Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most widely used cloud platforms, and the top pick for many organizations looking to scale and reduce costs by adopting a cloud infrastructure strategy. This course explores AWS from the architect’s perspective, focusing on the foundations you need to build scalable and reliable cloud-based application architectures. Instructor Jeff Winesett covers everything from high-level principles and best practices to hands-on implementation, optimization, and security. He takes three different approaches—manual, automated, and serverless—so you can see how AWS fits a variety of workflows and architectures. Each lesson is backed with practical examples, grounding services like Elastic Load Balancing, RDS, DynamoDB, and CloudFront in a real-world context.

• Introduction
• 1. Cloud Concepts
• 2. Cloud Practices
• 3. Keep Things Secure
• 4. Designing for Failure
• 5. Implement Elasticity/Automate Infrastructure
• 6. Further Optimize for Performance
• 7. Going Serverless
• 8. Additional Services for Decoupling Components
• 9. Optimize for Cost
• Conclusion