From Journey to Practice: Cloud Solutions Architect on AWS

EVERY ARCHITECTURE IS A DECISION. And every decision needs a reason.

Knowing how to configure services is not enough when someone says "we need to move the system to the cloud" and everyone turns to you.

This course book follows Horizon Market, a fictional online store that needs to leave an old hosting provider, from a vague request to a complete architecture package. Every chapter starts with a business or operations question, never with a service.

You will learn to: turn a vague sentence into requirements, constraints and assumptions; design networking, high availability, scaling and event-driven integration; plan migration, backup and disaster recovery with clear targets; record decisions (ADRs) and compare costs and trade-offs; defend the architecture in a peer review.

10 chapters, 4 case studies, 20 diagrams, more than 30 labs (three of them on AWS, with cost alerts and cleanup), checklists and exercises with an answer key.

About the author: André Romão Quinhoneiro has worked in IT since 2003. He is a DevOps Engineer at Broto, where he takes care of AWS infrastructure and information security. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a graduate specialization in Cloud Computing Projects.