AWS Cloud Training Course

Lesson 1 • Shared Responsibility Model

Clarifies which security tasks AWS owns versus customer-owned tasks. Anchors all later security and compliance discussions.

Lesson 2 • AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

Maps AWS regions, availability zones, and edge locations. Explains how geographic distribution affects latency and fault tolerance.

Lesson 3 • Cloud Computing Fundamentals

Defines cloud computing models and deployment types. Establishes vocabulary used throughout the entire course.

Lesson 4 • AWS Pricing and Support Models

Explains pay-as-you-go pricing logic and available support tiers. Prevents cost surprises during hands-on practice.

Lesson 1 • Security Monitoring with CloudTrail and Config

Activates audit logging and continuous compliance checking across the account. Connects identity actions to observable, reviewable records.

Lesson 2 • IAM Users, Groups, and Roles

Covers the three principal types in IAM and their appropriate use cases. Provides the access-control foundation for every subsequent service.

Lesson 3 • Multi-Factor Authentication and Credentials

Enforces strong authentication practices for users and programmatic access. Directly reduces credential-based attack surface.

Lesson 4 • IAM Policies and Permissions

Teaches policy structure, evaluation logic, and least-privilege design. Students write and test JSON policies against real resources.

Lesson 1 • AWS Lambda and Serverless Compute

Builds event-driven functions without managing servers. Introduces the serverless paradigm that reduces operational overhead.

Lesson 2 • EC2 Instance Fundamentals

Launches and connects to EC2 instances using correct instance types and AMIs. Establishes the core compute skill used in most AWS architectures.

Lesson 3 • Auto Scaling and Load Balancing

Automates capacity adjustment and distributes traffic across healthy instances. Enables resilient, cost-efficient application tiers.

Lesson 4 • EC2 Storage and Networking Options

Attaches EBS volumes, configures instance store, and assigns Elastic IPs. Prepares students to build persistent, network-accessible compute nodes.

Lesson 1 • Security Groups and Network ACLs

Controls inbound and outbound traffic at instance and subnet levels. Implements defense-in-depth network security within the VPC.

Lesson 2 • DNS with Amazon Route 53

Configures hosted zones, record types, and routing policies for global traffic management. Integrates DNS with health checks and failover.

Lesson 3 • VPC Connectivity Options

Connects VPCs to each other and to on-premises networks securely. Enables hybrid and multi-account architectures.

Lesson 4 • Amazon VPC Architecture

Builds a custom VPC with subnets, route tables, and internet gateways. Provides the network foundation every subsequent service depends on.

Lesson 1 • S3 Data Management and Optimization

Automates data movement and reduces storage costs through lifecycle rules. Ensures data durability and efficient retrieval at scale.

Lesson 2 • Elastic File System and FSx

Provides shared file storage for Linux and Windows workloads. Covers use cases where multiple instances need concurrent file access.

Lesson 3 • S3 Security and Encryption

Protects data at rest and in transit using server-side and client-side encryption. Blocks public access and audits object-level activity.

Lesson 4 • AWS Storage Gateway and Hybrid Storage

Bridges on-premises storage systems with AWS cloud storage. Enables gradual migration and hybrid backup strategies.

Lesson 1 • Caching and Specialized Databases

Reduces database load using ElastiCache and covers purpose-built database options. Matches specialized engines to analytics, graph, and time-series needs.

Lesson 2 • Amazon RDS Fundamentals

Launches managed relational databases with automated backups and patching. Removes undifferentiated heavy lifting of database administration.

Lesson 3 • Amazon Aurora Architecture

Explores Aurora's distributed storage engine and its performance advantages over standard RDS. Covers Aurora Serverless for variable workloads.

Lesson 4 • Amazon DynamoDB for NoSQL Workloads

Designs tables with partition keys, sort keys, and secondary indexes for high-throughput access patterns. Covers on-demand and provisioned capacity modes.

Lesson 1 • AWS Step Functions Workflow Orchestration

Coordinates Lambda functions and services into visual state machine workflows. Replaces complex error-handling code with declarative orchestration.

Lesson 2 • Amazon SNS Pub/Sub Messaging

Publishes messages to multiple subscribers simultaneously using topics. Enables fan-out patterns for notifications and event broadcasting.

Lesson 3 • Amazon EventBridge Event-Driven Architecture

Routes events from AWS services and custom applications to targets using rules. Enables loosely coupled, event-driven system designs.

Lesson 4 • Amazon API Gateway

Exposes backend services through managed REST and HTTP APIs with throttling and auth. Connects front-end clients to Lambda and other AWS services.

Lesson 1 • Amazon CloudWatch Observability

Collects metrics, logs, and traces to provide full-stack visibility into AWS resources. Drives automated responses through alarms and dashboards.

Lesson 2 • AWS X-Ray Distributed Tracing

Traces requests across microservices to identify latency bottlenecks and errors. Complements CloudWatch metrics with request-level visibility.

Lesson 3 • Cost Management and Optimization

Analyzes spending with Cost Explorer and applies rightsizing and reservation strategies. Embeds financial accountability into daily operations.

Lesson 4 • CI/CD with AWS Developer Tools

Builds automated pipelines using CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy. Reduces manual deployment errors and accelerates release cycles.