Master complex architectural design on AWS with guidance from expert instructors.

94% of decision-makers say employing AWS-trained staff strengthens their competitive position over the next 3–5 years, underscoring the strategic advantage of investing in AWS-certified architects. (ESG Insights Paper – Understanding the value of AWS Training to Organizations)

Build the expertise to design sophisticated, secure, and scalable cloud solutions incorporating data services, governance, and security.

Through scenario-based learning and practical exercises, you’ll develop critical problem-solving skills and apply them directly to real-world architectural challenges. This AWS course concludes with a capstone project that reinforces key skills and best practices.

Key benefits:

  • Solve complex architectural challenges confidently
  • Apply AWS best practices for governance, security, and data services
  • Gain practical experience through real-world scenarios and projects
  • Prepare for advanced AWS architecture roles and certifications

Advance your AWS architecture skills and accelerate your cloud career with AWS in 2026.

Overview

Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to solve architectural design problems.

In this AWS-ADVARC: Advanced Architecting on AWS training course, each module presents a scenario with an architectural challenge to be solved. You will examine available AWS services and features as solutions to the problem. You will gain insights by participating in problem-based discussions and learning about the AWS services that you could apply to meet the challenges.

Over 3 days, the course goes beyond the basics of a cloud infrastructure and covers topics to meet a variety of needs for AWS customers. Course modules focus on managing multiple AWS accounts, hybrid connectivity and devices, networking with a focus on AWS Transit Gateway connectivity, container services, automation tools for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), security and distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, data lakes and data stores, edge services, migration options, and managing costs.

This advanced AWS solutions architect course concludes by presenting you with scenarios and challenging you to identify the best solutions.

Trainocate is an AWS Authorized Training Partner as well as the AWS Global Training Partner of the Year 2022-2025 is trusted by AWS to offer, deliver, and/or incorporate official AWS Training, including classroom and digital offerings. Whether your team prefers to learn from live instructors, on-demand courses, or both, ATPs offer a breadth of AWS Training options for learners of all levels.

Skills Covered

In this course, you will:

  • Review the AWS Well-Architected Framework to ensure understanding of best cloud design practices by responding to poll questions while following a graphic presentation
  • Demonstrate the ability to secure Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint connections in a lab environment
  • Identify how to implement centralized permissions management and reduce risk using AWS
  • Organizations organizational units (OUs) and service control policies (SCPs) with AWS Single SignOn
  • Compare the permissions management capabilities of OUs, SCPs, and AWS SSO with and without AWS Control Tower to determine best practices based on use cases
  • Discuss AWS hybrid network designs to address traffic increases and streamline remote work while ensuring FIPS 140-2 Level 2, or Level 3 security compliance
  • Explore the solutions and products available to design a hybrid infrastructure, including access to 5G networks, to optimize service and reduce latency while maintaining high security for critical on-premises applications
  • Explore ways to simplify the connection configurations between applications and high-performance workloads across global networks
  • Demonstrate the ability to configure a transit gateway in a lab environment
  • Identify and discuss container solutions and define container management options

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

Target Audience

This AWS training course is intended for experienced IT professionals who are already familiar with AWS services.

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Reviewing Architecting Concepts

  • Group Exercise: Review Architecting on AWS core best practices
  • Lab 1: Securing Amazon S3 VPC Endpoint Communications

Module 2: Module 2: Single to Multiple Accounts

  • AWS Organizations for multi-account access and permissions
  • AWS SSO to simplify access and authentication across AWS accounts and third-party services
  • AWS Control Tower
  • Permissions, access, and authentication

Module 3: Hybrid Connectivity

  • AWS Client VPN authentication and control
  • AWS Site-to-Site VPN
  • AWS Direct Connect for hybrid public and private connections
  • Increasing bandwidth and reducing cost
  • Basic, high, and maximum resiliency
  • Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS resolution

Module 4: Specialized Infrastructure

  • AWS Storage Gateway solutions
  • On-demand VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Extending cloud infrastructure services with AWS Outposts
  • AWS Local Zones for latency-sensitive workloads
  • Your 5G network with and without AWS Wavelength

Module 5: Connecting Networks

  • Simplifying private subnet connections
  • VPC isolation with a shared services VPC
  • Transit Gateway Network Manager and VPC Reachability Analyzer
  • AWS Resource Access Manager
  • AWS PrivateLink and endpoint services
  • Lab 2: Configuring Transit Gateways

Module 6: Containers

  • Container solutions compared to virtual machines
  • Docker benefits, components, solutions architecture, and versioning
  • Container hosting on AWS to reduce cost
  • Managed container services: Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
  • (Amazon EKS)
  • AWS Fargate
  • Lab 3: Deploying an Application with Amazon EKS on Fargate

Module 7: Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

  • CI/CD solutions and impact
  • CI/CD automation with AWS CodePipeline
  • Deployment models
  • AWS CloudFormation StackSets to improve deployment management

Module 8: High Availability and DDoS Protection

  • Common DDoS attacks layers
  • AWS WAF
  • AWS WAF web access control lists (ACLs), real-time metrics, logs, and security automation
  • AWS Shield Advanced services and AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) services
  • AWS Network Firewall and AWS Firewall Manager to protect accounts at scale

Module 9: Securing Data

  • What cryptography is, why you would use it, and how to use it
  • AWS KMS
  • AWS CloudHSM architecture
  • FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and Level 3 encryption
  • Secrets Manager

Module 10: Large-Scale Data Stores

  • Amazon S3 data storage management including storage class, inventory, metrics, and policies
  • Data lake vs. data warehouse: Differences, benefits, and examples
  • AWS Lake Formation solutions, security, and control
  • Lab 4: Setting Up a Data Lake with Lake Formation

Module 11: Large-Scale Applications

  • What edge services are and why you would use them
  • Improve performance and mitigate risk with Amazon CloudFront
  • Lambda@Edge
  • AWS Global Accelerator: IP addresses, intelligent traffic distribution, and health checks
  • Lab 5: Migrating an On-Premises NFS Share Using AWS DataSync and Storage Gateway

Module 12: Optimizing Cost

  • On-premises and cloud acquisition/deprecation cycles
  • Cloud cost management tools including reporting, control, and tagging
  • Examples and analysis of the five pillars of cost optimization

Module 13: Migrating Workloads

  • Business drivers and the process for migration
  • Successful customer practices
  • The 7 Rs to migrate and modernize
  • Migration tools and services from AWS
  • Migrating databases and large data stores
  • AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)

Module 14: Capstone Project

  • Use the Online Course Supplement (OCS) to review use cases, investigate data, and answer architecting design questions about Transit Gateway, hybrid connectivity, migration, and cost optimization

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Exam & Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional. (SAP-C02)

This AWS credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional validates the ability to design, deploy, and evaluate applications on AWS within diverse, complex requirements.

Training & Certification Guide

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C01) exam is intended for individuals who perform a solutions architect role. The exam validates a candidate’s advanced technical skills and experience in designing distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform.

  • Design and deploy dynamically scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS
  • Select appropriate AWS services to design and deploy an application based on given requirements
  • Migrate complex, multi-tier applications on AWS
  • Design and deploy enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS
  • Implement cost-control strategies
  • Two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS
  • Ability to evaluate cloud application requirements and make architectural recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on AWS
  • Familiarity with AWS CLI, AWS APIs, AWS CloudFormation templates, the AWS Billing Console, and the AWS Management Console
  • Explain and apply the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • Design a hybrid architecture using key AWS technologies (e.g., VPN, AWS Direct Connect)
  • Ability to provide best practice guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications and projects of the enterprise
  • Familiarity with a scripting language
  • Familiarity with Windows and Linux environments
  • Map business objectives to application/architecture requirements
  • Architect a continuous integration and deployment process

Format: 75 questions; either multiple choice or multiple response

Type: Professional

Delivery Method: Testing center or online proctored exam

Time: 180 minutes to complete the exam

Cost: 300 USD (Practice Exam: 40 USD)

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Develop skills in designing, building and managing modern applications. As companies look to become more agile so they can innovate and respond to change faster and innovate rapidly, this inadvertently requires a different kind of application than what was common years ago. This e-book gives you insights on the importance of training and skilling to accelerate your company’s digital transformation.

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AWS also helps provide the answer to another critical questions in your cloud journey: “How to get to the cloud in the fastest, most efficient way possible?” A transformative migration is now within your reach. Now you can learn how you can migrate with your confidence by building your team’s cloud skills with AWS Training and certification by downloading this e-book.

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Frequently Asked Questions

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional validates the ability to design, deploy, and evaluate applications on AWS within diverse, complex requirements.

Build credibility

  • Skills validation – Earn an industry-recognized credential from AWS that validates your expertise in the design, deployment, and evaluation of applications on AWS that are dynamically scalable, highly available, secure, cost-optimized, fault-tolerant, resilient, and reliable. Highlight your ability to design solutions that meet diverse, complex requirements.
  • Confidence – Enter your next migration initiative or complex cloud project with confidence. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional validates your skills across the breadth of AWS services, your expertise in trade-off decisions aligned to business objectives, and your experience with cloud-native applications, migrations, and enterprise-scale operations.

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  • Recognition – Be recognized as a leader and experienced cloud solutions architect ready to design solutions with the breadth of AWS services.
  • Job performance – Show you’re ready to design for organizational complexity, differing compliance requirements, and varying scalability requirements.

Cloud technologies continue to help organizations transform their businesses at a rapid pace. To ensure continued value from their cloud investments, organizations must empower their teams with current, role-relevant cloud skills.

Organizations are pursuing a variety of training methods and modalities to equip their teams with cloud skills and accelerate innovation. Research from IDC shows that comprehensively trained organizations are:

  • 80% faster to adopt the cloud
  • 4.4x more likely to overcome operational concerns
  • 3.8x more likely to meet cloud ROI requirements

Training has also been shown to improve confidence and productivity, enabling teams to complete projects faster and troubleshoot with greater ease. Ninety-seven percent of organizations indicated that employment of AWS Certified staff puts their company in a better competitive position over the next three to five years

 

AWS Training and Certification helps you build and validate your cloud skills so you can get more out of the cloud. We offer both digital and classroom training—delivered virtually and in person—so you can choose to learn online at your own pace or learn best practices from an instructor. AWS Training and Certification offers prescriptive learning paths to get you started quickly. Progress along the path from foundational to intermediate training, and then dive deeper with advanced training to continue your learning.

We offer technical role-based learning paths for architects, developers, and operations staff. We also offer a Cloud Practitioner learning path for business decision makers who want to learn AWS Cloud fundamentals. Additional solutions-based learning paths focus on topics like machine learning, storage, data analytics, and security.

You will learn directly from AWS experts who have domain experience and access to the latest AWS Cloud products, services, and teaching methods. These AWS-expert led training will increase your credibility as someone who uses and makes decisions about cloud services.

Building clouds skills through high-quality digital training can also support the credibility of your entire organization. When your technologists and strategists are well trained in cloud skills, they can more easily project confidence about your cloud strategy.

AWS Certification helps learners build credibility and confidence by validating their cloud expertise with an industry-recognized credential and organizations identify skilled professionals to lead cloud initiatives using AWS. Just like learning music theory enables you to jam, a strong grounding in cloud principles empowers you to creatively explore cloud options.

Having the skills and insight to act upon your creativity and inspiration is essential to discovering new business opportunities in the cloud and helping your organization innovate. You’ll be able to experiment with AWS Cloud services, quickly testing products and implementing strategies to determine what best delivers your organizational goals.

You don’t need to be a technologist to benefit from learning cloud basics. By learning the AWS Cloud, you’ll gain first-hand knowledge of how the cloud can support greater efficiency, flexibility, and opportunity for both you and your organization.

You’ll also gain confidence in your ability to consider cloud options, so you’re better informed when making business and management decisions involving the cloud. By investing in training, organizations can accelerate cloud adoption, achieve business objectives sooner, and overcome concerns related to cloud adoption. Also, comprehensively trained organizations are nearly three times more likely to use the cloud to jump-start innovation. They’re also nearly four times more likely to meet cloud ROI requirements, and over four times more likely to overcome operational and performance concerns.

Learn about each AWS Certification in our AWS Training and Certification blog post. To answer that question, you’ll need to consider your role and honestly evaluate your existing level of experience and knowledge across various areas of technical and cloud expertise. AWS offers four categories of certifications, three of which correspond to the amount of experience you have with the AWS Cloud. For Specialty certifications, the amount of recommended experience varies by certification.

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