AWS Fundamentals for Beginners

learn how identity and access management governs who can access AWS resources by using users, groups, and policies, with conditions and fine-grained permissions, and manage this via the console.

Create and manage identity and access management (iam) users and groups, assign permissions with policies, and practice least privilege by revoking and detaching policies while signing into the console.

Explore how iam policies attach to identities with managed and inline policies, using json policy documents to define permissions and observe deny versus allow precedence in a lab.

Get an overview of IAM roles, learn to create a role, attach policies, grant temporary credentials to EC2 instances and S3 buckets, and map identities from apps.

Learn essential IAM best practices for AWS: avoid root usage, use role-based admin accounts, enforce password policies, enable MFA, rotate credentials, and organize users with groups to apply least privilege.

Discover EC2 basics by defining virtual servers and instances, noting on-demand provisioning, region-based deployment for latency, and pay-as-you-go cloud advantages over traditional infrastructure.

Learn to choose and launch EC2 instances using AMIs, selecting operating systems and predefined images, and sizing instances by memory, storage, and networking needs.

Explore AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, how they attach to instances, how they provide remote, scalable storage with encryption, snapshots, and disaster recovery options.

Learn how AWS security groups act as virtual firewalls to control inbound and outbound traffic for instances using protocol, port, and source IP range rules, with changes taking effect immediately.

Launch a lab EC2 instance by choosing region, Windows Server 2016, instance type, storage, and security settings; configure a security group, public IP, and download the key pair for access.

Launch an EC2 instance by selecting a region to reduce latency, choosing a Windows Server image and instance type, configuring security groups, public IP, storage, and basic monitoring.

Deploy a simple website on an EC2 Windows Server instance by installing IIS, creating an index.html, and connecting via remote desktop using the public DNS.

Install and configure IIS on a Windows EC2 instance, deploy a basic website, and configure public DNS or IP and security groups to expose port 80.

Explore AWS security best practices, including never sharing credentials, enabling multi-factor authentication, applying minimum configurations, managing instances wisely with stop, modify, and backup via snapshots, and setting budgets and alerts.

Learn S3 basics: a cloud storage service with unlimited bucket and object storage, accessible via console or cli, with bucket lifecycle management, encryption, and read/write and eventual consistency.

Explore Amazon s3 storage classes, including standard, standard infrequent access, one zone infrequent access, glacier, and object lifecycle transitions, plus bucket policies and iam policies for access control.

Explore the AWS S3 lab: create a unique bucket, upload objects, set public access, and configure lifecycle rules to transition objects between storage classes after a set number of days.

Explore AWS database services, covering relational databases (RDBMS) like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora, and NoSQL options such as DynamoDB. Understand managed features, instances, autoscaling, backups.

Launch and configure an AWS RDS DB instance in the region, choose the MySQL engine and instance class, set security group rules, then connect via the endpoint with MySQL Workbench.

Learn about DynamoDB, the fully managed database that scales automatically, delivers single-digit millisecond latency, global multi-region replication, encryption, backups, and built-in security for web, mobile, games, and IoT apps.

Explore DynamoDB basics with a hands-on lab: create tables, set primary keys, add items, and compare NoSQL structure to RDBMS, while understanding a flexible schema and simple queries.

Modify and manage AWS resources in the Mumbai region by changing instance types, adjusting backups, enabling monitoring, creating read replicas, taking snapshots, and cleaning up DynamoDB tables to avoid costs.

Explore how CloudWatch monitors your cloud infrastructure, create billing and instance alarms, set thresholds, and receive email alerts to manage costs and performance with real-time metrics.

Learn how elastic load balancing distributes traffic across multiple instances and regions, keeping applications highly available, secure, and scalable with application, network, and classic load balancers.

Learn how aws ec2 auto scaling automatically expands or shrinks infrastructure to match traffic using launch configurations and auto scaling groups, with minimum, maximum, and desired instances.

Explore Amazon Route 53, a DNS service that registers domains, manages DNS records, routes traffic with private hosted zones and routing policies such as simple, failover, geolocation, and latency.

Explore AWS lambda, a serverless compute platform that runs code on demand, scales automatically, and charges only for compute time, enabling real-time processing and scalable event triggers.