AWS Solutions Architect Mastery – Deep Dive Workshop
AWS is the world’s #1 cloud platform, and Solutions Architect is its most in-demand certification. But passing the exam alone isn’t enough—organizations want architects who can design secure, scalable, cost-optimized, and production-ready systems on AWS.
This workshop goes beyond theory. You’ll gain exam-ready knowledge plus hands-on design skills to architect real applications using compute, networking, storage, databases, and security services across the AWS ecosystem. Whether your goal is certification success or career acceleration, this deep dive gives you the unfair advantage.
In one immersive day, you’ll explore AWS’s Well-Architected Framework, security features, global infrastructure, and deployment strategies. But unlike standard cert prep, we’ll tackle real case studies and labs: how to design a high-availability e-commerce backend, optimize costs for analytics pipelines, or secure APIs for global traffic.
You’ll leave not only confident about the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam, but also armed with the architectural patterns, tools, and best practices to succeed in the real world—from startups to enterprise workloads.
Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, you will:
- Be fully prepared for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam (latest version).
- Gain hands-on practice designing secure and reliable architectures.
- Master cost-optimization and scaling strategies for enterprise workloads.
- Build confidence to deploy real applications across AWS services.
- Leave with a career roadmap for advancing as a cloud architect.
Agenda
Module 1: AWS Cloud Foundations
- Global Infrastructure & Regions
- Core AWS Services: Compute, Storage, Networking
- Shared Responsibility Model
Module 2: Designing Scalable Architectures
- Load Balancing & Auto Scaling Patterns
- Database Choices (RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora)
- Networking Design (VPC, Subnets, Peering, Transit Gateway)
Module 3: Security & Reliability
- IAM & Identity Federation
- Encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager
- Designing for HA/DR (Multi-AZ, Multi-Region, Backups)
Module 4: Deployment & Cost Optimization
- Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform overview)
- Monitoring, Logging, & Automation with CloudWatch & Systems Manager
- Cost Optimization Strategies (Savings Plans, Spot, Storage Tiers)
Module 5: Well-Architected Design in Action
- Case Studies & Hands-On Labs:
- Secure E-Commerce App
- Global API Deployment
- Analytics Data Pipeline
Module 6: Exam & Career Readiness
- AWS Solutions Architect Exam Deep Dive
- Practice Scenarios & Mock Q&A
- Career Pathways: From Certification to Cloud Leadership
About Rohit Bhardwaj
Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce, where he focuses on enterprise AI, agentic systems, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, data platforms, security, and large-scale transformation.
Over his career, Rohit has designed and led complex enterprise platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, microservices, real-time data, API ecosystems, resilient distributed systems, and AI-enabled architectures. His work increasingly focuses on the challenges enterprises face as software evolves from deterministic services to AI-native and agentic systems—particularly around reliability, governance, evidence, security, observability, cost, and safe autonomy.
Rohit is the author of System Design with AI Interview Guide: Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems, published by Apress. The book presents a modern approach to system design covering scalability, distributed systems, AI architecture primitives, security, reliability, economics, agentic systems, and real-world architectures including e-commerce, ride sharing, payments, fraud detection, messaging, video streaming, file storage, and search. (Springer Link)
Book:
Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Zs1twa
Publisher / Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2782-2
O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/system-design-with/9798868827822/
Rohit is also an O’Reilly instructor and a frequent speaker at technology conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, GIDS, and other international events. His talks focus on practical architecture lessons from building and operating complex systems, including AI control planes, trusted agents, inference at scale, evidence-first RAG, AI security, distributed-system failure, and AI-era software architecture.
As a trusted advisor and architecture leader, Rohit works at the intersection of business strategy and deep technical architecture—helping teams translate complex business problems into scalable, resilient, secure, and economically sustainable systems.
Rohit holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson College and graduate-level education in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University.
Connect with Rohit:
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud
X / Twitter: @rbhardwaj1