AWS Course for Beginners

Lesson 1 • Business Value of Cloud Adoption

Examines cost efficiency, agility, and global reach as primary drivers of cloud migration. Frames the economic rationale for AWS investment decisions.

Lesson 2 • Cloud Deployment Models

Covers public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments and their trade-offs. Connects deployment choices to business requirements discussed later.

Lesson 3 • Cloud Service Models Explained

Differentiates IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS with real-world analogies. Helps learners identify which model applies to each AWS service category.

Lesson 1 • The AWS Management Console

Guides learners through the web-based console interface, search, and navigation patterns. Builds the hands-on confidence needed for all lab exercises ahead.

Lesson 2 • AWS Pricing and Support Plans

Explains the pay-as-you-go model, free tier limits, and available support tiers. Prevents unexpected costs during hands-on practice throughout the course.

Lesson 3 • AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

Maps AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations and explains how they deliver resilience and low latency. Grounds all subsequent service discussions in physical infrastructure.

Lesson 1 • Monitoring Access with CloudTrail

Introduces CloudTrail for logging API calls and detecting unauthorised activity. Connects identity management to the audit and compliance practices covered later.

Lesson 2 • AWS Account and Root User Safety

Explains root account risks and immediate hardening steps including MFA. Establishes security hygiene before any resource is provisioned.

Lesson 3 • IAM Users, Groups, and Roles

Covers creating and organising IAM identities and assigning roles for service-to-service access. Directly enables secure multi-user environments built in later chapters.

Lesson 1 • Amazon EC2 Core Concepts

Defines instances, AMIs, instance types, and key pairs as the building blocks of EC2. Prepares learners to make informed configuration choices before launching.

Lesson 2 • Scaling and Availability with EC2

Introduces Auto Scaling groups and Elastic Load Balancing to handle variable traffic. Bridges single-instance knowledge to the resilient architectures built in later chapters.

Lesson 3 • Launching and Connecting to Instances

Walks through the launch wizard, security group setup, and SSH or RDP connection. Produces a running, accessible server as the foundation for storage and networking labs.

Lesson 4 • Serverless Compute with AWS Lambda

Contrasts Lambda's event-driven, function-based model with EC2 to show when each fits. Students deploy a simple function and understand triggers and execution roles.

Lesson 1 • File and Archive Storage Options

Introduces EFS for shared file access and S3 Glacier for long-term archival. Completes the storage spectrum so learners can match service to requirement.

Lesson 2 • S3 Security and Access Control

Teaches bucket policies, ACLs, and Block Public Access settings to protect data. Reinforces IAM concepts from Chapter 3 in a storage-specific context.

Lesson 3 • Amazon EBS Deep Dive

Explores EBS volume types, snapshots, and encryption for persistent block storage. Extends the EC2 storage knowledge from Chapter 4 with operational best practices.

Lesson 1 • DNS and Content Delivery with AWS

Introduces Route 53 for DNS management and CloudFront for global content delivery. Connects networking knowledge to performance and availability optimisation.

Lesson 2 • Security Groups and Network ACLs

Differentiates stateful security groups from stateless network ACLs and configures both. Reinforces defence-in-depth principles introduced in the IAM chapter.

Lesson 3 • Connecting to the Internet and Beyond

Covers NAT gateways, Elastic IPs, and VPN connections for controlled external access. Enables learners to build private subnets that still reach the internet safely.

Lesson 1 • Relational Databases with Amazon RDS

Covers RDS engine options, Multi-AZ deployments, and automated backups for relational workloads. Builds on VPC networking from Chapter 6 to place databases securely.

Lesson 2 • Caching and In-Memory Data Stores

Introduces ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached to reduce database load and latency. Completes the data tier picture with caching as a performance layer.

Lesson 3 • NoSQL with Amazon DynamoDB

Teaches DynamoDB tables, partition keys, and on-demand capacity for key-value and document workloads. Contrasts NoSQL design with relational models covered earlier.

Lesson 1 • The AWS Well-Architected Framework

Introduces the six pillars and the Well-Architected Tool for structured architecture reviews. Provides a professional evaluation framework applicable to all designs built in the course.

Lesson 2 • Cost Management and Optimisation

Uses AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Trusted Advisor to track and reduce spending. Applies pricing knowledge from Chapter 2 to real resource usage patterns.

Lesson 3 • Observability with Amazon CloudWatch

Configures metrics, alarms, dashboards, and log groups to monitor AWS resources in real time. Ties together all services from previous chapters under a unified observability layer.