AWS Fundamentals
Core AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and the fundamentals of architecting secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
FundamentalsTopics 1–12
- ·What is AWS & Shared Responsibility
- ·Regions & Availability Zones
- ·IAM Users, Groups & Policies
- ·AWS CLI & Profiles
- ·EC2 Basics
- ·VPC Basics
- ·Security Groups vs NACLs
- ·S3 Buckets & Objects
- ·RDS Basics
- ·CloudWatch Logs & Metrics
- ·Billing & Cost Basics
- ·Your First Deploy
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IntermediateTopics 1–10
- ·IAM Roles & STS
- ·EC2 Deeper: ASGs, ALB, Target Groups
- ·VPC Peering & VPN
- ·S3 Lifecycle & Versioning
- ·RDS Multi-AZ & Read Replicas
- ·Lambda & API Gateway
- ·SQS vs SNS vs EventBridge
- ·ECS Fargate
- ·Route 53 & ACM
- ·Parameter Store & Secrets Manager
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AdvancedTopics 1–10
- ·Permission Boundaries & SCPs
- ·Multi-Account with Organizations
- ·Transit Gateway & PrivateLink
- ·Advanced Lambda
- ·Step Functions
- ·EKS Basics
- ·CloudFront & WAF
- ·KMS Envelope Encryption
- ·AWS Config & GuardDuty
- ·Cost Optimisation
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ArchitectureTopics 1–10
- ·Well-Architected Framework Pillars
- ·Multi-Region Active/Active vs Active/Passive
- ·Event-Driven Architecture on AWS
- ·Serverless Reference Architecture
- ·Microservices on ECS / EKS
- ·Data Lake on S3 + Athena + Glue
- ·Real-Time Pipelines (Kinesis, MSK)
- ·HA Database Patterns
- ·Blast Radius & Failure Isolation
- ·Landing Zone & Control Tower
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