AWS Architect Masterclass: Zero to Certified Latest

Explore AWS global infrastructure across regions and availability zones, learn how elastic services like EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, and CloudFront enable scalable, reliable cloud solutions versus on-premises infrastructure.

Learn to navigate the AWS management console, distinguish global vs regional services, and select the nearest region, with examples like S3, Route 53, EC2, and VPC.

Explore the Amazon free tier landscape, including signup requirements, always free, 12-month, and trial offers, and learn to calculate monthly hours to avoid charges while exploring compute, storage, and databases.

Explore AWS IAM basics by creating groups and users, assigning policies, and granting console access to manage full or read-only permissions, with a custom sign-in URL.

Compare traditional storage with cloud object storage and learn how Amazon S3 uses buckets and objects, metadata, versioning, and encryption for secure, scalable storage.

Build practical skills in Amazon S3: create buckets, organize folders, upload and make objects public, enable versioning and encryption, choose storage classes, and manage deletions.

Learn to host a static website on S3 with a bucket, set static hosting and public access, and explore Glacier and S3 lifecycle for archival moves.

Explore AWS EC2 instance concepts, including instance families, generations, and sizes, and learn when to choose general-purpose, memory-optimized, storage-optimized, or bare-metal instances.

Learn to launch and connect to an AWS EC2 instance by choosing region, AMI, instance type, storage, and security groups, understand pricing models, and manage lifecycle from launch to termination.

Learn to create and attach elastic block store volumes (EBS) to Windows and Linux instances, take snapshots, extend volumes, and manage the EBS lifecycle in AWS with practical labs.

Master AWS autoscale by configuring triggers and thresholds with CloudWatch alarms, enabling automatic scale out and scale in, and building launch configurations with an auto scaling group plus topic-based notifications.

Explore AWS identity and access management basics, including authentication versus authorization, users, groups, roles, policies, and enabling multi-factor authentication with virtual MFA.

Learn how to create groups, users, roles, and policies in AWS IAM, attach policies, test permissions, and use roles to access services like EC2 and S3.

Learn how Amazon VPC creates a private, isolated cloud network with subnets, route tables, and security groups; perform hands-on setup of public and private subnets, internet gateway, and connectivity testing.

Learn how Amazon CloudFront, a global content delivery network, speeds delivery of static and dynamic content by caching in multiple locations, with security options and practical setup.

Explore aws rds: relational databases like mysql and postgres, compare relational and no sql, and review oltp vs olap, backups, data warehouse, and ETL.

Explore Amazon Redshift and EMR for scalable data warehouses and big data processing. Understand Redshift architecture with leader and compute nodes, PostgreSQL foundation, S3, and EMR's Hadoop and Spark workloads.

Learn AWS CloudTrail, an auditing and log service that records account activity for governance and compliance. View, export, and create trails with S3 storage, and compare with CloudWatch monitoring.