Summary
This chapter pieced together many of the technologies, best practices, and AWS services covered in the book. We weaved it all together into AWS’s Well-Architected Framework, which you should be able to leverage and use for your projects.
You learned about AWS’s Well-Architected Framework and how to use the AWS Well-Architected tool to validate your architecture against AWS-provided best practices. All workloads are not the same, and you learned about AWS’s Well-Architected Lenses focusing on specific workloads.
After reviewing the architecture best practices, you have hopefully convinced yourself to hop aboard the cloud train. One of the easiest ways to build credibility is to get certified. We learned that AWS offers 12 certifications. We learned that the most basic one is AWS Cloud Practitioner and that the most advanced certifications are the Professional-level certifications. In addition, as of 2022, we learned that there are six Specialty certifications for various domains. We also covered some of the best and worst ways to obtain these certifications.
Finally, we hope you are now curious enough to potentially get at least some of AWS’s certifications. I hope you are excited about the possibilities that AWS can bring.
The next chapter will cover how the AWS infrastructure is organized and how you can leverage the cloud to drive digital transformation initiatives.