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AWS Cloud Architect

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 (208)
  • Updated: Oct 16, 2025

Subscription · Monthly

  • Cancel Anytime
  • Unlimited access to hundreds of top-rated courses
  • Hands-on projects with expert feedback
  • Personalized career coaching and interview prep
  • Program Certificates

Skills you'll learn

11 skills

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

Prerequisites

10 prerequisites

Prior to enrolling, you should have the following knowledge:

  • Application architecture
  • Linux
  • AWS cloudformation
  • Basic web development
  • DevOps

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

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 (208 Reviews)

Great program

Ahmed

Mar 10, 2026

Great product overall—easy to use, reliable, and delivers exactly what it promises.

Mohamad Inthiyas

Feb 9, 2026

Great product overall—easy to use, reliable, and delivers exactly what it promises.

Mohamad Inthiyas

Feb 9, 2026

Honestly, it does what it promises and feels well-made. Easy to use, solid quality, and I’d recommend it.

Mohamad Inthiyas

Feb 9, 2026

Honestly, it does what it promises and feels well-made. Easy to use, solid quality, and I’d recommend it.

Mohamad Inthiyas

Feb 9, 2026

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.

Subscription · Monthly

  • Cancel Anytime
  • Unlimited access to hundreds of top-rated courses
  • Hands-on projects with expert feedback
  • Personalized career coaching and interview prep
  • Program Certificates

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