AWS for Cloud & DevOps Engineers¶
Duration: 12–16 weeks · Difficulty: Beginner → Advanced
Production Amazon Web Services (AWS) — design, deploy, secure, operate, and optimise cloud environments for Cloud, DevOps, Platform, and SRE roles.
Course status
Curriculum follows the REBASH AWS technology prompt (16 modules). Tutorials use Excalidraw diagrams under docs/assets/excalidraw/ (not D2). Regenerate with python3 scripts/generate-excalidraw-svg.py. Start with AWS Fundamentals.
Cost hygiene
Prefer Free Tier and destroy resources after labs. NAT Gateways, idle ALBs, and RDS are common bill surprises. Create a billing alarm before you launch paid services.
1. Course overview¶
Purpose¶
Build production AWS fluency: global infrastructure, IAM, VPC design, compute and data services, containers and serverless, observability, security, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, cost control, reliability, and multi-account landing zones.
Target roles¶
Cloud Engineer · DevOps · Platform · SRE · DevSecOps · Infrastructure · Solutions Architect
Prerequisites¶
- Linux · Networking · Git
- Docker
- Kubernetes and Terraform recommended for Modules 7 and 11+
Capstone outcomes¶
Secure networking · IAM governance · EKS/ECS · serverless patterns · CI/CD · monitoring · backup/DR · cost optimisation · multi-account landing zone
2. Modules¶
| Module | Focus | Start here |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS fundamentals | Global infrastructure |
| 2 | IAM | Identity & access |
| 3 | Networking | VPC networking |
| 4 | Compute | EC2 · ASG · LB |
| 5 | Storage | S3 · EBS · EFS |
| 6 | Databases | RDS · DynamoDB |
| 7 | Containers | ECS · EKS · ECR |
| 8 | Serverless | Lambda & events |
| 9 | Monitoring | Observability |
| 10 | Security | Security services |
| 11 | IaC | Terraform · CFN · CDK |
| 12 | CI/CD | Pipelines on AWS |
| 13 | Cost | Cost optimisation |
| 14 | Reliability | HA & DR |
| 15 | Production | Landing zones |
| 16 | Troubleshooting | Troubleshoot AWS |
3. Practice¶
- Labs · Projects · Quizzes
- Cheat sheets · Interview · Capstone
- Roadmap · FAQ · Certifications