AWS
The market-leading cloud — compute, storage, managed Kubernetes, serverless, and the IAM model everything else depends on.
AWS fundamentals & IAM
Accounts, regions, and the identity/access model — users, roles, and policies — everything else builds on.
EC2 & VPC networking
Launching virtual machines and the virtual network (subnets, route tables, security groups) around them.
S3 & storage
Object storage fundamentals, buckets, and storage classes.
RDS & databases
Managed relational databases and the trade-offs versus running your own.
EKS — Kubernetes on AWS
Running a managed Kubernetes control plane, and how node groups fit in.
Lambda & serverless
Running code without managing servers, and when serverless makes sense.
CloudFormation / IaC basics
Declaring AWS infrastructure as versioned templates instead of manual clicks.
CloudWatch & monitoring
Metrics, logs, and alarms for knowing what your infrastructure is doing.
Cost & Well-Architected basics
Reading a bill, avoiding common cost traps, and the Well-Architected Framework's five pillars.