AWS Tutorials

AWS Tutorials Roadmap

Section 1: AWS Cloud Essentials and Fundamentals

  • Introduction to Cloud Computing:
    • What is Cloud Computing?
    • Benefits of Cloud Computing (Cost Savings, Scalability, Elasticity, Reliability, Global Presence).
    • Types of Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
    • Deployment Models (Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud).
  • Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS):
    • What is AWS?
    • History and Global Infrastructure (Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations).
    • Key Services Overview (Compute, Storage, Database, Networking, Security, etc.).
    • AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDKs.
  • AWS Global Infrastructure:
    • Understanding Regions and Availability Zones (AZs).
    • Why use multiple AZs?
    • Understanding Edge Locations and their role (CloudFront, Route 53).
  • AWS Shared Responsibility Model:
    • Understanding what AWS is responsible for ("Security of the Cloud").
    • Understanding what the customer is responsible for ("Security in the Cloud").
  • AWS Pricing and Billing:
    • Understanding different pricing models (On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, Savings Plans).
    • Using the AWS Pricing Calculator.
    • Understanding AWS Free Tier.
    • Introduction to AWS Cost Management tools (Cost Explorer, Budgets).
  • Setting up an AWS Account:
    • Creating an AWS account.
    • Understanding the Root user.
    • Initial security best practices (MFA for Root user).

Section 2: Core AWS Services - Compute

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2):
    • What is EC2?
    • Understanding EC2 Instance Types and Families.
    • Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).
    • Launching and managing EC2 Instances.
    • Connecting to EC2 Instances (SSH, RDP, Session Manager).
    • EC2 Pricing (On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances).
    • Understanding EC2 Security Groups.
    • Understanding EC2 Key Pairs.
    • Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs).
  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS):
    • What is EBS?
    • EBS Volume Types (gp2/gp3, io1/io2, st1, sc1).
    • Creating and attaching EBS Volumes to EC2 Instances.
    • EBS Snapshots (creating, restoring, copying).
    • EBS Encryption.
  • Load Balancing (Elastic Load Balancing - ELB):
    • What is ELB?
    • Types of Load Balancers (Application Load Balancer - ALB, Network Load Balancer - NLB, Gateway Load Balancer - GWLB, Classic Load Balancer - CLB - legacy).
    • Configuring and using ALBs and NLBs.
    • Health Checks.
    • Listeners and Target Groups.
  • Auto Scaling (EC2 Auto Scaling):
    • What is Auto Scaling?
    • Understanding Launch Configurations and Launch Templates.
    • Creating Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs).
    • Scaling Policies (Simple, Step, Target Tracking, Scheduled).
    • Health Checks and Instance Replacement.
  • Containers on AWS:
    • Introduction to Containers (Docker).
    • Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS).
    • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
    • AWS Fargate (Serverless containers).
    • Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).
  • Serverless Compute (AWS Lambda):
    • What is Serverless?
    • What is AWS Lambda?
    • Writing and deploying Lambda functions.
    • Lambda Triggers and Integrations (API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, etc.).
    • Lambda Pricing.

Section 3: Core AWS Services - Storage

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3):
    • What is S3?
    • S3 Buckets and Objects.
    • S3 Storage Classes (Standard, Intelligent-Tiering, Standard-IA, One Zone-IA, Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive, Outposts).
    • S3 Versioning.
    • S3 Encryption (SSE-S3, SSE-KMS, SSE-C, Client-Side).
    • S3 Access Control (Bucket Policies, ACLs).
    • S3 Static Website Hosting.
    • S3 Lifecycle Policies.
    • S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR).
    • S3 Pre-Signed URLs.
  • Amazon Elastic File System (EFS):
    • What is EFS?
    • Use cases for EFS (shared file system for EC2).
    • Creating and mounting EFS file systems.
    • EFS Performance Modes and Throughput Modes.
  • Amazon FSx:
    • What is Amazon FSx?
    • Understanding FSx for Lustre, Windows File Server, NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS.
    • Use cases for different FSx file systems.
  • Amazon S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive:
    • Understanding these archival storage classes.
    • Retrieval options and costs.
  • AWS Storage Gateway:
    • What is Storage Gateway?
    • Gateway Types (File Gateway, Volume Gateway, Tape Gateway).
    • Connecting on-premises storage to AWS.

Section 4: Core AWS Services - Databases

  • Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS):
    • What is RDS?
    • Supported Database Engines (Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server).
    • Launching and managing RDS Instances.
    • RDS Multi-AZ Deployments (High Availability).
    • RDS Read Replicas (Read Scaling).
    • RDS Security Groups.
    • RDS Snapshots and Backups.
  • Amazon DynamoDB:
    • What is DynamoDB? (NoSQL Database).
    • Understanding Tables, Items, and Attributes.
    • Primary Keys (Partition Key, Sort Key).
    • Provisioned Throughput vs. On-Demand Capacity.
    • Global Tables.
    • Streams.
  • Amazon Redshift:
    • What is Redshift? (Data Warehouse).
    • Understanding Clusters and Nodes.
    • Use cases for Redshift.
  • Amazon ElastiCache:
    • What is ElastiCache? (In-memory caching service).
    • Supported Engines (Redis, Memcached).
    • Use cases for caching.
  • Amazon Aurora:
    • Understanding Aurora (AWS-proprietary relational database).
    • Aurora features (High performance, scalability).
    • Aurora Serverless.
  • Other Database Services (Brief Overview):
    • Neptune (Graph Database).
    • Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB).
    • DocumentDB (MongoDB compatible).
    • Keyspaces (Cassandra compatible).

Section 5: Core AWS Services - Networking and Content Delivery

  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC):
    • What is a VPC?
    • Understanding VPCs, Subnets (Public and Private).
    • Internet Gateways (IGW).
    • NAT Gateways and NAT Instances.
    • Route Tables.
    • Network Access Control Lists (NACLs).
    • Security Groups.
    • VPC Peering.
    • VPC Endpoints (Gateway and Interface).
    • Flow Logs.
  • Amazon Route 53:
    • What is Route 53? (DNS Web Service).
    • Understanding Domain Registration.
    • Hosted Zones (Public and Private).
    • DNS Record Types (A, CNAME, MX, AAAA, TXT, etc.).
    • Routing Policies (Simple, Weighted, Latency, Geolocation, Geoproximity, Failover, Multivalue Answer).
    • Health Checks.
  • Amazon CloudFront:
    • What is CloudFront? (Content Delivery Network - CDN).
    • Understanding Distributions (Web and RTMP).
    • Origins (S3, EC2, Custom).
    • Caching behavior.
    • Geo-restriction.
    • Integration with WAF and Shield.
  • AWS Direct Connect:
    • What is Direct Connect?
    • Establishing a dedicated network connection from on-premises to AWS.
    • Use cases.
  • AWS Transit Gateway:
    • What is Transit Gateway?
    • Connecting multiple VPCs and on-premises networks.
    • Simplifying network architecture.

Section 6: AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance

  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM):
    • What is IAM?
    • Understanding Users, Groups, Roles, and Policies.
    • IAM Policies (JSON format).
    • IAM Best Practices (Least Privilege, MFA, Access Keys).
    • IAM Roles for EC2 and other services.
    • Identity Federation.
  • AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA):
    • Understanding different MFA types.
    • Enabling MFA for Root and IAM users.
  • AWS Key Management Service (KMS):
    • What is KMS?
    • Creating and managing Customer Master Keys (CMKs).
    • Integrating KMS with other AWS services (S3, EBS, RDS, etc.).
    • Understanding encryption concepts.
  • AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store:
    • Storing and rotating secrets (passwords, API keys).
    • Storing configuration data and secrets.
  • AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF):
    • What is WAF?
    • Protecting web applications from common web exploits.
    • Creating rules (IP addresses, HTTP headers, query strings, etc.).
    • Integration with CloudFront, ALB, API Gateway.
  • AWS Shield:
    • What is Shield? (DDoS protection service).
    • Shield Standard vs. Shield Advanced.
  • AWS GuardDuty:
    • What is GuardDuty? (Threat detection service).
    • Monitoring for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior.
  • AWS Security Hub:
    • What is Security Hub?
    • Centralizing security alerts and findings from various AWS services.
  • AWS Config:
    • What is Config?
    • Assessing, auditing, and evaluating the configurations of your AWS resources.
    • Compliance checking.
  • AWS CloudTrail:
    • What is CloudTrail?
    • Logging AWS API calls and events.
    • Security analysis, resource change tracking, and compliance auditing.

Section 7: Management, Monitoring, and Operations

  • Amazon CloudWatch:
    • What is CloudWatch?
    • Monitoring AWS resources and applications.
    • CloudWatch Metrics (collecting and viewing).
    • CloudWatch Alarms (setting thresholds and receiving notifications).
    • CloudWatch Logs (collecting and analyzing log files).
    • CloudWatch Events / EventBridge (responding to AWS events).
  • AWS Systems Manager:
    • What is Systems Manager?
    • Managing EC2 Instances and on-premises servers.
    • Session Manager (secure shell access).
    • Run Command (executing commands remotely).
    • Patch Manager.
    • Parameter Store (storing configuration data).
  • AWS Trusted Advisor:
    • What is Trusted Advisor?
    • Providing recommendations on Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance, and Service Limits.
  • AWS Health Dashboard:
    • Monitoring the health of your AWS services and resources.
  • AWS CloudFormation:
    • What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
    • What is CloudFormation?
    • Writing CloudFormation templates (YAML or JSON).
    • Creating, updating, and deleting stacks.
    • Understanding Change Sets.
    • StackSets (deploying stacks across multiple accounts and regions).
  • AWS Service Catalog:
    • What is Service Catalog?
    • Creating and managing catalogs of IT services approved for use on AWS.

Section 8: Developer Tools and Application Integration

  • AWS CodeCommit:
    • What is CodeCommit? (Managed Git repository service).
    • Storing and managing source code.
  • AWS CodeBuild:
    • What is CodeBuild? (Managed build service).
    • Compiling source code, running tests, and producing build artifacts.
  • AWS CodeDeploy:
    • What is CodeDeploy? (Managed deployment service).
    • Automating application deployments to EC2, Fargate, Lambda, and on-premises servers.
  • AWS CodePipeline:
    • What is CodePipeline? (Managed continuous delivery service).
    • Automating release pipelines (build, test, deploy).
    • Integrating with CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and third-party tools.
  • AWS CodeStar:
    • What is CodeStar?
    • Quickly setting up a continuous delivery toolchain for applications on AWS.
  • Amazon API Gateway:
    • What is API Gateway?
    • Creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring, and securing REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs.
    • Integrating with Lambda, EC2, and other AWS services.
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS):
    • What is SQS? (Managed message queuing service).
    • Decoupling application components.
    • Standard Queues vs. FIFO Queues.
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS):
    • What is SNS? (Managed messaging service).
    • Publish-subscribe messaging.
    • Sending notifications to various endpoints (email, SMS, Lambda, SQS, HTTP).
  • AWS Step Functions:
    • What is Step Functions?
    • Coordinating multiple AWS services into serverless workflows.

Section 9: Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning (Introduction)

  • Amazon EMR:
    • What is EMR? (Managed Hadoop framework).
    • Processing large amounts of data using open-source tools.
  • Amazon Athena:
    • What is Athena? (Interactive query service).
    • Querying data directly in S3 using standard SQL.
  • Amazon QuickSight:
    • What is QuickSight? (Business intelligence service).
    • Creating visualizations and dashboards.
  • Amazon Kinesis:
    • What is Kinesis? (Collecting, processing, and analyzing real-time streaming data).
    • Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Firehose, Kinesis Data Analytics.
  • Amazon SageMaker:
    • What is SageMaker? (Fully managed machine learning service).
    • Building, training, and deploying machine learning models.

Section 10: Other Important AWS Services and Concepts

  • AWS Directory Service:
    • Managed Microsoft AD, Simple AD, AD Connector.
    • Integrating with existing on-premises directories.
  • AWS Organizations:
    • Consolidating multiple AWS accounts.
    • Centralized billing and management.
    • Service Control Policies (SCPs).
  • AWS Resource Groups & Tagging:
    • Organizing AWS resources.
    • Using tags for management, cost allocation, and automation.
  • AWS Budgets:
    • Setting custom budgets to track your costs.
    • Receiving alerts when costs exceed thresholds.
  • AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store (revisited):
    • Storing configuration data and secrets.
    • Integration with other AWS services.
  • AWS Well-Architected Framework (Introduction):
    • Understanding the pillars (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization).
    • Designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the cloud.

Section 11: Advanced Topics and Specializations

  • Networking Deep Dive:
    • Advanced VPC configurations.
    • Direct Connect Gateway.
    • AWS Global Accelerator.
  • Security Deep Dive:
    • Identity Federation scenarios.
    • AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).
    • AWS Systems Manager Secrets Manager (more depth).
    • Security Automation with AWS Services.
  • High Availability and Disaster Recovery:
    • Designing for HA across AZs and Regions.
    • DR strategies (Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Multi-Site Active/Active).
    • AWS Backup.
  • Performance Optimization:
    • EC2 instance selection.
    • EBS and EFS performance tuning.
    • Database performance tuning.
    • Caching strategies.
  • Cost Optimization Strategies:
    • Leveraging Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
    • Using Spot Instances.
    • Right-sizing resources.
    • Using Cost Explorer and Budgets effectively.
  • DevOps on AWS:
    • Integrating AWS Developer Tools (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline).
    • Using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform).
    • Monitoring and Logging for DevOps.
  • Machine Learning and AI Services:
    • More in-depth on SageMaker.
    • Other AI services (Rekognition, Comprehend, Translate, etc.).
  • Data Analytics Deep Dive:
    • Working with Data Lakes on S3.
    • Using Glue, EMR, Redshift, Athena, QuickSight.
  • Serverless Architecture:
    • Designing applications using Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, Step Functions.
    • Serverless deployment frameworks (SAM, Serverless Framework).
  • Container Orchestration (ECS/EKS Deep Dive):
    • Managing container clusters.
    • Networking and storage for containers.
    • CI/CD for containers.

Section 12: Practice, Certification, and Continuous Learning

  • Hands-on Practice:
    • Use the AWS Free Tier to experiment.
    • Build small projects using the services you learn.
    • Utilize AWS Workshops and Labs.
  • AWS Certifications:
    • Understanding the different certification paths (Foundational, Associate, Professional, Specialty).
    • Preparing for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Foundational).
    • Preparing for Associate level certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, Developer).
  • Stay Updated:
    • Follow the AWS Blog and Announcements.
    • Attend AWS re:Invent and other AWS events (virtually or in person).
    • Explore new services and features as they are released.
  • Community and Resources:
    • AWS Documentation (the ultimate source of truth).
    • AWS Training and Certification resources.
    • Online communities and forums.
    • Third-party training providers.