Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture Course in Doha, Qatar

The Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture course in Doha, Qatar teaches how to design cloud systems that stay available, perform under load and remain affordable to run. Learners work with well-architected principles common to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, the Azure Well-Architected Framework and the Google Cloud Architecture Framework, covering reliability, security, performance efficiency, cost optimization, operational excellence and sustainability. Topics include high availability across zones, horizontal scaling, loose coupling with queues and events, and disaster recovery objectives such as RTO and RPO.

Much of the course is spent on design exercises. In small groups, participants turn business requirements into architecture diagrams, select compute, storage and database options, identify single points of failure and justify their trade-offs in short design reviews. Reference patterns for three-tier web applications, microservices and data platforms are examined and critiqued. The course can be delivered as an in-house program, using an organization's real systems as design case studies for its architects and engineers.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Apply the pillars of well-architected frameworks to evaluate and improve cloud designs

• Design highly available architectures using multiple availability zones, load balancing and health checks

• Plan horizontal and vertical scaling with auto scaling, caching and content delivery networks

• Use loose coupling patterns such as message queues, event buses and microservices

• Define RTO and RPO and choose suitable disaster recovery strategies

• Balance performance, resilience and cost when selecting compute, storage and database services

This course is for technical professionals who design or review cloud solutions and need a structured approach to architecture decisions.

• Solutions architects and aspiring cloud architects

• Senior system and infrastructure engineers

• DevOps and platform engineers

• Software developers moving into design roles

• IT managers who review architecture proposals

Module 1: Well-Architected Principles

• Well-architected frameworks from AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

• Reliability, security, performance, cost, operations and sustainability

• Running a well-architected design review

• Translating business requirements into non-functional requirements

Module 2: High Availability and Resilience

• Availability zones, regions and fault domains

• Eliminating single points of failure

• Load balancers, health probes and failover routing

• Composite SLAs and designing for failure

Module 3: Scalability and Performance

• Horizontal versus vertical scaling and auto scaling policies

• Stateless application design and session handling

• Caching layers and content delivery networks

• Database scaling with read replicas and partitioning

Module 4: Architecture Patterns

• Three-tier web application reference architecture

• Microservices, containers and API gateways

• Event-driven design with queues and publish-subscribe

• Serverless architectures and their trade-offs

Module 5: Disaster Recovery and Cost Optimization

• RTO, RPO and backup-and-restore, pilot light, warm standby strategies

• Multi-region active-active and active-passive designs

• Right-sizing, reserved capacity and storage tiering

• Capstone design exercise and peer architecture review

As cloud regions open in Qatar and organizations move critical services such as online banking, government portals, healthcare records and energy operations data to the cloud, the quality of architecture decisions becomes a business risk issue. Systems must stay available, scale for peak demand and recover quickly from failure. Developing strong local cloud architecture capability supports Qatar National Vision 2030's knowledge-economy goals and helps organizations in Doha build resilient digital services.

Join a scheduled class at our training center in Doha or attend live online. For organizations, the course can run as an in-house program at your premises or online, tailored to your sector, examples and schedule.