Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
Why AWS? :heart_eyes:
- Easy to use
- Flexible
- Cost Effective
- Reliable
- Scalable and high-performance
- Secure
- Amazing Support Team
Who uses AWS? :raising_hand:
LinkedIn, Netflix, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter, Adobe and many more Tech Giants.
Topics to Cover :books:
Stephane Maarek provides one of the best courses for AWS on Udemy.
Link: Ultimate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2020
It is recommended to go through this full course. You can also go through the AWS Docs and learn the following topics yourself owing to how easy AWS is to use:
| S.No. | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1. | Principles of Cloud Computing |
| 2. | Setup an AWS Account |
| 3. | Intro to AWS |
| 4. | IAM and EC2 |
| 5. | Loading Balancing and ELB & ASG |
| 6. | EC2 Storage- EBS & EFS |
| 7. | RDS+ Aurora+ ElastiCache |
| 8. | Route 53 |
| 9. | Amazon S3 |
| 10. | AWS CLI |
| 11. | CloudFront & AWS Global Accelerator |
| 12. | AWS Storage Extras (Snowball, FSx) |
| 13. | Decoupling Applications: SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Active MQ |
| 14. | Serverless Architecture |
| 15. | Databases |
| 16. | Monitoring & Audit: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config |
| 17. | Security |
| 18. | Networking |
| 19. | Disaster Recovery & Migrations |
| 20. | Billing & Cost Prediction |
Once you get familiar these, you can very well call yourself an AWS Cloud Developer. It’s recommended you practice this on a few projects to ensure you understand everything.
Done? :disappointed_relieved:
Not yet! Now that you’ve explored AWS, you can either learn Azure or GCP.
I love AWS :heart: What next?
You can apply to give an exam and become a Certified AWS Developer here.
We hope you now know the roadmap to being a professional and certified AWS Cloud Developer :v: