A team of Amazonians will guide you to your next career step.
Welcome to BeSA program
This is a unique opportunity for you to be mentored by AWS Solution Architects to acquire skills to become a Solutions Architect.
Many people reach out to us to get started on learning AWS to become Solutions Architect, or, simply need help with achieving certifications for career progression. In this free program, we will focus on technical and behavioural concepts for becoming a successful Solutions Architect, help you upskill for certifications, and provide interview coaching support for opportunities inside and outside AWS.
Prerequisites:
- Time commitement - 2 hours each Saturday and 6 to 8 hours spread over the week for additional learning
- Understanding of basic IT concepts (e.g. Servers, Storage, IP Addresses)
- Have your own AWS account for practice. We can guide you about the process if you don’t have account yet
Session Format:
For the first 8 weeks each session will consist of 3 parts:
- 45 minutes Technical
- 45 minutes Specialist Track - Networking
- 30 minutes Hands On
For the final 4 weeks the sessions will be focused on the behavioural aspect of being a solutions architect.
Agenda: Week 1 to Week 8
| Week | Technical Track | Specialist Track - Networking | Hands On |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 (11-Feb) | Introduction to Cloud | The binary choice - OSI Model & IP Addressing | Activity |
| Week 2 (18-Feb) | Amazon S3 | It’s all connected - Amazon VPC | Activity |
| Week 3 (25-Feb) | Amazon EC2 | Hold the door - NACL & Security Group | Activity |
| Week 4 (04-Mar) | AWS IAM | Cloud and beyond - VPN and Direct Connect | Activity |
| Week 5 (11-Mar) | Amazon RDS | Peer to Peer - VPC Peering & Transit Gateway | Activity |
| Week 6 (18-Mar) | Amazon DynamoDB | What’s in a name? - Route 53 & DNS Resolver | Activity |
| Week 7 (25-Mar) | Amazon Cloudwatch | The tool box - Flow Logs & Reachability Analyer | Activity |
| Week 8 (01-Apr) | Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling | Shed the Load - ALB, NLB & GWLB |
Agenda: Week 9 to Week 12
| Week | Topic 1 | Topic 2 | Topic 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 9 (08-Apr) | Amazon ECS Demo | My career journey - Sanchit Jain | |
| Week 10 (15-Apr) | How I obtained 70+ cloud certifications? - Sammy Cheung | Getting hired at FAANG companies - Holly Lee | |
| Week 11 (22-Apr) | Personal Branding and Networking - Neeraja Ganesh | Learn by Teaching - James Eastham | Journey to become a Solutions Architect - Victory Uchenna |
| Week 12 (29-Apr) | Hacking the Job Hunt - Liz MacKay | Startups on AWS - Giuseppe and Jamila |
Interested? Register now!
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Session schedule
Check out our Twitch channel to find our schedule. We broadcast on Saturdays at 9 AM UK Time.
Meet the team
Alex Paramonov
Alex is a Solutions Architect at AWS based in Germany specialising on prototyping. He has a passion for using technology to drive innovation with customers on niche projects. Alex has a background in full stack software development, serveless and containers. Besides work he likes spending time with his family, building cool things at home and play video games.
Ashish Prajapati
Ashish Prajapati is a technical instructor based in London, UK. He delivers a wide range of technical trainings to AWS customers across EMEA. Ashish has a deep background as a virtualization and cloud migration expert for companies of all sizes. This allows him to leverage his field knowledge into classroom by bringing real world examples to his students. He has created various technical resources which are listed on this website - Analogies Cloud.
Jamila Jamilova
Jamila Jamilova is a Solutions Architect helping Manufacturing and Industrials customers to transform their businesses by solving complex technical problems. She is an active member of Technical Field Community with focus on Internet of Things (IoT). In her spare time she is playing piano, practicing karate and enjoys playing racing cars.
Prasad Rao
Prasad Rao is a Principal Partner Solutions Architect for AWS based out of UK. His focus areas are .NET Application Modernization and Windows Workloads on AWS. He leverages his experience to help AWS Partners across EMEA for their long term technical enablement to build scalable architecture on AWS. He also mentors diverse people who are new to cloud and would like to get started on AWS.
James Eastham
James Eastham is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect for AWS Professional Services based out of the UK. His main area of interest is helping people build serverless applications using .NET on AWS. He is an active membeer of both the Serverless and Microsoft Technical Field Communities. Outside of work, James spends a lot of time out in the hills with his 3 year old Labrador or training for an ultra-endurance run or cycling event.
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Disclaimer:
- This is not a job guarantee program.
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