AWS Roadmap

Course Objective:

• Learn the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud computing.
• Understand AWS global infrastructure, regions, availability zones, and core cloud concepts.
• Learn how to create, configure, secure, monitor, and manage AWS resources.
• Develop practical skills with core AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
• Understand networking, databases, storage, security, serverless computing, containers, and DevOps on AWS.
• Learn Infrastructure as Code, automation, monitoring, scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Build real-world AWS projects and prepare for professional-level cloud engineering and DevOps roles.

1

Introduction to Cloud Computing & AWS:

• What is Cloud Computing?
• Traditional IT vs Cloud Computing.
• PaaS, SaaS.
• Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.
• Benefits of Cloud Computing.
• Introduction to AWS.
• AWS history and evolution.
• AWS use cases.
• AWS Management Console.
• AWS CLI and SDK.
• AWS Free Tier.
• AWS global infrastructure.
• Regions and Availability Zones.
• Edge Locations.
• AWS shared responsibility model.

2

AWS Identity and Access Management — IAM:

• What is IAM?
• Users, Groups, Roles, and Policies.
• Root user vs IAM user.
• Creating IAM users.
• Creating IAM groups.
• Attaching policies.
• Attaching policies.
• Managed vs inline policies.
• IAM roles.
• IAM policy structure.
• Permissions and least-privilege access.
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
• Access keys.
• IAM best practices.
• Cross-account access.
• AWS Organizations basics.
• AWS Identity Center basics.

3

Amazon EC2 — Compute:

• What is Amazon EC2?
• EC2 instance types.
• General-purpose, compute, memory, storage, and accelerated instances.
• AMIs.
• Launching an EC2 instance.
• Key pairs.
• Security Groups.
• Connecting to Linux EC2 using SSH.
• Connecting to Windows EC2 using RDP.
• Elastic IP.
• Instance lifecycle.
• Stop, start, reboot, and terminate.
• User Data.
• EC2 instance metadata.
• EBS volumes.
• EBS snapshots.
• Instance Store.
• Placement groups.
• Dedicated Hosts and Dedicated Instances.

4

Amazon S3 — Cloud Storage

• What is Amazon S3?
• Buckets and Objects.
• Creating S3 Buckets.
• Uploading and Downloading Objects.
• S3 Storage Classes.
• S3 Standard.
• S3 Intelligent-Tiering.
• S3 Standard-IA.
• S3 One Zone-IA.
• S3 Glacier Storage Classes.
• Bucket Policies.
• IAM Policies for S3.
• Block Public Access.
• Versioning.
• Lifecycle Rules.
• Encryption.
• S3 Object Lock.
• Static Website Hosting.
• S3 Event Notifications.
• S3 Replication.
• Cross-Region Replication.
• S3 Transfer Acceleration.

5

AWS Networking Fundamentals

• Networking Fundamentals.
• IP Addresses.
• Public vs Private IP.
• IPv4 and IPv6.
• CIDR Notation.
• Subnets.
• Routing.
• Ports and Protocols.
• DNS Basics.
• TCP/IP Basics.
• Internet Gateway.
• NAT Gateway.
• Network ACLs.
• Security Groups.
• Route Tables.
• Elastic Network Interfaces.

6

Amazon VPC — Virtual Private Cloud

• What is Amazon VPC?
• Creating a Custom VPC.
• Public and Private Subnets.
• Availability Zones.
• Route Tables.
• Internet Gateway.
• NAT Gateway.
• VPC Endpoints.
• Security Groups.
• Network ACLs.
• Bastion Host.
• VPC Peering.
• Transit Gateway.
• VPC Flow Logs.
• DNS in VPC.
• PrivateLink.
• AWS Client VPN.
• Site-to-Site VPN.
• Direct Connect Basics.

7

AWS Elastic Load Balancing

• What is Load Balancing?
• Why Load Balancing is Required.
• Application Load Balancer (ALB).
• Network Load Balancer (NLB).
• Gateway Load Balancer.
• Listeners.
• Listener Rules.
• Target Groups.
• Health Checks.
• Path-Based Routing.
• Host-Based Routing.
• SSL/TLS Termination.
• Load Balancing with EC2.
• High Availability Architecture.

8

AWS Lambda — Serverless Computing

• What is serverless computing?
• Lambda functions.
• Lambda runtime.
• Execution model.
• Environment variables.
• Lambda layers.
• IAM roles for Lambda.
• Lambda triggers.
• Lambda + S3.
• Lambda + API Gateway.
• Lambda + EventBridge.
• Concurrency.
• Versions and aliases.
• Error handling.
• Serverless architecture.

9

Amazon API Gateway

• What is API Gateway?
• REST APIs.
• HTTP APIs.
• WebSocket APIs.
• API resources and methods.
• Stages and deployments.
• Lambda integration.
• Authentication and authorization.
• API keys and usage plans.
• Throttling.
• CORS.
• Custom domains.
• API monitoring.

10

Amazon RDS — Relational Database Service

• Database fundamentals.
• Amazon RDS.
• MySQL.
• PostgreSQL.
• MariaDB.
• Oracle.
• SQL Server.
• Creating RDS databases.
• Database security.
• Multi-AZ deployments.
• Read Replicas.
• Automated backups.
• Snapshots.
• Amazon Aurora.
• Database monitoring.

11

Amazon DynamoDB — NoSQL Database

• What is DynamoDB?
• Tables and items.
• Partition keys.
• Sort keys.
• Primary keys.
• Secondary indexes.
• Global secondary indexes.
• Local secondary indexes.
• DynamoDB Streams.
• On-demand capacity.
• Provisioned capacity.
• Auto Scaling.
• DynamoDB backups and recovery.

12

Amazon CloudWatch — Monitoring

• What is Amazon CloudWatch?
• Metrics.
• Logs.
• Log Groups.
• Log Streams.
• Dashboards.
• Alarms.
• CloudWatch Agent.
• CloudWatch Logs Insights.
• Monitoring EC2.
• Monitoring Lambda.
• Monitoring RDS.
• Application monitoring.
• Automated alerts.
• Troubleshooting AWS resources.

13

AWS CloudTrail & Auditing

• What is AWS CloudTrail?
• API activity monitoring.
• Management events.
• Data events.
• Trails.
• CloudTrail logs.
• Log storage in S3.
• Security auditing.
• User activity tracking.
• Compliance monitoring.
• CloudTrail + CloudWatch.
• Security investigation.

14

AWS Security

• AWS security fundamentals.
• Shared Responsibility Model.
• IAM security.
• MFA.
• Least-privilege access.
• AWS KMS.
• Encryption at rest.
• Encryption in transit.
• AWS Secrets Manager.
• Systems Manager Parameter Store.
• AWS Certificate Manager.
• AWS WAF.
• AWS Shield.
• Amazon GuardDuty.
• Amazon Inspector.
• Amazon Macie.
• AWS Security Hub.
• AWS Config.

15

Amazon Route 53 — DNS

• What is DNS?
• Hosted zones.
• DNS records.
• A records.
• AAAA records.
• CNAME records.
• Alias records.
• MX records.
• TTL.
• Health checks.
• Simple routing.
• Weighted routing.
• Latency-based routing.
• Failover routing.
• Geolocation routing.
• Multi-region applications.

16

Amazon CloudFront — CDN

• What is a CDN?
• CloudFront distributions.
• Origins.
• Behaviors.
• Cache policies.
• Cache invalidation.
• HTTPS.
• SSL/TLS certificates.
• CloudFront + S3.
• CloudFront + ALB.
• Signed URLs.
• Signed cookies.
• Global content delivery.
• Performance optimization.

17

AWS Storage Services

• Amazon EBS.
• Amazon EFS.
• Amazon FSx.
• Amazon S3.
• S3 Glacier.
• AWS Storage Gateway.
• AWS Backup.
• Block storage.
• Object storage.
• File storage.
• Storage lifecycle management.
• Backup and recovery strategies.

18

AWS Messaging & Application Integration

• Amazon SQS.
• Standard queues.
• FIFO queues.
• Visibility timeout.
• Dead-letter queues.
• Amazon SNS.
• Topics and subscriptions.
• Fan-out architecture.
• SNS + SQS.
• Amazon EventBridge.
• Event-driven architecture.
• AWS Step Functions.
• Workflow automation.
• Decoupled applications.

19

AWS Containers — Docker & ECS

• Container fundamentals.
• Docker basics.
• Container images.
• Amazon ECR.
• Amazon ECS.
• ECS clusters.
• ECS services.
• ECS tasks.
• Task definitions.
• AWS Fargate.
• ECS + Load Balancer.
• Container deployment and scaling.

20

Amazon EKS — Kubernetes on AWS

• Kubernetes fundamentals.
• Amazon EKS.
• Clusters.
• Nodes.
• Pods.
• Deployments.
• Services.
• ConfigMaps.
• Secrets.
• Namespaces.
• EKS networking.
• EKS security.
• Scaling Kubernetes applications.

21

AWS DevOps & CI/CD

• What is DevOps?
• CI/CD concepts.
• Git and GitHub.
• AWS CodeBuild.
• AWS CodeDeploy.
• AWS CodePipeline.
• Build automation.
• Deployment automation.
• Blue/Green deployment.
• Rolling deployment.
• Canary deployment.
• Continuous Integration.
• Continuous Delivery.
• Continuous Deployment.

22

Infrastructure as Code — CloudFormation

• What is Infrastructure as Code?
• AWS CloudFormation.
• Templates.
• YAML and JSON.
• Resources.
• Parameters.
• Outputs.
• Conditions.
• Mappings.
• Intrinsic functions.
• Stacks.
• Nested stacks.
• Stack updates.
• Change Sets.
• Drift detection.
• CloudFormation best practices.

23

AWS Systems Manager

• What is AWS Systems Manager?
• Session Manager.
• Parameter Store.
• Run Command.
• Patch Manager.
• Automation.
• Inventory.
• Maintenance Windows.
• EC2 management.
• Secure server administration.
• Remote command execution.

24

AWS Architecture & High Availability

• High Availability.
• Fault tolerance.
• Scalability.
• Elasticity.
• Reliability.
• Multi-AZ architecture.
• Multi-Region architecture.
• Load balancing.
• Auto Scaling.
• Database replication.
• Disaster recovery.
• Backup strategies.
• RTO and RPO.
• Recovery strategies.

25

AWS Well-Architected Framework

• Operational Excellence.
• Security.
• Reliability.
• Performance Efficiency.
• Cost Optimization.
• Sustainability.
• Well-Architected Reviews.
• Resilient applications.
• Scalable applications.
• Secure applications.
• Cost-aware architecture.

26

AWS Cost Management & Optimization

• AWS pricing fundamentals.
• Pay-as-you-go model.
• AWS Pricing Calculator.
• AWS Billing.
• AWS Cost Explorer.
• AWS Budgets.
• Cost allocation tags.
• Reserved Instances.
• Savings Plans.
• Spot Instances.
• EC2 right-sizing.
• Storage cost optimization.
• Database cost optimization.

27

AWS Observability & Operations

• CloudWatch advanced monitoring.
• CloudWatch Logs Insights.
• CloudWatch dashboards.
• CloudWatch alarms.
• AWS X-Ray.
• Distributed tracing.
• Application performance monitoring.
• OpenTelemetry basics.
• Centralized logging.
• Log analysis.
• Performance troubleshooting.
• Operational automation.

28

AWS Advanced Networking

• VPC architecture.
• Transit Gateway.
• VPC Peering.
• AWS PrivateLink.
• Network Load Balancer.
• Site-to-Site VPN.
• Client VPN.
• AWS Direct Connect.
• Hybrid cloud networking.
• Multi-account networking.
• Network segmentation.
• Centralized network architecture.
• Advanced routing.
• Network security.

29

AWS Multi-Account Architecture

• AWS Organizations.
• Organizational Units.
• Management Account.
• Member Accounts.
• Service Control Policies.
• AWS Control Tower.
• Account governance.
• Centralized logging.
• Centralized security.
• Identity management.
• Multi-account networking.
• Landing Zones.
• Enterprise AWS architecture.

30

AWS AI & Machine Learning Fundamentals

• Introduction to AI/ML on AWS.
• Amazon SageMaker.
• Training models.
• Deploying models.
• SageMaker endpoints.
• Amazon Bedrock.
• Foundation models.
• Generative AI basics.
• AI application architecture.
• Amazon Rekognition.
• Amazon Textract.
• Amazon Comprehend.
• Amazon Transcribe.
• Amazon Polly.

31

AWS Migration & Modernization

• Cloud migration fundamentals.
• AWS migration strategies.
• Rehost.
• Replatform.
• Refactor.
• Repurchase.
• Retain.
• Retire.
• AWS Migration Hub.
• Application Discovery.
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS).
• Server migration.
• Application modernization.
• Legacy application migration.

32

AWS Automation & AWS CLI

• AWS CLI.
• AWS SDK.
• Bash scripting.
• Python automation.
• Lambda automation.
• Systems Manager automation.
• CloudFormation automation.
• EventBridge automation.
• Automated backups.
• Automated deployments.
• Automated scaling.
• Infrastructure provisioning.

33

AWS + Terraform — Professional Level

• Introduction to Terraform.
• Terraform installation.
• AWS provider.
• Resources.
• Variables.
• Outputs.
• Data sources.
• Terraform state.
• Remote state.
• Terraform modules.
• Terraform with VPC.
• Terraform with EC2.
• Terraform with RDS.
• Terraform with IAM.
• Terraform best practices.
• Terraform CI/CD.
• Production infrastructure automation.

Skills You'll Gain:

• Strong understanding of Cloud Computing and AWS.
• Ability to work with AWS IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, and other core services.
• Ability to design secure and scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Understanding of AWS networking and cloud security.
• Experience with databases, storage, serverless, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Ability to use AWS CLI and automate cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Ability to monitor and troubleshoot AWS applications.
• Understanding of high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and scalability.
• Ability to design real-world AWS architectures.
• Preparation for AWS Cloud Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect, and Solutions Architect career paths.

Duration:

Typically ranges from 24 to 30 weeks, depending on the course intensity and format.

Certification:

Earn a certificate of completion that can be added to your resume or LinkedIn profile.