AWS Services exploration via an E-Commerce Platform Reference Architecture

Learning by seeing and exploring a fully functioning e-commerce application to gain full insight into the different AWS services involved in the provisioning, building, deploying, managing and monitoring an application running in the AWS cloud.

An initial top down approach to teaching with labs, case studies, examples, FAQs, real-world problems, and solutions to help students obtain the needed context to what they will learn in future modules.

Exploration of the relevant AWS services and tools focusing on best practices and FAQ.

Via immersion learning be able answer the following question for each explored AWS service. '

• What it is used for

• How it is used

• What are the related AWS services

• Alternatives

• High level best practices

Topics

• Networking & Content Delivery

• Security, Identity, Compliance

• Compute, Containers, Storage, Database

• Analytics, Application Integration, Cost Management

• Machine Learning,

• Build & Deploy Tools

• Management & Monitoring

• Networking, Content Delivery

Activities

Trailheads

• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials Trailhead.

• AWS Cloud Basics

• Core AWS Services

• AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Prep

• AWS Application Deployment and Monitoring

• AWS Pricing and Support

• AWS Cloud Acquisition

• AWS Cloud Security

A series of scavenger hunts for each explored AWS Service. Each scavenger hunt incorporates the following

• The fully functioning e-commerce application.

• AWS documentation, FAQ

• Google Search

Group discussions of the different AWS services through the lens of real-word use cases and problem statements. Group discussion followed by a team project of AWS solutions to real-word problem statements.

Out in the wild simulation of frequently asked questions, best practices, cookbooks from people working as AWS Cloud SysOps administrator on a daily basis.