AWS Cloud Technology Consultant Professional Certificate

Cloud Consulting Foundations

⏱️4-5 weeks

• This module establishes core consulting competencies including stakeholder analysis, requirements gathering, and cloud business value articulation.
• Students learn AWS’s shared responsibility model, global infrastructure, and basic service catalog.
• Includes mock client discovery sessions.

AWS Solution Design

⏱️6-7 weeks

• Focusing on the Well-Architected Framework, this section teaches workload assessment, architecture diagramming, and service selection.
• Students compare compute options (EC2 vs Lambda), storage solutions, and database services for different use cases.
• Includes TCO calculation exercises.

Migration Planning

⏱️5-6 weeks

• Covering the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), this module implements discovery tools, migration patterns (rehost, refactor, rearchitect), and cutover strategies.
• Students create migration plans addressing technical and organizational challenges.

Cost Optimization

⏱️ 4-5 weeks

• This financial deep dive teaches Reserved Instance planning, Spot Instance strategies, and cost allocation tagging.
• Students analyze Cost Explorer reports, implement budgets/alerts, and optimize storage lifecycle policies.
• Includes FinOps principles.

Security & Governance

⏱️5-6 weeks

• Focusing on enterprise requirements, this section implements IAM policies, organizational SCPs, and security reference architectures.
• Students configure AWS Config rules, analyze GuardDuty findings, and prepare compliance artifacts.

Capstone Consulting Project

⏱️8-10 weeks

• Students complete a full consulting engagement for a simulated enterprise, including discovery, solution design, business case development, and executive presentation.
• Final deliverables mirror AWS Partner Network (APN) requirements.

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