Monday, April 13, 2020

Excursion into the Cloud: How to Become an AWS Certified Solution Architect

I have been keen on extending my insight as an IT arrangement planner from applications to framework, so I chose to get ready for the Amazon Web Services Certified Solution Architect Associate test which is one of the most significant and broadly perceived authentications in the IT industry*. I needed to share my philosophy for effectively getting ready for the test and consequently help others on this excursion.


Why AWS Solution Architecture? 

Looking at the undertaking IT industry patterns throughout the previous 10 years, there are high-development zones that proceed to grow and remunerate building ability: Cloud Infrastructure, Data Analytics, and Security. Albeit one can enter either the Data Analytics and Security areas through confirmation, the money related and proficient prizes are not huge except if one has long stretches of understanding and particularly in Data Science, at least a two-year graduate degree in STEM ideally with a specialization in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Statistics. Cloud Infrastructure has a compliment slant and less expensive expectation to learn and adapt on account of the superb, open documentation for the top stage sellers and the panoply of instructive assets I will share beneath.

Broadness of AWS solutions architect associate jobs

Moreover, consider the unavoidable advancement of distributed computing as conventional server farms dependent on heritage equipment and programming ebb due to their capex premise, resoluteness, and innovation stagnation. As Gartner's 2019 report proposes, associations of all sizes are moving remaining tasks at hand to the cloud. Server farm spending eased back from a 6% expansion in 2017 to under 2% in 2019; server buys declined 1% in 2019 and are anticipated to additionally decay 3% every year for the following five years. In the interim, spending on IT benefits including distributed computing is developing twice as quick ascending from 4% in 2017 to nearly 5% in 2019.

Cloud Platform Spending Trends [Source: Statista]

In addition, one must survey the distributed computing sellers to realize where to put down wagers expertly. There are the Big Three and honestly every other person: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform are the undisputed pioneers right now of February 2020. AWS propelled in 2006 and has had a significant head begin once again its rivals with the end goal that AWS has 33% piece of the pie in 2019 and is developing over 35% yearly. Contrast that accomplishment with Azure conceived in 2010 which has now arrived at 18% piece of the overall industry and to GCP which started in 2013 and has accomplished 8% piece of the overall industry. What's more there have been reports this time of spilled Google update's recommending that Alphabet is thinking about a potential exit from the cloud stage space by 2024 in the event that it can't reach #1 or #2 in the market.

At long last, Solution Architecture speaks to a territory of the IT work advertise that is most appropriate to adjustment to the steady change that underlies the IT business. The villain will consistently be in the subtleties, anyway Architecture is a theoretical and coherent movement that is lined up with the business, and distributed computing empowers one to all the more likely explanation about and collect the computational, stockpiling, information, and systems administration legos to configuration better dispersed frameworks that can tackle business issues. Assembling the entirety of this, concentrating on Solution Architecture for the top cloud stage (eg AWS) not just bodes well, it very well may be agreeable since you are having a key effect on associations and interface with an assortment of partners. It isn't astounding then that the pay rates for Cloud Solution Architects are practically identical to and the employments more abundant than the other previously mentioned areas.

Use AWS busy working and analysis at home.

There is not a viable alternative for getting your hands grimy on certifiable tasks grinding away and you will get profundity in certain regions; nonetheless, huge numbers of the AWS administration client guides have strong brief instructional exercises and semi-practical examples that will widen your insight and extend your customary range of familiarity. This progression will be continuous and may take a year which is around the base measure of understanding before you can sit for the AWS test and happens to be the time span that the complementary plan of AWS administrations can keep going for an individual or corporate record.


Follow the AWS Certificate Training Curriculum.

Peruse the FAQs for RDS, EC2, Route 53, SQS, and VPC. Peruse the whitepapers about the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its columns; at that point ensure you can plan innovation arrangements that adjust and fulfill their cost, execution, dependability, activities, and security requirements. Take manually written notes and attract charts to fortify your comprehension of the material and develop a hearty mental model of how AWS segments fit together. Take the free AWS Digital Training video arrangement. This progression takes one (1) month.


A large portion of a million people have taken Ryan Kroonenburg's Solution Architect Associate course at Udemy. I energetically prescribe this course on the grounds that Ryan is an amazing communicator, the A Cloud Guru material is present and exhaustive, and the two practice tests that recreate the AWS test are certainly justified regardless of the cost of the course itself which can go from $11.99 to $149.99 contingent upon the continuous Udemy limits and advancements. This progression takes one (1) month.

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