📆 Week: Week 1: AWS Foundations + IAM & EC2
🎯 Goal: Understand core AWS concepts and how to launch/manage basic infrastructure.
📚 Topic: Intro to AWS, Free Tier Setup
⏱️ Time: 1h Read + 1h Console
📝 Notes: Sign up for free account, explore the Console
📆 Week: Week 1: AWS Foundations + IAM & EC2
🎯 Goal: Understand core AWS concepts and how to launch/manage basic infrastructure.
📚 Topic: Global Infrastructure & IAM
⏱️ Time: 1h Docs + 1h Hands-on
📝 Notes: Create users, roles, policies
📆 Week: Week 1: AWS Foundations + IAM & EC2
🎯 Goal: Understand core AWS concepts and how to launch/manage basic infrastructure.
📚 Topic: EC2 Basics
⏱️ Time: 1h Video + 1h Practice
📝 Notes: Launch a Linux EC2, connect via SSH
📆 Week: Week 1: AWS Foundations + IAM & EC2
🎯 Goal: Understand core AWS concepts and how to launch/manage basic infrastructure.
📚 Topic: Security Groups & Key Pairs
⏱️ Time: 1h Video + 1h Hands-on
📝 Notes: Test opening/closing ports
📆 Week: Week 1: AWS Foundations + IAM & EC2
🎯 Goal: Understand core AWS concepts and how to launch/manage basic infrastructure.
📚 Topic: Elastic IPs & Instance Types
⏱️ Time: 1h Read + 1h Practice
📝 Notes: Understand pricing too
📆 Week: Week 1: AWS Foundations + IAM & EC2
🎯 Goal: Understand core AWS concepts and how to launch/manage basic infrastructure.
📚 Topic: Review & Small Task
⏱️ Time: 2h Practice
📝 Notes: Deploy a web app on EC2 (basic HTML)
📆 Week: Week 1: AWS Foundations + IAM & EC2
🎯 Goal: Understand core AWS concepts and how to launch/manage basic infrastructure.
📚 Topic: Break or Recap
⏱️ Time: Optional
📝 Notes: Watch AWS tutorials or revisit weak spots
📆 Week: Week 2: S3, CloudWatch, Billing
🎯 Goal: Learn how to store and monitor data, manage AWS billing.
📚 Topic: S3 Basics
⏱️ Time: 1h Docs + 1h Hands-on
📝 Notes: Create buckets, upload/download files
📆 Week: Week 2: S3, CloudWatch, Billing
🎯 Goal: Learn how to store and monitor data, manage AWS billing.
📚 Topic: S3 Permissions & Lifecycle Rules
⏱️ Time: 1h Docs + 1h Console
📝 Notes: Practice public/private settings
📆 Week: Week 2: S3, CloudWatch, Billing
🎯 Goal: Learn how to store and monitor data, manage AWS billing.
📚 Topic: CloudWatch Intro
⏱️ Time: 1h Video + 1h Hands-on
📝 Notes: Set alarms for EC2
📆 Week: Week 2: S3, CloudWatch, Billing
🎯 Goal: Learn how to store and monitor data, manage AWS billing.
📚 Topic: Billing Dashboard & Budgets
⏱️ Time: 2h Practice
📝 Notes: Set up alerts for free-tier limits
📆 Week: Week 2: S3, CloudWatch, Billing
🎯 Goal: Learn how to store and monitor data, manage AWS billing.
📚 Topic: S3 Static Website Hosting
⏱️ Time: 2h Project
📝 Notes: Host a simple static site
📆 Week: Week 2: S3, CloudWatch, Billing
🎯 Goal: Learn how to store and monitor data, manage AWS billing.
📚 Topic: Quiz + Practice
⏱️ Time: 2h
📝 Notes: Build mini-lab: S3 + EC2 project
📆 Week: Week 2: S3, CloudWatch, Billing
🎯 Goal: Learn how to store and monitor data, manage AWS billing.
📚 Topic: Break / Read AWS FAQs
⏱️ Time: Optional
📝 Notes: Explore Well-Architected Framework
📆 Week: Week 3: VPC, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling
🎯 Goal: Understand networking and scaling.
📚 Topic: VPC, Subnets, Route Tables
⏱️ Time: 1h Docs + 1h Console
📝 Notes: Build custom VPC
📆 Week: Week 3: VPC, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling
🎯 Goal: Understand networking and scaling.
📚 Topic: Security Groups vs NACLs
⏱️ Time: 2h Practice
📝 Notes: Compare use cases
📆 Week: Week 3: VPC, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling
🎯 Goal: Understand networking and scaling.
📚 Topic: Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
⏱️ Time: 2h Project
📝 Notes: Deploy 2 EC2s behind ELB
📆 Week: Week 3: VPC, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling
🎯 Goal: Understand networking and scaling.
📚 Topic: Auto Scaling Groups
⏱️ Time: 2h Hands-on
📝 Notes: Scale based on CPU usage
📆 Week: Week 3: VPC, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling
🎯 Goal: Understand networking and scaling.
📚 Topic: CloudWatch Metrics
⏱️ Time: 2h Practice
📝 Notes: Monitor ELB & ASG
📆 Week: Week 3: VPC, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling
🎯 Goal: Understand networking and scaling.
📚 Topic: VPC Networking Lab
⏱️ Time: 2h Project
📝 Notes: Full small VPC app setup
📆 Week: Week 3: VPC, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling
🎯 Goal: Understand networking and scaling.
📚 Topic: Break or Deep Dive
⏱️ Time: Optional
📝 Notes: Explore Route 53 basics
📆 Week: Week 4: RDS, Lambda, IAM Advanced
🎯 Goal: Get into databases and serverless computing.
📚 Topic: RDS Intro
⏱️ Time: 2h Practice
📝 Notes: Create MySQL/PostgreSQL DB
📆 Week: Week 4: RDS, Lambda, IAM Advanced
🎯 Goal: Get into databases and serverless computing.
📚 Topic: Connect EC2 to RDS
⏱️ Time: 2h Hands-on
📝 Notes: Test a simple connection
📆 Week: Week 4: RDS, Lambda, IAM Advanced
🎯 Goal: Get into databases and serverless computing.
📚 Topic: Lambda Functions Basics
⏱️ Time: 2h Practice
📝 Notes: Trigger via API Gateway
📆 Week: Week 4: RDS, Lambda, IAM Advanced
🎯 Goal: Get into databases and serverless computing.
📚 Topic: IAM Advanced Roles & Policies
⏱️ Time: 2h
📝 Notes: Use policy simulator
📆 Week: Week 4: RDS, Lambda, IAM Advanced
🎯 Goal: Get into databases and serverless computing.
📚 Topic: Final Project: Mini Web App
⏱️ Time: 2h
📝 Notes: EC2 + RDS + S3 + IAM
📆 Week: Week 4: RDS, Lambda, IAM Advanced
🎯 Goal: Get into databases and serverless computing.
📚 Topic: Review, Notes, Questions
⏱️ Time: 2h
📝 Notes: Write down what you learned
📆 Week: Week 4: RDS, Lambda, IAM Advanced
🎯 Goal: Get into databases and serverless computing.
📚 Topic: Cert Prep (Optional)
⏱️ Time: Optional
📝 Notes: Explore AWS Cloud Practitioner content