What you should know - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

- [Instructor] When it comes to what should you know to begin considering taking this class on the reliability pillar, let's start with job type. Are you a system administrator, cloud architect, project manager, or somebody that's involved in moving an application to the AWS cloud? Are you a developer specifically interested in moving applications that you've created that run on-prem in a virtual environment to AWS? If you're a developer that's either written apps for on-prem or you're actually writing applications for AWS, this course is for you. Now, this course, the reliability pillar, is part of five other classes, because reliability is one thing, but we also need to know about security, operational excellence, cost-effectiveness, and a whole bunch of different aspects that make up the well-architected framework. But we're focused on reliability here. Now, if your boss says we're all in for moving to the cloud, maybe you should be afraid, but certainly if you move to the cloud, you'll always have something to do because the cloud is forever changing. And if you're working as an effective team, while this class is very useful in being able to decide what team members are going to do, how are you going to work together? Now, the rationale for using the reliability pillar is because you want to know about the best practices that work that you can look at and reaffirm that, that design choice, that decision, works with the application that I'm currently developing. We don't want to waste any time. This is based on both Amazon's and customer experience, and the customers generally come back to Amazon and say this is what I'm doing. And Amazon looks at what they're doing and says that's a really good idea. We should document this. So we want to learn the pros and cons of architectural best practice for designing in the cloud, specifically reliability considerations and resilience considerations to ensure your application can function under all conditions. And Amazon's been doing this for years, almost 17 years, assisting and helping customers design architecture and solutions. And the experience has resulted in best practices that lots of people use. And these strategies aren't a marketing experience. These have been tested and refined over the last 15 years, 16 years. Ideally, you could look at Amazon as being in bed in the cloud since 2004. So, a long period of time. So, that hopefully will give you an idea as to the experience level that you would need to take this class. And of course, if you're just interested in the cloud and how things work, or maybe you're getting certified with one of the architect certifications, this will be great for that as well. Hope to see you in class.