Tool
AWS
The most widely used cloud platform
Learn the AWS Cloud from the ground up — global infrastructure, compute, networking, storage, databases, AI/ML, security, monitoring, pricing, and migration.
13
Chapters
27
Hours (estimated)
1
Self-paced
Part-time
About 9 weeks
1 hour a day, 3 days a week
Full-time
About 3 weeks
3 hours a day, 3 days a week
Estimated from 13 chapters (notes, practice, labs, quiz, exercise, and challenge) plus the final exam. Go at your own pace.
Curriculum
13 chapters, each with a tutorial, a live example, a quiz, an exercise, a challenge, and class practice.
- 1
Introduction to AWS & the Cloud
What cloud computing is, its benefits, deployment models, and the shared responsibility model.
- 2
Global Infrastructure & Provisioning
Regions, Availability Zones, edge locations, choosing a Region, and ways to create AWS resources.
- 3
EC2: Compute in the Cloud
Virtual servers, instance families, launching an instance, and EC2 pricing options.
- 4
Scaling & Load Balancing
Scalability and elasticity, EC2 Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, and decoupling with SQS and SNS.
- 5
Serverless & Containers
Serverless computing with AWS Lambda, and running containers with Amazon ECS, EKS, and AWS Fargate.
- 6
VPC Networking
Virtual private clouds, subnets, gateways, security groups vs network ACLs, and Route 53.
- 7
Storage: S3, EBS & EFS
Block, object, and file storage; EBS volumes and snapshots; S3 buckets, storage classes, and lifecycle rules.
- 8
Databases: RDS, Aurora & DynamoDB
Relational databases with RDS and Aurora, NoSQL with DynamoDB, and specialized database services.
- 9
AI/ML & Data Analytics
AI services, Amazon SageMaker, generative AI with Amazon Bedrock, and data pipelines and analytics services.
- 10
IAM & Security
The root user, IAM users, groups, roles, and policies, MFA, AWS Organizations, and security services.
- 11
Monitoring, Compliance & Governance
Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms, AWS CloudTrail auditing, AWS Config, Trusted Advisor, and AWS Health.
- 12
Pricing & Support
How AWS pricing works, the Free Tier, billing and cost tools, support plans, and AWS Marketplace.
- 13
Migration & the Well-Architected Framework
The Cloud Adoption Framework, the 7 migration strategies, the Snow Family, and the six Well-Architected pillars.
AWS is free to study, self-paced. Pass the final exam to earn an optional Certificate of Completion for $40.