AWS Cloud Architect

Name: AWS Cloud Architect Nanodegree Program
Rating: 4.6 (200 reviews)

This Nanodegree program provides a comprehensive path to mastering AWS cloud architecture. It focuses on designing scalable solutions, optimizing performance, managing multi-account environments, and modernizing systems with hands-on projects.

Nanodegree Program

Intermediate
34 hours
4.6 (200)
Updated: Oct 16, 2025

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Skills you'll learn

11 skills

Cloud architecture
Infrastructure as code
Cloud cost management
Serverless cloud computing architecture
Cloud architecture model types

Prerequisites

10 prerequisites

Prior to enrolling, you should have the following knowledge:

You will also need to be able to communicate fluently and professionally in written and spoken English.

Program Outline

5 courses
15 lessons
3 projects

Course 1: Welcome to the Nanodegree Program!

Course 2: Designing AWS Architecture for Organizations

Course 3: Designing AWS Architecture for Workloads

Course 4: Modernizing and Optimizing Architecture

Program Instructors

3 instructors

Unlike typical professors, our instructors come from Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies and have demonstrated leadership and expertise in their professions:

Mike Hammond

Technical Trainer

Jonathan Dyer

AI Comp. Sci. Associate at the Center for Advanced AI at Accenture

Joseph Nicolls

Lead Engineer, ML/AI

Mike Hammond

Technical Trainer

Jonathan Dyer

AI Comp. Sci. Associate at the Center for Advanced AI at Accenture

Joseph Nicolls

Lead Engineer, ML/AI

Reviews

Average Rating: 4.6 (200 Reviews)

Excellent and helped me to gain solid knowledge on AWS.

Kandasamy Kandavel

Oct 23, 2025

AWS Student account had a lot of restrictions that prevented me from accomplishing some of the exercises myself.

Jonathan Joel Tamon

Aug 20, 2025

It is awesome!

Khalifa

Nov 19, 2024

Very Good Hands-on Experience.

Somanath Chowdary K

Jun 24, 2024

good

Khadija M

Jul 26, 2023

About this program

Master the skills to design, deploy, and optimize cloud architectures using AWS. Learn to implement network connectivity strategies, manage multi-account environments with AWS Organizations and Control Tower, and optimize costs using tools like AWS Cost Explorer. Migrate and modernize data processing solutions by planning tailored migration strategies, optimizing analytics workloads, and enhancing scalability with AWS tools like Glue and Athena. Modernize legacy systems, design high-performance cloud solutions, and reduce costs by leveraging serverless and event-driven architectures, AWS Budgets, and CloudFormation. Through hands-on experience, gain real-world experience in architecting robust, scalable, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructures.