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Introduction to AWS (2026) - Free course
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Introduction to AWS (2026) - Free course

A BIG picture - Must watch AWS introduction. (50 mins, Free course)
Created byChetan Agrawal | Ex. Senior Solutions Architect at AWS
Last updated 2/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn about AWS Global Datacenter
  • AWS Services overview and their applicability in any given architecture
  • AWS Compute services, Storage services, Data analytics services, Security Services, Development and DevOps Services overview

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 50m total length

  • Course Introduction2:22

    This short course is to provide you the high level overview of what is AWS and AWS services. We will take a different approach here to learn AWS where I will show you how can you build a sample social media application architecture using leading AWS services.


    Happy learning AWS!

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  • AWS Global Datacenter - Regions, Availabilty Zones, Edge locations10:51

    In this lecture you will know AWS Global Datacenters - AWS Regions and Availability Zones (AZs) where you can deploy your AWS Services.

  • Scope of AWS Services within AWS Account, Region and Availability zones2:50

    In this lecture, we talk about relationship between AWS account, regions and AZs. This is required to know to understand what's the scope of different AWS Services.

  • Build a social media appliaction architecture (On-premises version)17:58

    In this lecture we are going to see that if we need to build sample social media application (mini version), then what architecture and which all application components we would require to be deployed on on-premises data center. This is still a very basic application and in real world it might have lot more components.

    With AWS, the functionality of the components and architecture remains nearly same, just that we need to do that AWS Way. Follow next lecture to see how same architecture can be built using AWS services.

  • Build a social media application architecture (AWS version)13:40

    Here we will map our on-premises components and architecture to AWS. How and which AWS services we need to build the same architecture.

    Here we covered some of the widely used AWS services like EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch etc however there could be more services included in this architecture as per functionality requirements.

  • What next?3:09

    If you liked this short course, I will encourage you to go for "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02" course which aims to build strong foundation in AWS and get you AWS Certified. You can find the course here on Udemy.


    You can visit the course: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-clf-c02-latest/?referralCode=E4E802AB0D47D58AC70A


    Also I’d greatly appreciate if you could share about Cloud Practitioner course with anyone starting their AWS journey. Unlike typical certification-focused courses, this one is designed to build a solid AWS foundation, making future AWS learning much easier.

    I’d love for you to check it out or help spread the word among your friends, family and colleagues.


    Happy learning AWS!


    ~Chetan



Requirements

  • No pre-requisites
  • This course is for absolute starters with AWS

Description

(Note: This is not a hands-on course, it's intented to get high level overview of AWS cloud platform and services)

About the course:

In this short course I have covered the overview of AWS services and tried to show the sample architecture for the social media application. It covers core or important AWS services which you will typically use to build your application. Intent here is to not to advocate on production architecture but instead to show how various AWS services work together and where they fit into the puzzle. I hope that this high level overview helps you remember the purpose of AWS services in a better way. I hope you like it.


About the instructor:

Chetan Agrawal works as a Senior Solutions Architect in the leading cloud company and has 20 years of Industry experience. Chetan has 200k+ students across various learning platforms including Udemy, YouTube and AWSwithChetan.


Who is this course for?

This course is for those who are new to AWS and want to understand AWS ecosystem including AWS global infrastructure and widely used AWS services.


What is covered in this course?

  1. AWS Global Infrastructure

  2. AWS Account & services

  3. Building sample social media application (on-premises version)

  4. Building sample social media application (AWS version)

  5. Building strong AWS foundation & getting AWS Certified


Is this a hands-on AWS course?

No, its not a hands-on course. For hands-on courses, checkout my other courses here or on awswithchetan platform.

Who this course is for:

  • AWS Cloud Beginners
  • Who want to understand AWS eco-system

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