Month 16: Cloud Architecting and Design Patterns
Week 1: Architectural Best Practices
Day 1: Introduction to cloud architectural best practices
Day 2: AWS Well-Architected Framework and its five pillars
Day 3: Azure Architecture Framework and its principles
Day 4: GCP Architecture Framework and its components
Day 5: Hands-on activity: Analyzing and improving an existing cloud architecture
Week 2: Design Patterns for Scalability, Reliability, and Performance
Day 1: Understanding scalability and designing for it
Day 2: Design patterns for high availability and fault tolerance
Day 3: Design patterns for performance optimization
Day 4: Case study: Architecting a scalable, reliable, and high-performance application
Day 5: Hands-on activity: Implementing design patterns in a cloud application
Week 3: Cost Optimization Techniques
Day 1: Cost optimization concepts and principles
Day 2: Cost-effective resource selection and sizing
Day 3: Reserved instances, spot instances, and committed use contracts
Day 4: Storage and data transfer cost optimization
Day 5: Hands-on activity: Analyzing and optimizing cloud costs for a given scenario
Week 4: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures
Day 1: Introduction to hybrid cloud architectures
Day 2: Benefits and challenges of hybrid cloud deployments
Day 3: Introduction to multi-cloud architectures
Day 4: Benefits and challenges of multi-cloud deployments
Day 5: Hands-on activity: Designing a hybrid or multi-cloud architecture for a given use case
Week 5: Cloud-Native Application Design
Day 1: Understanding cloud-native applications and their benefits
Day 2: Microservices architecture and containerization
Day 3: Serverless computing and Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS)
Day 4: Cloud-native data storage and management
Day 5: Hands-on activity: Designing and implementing a cloud-native application