By the end
What you'll build
- Explain AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations, and choose a Region for latency, residency, and cost
- Apply the IAM model (users, groups, roles, policies) and the evaluation rules, including explicit-deny-wins and least privilege
- Write and debug IAM policy JSON - actions, resources, wildcards, and conditions (Bool, IpAddress, StringEquals)
- Construct correct AWS CLI commands for IAM, EC2, and S3 operations
- Right-size an EC2 fleet and compare On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot costs with capacity math
- Select the right S3 storage class and estimate storage, retrieval, and request costs
- Design VPC networking with public/private subnets, NAT, and the Security Group vs NACL distinction, including CIDR/subnet math
- Choose between RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Redshift for a given workload
- Reason about serverless (Lambda GB-seconds, concurrency) and decoupling with SQS
- Diagnose common AWS errors (AccessDenied, throttling, NoSuchBucket) and design a resilient, graded 3-tier architecture
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
38 lessons across 9 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.