Overview

Starting your career in the cloud computing industry is a good choice, and AWS Cloud is an excellent place to begin the journey. Amazon Web Services offers a wide range of services and tools that enable businesses to operate more efficiently and effectively. There are numerous reasons why starting your career with AWS Cloud is desirable:

High demand for AWS Cloud skills: As more and more businesses move their operations to the cloud, the demand for AWS Cloud professionals is increasing rapidly. This trend is expected to continue as more businesses adopt cloud-based technologies to improve their operations.
Diverse career paths: AWS Cloud offers a variety of career paths, ranging from technical roles such as cloud architects and DevOps engineers to non-technical roles such as project manager, sales and marketing. Whether you are tech, non-tech or somewhere in between, there’s an AWS Cloud career path for you.
Learning and growth opportunities: Working in the AWS Cloud opens a wide range of training and certification programs that enable professionals to maximize their careers. Whether you are new to the industry or have experience, there is always something changing and growing in cloud computing.
Make a difference: The AWS Cloud helps individuals and businesses to innovate, improve efficiency, cut costs and scale growth. As an AWS Cloud professional, you won’t just solve problems – you’ll have a chance to work on projects that have a worldwide impact on businesses and communities.

With high demand for AWS Cloud skills, diverse career paths, opportunities for learning and growth, and meaningful work, the AWS Cloud is an attractive and fulfilling place to build your cloud computing career.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Introduction to AWS Cloud Careers

This course is intended for students, early and mid-career professionals who are looking to understand the core technical roles and the challenges, responsibilities and opportunities they are face on daily basis with building in the AWS Cloud.

Course 2: AWS Services Overview for IT Professionals

This course is intended for IT Professionals looking to learn the basics of core AWS services.

Course 3: Hands-on with AWS for IT Professionals

Get hands-on with AWS and build a solution that addresses a common data, operations, and architecture scenario.

Courses

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2 weeks, 2-4 hours a week, 2-4 hours a week
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This course introduces technical roles in the AWS Cloud and explains why the Public Cloud Computing model is the new normal. The instructors teach some of the terminologies that are needed to start a Cloud learning journey, covering topics such as the difference between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, Cloud Computing models (Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud), what are APIs (and why they are important), elasticity, horizontal and vertical scaling. Then, we define the difference between relationship, availability, and milestone-oriented roles, and interview Amazon employees who provide their point of view of how is the day in a life of a Solutions Architect, Data Scientist, Software Developer Engineer, Systems Administrator, Security Engineer, and Customer Support Engineer.
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2 weeks, 2-4 hours a week, 2-4 hours a week
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This course gets hands-on by teaching how to create a new AWS Account, create an Administrative User, and explore the AWS Free Tier. Students can then follow demonstration and explainer videos containing on how AWS Services can combine to create solutions that can be useful in real-life scenarios. The scenarios are grouped into three major categories: Data, Operations, and Architecture. In the data scenario, the instructors will show how a Machine Learning solution automatically redacts PII (Personal Identifiable Information) when data gets retrieved from an Amazon S3 bucket. In the Operations scenario, the instructors will show how to configure billing alerts. In the Architecture scenario, the instructors will demonstrate the usage of Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Network) to fix a network topology needing a private subnet for sensitive workloads while embracing Multiple Availability Zones for higher resiliency.
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3 weeks, 2-4 hours a week, 2-4 hours a week
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This foundational course will strengthen your understanding of AWS Services. The instructors will teach basic topics regarding computing, networking, storage, database, monitoring, security, serverless, containers, databases, and cost optimization. We will map AWS Services and features to different technical roles in cloud computing. For example, the instructors will provide an overview of Amazon S3 from the perspective of a Solutions Architect, a Security Analyst and a Data Scientist, highlighting and explaining the top features that these roles will use.