Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most widely used cloud platforms, and the top pick for many organizations looking to scale and reduce costs by adopting a cloud infrastructure strategy. This course explores AWS from the architect's perspective, focusing on the foundations you need to build scalable and reliable cloud-based application architectures. Instructor Jeff Winesett covers everything from high-level principles and best practices to hands-on implementation, optimization, and security. He takes three different approaches-manual, automated, and serverless-so you can see how AWS fits a variety of workflows and architectures. Each lesson is backed with practical examples, grounding services like Elastic Load Balancing, RDS, DynamoDB, and CloudFront in a real-world context.

Topics include:

Cloud concepts
Cloud best practices
Creating a new AWS account
Managing IAM groups, roles, and permissions
EC2 regions and availability zones
Launching a new EC2 instance
Setting up Elastic Load Balancing
Creating a MySQL RDS database
Autoscaling
Using Elastic Beanstalk
Caching
Serverless architectures with AWS
Lambda and the Gateway API
Decoupling with SQS, SWF, and SNS
Controlling costs