AWS : From Scratch to Advanced

Phase 1: AWS Foundations (Beginner Level)

Goal: Understand core AWS services and setup.

1. Introduction to AWS Cloud Computing

   • What is AWS?
   • Benefits of cloud computing
   • Core concepts: Regions, Availability Zones, Global Infrastructure

2. Setting Up Your AWS Free Tier Account

   • Step-by-step account creation
   • Billing alerts & budgets
   • Multi-factor authentication (MFA)

3. IAM Basics: Identity and Access Management

   • IAM users, groups, roles, and policies
   • Least privilege principle
   • Hands-on: Create a limited-access IAM user

4. Launching Your First EC2 Instance

   • Key pairs, security groups, and instance types
   • SSH into your EC2
   • Installing a simple web server

Phase 2: AWS for Developers

Goal: Build and deploy serverless/cloud-native apps using core AWS services.

1. Amazon S3: Storage for Developers

   • Bucket creation, file upload, and permissions
   • Static website hosting

2. AWS Lambda Deep Dive

   • Create your first Lambda function
   • Trigger with API Gateway
   • Use case: Image resizing service

3. API Gateway + Lambda: Building Serverless APIs

   • Creating RESTful APIs
   • Securing with API keys or Cognito

4. Amazon RDS and DynamoDB

   • Provisioning RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
   • DynamoDB basics and when to use it

5. Monitoring with CloudWatch

   • Logs, metrics, and alarms
   • Integrating with Lambda and EC2

Phase 3: AWS for DevOps

Goal: Automate deployments and manage infrastructure as code.

1. Introduction to DevOps on AWS

   • DevOps culture and tools
   • AWS services supporting DevOps

2. CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline & CodeBuild

   • Setting up a simple pipeline
   • Integrating with GitHub

3. Docker + Amazon ECS (Fargate)

   • Containerizing your app
   • Deploying to ECS with Fargate

4. Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation

   • Writing your first CloudFormation template
   • Stacks and change sets

5. Intro to Terraform on AWS

   • Comparison with CloudFormation
   • Provisioning EC2 and S3 using Terraform

Phase 4: Advanced AWS (Security, Networking, and Scaling)

Goal: Master AWS enterprise-grade topics and architectures.

1. AWS VPC and Networking Deep Dive

   • Subnets, route tables, gateways
   • VPC peering and private link

2. AWS Security Best Practices

   • KMS, Secrets Manager, and encryption
   • GuardDuty and Security Hub

3. Scaling with Load Balancers and Auto Scaling Groups

   • Application Load Balancer (ALB)
   • Horizontal scaling with ASG

4. Multi-Account Strategy with AWS Organizations

   • OU, SCPs, consolidated billing
   • Best practices for governance

5. Well-Architected Framework

   • The 6 pillars: security, performance, cost, etc.
   • Using the AWS Well-Architected Tool