Cloud Computing with AWS for Absolute Beginners

Recognize AWS accounts are containers for resources and identity. Follow naming conventions, protect the root user, and use IAM for day-to-day access with a unique email and credit card.

Create an AWS free tier account to explore the AWS Management Console, using a unique email, credit card, and phone verification for hands-on cloud learning.

Discover how to use the AWS free tier, including free trials, 12-month free, and always free services, to explore SageMaker, Lambda, S3, and EC2 without charges.

Learn how to secure an AWS account with password policy and multi-factor authentication, and use access keys and secret keys for CLI and SDK access.

Enable MFA for the AWS root user with a device by scanning a QR code in Google Authenticator. Set a 16-character password policy in IAM requiring uppercase, lowercase, and numbers.

Learn the three methods to interact with AWS—management console, CLI, and SDK—highlighting when to use each, their automation benefits, and how application code can access AWS services.

Sign in to the AWS management console as root or IAM user, create an account alias, and select a region while learning to navigate services and view the billing dashboard.

Install the AWS CLI across macos, linux, and windows using the official instructions, using the macos graphical installer, and verify the installation in the terminal.

Learn how to use the AWS CLI to authenticate with access keys, configure the CLI, and list S3 buckets, while following best practices for root user credentials.

Explore how AWS regions and availability zones provide high availability and fault tolerance by using multiple data centers, reducing blast radius, and optimizing latency and regulatory compliance.

Harness edge locations to cache data closer to users, compare with regions, and leverage CloudFront and Route 53 for faster content delivery.

Learn how AWS identity and access management identifies, authenticates, and authorizes users with fine-grained policies. Apply least-privileged access controls across AWS services.

Learn how AWS IAM uses users, groups, and roles to manage access, including root vs IAM users, attaching policies, and using roles with temporary credentials for services and apps.

master how to create IAM users and groups in the AWS console, assign password or access, attach AWS managed policies, and organize permissions for developers and administrators.

Learn to log in as an IAM user, create an EC2 role, attach the Amazon S3 Full Access policy, and apply security best practices like MFA for AWS access.

Explore how IAM policies define permissions by attaching them to identities or resources, covering identity-based and resource-based policies, and distinguishing AWS managed, customer managed, and inline policies.

Learn to secure AWS accounts with IAM best practices: create individual users, form groups, apply least-privilege permissions, avoid sharing credentials, and enable CloudTrail, MFA, and credential rotation.

Explore the core AWS service S3, covering buckets, folders, and objects, including creation, organization, and versioning, plus multipart upload, storage classes, and bucket permissions.

Learn how S3 availability, durability and data replication protect your data across AWS availability zones, achieving 11 nines durability and ensuring updates and deletions propagate within a region.

Explore Amazon S3 storage classes and their use for cost optimization, durability, and availability, including standard, infrequent access, one zone infrequent access, intelligent-tiering, and glacier types.

Learn to create an S3 bucket in the AWS console, choose the Mumbai region, name it uniquely, and upload files or folders with object properties and a unique URL.

Discover elastic block storage (EBS) for EC2 instances, a network-attached, persistent volume you can attach or detach, resize, and move within an availability zone with variable IOPS.

Explore Elastic File System (EFS), a cloud-based, scalable, pay-as-you-go storage for EC2 that grows with your data and connects across availability zones.

Explore how AWS Snowball and Snowball Edge enable petabyte-scale data transfer from on-premises to AWS, with secure devices, encryption, and on-device processing for large datasets.

Explore AWS Storage Gateway, a cloud storage service that links on-premises systems to AWS with file, volume, and tape gateways, enabling low-latency access and cloud-backed backups to S3 and Glacier.

Explore the VPC networking module, detailing subnets, an internet gateway, route tables, NAT gateways, security groups, and network ACLs, with an AWS demo on creating public and private subnets.

Discover how a virtual private cloud (VPC) creates a private, isolated network in your AWS account to host resources with controlled access and security, using CIDR blocks and subnets.

Explore how subnets, internet gateways, route tables, and NAT gateways shape VPC networking across public and private subnets in AWS.

Create a VPC in AWS Mumbai, attach an internet gateway, and configure public and private subnets with route tables for a secure, region-specific network.

Compare security groups and NACLs as virtual firewalls that govern inbound and outbound traffic in a VPC, highlighting instance-level stateful security groups and subnet-level stateless NACLs.

This lecture explains AWS site-to-site VPN over the internet with encryption and AWS Direct Connect as a private, high-speed link that bypasses the public internet for on-premises connectivity.

Explore DNS fundamentals and how AWS Route 53 translates domain names to IP addresses, with features like domain registration, hosted zones, health checks, and traffic flow for reliable routing.

Understand AWS compute by exploring on-demand instances, containers, and serverless options, and learn how to choose the right compute resource for your workload while paying only for what you use.

Explore how virtual machines create isolated, software-based computers inside a physical host using a hypervisor. Learn how VMs improve portability, scalability, and cost efficiency for cloud apps and dev tests.

Launch scalable virtual machines with EC2, an IaaS service that lets you rent computing capacity, auto scale with demand, and deploy Mac OS virtual machines in AWS's secure environment.

Explore the core components of Amazon EC2, including instances, AMIs, key pairs, security groups, and tags, and learn how to access, secure, and organize EC2 resources for cost tracking.

Read EC2 instance names by breaking them into family, generation, capability, and size. Learn how M6G naming encodes instance family, generation, processor options, and size to guide performance and cost.

Explore four EC2 instance types, general purpose, compute optimized, memory optimized, and storage optimized, and learn to pick the right fit based on CPU, memory, storage, and networking.

Launch and configure your first EC2 instance in the AWS management console, selecting a nearby region, Amazon Linux 2, a free-tier t2.micro, and a security group with SSH and HTTP.

Learn to SSH into an EC2 instance, fix key permissions, install and start httpd, test via browser, then terminate the instance and review EBS and security group settings.

Launch and connect to a Windows EC2 instance in the AWS management console, choosing a Windows AMI, enabling a public IP, and using an RDP client to access the instance.

Explore serverless computing in cloud applications where the provider manages servers, eliminating infrastructure provisioning and maintenance. Benefit from auto-scaling, pay-as-you-go pricing, and high availability as functions run only when needed.

Learn aws lambda, a serverless service that runs code on demand without provisioning servers, scales automatically, charges by usage, and integrates with s3, dynamodb, api gateway, sns, sqs, and cloudwatch.

Explore Elastic Container Service (ECS) as a fully managed way to deploy and scale Docker containers on AWS. Grasp task definitions, task roles, clusters, and launch types Fargate and EC2.

Learn how AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies deploying and scaling web applications as a platform as a service by automatically provisioning and managing AWS resources, with support for multiple languages.

Explore data source types, including structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data, and see how predefined formats and column structures guide database choices.

Learn why structured data fits a relational database, avoiding redundancy and inconsistency by using tables, schema, and a primary key, with AWS relational database solutions.

Contrast on premise databases with AWS cloud options, detailing DBAs, OS patching, backups, high availability, scaling, and two paths: a cloud virtual machine or Amazon RDS.

Learn how Amazon RDS provides a managed, cloud-based relational database that provisions, patches, backups, and scales databases with multi-AZ availability and point-in-time restore.

Launch an RDS MySQL instance in AWS by creating a subnet group, placing it in private subnets, configuring security and connectivity, and optionally backing up from S3.

Discover Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database offering fast, predictable performance and seamless scalability, with tables, items, attributes, primary keys, and on-demand backups with point-in-time recovery.

Discover how Elastic Cache delivers a fully managed in-memory cache using Redis or Memcached to boost application performance and reduce database load for low-latency, real-time use cases.

Discover how a data warehouse consolidates data from multiple sources to power analytics with Amazon Redshift, AWS's fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale SQL-based analytics solution.

Discover how AWS auto scaling uses CloudWatch to automatically adjust capacity, delivering elasticity by scaling EC2 instances up or down to maintain performance and reduce costs.

Configure an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Group to automatically maintain the number of instances by setting minimum size, desired capacity, and maximum size, with health checks that replace unhealthy instances.

Explore how auto scaling policies regulate the auto scaling group to launch or terminate EC2 instances via manual, dynamic, target tracking, scheduled, and predictive scaling, guided by CloudWatch alarms.

Analyze launch configuration and launch template to define EC2 instance settings for auto scaling, including multiple versions, instance types, storage, networking, user data, IAM roles, and on-demand or spot options.

Learn the concept of load balancing to distribute traffic across multiple EC2 instances, ensuring even workload and scalability with AWS Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancer.

Explain how Elastic Load Balancer distributes public and internal traffic across EC2 instances, works with Auto Scaling to add or terminate instances, and routes traffic only to healthy servers.

Explore AWS elastic load balancers—application, network, classic, and gateway—how they operate at different OSI layers, their supported protocols, and key use cases for web apps and real-time traffic.