Week 8 Worklog

Week 8 Objectives:

  • Review and consolidate core knowledge areas in the AWS Well-Architected Framework: security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
  • Become proficient with key services: EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront.

Tasks to be carried out this week:

DayTaskStart DateCompletion DateReference Material
2- Overview of AWS Well-Architected Framework, 5 pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization
- Identify the role and importance of each pillar
27/10/202527/10/2025AWS Journey
3- Review Secure Architectures
→ IAM, MFA, SCP, Encryption (KMS, TLS/ACM), Security Groups, NACLs, GuardDuty, Shield, WAF, Secrets Manager
28/10/202528/10/2025AWS Journey
4- Review Resilient Architectures
→ Multi-AZ, Multi-Region, DR Strategies, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Load Balancing, Backup & Restore
29/10/202529/10/2025AWS Journey
5- Review High-Performing & Cost-Optimized Architectures
→ EC2 Auto Scaling, Lambda, Fargate, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, Cost Explorer, Budgets, Savings Plans, Storage Tiering
30/10/202530/10/2025AWS Journey
6- Final practical:
+ Build a sample architecture combining EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudFront, Lambda, CloudWatch
+ Evaluate against the 5 Well-Architected pillars
+ Write weekly summary
31/10/202531/10/2025AWS Journey

Week 8 Achievements:

  • Deepened understanding and systematized the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

  • Reinforced four core architecture focus areas: Security, Reliability, Performance, Cost Optimization.

  • Practiced complete infrastructure design and self-evaluation against AWS standards.