Amazon Web Services (AWS) Course

Lesson 1 • AWS Pricing and Cost Fundamentals

Explains pay-as-you-go pricing, free tier limits, and cost estimation tools. Students can estimate basic workload costs before provisioning resources.

Lesson 2 • AWS Global Infrastructure Overview

Maps AWS regions, availability zones, and edge locations. Students understand how geographic distribution affects resilience and latency.

Lesson 3 • AWS Shared Responsibility Model

Clarifies security duties split between AWS and the customer. Students apply the model to categorize responsibilities for any service.

Lesson 4 • Cloud Computing Essentials

Defines cloud computing models and deployment types. Grounds students in the vocabulary needed for all subsequent AWS topics.

Lesson 1 • IAM Policies and Permissions

Explains policy types, JSON structure, and permission evaluation logic. Students write and attach policies that enforce least-privilege access.

Lesson 2 • AWS Organizations and Account Management

Introduces multi-account governance using AWS Organizations and service control policies. Students structure accounts for isolation and centralized policy enforcement.

Lesson 3 • Monitoring Access with AWS CloudTrail

Enables API activity logging to detect unauthorized or anomalous actions. Connects security auditing to IAM configurations established earlier.

Lesson 4 • IAM Users, Groups, and Roles

Covers creating and organizing IAM principals for human and service access. Establishes least-privilege access patterns used in every later chapter.

Lesson 1 • Containers on AWS

Runs containerized workloads with ECS and EKS on Fargate or EC2. Students choose between orchestration options based on operational complexity needs.

Lesson 2 • Amazon EC2 Instance Fundamentals

Launches and configures virtual machines using EC2 instance types and AMIs. Provides the core compute skill set referenced in networking and storage chapters.

Lesson 3 • EC2 Storage, Networking, and Security Groups

Attaches EBS volumes, configures ENIs, and applies security groups to instances. Students secure and persist compute resources at the instance level.

Lesson 4 • EC2 Pricing Models and Auto Scaling

Compares On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, and Savings Plans pricing. Students design cost-efficient, scalable compute fleets using Auto Scaling groups.

Lesson 1 • VPC Connectivity Options

Connects VPCs and on-premises networks using peering, Transit Gateway, and VPN. Students select the right connectivity model for hybrid and multi-VPC architectures.

Lesson 2 • DNS and Content Delivery

Routes traffic globally with Route 53 and accelerates delivery with CloudFront. Students configure routing policies and CDN distributions for performance and resilience.

Lesson 3 • Network Access Control and Security

Applies NACLs and security groups to enforce stateless and stateful traffic rules. Students layer network defenses across subnet and instance boundaries.

Lesson 4 • Elastic Load Balancing

Distributes traffic across targets using ALB, NLB, and Gateway Load Balancer. Students configure listeners, target groups, and health checks for high availability.

Lesson 1 • S3 Advanced Features

Automates data lifecycle, replication, and event-driven workflows in S3. Students reduce storage costs and build event-driven pipelines using native S3 capabilities.

Lesson 2 • Amazon S3 Core Concepts

Creates buckets, uploads objects, and manages access with bucket policies and ACLs. S3 is the foundational storage service referenced in logging, analytics, and backup chapters.

Lesson 3 • Amazon EFS and FSx File Systems

Provides shared file storage for Linux and Windows workloads using EFS and FSx. Students mount managed file systems across multiple EC2 instances and containers.

Lesson 4 • AWS Storage Gateway and Data Transfer

Bridges on-premises storage with AWS using Storage Gateway and transfer services. Students design hybrid storage architectures and bulk data migration workflows.

Lesson 1 • Amazon Aurora Architecture

Explores Aurora's distributed storage engine and serverless scaling capabilities. Students understand when Aurora outperforms standard RDS for performance and cost.

Lesson 2 • Caching with ElastiCache

Reduces database load using Redis and Memcached caching layers. Students implement cache-aside and write-through patterns to improve application latency.

Lesson 3 • Database Migration and Specialized Services

Migrates databases to AWS using DMS and explores purpose-built database options. Students select the right database service for analytics, graph, and time-series needs.

Lesson 4 • Amazon DynamoDB for NoSQL Workloads

Designs tables, indexes, and capacity modes for key-value and document workloads. Students model data for single-table design and configure DynamoDB Streams.

Lesson 1 • Amazon SQS Queue Fundamentals

Buffers messages between producers and consumers using standard and FIFO queues. Students configure visibility timeouts, dead-letter queues, and polling strategies.

Lesson 2 • API Gateway and Service Integration

Exposes backend services through REST and HTTP APIs with throttling and auth. Students connect API Gateway to Lambda, SQS, and DynamoDB for full integration patterns.

Lesson 3 • Amazon EventBridge Event-Driven Architecture

Routes events from AWS services and SaaS applications using rules and event buses. Students build event-driven pipelines that react to state changes across services.

Lesson 4 • AWS Step Functions Workflow Orchestration

Coordinates multi-step workflows using state machines with error handling. Students model complex business processes as visual, auditable serverless workflows.

Lesson 1 • Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation

Provisions and manages AWS resources declaratively using CloudFormation templates. Students version-control infrastructure and automate repeatable environment deployments.

Lesson 2 • Amazon CloudWatch Observability

Collects metrics, logs, and traces to monitor application and infrastructure health. Ties together all prior services by providing unified operational visibility.

Lesson 3 • CI/CD with AWS Developer Tools

Automates build, test, and deploy pipelines using CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline. Students deliver application changes rapidly and safely to AWS environments.

Lesson 4 • AWS Well-Architected Framework

Evaluates workloads against six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, cost, and sustainability. Students conduct Well-Architected reviews and prioritize improvements.