         Network experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP and OSI Network.

·         Knowledge of Restful Web Services, XML, JSON.

·         Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.

Work experience with information and application security, including public key encryption, SSH, access credentials and X.509 certificates.