AWS Curriculum Overview

About AWS

Cloud architecture, IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, EKS & serverless infrastructure.

Diagram

Automation: Eliminates repetitive manual procedures through codified configuration.
Reliability & Consistency: Reduces configuration drift across development, staging, and production environments.
High Observability: Provides deep telemetry into application and infrastructure health.

This comprehensive handbook covers the entire AWS engineering lifecycle across 11 structured modules:

What is AWS: What Is Aws, Aws Global Infrastructure, Aws Regions And Az, Aws In Devops
AWS Core Concepts: Aws Accounts, Aws Console Overview, Aws Cli Basics, Aws Sdk Overview, Aws Pricing Model
Getting Started: Creating Aws Account, Root User Vs Iam User, Setting Up Aws Cli, Aws Cloudshell

AWS Free Tier Overview: What Is Free Tier, Free Tier Categories, Always Free Services, 12 Month Free Services
Managing Free Tier: Tracking Free Tier Usage, Billing Alerts, Cost Explorer, Avoiding Unexpected Charges
Free Tier Services for DevOps: Ec2 Free Tier, S3 Free Tier, Rds Free Tier, Lambda Free Tier

IAM Basics: What Is Iam, Iam Users, Iam Groups, Iam Roles, Iam Policies
IAM Deep Dive: Policy Structure, Managed Vs Inline Policies, Permission Boundaries, Policy Evaluation Logic, Iam Conditions
IAM Best Practices: Least Privilege Princilege, Mfa Setup, Access Key Management, Iam Roles For Services, Cross Account Access
AWS Security Services: Aws Organizations, Service Control Policies, Aws Sso, Cloudtrail Overview, Aws Config, Guardduty Overview

EC2 Basics: What Is Ec2, Ec2 Instance Types, Ami Overview, Launching Ec2 Instance, Key Pairs
EC2 Configuration: Security Groups, Elastic Ip, User Data Scripts, Instance Metadata, Instance Profiles
EC2 Advanced: Ec2 Auto Scaling, Launch Templates, Auto Scaling Groups, Scaling Policies, Ec2 Placement Groups, Spot Instances, Reserved Instances
Load Balancing: Load Balancer Overview, Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, Target Groups, Listener Rules, Ssl On Alb
Other Compute Services: Aws Lightsail, Aws Batch, Aws Elastic Beanstalk, Aws Outposts

VPC Basics: What Is Vpc, Vpc Components, Subnets, Route Tables, Internet Gateway
VPC Advanced: Nat Gateway, Nat Instance, Vpc Peering, Transit Gateway, Vpc Endpoints, Private Link
Network Security: Security Groups Deep Dive, Network Acls, Security Groups Vs Nacls, Flow Logs, Waf Overview, Aws Shield
DNS and CDN: Route53 Overview, Hosted Zones, Routing Policies, Cloudfront Overview, Cloudfront Distributions, Cloudfront With S3
Hybrid Networking: Vpn Overview, Site To Site Vpn, Direct Connect, Client Vpn

S3 Basics: What Is S3, S3 Buckets, S3 Objects, S3 Storage Classes, S3 Permissions
S3 Advanced: S3 Versioning, S3 Lifecycle Policies, S3 Replication, S3 Encryption, S3 Bucket Policies, S3 Access Points, S3 Event Notifications
Block and File Storage: Ebs Overview, Ebs Volume Types, Ebs Snapshots, Efs Overview, Efs Vs Ebs, Fsx Overview
Storage Gateway and Backup: Storage Gateway Overview, Aws Backup, Backup Policies, Disaster Recovery Storage

ECS Basics: What Is Ecs, Ecs Components, Ecs Launch Types, Task Definitions, Ecs Services
ECS Deep Dive: Fargate Overview, Ecs Cluster Setup, Ecs Networking, Ecs Service Discovery, Ecs Auto Scaling, Ecs With Alb
ECR: What Is Ecr, Creating Repositories, Pushing Pulling Images, Ecr Lifecycle Policies, Ecr Security
EKS: What Is Eks, Eks Architecture, Creating Eks Cluster, Node Groups, Managed Vs Self Managed Nodes, Fargate On Eks, Eks Addons, Eks Networking, Eks Security, Eks With Alb Controller

CodeCommit: What Is Codecommit, Creating Repositories, Codecommit Vs Github, Branching Strategies
CodeBuild: What Is Codebuild, Buildspec Yaml, Build Environments, Codebuild With Docker, Codebuild Caching, Codebuild Reports
CodeDeploy: What Is Codedeploy, Appspec Yaml, Deployment Configurations, Deploy To Ec2, Deploy To Ecs, Deploy To Lambda, Blue Green Deployments
CodePipeline: What Is Codepipeline, Pipeline Stages, Source Stage, Build Stage, Deploy Stage, Approval Actions, Cross Region Pipelines
CI CD Best Practices: Pipeline Design Patterns, Secrets In Cicd, Testing In Pipelines, Rollback Strategies, Github Actions With Aws, Jenkins With Aws

CloudFormation Basics: What Is Cloudformation, Cloudformation Vs Terraform, Template Structure, Stacks And Stacksets
CloudFormation Deep Dive: Parameters, Mappings, Conditions, Outputs, Cross Stack References, Nested Stacks, Cloudformation Macros
AWS CDK: What Is Cdk, Cdk Vs Cloudformation, Cdk Concepts, Cdk With Python, Cdk With Typescript, Cdk Constructs
Terraform with AWS: Terraform On Aws, Remote State On S3, Terraform With Iam, Terraform With Cicd

Lambda Basics: What Is Lambda, Lambda Execution Model, Lambda Runtimes, Creating Lambda Functions, Lambda Triggers, Lambda Permissions
Lambda Advanced: Lambda Layers, Lambda Extensions, Lambda Concurrency, Lambda Cold Starts, Lambda With Vpc, Lambda Destinations, Lambda Container Images
API Gateway: What Is Api Gateway, Rest Api Vs Http Api, Creating Apis, Api Gateway With Lambda, Authentication In Api Gateway, Api Gateway Throttling, Custom Domain Names
Serverless Services: Dynamodb Overview, Dynamodb With Lambda, Sqs Overview, Sns Overview, Eventbridge Overview, Step Functions Overview, S3 With Lambda
Serverless Framework and SAM: Aws Sam Overview, Sam Template, Sam Cli, Serverless Framework Overview, Local Testing With Sam

CloudWatch: Cloudwatch Overview, Cloudwatch Metrics, Cloudwatch Logs, Cloudwatch Alarms, Cloudwatch Dashboards, Cloudwatch Log Insights, Cloudwatch Container Insights
AWS X Ray: What Is Xray, Xray With Lambda, Xray With Ecs, Xray Service Map, Xray Sampling Rules
AWS Cost Management: Cost Explorer, Aws Budgets, Cost Allocation Tags, Savings Plans, Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer, Rightsizing Recommendations
Operational Excellence: Aws Well Architected Framework, Systems Manager Overview, Ssm Parameter Store, Ssm Session Manager, Aws Health Dashboard, Incident Management