Designing Cloud Solutions

What you will be able to do

• Translate business goals and non-functional requirements into a clear architecture and measurable SLOs
• Run a Well-Architected style review across reliability, performance, cost, security, and operations
• Choose between multi-tier, microservices, serverless, and event-driven patterns for a given workload
• Select the right compute, storage, and database services and defend the trade-offs
• Design for scale and performance with load balancing, auto scaling, caching, and asynchronous decoupling
• Design for resilience with redundancy, multi-AZ and multi-region strategies, and RTO and RPO driven disaster recovery
• Optimize cloud cost with the right pricing models, right-sizing, and FinOps practices
• Plan a cloud migration using discovery, the 7 Rs, migration waves, a landing zone, and a cutover plan

What is inside

4 modules, 8 lessons. Each module ends in a graded quiz and most carry an assignment.

1. 01

   Thinking Like a Cloud Architect

   Great cloud design starts before any service is chosen, with the requirements, the constraints, and the trade-offs. This module trains you to turn business goals into functional and non-functional requirements, set SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets, respect real-world constraints, and apply the Well-Architected Framework, reference architectures, and explicit trade-off analysis as a repeatable design lens. The goal is the architect's core skill: reasoning about trade-offs instead of chasing a single right answer.

   2 lessons · 5 quiz questions

2. 02

   Patterns and Service Selection

   Every workload maps to a pattern and a set of services, and choosing well is the heart of the architect's job. This module walks the pattern catalog from monolith and multi-tier through microservices, serverless, and event-driven, and shows when each one earns its complexity. You then learn to choose across the compute, storage, and database spectrum, and to justify managed versus self-managed decisions with total cost of ownership rather than fashion.

   2 lessons · 5 quiz questions · assignment

3. 03

   Designing for Scale and Resilience

   Advanced architectures are proven under load and under failure, not on a whiteboard. This module builds the scale toolkit (stateless tiers, load balancing, auto scaling, caching, and asynchronous queues), then the resilience toolkit (redundancy, availability zones and regions, RTO, RPO, and disaster recovery patterns). Throughout, you size the trade-off between availability and cost with real numbers, so every nine you buy is a deliberate decision rather than a reflex.

   2 lessons · 5 quiz questions

4. 04

   Cost Optimization and Cloud Migration

   A design that works but overspends is a failed design, and most real cloud work is moving existing systems rather than building new ones. This module teaches you to architect for cost with the right pricing models, right-sizing, and FinOps discipline, then to plan a migration end to end: discovery, the 7 Rs, migration waves, a landing zone, and a safe cutover.

   2 lessons · 5 quiz questions · assignment