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AWS Services Overview for IT Professionals
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AWS Services Overview for IT Professionals

An introduction to the AWS cloud through lenses of different IT professions
Created byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
Last updated 3/2025
English
English

What you'll learn

  • Recall and describe the different job roles in IT infrastructure, including their responsibilities and tasks.
  • Explain how compute, networking, and storage relate to different IT job roles.
  • Compare the different features of the main compute offerings on AWS.
  • Evaluate the different AWS storage options and select the appropriate storage for different use cases.
  • Assess and compare AWS monitoring services, such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail.

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Course content

3 sections • 30 lectures • 2h 0m total length

  • Introduction1:55

    Explore the six IT pillars (compute, network, storage, database, monitoring, and security) and how AWS cloud services map to them for roles like solutions architects and DBAs.

  • Pre-Course Survey0:27
  • Compute, Networking, Storage5:25

    Explore six it pillars—compute, networking, storage, database, monitoring, security—and how they relate across it roles. See how compute devices, networks, and storage power developers, sys admins, and solutions architects.

  • Database, Monitoring, Security4:53

    Explore databases, monitoring, and security as the final pillars of aws services. Detail roles like database administrators, developers, and data analysts, and highlight cpu usage, breaches, and secure practices.

  • The Physical Cloud5:58

    Explore data centers, availability zones, and regions, and how private high-speed links and redundancy drive high availability; see how the solution architect and system administrator shape these choices.

  • Virtual Private Clouds Overview5:54

    Discover virtual private clouds, how regions and availability zones shape a private network, and how subnets, ec2 instances, and databases live inside a vpc.

  • Elastic Cloud Compute5:12

    Launch virtual servers with Amazon EC2, and configure instances across regions and AZs. Manage a virtual private cloud with public and private subnets, and pay only when the instance runs.

  • Going Serverless4:40

    Understand serverless computing and how AWS Lambda runs backend code on demand without server management. See how this fully managed approach replaces EC2, uses triggers, and provisions scalable infrastructure automatically.

  • Building with Containers4:01

    Explore containers as portable, lightweight packages and learn how to run them with Amazon ECS, deploy them on AWS, and manage decoupled components across environments.

  • Week 1 FAQs3:18
  • Week 1 Quiz

Requirements

  • Software: A computer with internet access.
  • Mindset and Prerequisites: A commitment to self-paced learning, with the flexibility to complete modules on your own schedule. Open-mindedness and curiosity for learning AWS concepts. Basic knowledge of Amazon Web Services is helpful but not required. This course will start with foundational concepts.
  • Materials: All course materials, including readings, videos, and resources, will be provided within the course platform. No textbooks are required. Any supplementary readings or materials will be available for free.

Description

This foundational course will strengthen your understanding of AWS Services. The instructors will teach basic topics regarding computing, networking, storage, database, monitoring, security, serverless, containers, databases, and cost optimization. We will map AWS Services and features to different technical roles in cloud computing. For example, the instructors will provide an overview of Amazon S3 from the perspective of a Solutions Architect, a Security Analyst and a Data Scientist, highlighting and explaining the top features that these roles will use.

The first week covers the foundations of the AWS Cloud infrastructure. You'll learn about various compute, networking, and storage offerings on AWS. You'll also review each offering through the lenses of different IT professions.

The second week, you'll learn about the various storage options on AWS, and how to select the best storage options based on various use cases. You'll also explore the key differences between relational and nonrelational (NoSQL) databases, in addition to assessing the encryption, performance, and monitoring capabilities of file systems.

The final week, you'll explore monitoring, cost optimization, and security offerings on AWS. First, you'll learn about monitoring services that collect, access, and analyze your cloud operations. Then, you'll compare cost-management tools and determine the lowest-cost service or method so you can optimize your environment for cost. Finally, at the end of this week, you'll dive into cloud security by learning about the AWS shared responsibility model.

You'll also learn how to compare the various AWS security services, and identify the services that you could use to enhance cloud security.

Who this course is for:

  • IT Professionals looking to understand AWS Services

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