NWIT 208 - Cloud Architecting

Fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS. The course is designed to teach students how to optimize their use of the AWS Cloud by understanding AWS services and how they fit into cloud-based solutions. Best practices for applying to all solutions are emphasized. Throughout the course, students will explore a scenario that provides opportunities for students to build a variety of infrastructures through a guided, hands-on approach. PREREQUISITE(S): NWIT 105 and (NWIT 151 or NWIT 170). Three hours lecture each week.

3 semester hours

Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

Make architectural decisions based on AWS architectural principles and best practices.
Use AWS services to make infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available.
Use AWS managed services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure.
Indicate how to increase the performance efficiency and reduce costs of infrastructures built on AWS.

Use the AWS Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures that use AWS solutions.

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