Start here to become an AWS Solutions Architect. Gain the skills and knowledge to design architectural solutions on AWS and prepare for your AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam.

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What you will learn

Make informed decisions about when and how to apply key AWS Services for compute, storage, database, networking, monitoring, and security.
Design architectural solutions, whether designing for cost, performance, and/or operational excellence, to address common business challenges.
Create and operate a data lake in a secure and scalable way, ingest and organize data into the data lake, and optimize performance and costs.
Prepare for the certification exam, identify your strengths and gaps for each domain area, and build strategies for identifying incorrect responses.

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About this Professional Certificate

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This professional certificate provides the knowledge and skills you need to start building your career in cloud architecture and helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. You will start by learning key AWS Services for compute, storage, database, networking, monitoring, and security, then dive into how to design architectural solutions, how to create and operate a data lake, and how to prepare for the certification exam. The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification showcases knowledge and skills in AWS technology across a wide range of AWS services. The certification focuses on the design of cost and performance optimized solutions and demonstrating a strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This AWS Certification is one of the top-paying IT certifications, per the SkillSoft IT Skills and Salary report. Per Enterprise Strategy Group, surveyed AWS Certification holders credited their certification for their higher earnings (74%), increased confidence (87%), and increased influence among coworkers (79%). To prepare for your AWS Certification exam, we recommend that — in addition to attaining this professional certificate — candidates review the free exam guide, sample questions, and AWS technical documentation (e.g. white papers and product FAQs) on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam page to understand what content and services are covered by the exam.

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Through 15 hands-on labs, you’ll use the AWS Management Console to apply skills learned in the videos.

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In Architecting Solutions on AWS, you’ll use Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon SNS to build a serverless web backend.
In Introduction to Designing Data Lakes, you’ll use Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway to create an Amazon OpenSearch Service Cluster. You’ll also use Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Amazon Elasticsearch Service to create a data ingestion pipeline with the use of high-scale AWS Managed services.
In Cloud Technical Essentials, you’ll design a 3-tier architecture using services like Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS with high availability and Elastic Load Balancing following AWS best practices. You’ll upload an architecture diagram laying out your design including the networking layer.

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Shareable Certificate

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100% online courses

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Flexible Schedule

Set and maintain flexible deadlines.

Beginner Level

Approximately 5 months to complete

Suggested pace of 4 hours/week

English

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There are 4 Courses in this Professional Certificate

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Course 1

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

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Are you in a technical role and want to learn the fundamentals of AWS? Do you aspire to have a job or career as a cloud developer, architect, or in an operations role? If so, AWS Cloud Technical Essentials is an ideal way to start. This course was designed for those at the beginning of their cloud-learning journey - no prior knowledge of cloud computing or AWS products and services required!

Throughout the course, students will build highly available, scalable, and cost effective application step-by-step. Upon course completion, you will be able to make an informed decision about when and how to apply core AWS services for compute, storage, and database to different use cases. You’ll also learn about cloud security with a review of AWS' shared responsibility model and an introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). And, you’ll know how AWS services can be used to monitor and optimize infrastructure in the cloud. AWS Cloud Technical Essentials is a fundamental-level course and will build your competence, confidence, and credibility with practical cloud skills that help you innovate and advance your professional future. Enroll in AWS Cloud Technical Essentials and start learning the technical fundamentals of AWS today! Note: This course was designed for learners with a technical background. If you are new to the cloud or come from a business background, we recommend completing AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (https://www.coursera.org/learn/aws-cloud-practitioner-essentials) before enrolling in this course.

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Architecting Solutions on AWS

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Are you looking to get more technical? Are you looking to begin working in the cloud, but don’t know where to go next? Are you looking to up your game by prepping for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Exam? Do you see yourself as a cloud consultant, but can’t quite envision how your days would be? Are you puzzled how to match a customer’s requirements with the right AWS services/solutions? If so, you are in the right place!! You’ll learn how to plan, think, and act like a Solution Architect in a real-life customer scenario.

In this course, you’ll get prepared to begin your career architecting solutions on AWS. Through a series of use case scenarios and practical learning, you’ll learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure, and highly available IT solutions in the AWS Cloud. Each week, a fictional customer will present a different need. We will then review the options, choose the best one for the use case and walk you through the architecture design on a whiteboard. You’ll learn about event-driven architectures with a focus on performance efficiency and cost. You’ll then gain knowledge on how to architect a solution using many purpose-built AWS services. With this understanding, you’ll get a sense of hybrid architectures with a refined focus on reliability and operational efficiency. Finally, you’ll wrap up your learning by understanding a multi-account strategy centered on security and cost.

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Introduction to Designing Data Lakes on AWS

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In this class, Introduction to Designing Data Lakes on AWS, we will help you understand how to create and operate a data lake in a secure and scalable way, without previous knowledge of data science! Starting with the "WHY" you may want a data lake, we will look at the Data-Lake value proposition, characteristics and components.

Designing a data lake is challenging because of the scale and growth of data. Developers need to understand best practices to avoid common mistakes that could be hard to rectify. In this course we will cover the foundations of what a Data Lake is, how to ingest and organize data into the Data Lake, and dive into the data processing that can be done to optimize performance and costs when consuming the data at scale. This course is for professionals (Architects, System Administrators and DevOps) who need to design and build an architecture for secure and scalable Data Lake components. Students will learn about the use cases for a Data Lake and, contrast that with a traditional infrastructure of servers and storage.

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Course 4

Exam Prep: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

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This new intermediate-level course from Amazon Web Services (AWS) is designed to help you to assess your preparedness for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. You will learn how to prepare for the exam by exploring the exam’s topic areas and how they map to architecting on AWS. You will review sample certification questions in each domain, practice skills with hands-on exercises, test your knowledge with practice question sets, and learn strategies for identifying incorrect responses by interpreting the concepts that are being tested in the exam. At the end of this course you will have all the knowledge and tools to help you identity your strengths and weaknesses in each certification domain areas that are being tested on the certification exam.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam is intended for individuals who perform in a solutions architect role. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to design secure and robust solutions by using AWS technologies. The exam also validates a candidate’s ability to complete the following tasks: Design a solution by using appropriate AWS services and by following architectural principles based on requirements. Provide implementation guidance based on best practices to the organization throughout the workload lifecycle. This course covers material specific to the SAA-C03 version of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. In the new version of the exam, many of the domains and task statements were reordered or renumbered; however, most of the content is the same. Only one task statement for the new version of the exam is NOT included in this course: Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures, Task Statement 5: Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions. At the end of the course materials, you will find a new section (“SAA-C03 Updates”) that contains additional information about differences between the exam versions: SAA-C02 versus SAA-C03 SAA-C03 New Material

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Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, security, hybrid and enterprise applications, from 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic regions. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.

Coursera and AWS have been partners since 2017 providing learners and enterprises globally, the skills they need to succeed. Coursera builds on AWS servers to scale with student demand with confidence around capacity and elasticity and in partnership with AWS. In 2019, Coursera achieved Advanced Tier Partner status and further extended the partnership with AWS Educate, AWS EdStart and AWS Academy collaborations. Coursera's been able to make cloud skills more accessible with 8 AWS courses on the Coursera platform featuring top subject matter experts and the portfolio continues to grow. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.

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Can I just enroll in a single course?
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Certificate, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Certificate. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
Is this course really 100% online? Do I need to attend any classes in person?
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
Who is this program for?
We recommend this professional certificate for individuals who are already in a solutions architect role - or aspire to one - and are preparing for their AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam. Typically, those preparing for this certification are IT professionals with one or more years of hands-on experience designing distributed applications and systems using the AWS Cloud. IT professionals with strong on-premises server experience looking to build their careers as cloud professionals may also be interested. Job roles that are ideal candidates for this certification include: solutions architect, SAP consultants, cloud engineer, network architects, networking engineers, and systems administrators.
What background knowledge is necessary?
None. The first course in this professional certificate provides foundational cloud knowledge and an introduction to a broad range of AWS Services.
What is a Solution Architect?
Solutions Architects (SAs, as they are known at AWS) are responsible for managing an organization’s cloud computing architecture. They have in-depth knowledge of the architectural principles and services used to develop technical cloud strategy, assist with cloud migration efforts, review workload architectures, and provide guidance on how to address high-risk issues.
What does a Solution Architect do?
A Solutions Architect is knowledgeable of the systems and processes to guide the broad technical design which outlines a solution’s architecture components. The solution architect offers a continual holistic view into how systems are or need to be integrated, what data silos are present and recommends technology best practices throughout the project’s lifecycle.
Which certification does this prepare me for?
This program helps you prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification. We recommend that in addition to this professional certificate, candidates review the free exam guide, sample questions, and AWS technical documentation (e.g. white papers and product FAQs) on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam page to understand what content and services are covered by the exam.
What will I be able to do upon completing this professional certificate?
You will know how to make informed decisions about when and how to apply key AWS Services for compute, storage, database, networking, monitoring, and security. You’ll also be able to design architectural solutions, whether designing for cost, performance, and/or operational excellence, to address common business challenges. You’ll know how to create and operate a data lake with AWS Lake Formation in a secure and scalable way, ingest and organize data into the data lake, and optimize performance and costs. You’ll also know how to identify incorrect responses on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam, and what your strengths and gaps are, so you can plan additional preparation before you sit for the exam.
Why should I earn the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification?
The certification showcases your knowledge and skills of AWS technology across a wide range of AWS services. It demonstrates your ability to design and implement distributed systems on AWS, following the best practices laid out by the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification not only enhances your career profile and potential for higher earnings, but it also increases your credibility and confidence when interacting with stakeholders and customers. AWS Certified individuals have the expertise to make the right recommendations, optimizing cost and performance, to meet the technical requirements of organizations and their customers.
In what languages is this certificate available?
This professional certificate is available in English.
How much does this certificate cost?
Professional Certificate program costs range from $39-$99 USD per month. You can start with a 7 day free trial.
What will I get if I complete an online certificate program on Coursera?
If you complete all courses in your certificate program, you will earn a certificate that you can share with your professional network. If available, you may also be eligible for a discount voucher to take an AWS Certification exam. Please check individual certificate pages for the type of certificate issued upon program completion and if a discount voucher may be available.

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AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certificate

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