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Module 6: AWS Architecture

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This module focuses on architectural best practices for designing and operating reliable, secure, and cost-effective systems on AWS. You will apply the Well-Architected Framework to real-world scenarios.

Prerequisites

Completion of Modules 4 and 5 (AWS Core Services and Compute & Serverless). Understanding of EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, and networking fundamentals is required.

Module Objectives

Apply the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to architecture reviews
Design highly available and disaster-resilient architectures across AZs and regions
Evaluate and plan cloud migration strategies using the 7 Rs framework
Design and document a multi-region high-availability web application architecture

Topics

Lesson	Topics Covered
Well-Architected Framework	6 pillars, design principles, Well-Architected Tool, architectural reviews
High Availability & DR	Multi-AZ, multi-region, RPO/RTO, DR strategies (backup & restore, pilot light, warm standby, active-active)
Migration Strategies	7 Rs, Migration Evaluator, MGN, DataSync, Snowball, migration planning
Architecture Project	Design HA multi-region web app architecture with documentation

Key AWS CLI Commands

# List availability zones
aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region us-east-1

# Check service health
aws health describe-events --region us-east-1

# Describe account limits
aws service-quotas get-service-quota \
  --service-code ec2 \
  --quota-code L-12345678

Tip

Use the AWS Well-Architected Tool in the AWS Console to run automated reviews. The aws wellarchitected CLI supports creating workloads and listing lens reviews programmatically.

Estimated Time

Lessons: 4 hours
Hands-on labs: 3 hours
Module project: 4 hours