This Evolution Path uses a hands-on, project-based approach to teach advanced, event-driven architecture on AWS. The curriculum is intensely practical, with over 70% of the time dedicated to guided and challenge-based labs where learners build a complete, serverless video processing pipeline.

This content is explicitly designed for experienced cloud engineers, not beginners. It pushes learners to grapple with production-grade scenarios by integrating multiple services like S3, EventBridge, Lambda, and DynamoDB to solve a complex problem. The experience is further tailored to senior practitioners through an intentionally complex challenge lab that offers an assessment-like experience.

While the labs require learners to perform common, practical tasks, the primary goal is to encourage systems design thinking. The content focuses on architectural best practices, such as designing decoupled, choreography-based workflows, applying the principle of least privilege, and evaluating architectural trade-offs for system upgrades.