Cloud Architect Professional Combo

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Goal: Train students to design, build, and manage scalable cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Students will gain deep expertise in cloud architecture, DevOps, networking, and security to become job-ready Cloud or Solutions Architects. By the end, they will be able to create enterprise-grade cloud architectures and deploy real-world cloud projects confidently. 

 Cloud Fundamentals

• What is cloud computing?
• Cloud delivery models: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Deployment models: Public, Private, Hybrid, Multi-cloud
• Data centers vs Cloud architecture
   

Core Architecture Concepts

• High availability
• Scalability
• Elasticity
• Reliability
• Fault tolerance
• Disaster Recovery (RTO, RPO)

 Networking Foundation

• IP addressing, CIDR
• Subnets & VPC planning
• Routing tables
• DNS basics
• Load balancing strategies
   

Cloud-specific Networking

• AWS VPC / Azure VNet / GCP VPC
• NAT, IGW, Firewalls, NACLs
• VPNs & Direct Connect
• Global load balancing

 Compute Services

• EC2 architecture
• Autoscaling (ASG)
• Containers: ECS, EKS
• Lambda (serverless)
   

Storage Services

• S3 (lifecycle, security, replication)
• EBS & Snapshots
• EFS
• FSx
   

Databases

• RDS, Multi-AZ, Read replicas
• DynamoDB (NoSQL)
• Aurora basics
   

Architecting on AWS

• Event-driven architecture
• Microservices architecture
• Serverless architecture
• Multi-region active-active
• Hybrid architecture
   

Monitoring & Security

• CloudWatch
• CloudTrail
• IAM, KMS
• Architecting for compliance

 Azure Compute Architecture

• VMs, scale sets
• App Services
• Azure Functions
   

Azure Storage

• Blob storage
• Disk storage
• File shares
   

Azure Networking

• VNets
• Load balancers
• Application Gateway
• Firewall
   

Azure Databases

• Azure SQL
• Cosmos DB
• PostgreSQL/MariaDB
   

Enterprise Architectures

• Azure landing zones
• Azure resource hierarchy (Management Groups → Subscriptions → RBAC)
• Zero-trust security

 GCP Services

• Compute Engine
• Cloud Run
• GKE Kubernetes
• Cloud Storage
• VPC & Cloud NAT
   

Architecting on GCP

• Identity & IAM
• BigQuery basics
• Pub/Sub messaging
• Load balancing

 DevOps Essentials

• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
   

DevOps Tools

• Git & GitHub
• Docker (image creation, registries)
• Kubernetes concepts
• Jenkins
• Terraform & CloudFormation

 Security Architecture Principles

• Zero Trust
• Network segmentation
• Threat modeling
• Identity & Access Management
   

Cloud-Specific Security

• AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty
• Azure Defender
• GCP Security Command Center
• Encryption architectures

 Solution Design Patterns

• CQRS
• Event sourcing
• Microservices & API gateways
• Data lake architecture
• Multi-region failover
   

Cost Optimization Strategies

• Right-sizing compute
• Storage lifecycle policies
• Multi-cloud cost analysis
   

Architectural Trade-off Analysis

• Performance vs cost
• Availability vs complexity
• Security vs usability

• Practical
• Interview Preparation