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AWS · the cloud, from first account to production

Rent the world's data centres.
Without getting the bill of your life.

Accounts, IAM, EC2, VPC networking, storage and databases, containers and serverless, messaging and monitoring, production concerns (secrets, edge, multi-account, cost, DR), and how architects think: the Well-Architected Framework, infrastructure as code, streaming and workflows, and AWS security services.

Start from zero The full roadmap
Phases
9
Topics
36
Hours
8
Diagrams
27
Exercises
136

By the end you can

What this course makes you able to do

  • Set up accounts safely and write least-privilege IAM policies and roles
  • Design VPCs, compute, load balancing, and autoscaling for real workloads
  • Choose between S3, EBS, EFS, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache
  • Run containers and serverless (ECS, EKS, Lambda) with queues, events, and monitoring
  • Review architectures against the Well-Architected pillars, including cost and security

Beginner → Advanced

The curriculum, by level

Beginner
  1. 0The Cloud Mindset4 topics · ~55 min
  2. 1IAM — Who Can Do What4 topics · ~54 min
Intermediate
  1. 2Compute — EC2, Scaling & Load Balancing4 topics · ~53 min
  2. 3Networking — VPC from the Ground Up4 topics · ~52 min
  3. 4Storage & Databases4 topics · ~53 min
  4. 5Containers & Serverless4 topics · ~53 min
  5. 6Messaging & Monitoring4 topics · ~52 min
Advanced
  1. 7Production AWS4 topics · ~53 min
  2. 8Architecting on AWS: Well-Architected, IaC, Streaming & Threat Detection4 topics · ~28 min

Where should I start?

Pick a path for your goal

Cloud beginner

New to AWS.

  1. 10 · The Cloud Mindset
  2. 21 · IAM — Who Can Do What
  3. 32 · Compute — EC2, Scaling & Load Balancing
  4. 44 · Storage & Databases

Solutions Architect Associate

Preparing for SAA or designing systems on AWS.

  1. 11 · IAM — Who Can Do What
  2. 22 · Compute — EC2, Scaling & Load Balancing
  3. 33 · Networking — VPC from the Ground Up
  4. 44 · Storage & Databases
  5. 55 · Containers & Serverless
  6. 66 · Messaging & Monitoring
  7. 78 · Architecting on AWS: Well-Architected, IaC, Streaming & Threat Detection

Production AWS

You run workloads on AWS.

  1. 13 · Networking — VPC from the Ground Up
  2. 26 · Messaging & Monitoring
  3. 37 · Production AWS
  4. 48 · Architecting on AWS: Well-Architected, IaC, Streaming & Threat Detection

Then build it all with the Terraform course.