Multi-Cloud Architecture & Serverless
AWS Well-Architected Framework, serverless event pipelines, multi-cloud governance and cost optimisation
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Course Content
Foundations
Core concepts and groundwork
Well-Architected Framework — 6 pillars, review process and lenses
Reading
VPC advanced — Transit Gateway, PrivateLink and Network Firewall
Reading
ALB path routing, NLB and GWLB for network virtual appliances
Reading
CloudFront — cache behaviours, Lambda@Edge and Function@Edge
Reading
Route 53 — latency, geolocation, weighted, failover and Resolver
Reading
Practice — design a multi-region active-active architecture
Exercise
Lab — ALB weighted target groups for blue/green traffic split
Exercise
Core Skills
Essential techniques and patterns
Lambda — execution model, Snap Start, provisioned concurrency
Reading
API Gateway — REST vs HTTP APIs, caching, throttling and plans
Reading
Event-driven — SQS, SNS, EventBridge and Lambda destinations
Reading
Step Functions — standard vs express, parallel and error handling
Reading
SAM, Serverless Framework and CDK — choosing the right approach
Reading
Practice — serverless image-resize pipeline: S3 to Lambda to S3
Exercise
Lab — full serverless API: Lambda, DynamoDB, API GW and Cognito
Exercise
Applied Practice
Hands-on, real-world scenarios
Azure resource model — management groups, subscriptions and RGs
Reading
Azure VNet — peering, NSGs, ASGs, Bastion and ExpressRoute
Reading
Compute — VMs, VMSS, App Service, Container Apps and ACI
Reading
Entra ID — RBAC, managed identities, PIM and Conditional Access
Reading
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics Workspace and Defender for Cloud
Reading
Practice — design a hub-and-spoke Azure landing zone
Exercise
Lab — deploy AKS cluster with Entra ID integration and Key Vault
Exercise
Advanced Topics
Deeper, more complex material
GCP resource hierarchy — org, folders, projects and IAM inheritance
Reading
Compute ladder — GCE, GKE Autopilot, Cloud Run and App Engine
Reading
Data services — Cloud Storage, Firestore, Spanner and BigQuery
Reading
Networking — VPC, Shared VPC, Cloud NAT, Cloud Armor and CDN
Reading
Workload Identity Federation — keyless auth from AWS and GitHub
Reading
Practice — design a GCP data-processing pipeline architecture
Exercise
Lab — deploy Cloud Run with Cloud SQL via private VPC connector
Exercise
Production & Scale
Building for the real world
FinOps phases — inform, optimise, operate and team structure
Reading
AWS cost tools — Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer and Savings Plans
Reading
Azure Cost Management and GCP Cloud Billing — exports and budgets
Reading
DR strategies — backup, pilot light, warm standby, active-active
Reading
RTO, RPO targets and runbook automation with SSM Documents
Reading
Practice — build a 12-month multi-cloud cost model in a spreadsheet
Exercise
Mastery & Capstone
Projects and final review
Lab — S3 cross-region replication and Route 53 DNS failover drill
Exercise
Project brief — globally available serverless multi-cloud platform
Reading
AWS serverless backend — Lambda, API GW and DynamoDB Global Tables
Exercise
Azure Functions failback tier with Traffic Manager failover
Exercise
FinOps cost model and DR plan with Well-Architected review
Exercise
Capstone — submit architecture, demo URL and cost analysis report
Project
Final Exam
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Topic Overview
What you'll learn
- Core concepts and fundamentals of Multi-Cloud Architecture & Serverless
- Industry best practices and design patterns
- Hands-on exercises with real-world scenarios
- Performance optimization and advanced techniques
- Building production-ready applications