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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS is the most popular and most widely used cloud platform in the world. This course will teach you design principles, including strategies for networking, storage, DNS, DBaaS, Monitoring, Load Balancing and much more.

Intermediate
8h 21m
(245)

Created by Elias Khnaser

Last Updated Mar 01, 2018

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS is the most popular and most widely used cloud platform in the world. This course will teach you design principles, including strategies for networking, storage, DNS, DBaaS, Monitoring, Load Balancing and much more.

Intermediate
8h 21m
(245)

Created by Elias Khnaser

Last Updated Mar 01, 2018

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What you'll learn

Hello! My name is Elias Khnaser, and welcome to AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. In this course, you will learn about designing workload deployments on the Amazon Web Services platform. You will get there by learning strategies for networking, storage, DNS, DBaaS, monitoring, load balancing and much more.

By the end of this course, you will have the skills and knowledge needed to securely design highly available and scalable systems, and you'll also be highly prepared for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification exam.

Before you begin, make sure you are already familiar with the fundamentals of AWS, perhaps by taking the AWS Fundamentals for System Administrators course here at Pluralsight.

I hope you’ll join me, and I look forward to helping you on your learning journey here at Pluralsight.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Intermediate
8h 21m
(245)
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Elias Khnaser - Pluralsight course - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Elias Khnaser
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Elias Khnaser is a Research Vice President with Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP). He covers public cloud computing and hybrid cloud computing. Mr. Khnaser's coverage is primarily focused on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) along with platform as a service (PaaS) as it intersects with IaaS. Areas of focus include cloud computing adoption strategy, trends, technology, platforms and providers, exit strategy and multicloud. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Khnaser was the CTO for Sigma Solutions. In that role, he directed the company's technical strategy and was a customer-facing executive engaging with client CIOs, architects and engineers on cloud, EUC and virtualization strategies. He is well-published with six books and hundreds of blogs on Forbes, InformationWeek and VirtualizationReview.com. He has also presented at various Gartner and industry conferences.

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