Course Outline

Foundations and AWS Global Infrastructure for Government

  • Drivers of cloud adoption and architecture principles
  • Overview of the AWS global infrastructure: regions, availability zones, and edge locations
  • Introduction to the Well-Architected Framework and its core pillars for government

Networking and Connectivity for Government

  • Fundamentals of VPC: subnets, route tables, NAT, and gateways
  • Security groups, network ACLs (NACLs), and network segmentation strategies
  • Connectivity options for government: VPN, Direct Connect, and Transit Gateway

Compute and Scalability Patterns for Government

  • EC2 instance types, autoscaling configurations, and placement strategies
  • Serverless computing with Lambda: design considerations and integrations for government
  • Container management options: ECS versus EKS operational patterns for government

Storage and Data Management for Government

  • Object, block, and file storage solutions (S3, EBS, EFS) for government data
  • Storage classes, lifecycle policies, and data tiering strategies for government
  • Backup, snapshot, and data durability strategies for government

Databases and Data Architectures for Government

  • Managed relational database services (RDS, Aurora) and NoSQL options (DynamoDB) for government
  • Designing databases for performance, scale, and consistency in government applications
  • Data analytics and lakehouse patterns using Athena, Redshift, and Glue for government

Security, Identity, and Access Management for Government

  • IAM best practices, roles, policies, and cross-account access management for government
  • Encryption techniques, KMS usage, and secrets management for government data
  • Logging, audit trails, and compliance with CloudTrail and Config for government operations

Operational Excellence and Observability for Government

  • Monitoring and observability tools: CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party solutions for government
  • Defining service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), alerting strategies, and incident response plans for government
  • Operational runbooks, automation practices, and self-healing patterns for government systems

Cost Optimization and Governance for Government

  • Strategies for cost visibility, tagging, and allocation in government cloud environments
  • Rightsizing resources, savings plans, and reserved capacity considerations for government
  • Account structure, landing zones, and governance guardrails for government cloud operations

Application Modernization and Integration Patterns for Government

  • Microservices, event-driven architectures, and messaging services (SNS, SQS, EventBridge) for government applications
  • Hybrid connectivity options and migration strategies for government agencies
  • CI/CD patterns and infrastructure as code practices (CloudFormation, Terraform) for government projects

Design Workshop: Build an AWS Architecture for Government

  • Hands-on group exercise: design an end-to-end solution for a sample government business requirement
  • Create architecture diagrams, select appropriate services, and produce a migration or deployment plan for government use cases
  • Present designs and receive critiques using Well-Architected principles tailored for government

Summary and Next Steps for Government

Requirements

  • A foundational knowledge of cloud concepts and networking for government applications.
  • Familiarity with Linux command line operations and scripting.
  • Experience in designing infrastructure or applications.

Audience

  • Solutions architects for government projects.
  • Cloud engineers and technical leads in public sector roles.
  • DevOps and platform engineers working for government agencies.
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