AWS Architecture and Cost Optimization
Learn to design resilient AWS architectures and control cloud spend - multi-AZ failure design, RTO/RPO, FinOps, and multi-account strategy.
What You'll Learn
Understanding Why Architecture Decisions Are Really Trade-off Decisions
Your CTO asks a simple question: "Can we survive an entire AWS Availability Zone going down during our biggest sale of the year?" You know the honest...
Designing for Multi-AZ Failure Scenarios
An Availability Zone is not a marketing term - it is a physically separate data center with its own power, cooling, and network connectivity, linked...
Choosing Between Active-Active and Active-Passive Disaster Recovery
Availability Zones protect you from a data center failure.
Understanding Where Your Cloud Spend Actually Goes
The Four Cost Categories Every AWS bill, no matter how complex it looks, breaks down into four categories.
Matching Purchasing Commitment to Workload Predictability
AWS gives you several ways to pay for compute, and the right choice is entirely about how predictable your workload is - not about which option is...
Finding the Hidden Cost Traps
Some of the most expensive line items on an AWS bill are invisible until you know to look for them, because they come from architecture decisions...
Skills You'll Master
Curriculum Index11 topics
Understanding Why Architecture Decisions Are Really Trade-off Decisions
Your CTO asks a simple question: "Can we survive an entire AWS Availability Zone going down during our biggest sale of...
Designing for Multi-AZ Failure Scenarios
An Availability Zone is not a marketing term - it is a physically separate data center with its own power, cooling, and...
Choosing Between Active-Active and Active-Passive Disaster Recovery
Availability Zones protect you from a data center failure.
Understanding Where Your Cloud Spend Actually Goes
The Four Cost Categories Every AWS bill, no matter how complex it looks, breaks down into four categories.
Matching Purchasing Commitment to Workload Predictability
AWS gives you several ways to pay for compute, and the right choice is entirely about how predictable your workload is...
Finding the Hidden Cost Traps
Some of the most expensive line items on an AWS bill are invisible until you know to look for them, because they come...
Governing Cost with Budgets, Anomaly Detection, and Tagging
Setting Up Cost Anomaly Detection and Budgets Rightsizing and purchasing decisions control cost proactively.
Choosing Multi-Account Over Multi-VPC
A team that has never split into multiple AWS accounts often reaches instead for many VPCs inside one account to...
Designing Serverless Event-Driven Patterns
Cost and resilience meet directly in how you architect the flow of events through a system.
Building an Architecture Decision Framework
From Business Requirement to Final Architecture Every decision in this module - DR strategy, purchasing option...
Hands-on Lab: Design, Measure, and Govern
The Three-Question Review Before Any Design Is Final Every real architecture review comes down to holding three...
Career Impact
Roles that use the skills in this module.
Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Solutions Architect
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