AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

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AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

Kick off your cloud career by learning the fundamentals of AWS products, services, and solutions and basic concepts of database, storage, networking, security and cloud computing.

About this course

Are you in a technical role and want to learn the fundamentals of AWS? Do you aspire to have a job or career as a cloud developer, architect, or in an operations role? If so, this course is an ideal way to start, as it requires no prior knowledge of cloud computing or AWS products and services.

Estimated 6 weeks

2-4 hours per week

Self-paced

Progress at your own speed

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials introduces you to essential AWS products, services, and common solutions. The course covers the fundamental concepts of compute, database, storage, networking, monitoring and security that learners and professionals will need to know when working with AWS.
Learn how to get started working on AWS through a highly engaging and hands-on course experience that covers the concepts necessary to become more proficient in identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements. The course also provides information on how to build, compare and apply highly available, fault tolerant, scalable cloud solutions that are cost effective.

Learners who will find this course applicable to their work include:

Individuals responsible for articulating the technical benefits of AWS services to customers
Individuals interested in learning how to get started with AWS
SysOps administrators
Solutions architects
Developers

This is a foundational level course that requires no prior knowledge of cloud computing or AWS products and services.

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What you’ll learn

Terminology and concepts related to the AWS platform
How to navigate the AWS Management Console
Key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Several AWS compute services including Amazon EC2, Amazon Lambda, Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS
AWS storage and database offerings such as Amazon RDS, Amazon Dynamo DB and Amazon S3
Further insights into AWS’ networking capabilties
The monitoirng capabilities of Amazon CloudWatch

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Syllabus

Week 1

Welcome to the Course
Getting Started with AWS Cloud
Security in the AWS Cloud
AWS Identity and Access Management
Week 1 Assessment, Readings, and Resources

Week 2

Introduction to Week 2
AWS Compute
AWS Networking
Week 2 Assessment, Readings and Resources

Week 3

Storage on AWS
Databases on AWS
Week 3 Assessment, Readings and Resources

Week 4

Monitoring on AWS
Optimization
Going Serverless
Week 4 Assessment, Readings and Resources
End of Course Assessment

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Institution: AWS
Subject: Computer Science
Level: Introductory
Prerequisites: Ther are no prerequisities for this coourse

Langauge: English
Video Transcript: English
Associated programs: XSeries in DevOps on AWS

About the instructors

Alana Layton

Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon Web Services

About the instructors

Morgan Willis

Senior Cloud Technologist at Amazon Web Services

Ways to take this course

Choose your path when you enroll

Price

Verified Track

$199 usd

Access to course materials

Unlimited

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Shareable certificate upon completion

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