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