Become an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner: 2020 - Updated

Master AWS compute with EC2 basics, on-demand, reserved, and spot instances, and explore Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, and Lightsail for scalable, secure cloud apps.

Launch your first EC2 instance using the AWS console: choose an AMI, select hardware, configure VPC and security groups, add tags, and set up a key pair.

Create and configure an Amazon S3 bucket, choosing a unique, DNS-compliant name and region, then enable versioning, encryption, and access controls to manage objects, logging, and lifecycle transitions to Glacier.

Master identity and access management to securely control authentication and authorization for aws resources, including users, groups, policies, roles, and federation with mfa.

Launch a MySQL database instance in a fully managed relational service, configure the VPC and security groups, enable backups and monitoring, and learn deletion protection and safe deletion steps.

Explore Amazon Aurora, a cloud-friendly, MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database in RDS, delivering high performance and availability with low cost, automatic backups, 15 low-latency replicas, and cross-AZ replication.

Explore elastic load balancing that distributes traffic across multiple targets in single or multiple availability zones, with high availability, automatic scaling, and security, featuring application, network, and classic load balancers.

Learn to create a VPC with a single subnet, choose public or private types, and configure security groups and an elastic IP for internet access.

Learn how AWS messaging tools SQS and SNS help decouple and scale applications, with standard and FIFO queues, server-side encryption, and fully managed, pay-as-you-go messaging.