AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

Name: AWS Cloud Technical Essentials
Rating: 4.5 (49 reviews)

4.549 ratings at edX

Overview

Kick off your cloud career by learning the fundamentals of AWS products, services, and solutions and basic concepts of database, storage, networking, security and cloud computing.

What you'll learn

Terminology and concepts related to the AWS platform
How to navigate the AWS Management Console
Key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Several AWS compute services including Amazon EC2, Amazon Lambda, Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS
AWS storage and database offerings such as Amazon RDS, Amazon Dynamo DB and Amazon S3
Further insights into AWS' networking capabilities
The monitoring capabilities of Amazon CloudWatch

Syllabus 17

Welcome to the Course
Getting Started with AWS Cloud
Security in the AWS Cloud
AWS Identity and Access Management
Week 1 Assessment, Readings, and Resources
Introduction to Week 2
AWS Compute
AWS Networking
Week 2 Assessment, Readings and Resources
Storage on AWS
Databases on AWS
Week 3 Assessment, Readings and Resources
Monitoring on AWS
Optimization
Going Serverless
Week 4 Assessment, Readings and Resources
End of Course Assessment

Skills you'll practise

Cloud Development Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Operations Business Requirements Database Storage Structures Scalability Fault Tolerance

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

University courses you can audit for free, with lectures, readings and practice quizzes.
A verified certificate from the university if you pay for it.
From Amazon Web Services, a well-regarded name.
Self-paced: start any time.
A clear syllabus (17 parts) you can see before you start.

Disadvantages

Graded assignments and the certificate need the paid track.
Audit access can expire a few weeks after the course ends.
Learning is free, but the certificate costs money.
Some parts (graded work, certificate) are paid.

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Free to audit

Free: Choose "Audit this course" when you enrol: lectures, readings and practice are free.
Paid: Graded assignments and the verified certificate (Certificate $99). Audit access may end after the course closes.

Before you start

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Taught by

Morgan WillisPrincipal Cloud Technologist
Seph RCloud Technologist

Amazon Web Services is in Tier 2: excellent universities and the companies that build the technology of our institution ranking (86/100).

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PlatformedX

ByAmazon Web Services

PriceFree to audit Certificate $99

CertificatePaid certificate

LanguageEnglish

Time4 weeks, 2 - 4 hours per week

PaceSelf-paced

LevelBeginner

Learners31,866

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