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AWS · 9 phases · 36 topics · ~8 h

The AWS Roadmap

Every phase is labelled by level so you can start where you are. Each topic opens with a real-life analogy, then commands and code you run yourself, then questions with reveal answers. Progress is saved as you go.

Beginner no prior knowledgeIntermediate day-to-day workAdvanced production and interviews

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.

The full curriculum

Level
Phase 0

The Cloud Mindset

Beginner ~55 min0/4 · 0%

Why renting infrastructure beat owning it, exactly what AWS is and isn't responsible for, and your first safe steps into a real account.

Phase 1

IAM — Who Can Do What

Beginner ~54 min0/4 · 0%

Users, groups, roles, and policies — the permission system every other AWS service depends on, and the one most real breaches trace back to.

Phase 2

Compute — EC2, Scaling & Load Balancing

Intermediate ~53 min0/4 · 0%

Virtual servers, how to reach them safely, how to run many of them that heal themselves, and how traffic gets spread across them.

Phase 3

Networking — VPC from the Ground Up

Intermediate ~52 min0/4 · 0%

CIDR blocks, public and private subnets, route tables, NAT, endpoints, and connecting VPCs — the network every other resource sits inside.

Phase 4

Storage & Databases

Intermediate ~53 min0/4 · 0%

S3 for objects, EBS and EFS for disks, RDS/Aurora for relational data, DynamoDB and ElastiCache for key-value speed — and when each one is the right answer.

Phase 5

Containers & Serverless

Intermediate ~53 min0/4 · 0%

ECR and ECS on Fargate, EKS on AWS, Lambda, and API Gateway — the ways to run code on AWS without managing individual servers.

Phase 6

Messaging & Monitoring

Intermediate ~52 min0/4 · 0%

SQS, SNS, and EventBridge to decouple services; CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail to see what they're doing and who changed what.

Phase 7

Production AWS

Advanced ~53 min0/4 · 0%

Secrets and encryption, DNS and CDN at the edge, a multi-account security baseline, and keeping the bill and the blast radius under control.

Phase 8

Architecting on AWS: Well-Architected, IaC, Streaming & Threat Detection

Advanced ~28 min0/4 · 0%

How AWS architects think: the six Well-Architected pillars and reviews, infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, CDK, and SAM, real-time streaming with Kinesis and orchestration with Step Functions, and the edge and threat-detection services that protect accounts.