Identify and recognize cloud architecture considerations, such as fundamental components and effective designs. Content may include the following:
- How to design cloud services
- Database concepts
- Planning and design
- Familiarity with architectural trade-off decisions, high availability versus cost, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) versus installing your own database on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF), and Messaging
- DynamoDB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS CloudFormation
- Elasticity and scalability