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Overview
The Cloud Architect (Professional) course equips experienced cloud professionals with the skills to design, implement, and optimize complex, enterprise-grade architectures on Alibaba Cloud. It focuses on deep dives into core services, networking, performance tuning, and security best practices, enabling participants to build resilient, scalable, and secure cloud solutions.
Objectives
By the end of this course, leaner will be able to:
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Architect complex and scalable enterprise cloud solutions using Alibaba Cloud services
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Implement best practices for networking, compute, storage, and database services
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Design high-performance, highly available cloud infrastructures
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Apply security and compliance strategies using Alibaba Cloud’s native tools
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Deliver applications and content efficiently using CDN and DNS services
Prerequisites
- Cloud Expert Architect (CEA-C01)
Course Outline
Cloud Networking Deep Dive
- Basic networking terminology
- Basic connectivity on Alibaba Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud VPC advanced operations
- Introduction to NAT gateway
- Service connectivity on Alibaba Cloud
- SLB advanced discussion
- Introduction to Global Accelerator
- Introduction to Elastic IP
- Introduction to Internet Shared Bandwidth and Data
Transfer Plans
- Enterprise connectivity on Alibaba Cloud
- General requirements for enterprise connectivity
- Introduction to Cloud Enterprise Network
- Hybrid connectivity with Alibaba Cloud
- What is hybrid connectivity?
- Introduction to Smart Access Gateway
- Introduction to Express Connect
- Introduction to VPN Gateway
- Core Compute Infrastructure Deep Dive
- ECS deep dive and best practices
- Core Storage Infrastructure Deep Dive
- Basic storage terminology
- Introduction to Apsara Distributed File System
- Elastic Block Storage deep dive and best practices
- Apsara File Storage NAS deep dive and best practices
- OSS deep dive and best practices
- SLS deep dive and best practices
- Best Practices for Database Services
- ApsaraDB RDS deep dive and best practices
- PolarDB fundamentals
- Alibaba Cloud database management tools best practices
- Leveling up Your Core Infrastructure
- Highly available architecture on Alibaba Cloud
- Implementing HA with SLB
- Scalable architecture on Alibaba Cloud
- Implementing rightsizing with Auto Scaling
- Performant architecture on Alibaba Cloud
- Improving service performance with Redis
- Distributed architecture on Alibaba Cloud
- Decoupling services with Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)
- Highly available architecture on Alibaba Cloud
- Delivering Services and Content on Alibaba Cloud
- Delivering services on Alibaba Cloud
- How users access your services on the cloud
- Introduction to Alibaba Cloud DNS
- Introduction to Alibaba Cloud Certificate Management
Service
- Delivering content on Alibaba Cloud
- Accelerating access to content
- Alibaba Cloud CDN deep dive and best practices
- Delivering services on Alibaba Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud Security Deep Dive
- Common threats on the cloud
- Alibaba Cloud security services portfolio
- Network security
- Introduction to Anti-DDoS
- Introduction to Web Application Firewall
- Introduction to Cloud Firewall
- Host security
- Introduction to Security Center
- Data security
- Introduction to Data Security Center
- Introduction to KMS
- Introduction to Cloud Hardware Security Module
