AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials & AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Certification Boot Camp- 5 Days (2 Courses, 2 Exams, 2 Certs)
Amazon Web Services Training At a Glance
Everything You Need To Succeed
- 2 AWS Test Vouchers
- 2 AWS Official Courses
- 2 Retake Vouchers (if needed)
- AWS Study Labs & Simulations
- Instructor Led Classroom Training
Training Schedule and Cost
Our training model blends knowledge and certification prep into one solution. You can interact face-to-face with vendor-certified trainers at our training facilities or attend the same instructor-led live camp online.
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Jun232025Delivery Format:CLASSROOM LIVEDate:06.23.2025 - 06.27.2025Location:SARASOTA, FLPrice Includes:Instructor Led Class, Official Courseware, Labs and Exams$3,4955 days
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Jul282025Delivery Format:CLASSROOM LIVEDate:07.28.2025 - 08.01.2025Location:SARASOTA, FLPrice Includes:Instructor Led Class, Official Courseware, Labs and Exams$3,4955 days
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Aug252025Delivery Format:CLASSROOM LIVEDate:08.25.2025 - 08.29.2025Location:SARASOTA, FLPrice Includes:Instructor Led Class, Official Courseware, Labs and Exams$3,4955 days
Course Description
This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. You will learn about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build your AWS Cloud knowledge. This covers the knowledge needed for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner & AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exams. Additionally will learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure and highly available IT solutions on the AWS Cloud.
While attending this camp - students take TWO official Amazon AWS exams to achieve the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner & AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certifications.
What you'll learn -
Summarize the working definition of AWS
Differentiate between on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and all-in cloud
Describe the basic global infrastructure of the AWS Cloud
Explain the six benefits of the AWS Cloud
Describe and provide an example of the core AWS services, including compute, network, databases, and storage
Identify an appropriate solution using AWS Cloud services with various use cases
Describe the AWS Well-Architected Framework
Explain the shared responsibility model
Describe the core security services within the AWS Cloud
Describe the basics of AWS Cloud migration
Articulate the financial benefits of the AWS Cloud for an organization’s cost management
Define the core billing, account management, and pricing models
Explain how to use pricing tools to make cost-effective choices for AWS services
Identify AWS architecting basic practices.
Explore using the AWS management tools: The AWS Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), and CloudFormation in a lab environment.
Examine the enforcement of accounts security using policies.
Identify the elements that build an elastic, secure, virtual network that includes private and public subnets.
Practice building an AWS core networking infrastructure.
Determine strategies for a layered security approach to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets.
Identify strategies to select the appropriate compute resources based on business use-cases.
Practice building a VPC and adding an Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance in a lab environment.
Practice installing an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the VPC you created.
Compare and contrast AWS storage products and services, based on business scenarios.
Compare and contrast the different types of AWS database services based on business needs.
Practice building a highly available, auto-scaling database layer in a lab.
Explore the business value of AWS monitoring solutions.
Identify the role of monitoring, event driven load balancing, and auto scaling responses, based on usage and needs.
Identify and discuss AWS automation tools that will help you build, maintain and evolve your infrastructure.
Discuss network peering, VPC endpoints, gateway and routing solutions based on use-cases.
Discuss hybrid networking configurations to extend and secure your infrastructure.
Discuss the benefits of microservices as an effective decoupling strategy to power highly available applications at scale.
Explore AWS container services for the rapid implementation of an infrastructure-agnostic, portable application environment.
Identify the business and security benefits of AWS serverless services based on business examples.
Practice building a serverless infrastructure in a lab environment.
Discuss the ways in which AWS edge services address latency and security.
Practice building a CloudFront deployment with an S3 backend in a lab environment.
Explore AWS backup, recovery solutions, and best practices to ensure resiliency and business continuity.
Build a highly available and secure cloud architecture based on a business problem, in a project-based facilitator-guided lab.
Topics Covered in this Official Boot Camp
Introduction to Amazon Web Services
- Summarize the benefits of AWS
- Describe differences between on-demand delivery and cloud deployments
- Summarize the pay-as-you-go pricing model
Compute in the Cloud
- Describe the benefits of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) at a basic level
- Identify the different Amazon EC2 instance types
- Differentiate between the various billing options for Amazon EC2
- Describe the benefits of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
- Summarize the benefits of Elastic Load Balancing
- Give an example of the uses for Elastic Load Balancing
- Summarize the differences between Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Services (Amazon SQS)
- Summarize additional AWS compute options
Global Infrastructure and Reliability
- Summarize the benefits of the AWS Global Infrastructure
- Describe the basic concept of Availability Zones
- Describe the benefits of Amazon CloudFront and Edge locations
- Compare different methods for provisioning AWS services
Networking
- Describe the basic concepts of networking
- Describe the difference between public and private networking resources
- Explain a virtual private gateway using a real life scenario
- Explain a virtual private network (VPN) using a real life scenario
- Describe the benefit of AWS Direct Connect
- Describe the benefit of hybrid deployments
- Describe the layers of security used in an IT strategy
- Describe which services are used to interact with the AWS global network
Storage and Databases
- Summarize the basic concept of storage and databases
- Describe benefits of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
- Describe benefits of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Describe the benefits of Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
- Summarize various storage solutions
- Describe the benefits of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
- Describe the benefits of Amazon DynamoDB
- Summarize various database services
Security
- Explain the benefits of the shared responsibility model
- Describe multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Differentiate between the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) security levels
- Describe security policies at a basic level
- Explain the benefits of AWS Organizations
- Summarize the benefits of compliance with AWS
- Explain primary AWS security services at a basic level
Monitoring and Analytics
- Summarize approaches to monitoring your AWS environment
- Describe the benefits of Amazon CloudWatch
- Describe the benefits of AWS CloudTrail
- Describe the benefits of AWS Trusted Advisor
Pricing and Support
- Understand AWS pricing and support models
- Describe the AWS Free Tier
- Describe key benefits of AWS Organizations and consolidated billing
- Explain the benefits of AWS Budgets
- Explain the benefits of AWS Cost Explorer
- Explain the primary benefits of the AWS Pricing Calculator
- Distinguish between the various AWS Support Plans
- Describe the benefits of AWS Marketplace
Migration and Innovation
- Understand migration and innovation in the AWS Cloud
- Summarize the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
- Summarize six key factors of a cloud migration strategy
- Describe the benefits of various AWS data migration solutions, such as AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile
- Summarize the broad scope of innovative solutions that AWS offers
- Summarize the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Basics
- Determine resources for preparing for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner examination
- Describe benefits of becoming AWS Certified
Architecting Fundamentals Review
- AWS Services and Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Models
- AWS API Tools
- Securing your infrastructure
- The Well-Architected Framework
- Hands-on lab: Explore Using the AWS API Tools to Deploy an EC2 Instance
Account Security
- Security Principals
- Identity and Resource-Based Policies
- Account Federation
- Introduction to Managing Multiple Accounts
Networking, Part 1
- IP Addressing
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Patterns and Quotas
- Routing
- Internet Access
- Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)
- Security Groups
Compute
- Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
- EC2 Instances and Instance Selection
- High Performance Computing on AWS
- Lambda and EC2, When to Use Which
- Hands-On Lab: Build Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure
Storage
- Amazon S3, Security, Versioning and Storage Classes
- Shared File Systems
- Data Migration Tools
Database Services
- AWS Database Solutions
- Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
- DynamoDB, Features and Use Cases
- Redshift, Features, Use Cases and Comparison with RDS
- Caching and Migrating Data
- Hands-on Lab: Create a Database Layer in Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure
Monitoring and Scaling
- Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs
- Invoking Events
Automation
- CloudFormation
- AWS Systems Manager
Containers
- Microservices
- Monitoring Microservices with X-Ray
- Containers
Networking, Part 2
- VPC Peering & Endpoints
- Transit Gateway
- Hybrid Networking
- Route 53
Serverless Architecture
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Kinesis Firehose
- Step Functions
- Hands-on Lab: Build a Serverless Architecture
Edge Services
- Edge Fundamentals
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS Global Accelerator
- AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS and Firewall Manager
- AWS Outposts
- Hands-On Lab: Configure an Amazon CloudFront Distribution with an Amazon S3 Origin
Backup and Recovery
- Planning for Disaster Recovery
- AWS Backup
- Recovery Strategie
The Certifications Camps AWS Solutions Architect bootcamp is designed for solutions architects, solution design engineers, and anyone who wants to learn how to design applications and systems on AWS. Build your technical skills and progress along a path to earn AWS Certification with the courses, labs, and exams administered in this camp.
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CAMPUS - Certification Camps built out a stand alone training center (not a hotel conference room) with spacious classrooms, new desk, Herman Miller Aeron chairs & comfortable common areas. Each student has a dedicated desk with two monitors. Each classroom has a maximum of two rows - so everyone is able to be engaged without the "back row" feeling. 
CLASSROOM EQUIPMENT - Students work on a dedicated Dell Client Desktop with 32GB memory with 512GB SSD drives - All Labs are executed the extremely fast Microsoft Data Center Hosted Lab Environment .
CAMPUS INTERNET - The campus is connected with a 1Gbps (1,000 Mbps) Verizon Fios Business Connection which provides complete internet (including VPN) access for students.
COMMON AREA - Amenties including snacks, drinks (Coffee, 100% juices, sodas, etc) all complimentary.
LODGING - We use the Hyatt Place Lakewood Ranch. This "upgraded" hotel offers extremely comfortable beds, great breakfast and very fast internet access.
NEAR BY - Many shops, restaurants and grocery options are available within walking distance. Additionally - the hotel provided scheduled shuttle services. Restaurants like Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen, Panera Bread, Bone Fish Grill, Ruby Tuesday's, Five Guys, Chipotle, Chili's and over 20 additional choices in the immediate area.
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