Build and Scale with AWS Cloud - A Hands-on Beginners Guide

Accelerate your AWS Cloud skills with hands-on labs, guided demos, and real-world exercises

What you'll learn
- Learn how to leverage AWS services to achieve high availability, scale your application seamlessly, and build flexible, efficient cloud architectures
- Set up secure IAM users, roles, and policies to control access to AWS resources and apply best security practices throughout the environment
- Launch and manage EC2 instances, create custom AMIs, automate application startup, implement Auto Scaling, and configure Elastic Load Balancing
- Use Amazon EFS for scalable, persistent storage and store user data securely with Amazon S3, applying appropriate access controls
- Integrate Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) with Secrets Manager for secure credential management, and use KMS for encryption at rest
- Send notifications via Amazon SNS using email for system alerts and events
- Design a custom VPC with public/private subnets, Internet Gateway, and NAT Gateway, and ensure secure data transmission using ACM and Route 53
- Monitor application performance, troubleshoot issues, and visualize metrics using CloudWatch dashboards and logs
- By the end, you’ll know how to deploy and manage a full-stack application on AWS, with a focus on integrating each feature into a real-world cloud environment

Requirements
- AWS Free Tier account
- No prior technical experience needed

Description
What’s in this course?

This course offers a hands-on, step-by-step approach to mastering AWS by guiding you through the deployment and scaling of a real-world full-stack application. Starting with foundational cloud concepts, you'll gradually learn how to launch compute resources, manage storage, set up secure networking, and automate infrastructure tasks.

As you progress, you'll work with key AWS services like EC2 for virtual machines, RDS for managed databases, and S3 for scalable storage. You'll also implement Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to ensure your application stays highly available under high traffic. Security is woven throughout the course, with practical guidance on configuring IAM roles, managing secrets with Secrets Manager, encrypting data with KMS, and securely routing traffic using Route 53.

To complete the picture, you'll use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues in real time. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and confidence to deploy, manage, secure, and scale applications in AWS.

Special Note:

This course is specially designed not just to help you understand AWS concepts theoretically, but to build confidence in designing scalable and secure architectures. Throughout the course, we follow best practices wherever possible and focus heavily on hands-on learning. Every concept is demonstrated live, with real-time troubleshooting of issues as they arise, giving you exposure to real-world scenarios and practical problem-solving.

Course Structure:

Concept-based Lectures

Hands-on demonstrations

Real-world Implementation

Practice test

Course Contents:

Learn cloud computing basics and service models (As per NIST)

Learn AWS fundamentals and set up & navigate your AWS Free Tier account

Manage IAM users, groups, roles, and permissions (AWS Security, Identity, & Compliance Services)

Launch and connect to EC2 instances using AMIs and templates (AWS Compute Services)

Configure load balancers with target groups and listeners (AWS Compute Services - ELB's)

Set up auto scaling with health checks and policies (AWS Compute Services - ASG's)

Create and mount shared file systems using EFS (AWS Storage Services)

Store data and manage access with Amazon S3 (AWS Storage Services)

Launch and manage databases using Amazon RDS (AWS Database Services)

Create topics and send notifications with Amazon SNS (AWS Application Integration Services)

Build custom networks using VPC, subnets, and gateways (AWS Networking Services)

Manage encryption with KMS and use keys with AWS services (AWS Security, Identity, & Compliance Services)

Set up subdomains and SSL certificates using Route 53 and ACM (AWS Networking Services)

Monitor metrics, logs, and create dashboards with CloudWatch (AWS Management & Governance Services)

All sections in this course are demonstrated Live. The intention for enrolled users is to setup their own Cloud environment, perform the exercises and learn by doing!

Who this course is for:
- Anyone looking to gain practical, hands-on experience in deploying full-stack applications on AWS using real-world scenarios and best practices
- Perfect for cloud professionals, DevOps engineers, and SREs aiming to build a strong foundation and confidence in AWS services
- deal for academic students, professors, and researchers starting with the fundamentals of cloud computing and AWS
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