From EC2 to production-grade cloud architecture
Day 1
Compute, Networking & Storage
- IAM fundamentals: users, groups, roles, policies, least privilege
- EC2: instance types, AMIs, user data, instance profiles
- Auto Scaling Groups, Launch Templates, ALB target groups
- VPC: subnets, route tables, internet gateways, NAT gateways
- Security Groups vs NACLs
- VPC endpoints: gateway and interface types
- S3: buckets, object storage, versioning, lifecycle policies, presigned URLs
- EBS vs EFS vs S3: choosing the right storage type
- CloudFront CDN basics
Day 2
Managed Services & Databases
- RDS: managed relational databases, Multi-AZ, read replicas
- Aurora: serverless v2, global database
- DynamoDB: partition key design, GSIs, capacity modes, DAX
- ElastiCache: Redis cluster mode
- SQS and SNS: queue vs topic, fan-out patterns
- Lambda basics (full coverage in separate training)
- ECS and EKS: container orchestration on AWS
- ECR: private container registry
- Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store
- AWS Certificate Manager
Day 3
Security, Monitoring & IaC
- CloudTrail: API audit logging, event history
- CloudWatch: metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards, Container Insights
- AWS X-Ray: distributed tracing basics
- Config: resource compliance, config rules
- GuardDuty and Security Hub
- AWS Organizations and SCPs
- Cost Explorer, Budgets, Savings Plans
- CloudFormation basics
- Terraform on AWS: provider configuration, modules, state in S3 with DynamoDB locking
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
What your team walks away with
AWS practitioners who can architect, deploy, and operate production workloads — understanding the service landscape, security model, and cost levers.
- Design VPC networking with correct security group and routing configuration
- Select the right compute, database, and storage service for each workload pattern
- Apply IAM least privilege with roles, policies, and instance profiles
- Monitor infrastructure with CloudWatch and control costs with budgets and Cost Explorer
Book the AWS training
Available as a 3-day foundations course or as role-focused sessions — developer, architect, or operations track.
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