AWS Power Hour: Associate Certification

In the first episode, you’ll meet your hosts and jump into learning about the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) exam. You’ll walk away understanding the different domains and task statements on the exam. You’ll also learn about the structure of exam-style questions, and start answering some practice questions yourself! We'll help you understand what foundational knowledge you'll need to feel prepared.

Instructor: Aaron Hunter, Greg Powell, and Forest Penland

In Episode 2, we’ll jump into learning to design secure architectures. This domain covers knowledge areas including access controls and management across multiple accounts and AWS global infrastructure, and skill areas like determining network segmentation strategies, integrating AWS services to secure applications, aligning AWS technologies to meet compliance requirements. The domain topics include:

• Design secure access to AWS resources
• Design secure workloads and applications
• Determine appropriate data security controls

Instructor: Aaron Hunter, Greg Powell, and Forest Penland

As a solutions architect, you’ll need a strong understanding of API creation and management, using edge accelerators appropriately, and disaster recover strategies to meet demand for secure, resilient architectures. In this episode, you’ll learn all this plus grow your skills in areas like determining scaling strategies for components used in an architecture design. The domain topics for this episode include:

• Design scalable and loosely coupled architectures
• Design highly available and/or fault-tolerant architectures

Instructor: Aaron Hunter, Greg Powell, and Forest Penland

Now that we’ve covered designing resilient architectures, it’s time to turn to high-performing architectures. This episode will cover knowledge and skill areas including hybrid storage solutions to meet business requirements, distributed computing concepts supported by AWS global infrastructure and edge services, and determining scalable storage services and configurations that meet performance demands. This episode's domain topics include:

• Determine high-performing and/or scalable storage solutions
• Design high-performing and elastic compute solutions
• Determine high-performing database solutions
• Determine high-performing and/or scalable network architectures
• Determine high-performing data ingestion and transformation solutions

Instructor: Aaron Hunter, Greg Powell, and Forest Penland

So far, we’ve covered secure, resilient, and high-performing architectures, but what about cost? Join us for the final episode to learn about architecting for cost optimization. This episode will cover knowledge and skill areas including AWS cost management tools with appropriate use cases, optimization of compute utilization, and determining cost-effective AWS compute services with appropriate use cases. The domain topics include:

• Design cost-optimized storage solutions
• Design cost-optimized compute solutions
• Design cost-optimized database solutions
• Design cost-optimized network architectures

Instructor: Aaron Hunter, Greg Powell, and Forest Penland

In our final episode, we take a glance at the future of data in the cloud. Our experts talk about generative AI and the future of processing, generating, and analyzing large amounts of data like we have never seen before. You’ll learn key industry trends and how leaders in the space are leveraging AWS to build transformative data architectures.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison, Skye Hart, Stuart Fox

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In the first episode, you’ll meet your hosts and jump into learning about the AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C02) exam. You’ll walk away understanding the different domains and task statements on the exam. You’ll also learn about the structure of exam-style questions, and start answering some practice questions yourself! We'll help you understand what foundational knowledge you'll need to feel prepared.

Instructor: Du’An Lightfoot, Linda Haviv, and David Lantz

Let’s dive into Domain 1 of the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam! In this episode, we’ll review concepts and practice questions for the following domain topics:

• Develop code for applications hosted on AWS
• Develop code for AWS Lambda
• Use data stores in application development

Instructor: Du’An Lightfoot, Linda Haviv, and David Lantz

Domain 2 of the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam is all about security. Join us to dive into the exam topics for this area, including:

• Implement authentication and/or authorization for applications and AWS services
• Implement encryption by using AWS services
• Manage sensitive data in application code

Instructor: Du’An Lightfoot, Linda Haviv, and David Lantz

Are you ready to talk deployment? In this episode, we’ll cover concepts you’ll need to know for Domain 3 of the exam. Topics include:

• Prepare application artifacts to be deployed to AWS
• Test applications in development environments
• Automate deployment testing
• Deploy code by using AWS CI/CD services

Instructor: Du’An Lightfoot, Linda Haviv, and David Lantz

The final exam domain is Troubleshooting and Optimization. We’ll cover the topics you’ll need to know—and review some practice questions! Domain topics include:

• Assist in a root cause analysis
• Instrument code for observability
• Optimize applications by using AWS services and features.

Instructor: Du’An Lightfoot, Linda Haviv, and David Lantz

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode we’ll introduce you to the SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02) exam. You’ll learn what’s being tested on the exam, review some exam-style questions, and learn what’s covered in Domain 1 of the exam. Domain topics include:

• Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services
• Remediate issues based on monitoring and availability metrics

Instructor: Matt Heffernan, Marilia Brito, Zach Hurt

In this episode, you’ll learn about Domain 2 of the exam with review relevant concepts and learning resources with your hosts. Domain topics will include:

• Implement scalability and elasticity
• Implement high availability and resilient environments
• Implement backup and restore strategies

Instructor: Matt Heffernan, Marilia Brito, Zach Hurt

Time to cover concepts and review practice questions for Domain 3 of the exam! In this episode you’ll learn about domain topics including:

• Provision and maintain cloud resources
• Automate manual or repeatable processes

Instructor: Matt Heffernan, Marilia Brito, Zach Hurt

Join us as we cover topics under Domain 4 of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, including:

• Implement and manage security and compliance policies
• Implement data and infrastructure protection strategies

Instructor: Matt Heffernan, Marilia Brito, Zach Hurt

It’s time to review concepts and practice questions for Domain 5. In this episode, topics include:

• Implement networking features and connectivity
• Configure domains, DNS services, and content delivery
• Troubleshoot network connectivity issues

Instructor: Matt Heffernan, Marilia Brito, Zach Hurt

It’s the final episode of AWS Power Hour: SysOps Administrator Associate! Join us as we cover concepts from Domain 6 of the exam, review practice questions, and help you validate your readiness to take the exam. Domain topics covered are:

• Implement cost optimization strategies
• Implement performance optimization strategies

Instructor: Matt Heffernan, Marilia Brito, Zach Hurt

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In the first episode of our AWS Power Hour: Database series, we will review the certification exam guide and resources for you to study as we progress through this series. We will then introduce you to designing a database on AWS. We’ll talk about the differences between database types and using AWS Managed Services or deploying a database on an EC2 instance.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

In this episode, you’ll learn about costs around AWS database solutions, followed by a discussion of how to deploy your database in the AWS Cloud. We will finish the episode by working through data preparation and migration strategies using native database and AWS managed tools.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

In this episode, you’ll learn about management and governance. We will talk about database security, controlling access, and automating operational tasks. This includes backups, encryption, and upgrading your database.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

Monitoring databases is a critical component to ensure we have a healthy workload with properly provisioned resources. In this episode, we will review the tools available for us to react, respond, and troubleshoot as needed. Once we have our database monitored, we will also discuss some performance optimization options for different AWS database solutions.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

In the final episode of AWS Power Hour: Database, we will review topics from the previous four episode. Then, we will cover next steps as you continue your journey to become AWS Certified Database - Specialty certified.

Instructor: Kevin Shaffer-Morrison and Stuart Fox

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

Join us to learn about designing networks on AWS—including AWS Regional resources, on-premises resources, and edge network services—to achieve a design that supports global traffic reliably. This episode will focus on an overview of services and features to use, rather than their configuration or implementation. You’ll learn about high availability, scalability, and DNS.

Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief

In this episode, you’ll learn about implementing routing strategies to support global traffic reliably. We’ll look at routing options with AWS Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, VPC peering, and VPNs.

Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief

An observability strategy is key to understanding the health and security of our networks. In this episode, you’ll learn about options like VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch, Route 53 health checks, and VPC Traffic Mirroring. We’ll wrap-up by discussing how to automate network operations on AWS.

Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief

In our final episode, we’ll be focusing on AWS inbound and outbound network security features and services, such as AWS WAF, Shield, and Network Firewall. We’ll also discuss inter- and intra-VPC security features such as security groups, network ACLs, and VPC endpoint policies. And with any time remaining, we’ll wrap-up with network encryption options.

Instructor: Harrison Sherwin and Chris Woodlief

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In the first episode of the AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning series, we will introduce you to the AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty exam and cover the exam guide. Then, we will go into details about the data engineering phase of machine learning lifecycle on AWS.

Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas

The second episode of AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning will focus on data preparation, feature engineering and visualization techniques on AWS.

Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas

Since the modeling domain is 36% of the certification exam, this topic deserves an entire episode to itself! In this episode, you’ll learn about training, hyper-parameter tuning, and model evaluation.

Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas

In the final episode of AWS Power Hour: Machine Learning, we will discuss best practices to help you deploy secure and resilient machine learning workloads on AWS. Then, we will cover next steps as you continue your journey to become AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty.

Instructor: Fred Graichen and Ivan Kopas

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes

In this episode, Raf Lopes will explain how playing the AWS Cloud Quest game can help you learn fundamental Cloud concepts. Follow along as Raf shows you how to modernize a virtual city’s operations by using cloud solutions. In the first episode, Raf will teach you how to build a dashboard that provides beach wave information while playing Node 1 of the Cloud Practitioner role in Cloud Quest.

Instructor: Rafael “Raf” Lopes