- [Raf] Hello, and welcome. My name is Raf Lopes, and I work with AWS Training and Certification as a Principal Cloud Technologist. We are excited to have you here. In this video, me and my friend, Morgan, will talk more about this course, Architecting Solutions on AWS, which we're about to take. - [Morgan] And I'm Morgan Willis. I also work with AWS Training and Certification as a Principal Cloud Technologist. Raf and I are on the same team, and we designed this course to help you learn more about how to think through customer requirements, and then select the best AWS services to meet those requirements. - [Raf] Each week, we'll start with a customer call between a solutions architect and the customer. In this initial call, the solutions architect will learn more about the current architecture state, the customer need, and the implementation requirements. From there, we will start thinking about a solution, while teaching you which AWS service to choose for a specific scenario. - [Morgan] During the first week, Raf will play the role of the customer. (bell dings) This customer works at a company that sells cleaning products online. That company currently has a service that processes online orders, and is experiencing some issues, and they would like to find a solution for bringing better resiliency, as well as migrate the service to AWS. You can expect to learn about services, such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, API Gateway, and more. (bell dings) - [Raf] On the second week, Morgan will play a customer working at a software company who provides a solution that uses QR codes for loading restaurant menus. This customer wants to enhance their products by adding data analysis for better business intelligence solutions. During that week, I will be talking about AWS data analytics services, and you can expect to learn more about data ingestion, processing, and visualization with the usage of managed services, like Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon QuickSight, and more. (bell dings) - [Morgan] During the third week, Raf will be playing a full-stack developer from an insurance company. That company has some workloads running on premises that they need to find a way to migrate to a hybrid environment between what they have currently running on-premises and the new AWS environment. During that week, I will be teaching you about services like AWS Direct Connect, AWS Database Migration Service, NAT gateways, and more. (bell dings) - [Raf] On the fourth and last week of the course, Morgan will be playing a customer in need of a multi-account environment. The customer is a marketing agency that has everything running in the same account, while providing workloads for its own clients. During this week, expect learning more about centralized logging, multi-account strategies, and account vending machine, all powered by AWS managed services for governance and security, like AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center, AWS Service Catalog, AWS CloudTrail, and more. - [Morgan] AWS has a lot of different services, and figuring out which ones to use when, and assemble them into a solution that meets a set of requirements, is something that takes practice. This course was designed to help you understand the differences between the AWS services so you can more easily figure out which service to use to meet specific use cases. That being said, we are not diving deep into each individual service. Instead, we are approaching which service to use according to a customer need, and we'll teach you about some of the different features and details about the services along the way. We will also have readings between the videos, where you can find deeper information about the services. We hope you enjoy, and welcome to Architecting Solutions on AWS.