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AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials: Jumpstart your journey within the AWS Cloud

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Overview

Broaden your knowledge of AWS IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS infrastructure

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s largest and most popular cloud platform. It provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to millions of organisations across the globe.

This four-week course from AWS Training and Certification will introduce you to AWS infrastructure, concepts, and services to grow your understanding of AWS Cloud.

Discover the wide range of AWS services including networking and analytics

The list of services provided by AWS is extremely comprehensive, with categories ranging from security, networks, and analytics to storage, databases, and machine learning.

You’ll learn about the range of products, services, and tools offered by AWS and become familiar with their functions and how organisations use them to grow their business. By the end of the course, you’ll know the ins and outs of all that AWS has to offer.

Explore AWS for business development

Whether you’re watching a show on a video streaming service, or participating in a virtual meeting, many of the things you do every day rely on services that run in the cloud. As a result, organisations have a high and growing demand for staff with cloud skills—and not just technical roles.

You’ll delve into the benefits of cloud fluency across businesses and examine how it leads to increased employee confidence, faster innovation, and collaboration to create technical solutions.

Pursue AWS Training and Certification to advance your career path

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been providing not only services but training and certification to millions worldwide.

This course will act as a starting point for you to grow your AWS skills and knowledge and pursue official AWS training and certification to unlock new opportunities in your career.

This course is designed for those who would like to improve their overall understanding of AWS Cloud services, concepts, and infrastructure.

It is also the perfect starting point to prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to Amazon Web Services
    • Getting Started
    • Module 1: Introduction to Amazon Web Services
    • Module 2: Compute in the Cloud
  • Global Infrastructure and Reliability, Networking
    • Module 3: AWS Global Infrastructure and Reliability
    • Module 4: Networking
  • Storage and Databases
    • Module 5: Storage and Databases
  • Security
    • Module 6: Security
  • Monitoring and Analytics, Pricing and Support
    • Module 7: Monitoring and Analytics
    • Module 8: Pricing and Support
  • Migration and Innovation, The Cloud Journey
    • Module 9: Migration and Innovation
    • Module 10: The Cloud Journey
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Basics
    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Basics

Taught by

Morgan Willis

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