Amazon Web Services Academy
Experience a new approach to learning - Learning experiences that help you attain technical knowledge ordinarily gained from years of experience.
Generational Shift Amazon Cloud Academy is a part-time, virtual classroom-based skills development and training program that prepares individuals for operational career paths in the cloud.
The training program delivers a personalized experience to prepare learners for success. The curricula often take a top-down approach to teaching with scenario-based labs, case studies, examples, FAQs, real-world problems, and solutions. Additionally, it incorporates best practices and cookbooks from people working with AWS cloud daily.
2021 Session Start Dates - Oct 1st 2021
Application Due - September Ist, 2021
Job Roles
AWS Operational Support Engineer
An Operational Support Engineer is responsible for monitoring and bringing to resolution any operational issues reported by internal or external users of a company’s AWS environment. Responsible for front-line day-to-day support, administration of cloud service, and participation in incident management, including follow-up with problem resolution, post-mortem, and process improvement.
AWS SysOps Administrator
An AWS Cloud SysOps Administrator is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS in an automatable and repeatable fashion. Additionally, migration of on-premises applications to AWS develops dashboards for reporting.
AWS DevOps Engineer
DevOps engineer understands the software development lifecycle and utilizes various automation tools to implement and manage CI/CD pipelines of systems running on AWS. DevOps engineers often have overlapping responsibilities with a SysOps Administrator depending on company size and process. DevOps Engineer responsibilities include designing, managing tools to automate operational processes, security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation. Additionally, define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS.
AWS System Security Specialist
The System Security specialist actively assesses the AWS implementation utilizing AWS security & compliance services and partner tools to identify security issues and prioritize fixes in collaboration with the development and operation teams. Provides security solutions that adhere to security standards and ongoing security oversight of proposed modifications, additions, and technology updates of systems running on AWS.
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
AWS Certified DevOps - Professional
AWS Certified Security Specialist
Curriculum
Modules
The first four modules take a top-down approach to exposes the learners to the AWS environment they will find themselves working within. The training also incorporates content from on-line courses. The chosen job roles determine the relevant modules, context, and depth besides the first four modules.
Recipe To Build & Launch An E-commerce Platform
AWS Services exploration via an E-Commerce Platform Reference Architecture
AWS Well Architecture Framework Deep Dive
AWS Cloud SysOps Administrator, DevOps Engineer & Security Specialist Roles & Responsibilities
Identity & Access Management
Infrastructure As Code - Provisioning & Deployment
Designing & Implementing a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipeline (CI/CD)
System Management & Analysis
Monitoring and Reporting
AWS Logs Visualization with Kibana
Storage, Data Backup, Recovery & Retention
Security and Compliance
Companion Topics
Version Control (Git)
Agile Software Development Model
Application Programmable Interface (API)
Operation of Cloud-based software
Linux Command Line
Container
Python
Information Security
Reference Architecture
AWS Hosting Magento® eCommerce Software on AWS Reference Architecture
Extensions
Amazon Personalize for Magento 2
In-house developed extension that monitors various events that occur in the store (sales, reviews, code errors, etc.) and sends out a notification via Slack, email, and summary provided via an Alexa Skill.
Projects
Students additionally work on projects source from black-owned startups and entrepreneurs in underserved communities that are looking to leverage technology to deliver a true competitive advantage.
Learning Method
Inquiry-based
Game-based
Collaborative