Month 16: Cloud Architecting and Design Patterns

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