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Basic AWS Architecture Best Practices - 1 Hour Crash Course (Udemy.com)

Learn High-level AWS design best practices including cost management, serverless, databases, availability, and much more

Created by: Rick Crisci

Last updated April 2025

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What you will learn

  • AWS Best Practices
  • AWS Architecture concepts for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
  • AWS EC2, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling

How it compares

Against the other 235 rated Udemy courses in AWS on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 64% of them
  • Reviews3,800#50 of 236 by number of reviews
  • Length1.8 hoursshorter than 95% of them
  • Last updatedApril 2025more recently than 56% of them

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Course Description

"The Course is excellent in a way where it harnesses the basic concepts and explains in detail with simplification and clarity. Watching this course after getting certified in AWS-SA a year ago is a great way to tap back into your learned knowledge and get back up to speed. Highly recommend this short course." - James

"Amazing course with all the important topics bundled into 1 course with all intricate details provided."  - Abhishek


In this course you will learn about some basic concepts for AWS best practices. These videos will break down the best practices documented in the AWS Architecting for the Cloud Best Practices document in a clear, simple manner. This course is a good primer on some basic concepts if you are considering pursuing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification.

Topics covered include:

  • Designing AWS for Scalability

  • Using Disposable Resources in AWS

  • AWS Automation

  • Loose Coupling of AWS Components

  • Services, not Servers in an AWS Design

  • Choosing the Right AWS Database Solution

  • Avoiding Single Points of Failure in AWS

  • Optimizing AWS for Cost

  • AWS Caching Solutions

  • Securing an AWS Deployment

I have taught over 400,000 students across a variety of platforms, and I think anyone who needs to understand AWS Architecture Best Practices will love this course. 

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Instructor Details

Rick Crisci

I am the owner of TrainerTests and have delivered thousands of hours of official live training to my students, and I love teaching people new skills.

I provide video training unlike any other organization. I believe in using high quality illustrations and animations to simplify complex concepts. In my courses you will get the technical depth that you need, with a focus on making sure that you completely understand the underlying concepts.

Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, I always enjoy making new contacts with my students!

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Reviews

4.6

3,800 ratings on Udemy

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By Rajesh Mannencheril Gopinathan on 9/30/2024

If you have a cloud practitioner cert, its good to take this to see whats is in solution architect associate cert.. I wanted to check this out to see whether this provided more insights about well architected framework.. it did a bit.

By Andreas Lahnsteiner on 5/24/2024

Once again one of your low-cost and high value courses. Easy to follow, easy to learn, easy to understand. Much knowledge in short time. Everything a 5-star-course needs. I have a dream, in which Rick creates further courses on AWS Certification and AWS Bootcamp.

By Imani Shaquira Timmons on 1/16/2024

The material is thought-provoking and is kept short to allow it to be a crash course, but still well-explained and very helpful. There were references to deep dives for topics that didn't come, which makes me think some of the material was recycled (which is of course, to be expected) but it was not cleanly cut to make sure that what was said made sense for the course in its format here. Other than that, I was more than happy with the course and its content.

By Anonymized User on 2/19/2023

Again, great content from Rick Crisci. Thanks for all the insights on AWS services. High Level and presented in a very simple way that you get more than what you are expecting. A must for those starting to explore AWS design architecture.

By Norbert Gurmai on 6/6/2020

I started the course with no expectation, just wanted to get to know more about the topic. This pack of videos opened my eyes what amazing options AWS provides in different areas. I was fallen in love with it. :-) Thanks for the course!

By Vamsi Chunduru on 3/10/2020

Good explanation!! Course stated that it's for AWS Professional certifications, but who is preparing for professional might have already completed associate level certifications and most of the topics are already covered in that associate level certification preparation.

By Nataly Sanchez on 2/29/2020

This course should be called "Basic concepts of aws architecture". It only talks about the most basic aws services and some councils, but they are not really "best practices", they are only some good practices.

By Michael Petersen on 2/19/2020

This AWS best practices crash course does a wonderful job of summarising the services and features available in AWS. Rick Crisci does a wonderful job explaining each module allowing you to grasp the topic.

By Manuel Esparza on 2/9/2020

Course was very well executed. The other instructor was very clear in both diction and explaining the concepts. I really liked how is his use of graphics added reinforcement to the concepts. I will check Udemy for more of his content.

By Amar Dewri on 2/6/2020

A good refresher on Architecture Best Practices for those who are familiar and a very good start for those who are new. Very clear and up to the point explanation. Looking forward to the AWS Solution Architect Professional course.

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