AWS: The topics that you need to master as a beginner

Preface:

As a beginner to cloud computing, there are a vast amount of topics that you need to master first before further advancing in your cloud computing career.

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Topics to master as a beginner to cloud computing:

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• General IT concepts (basic networking)

• The AWS global infrastructure (Regions, Availability Zones, VPC's (subnets) and Edge Locations)

• How to create and setup an AWS account

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) -> fundamental to understanding how the AWS cloud works

• The concept of scalability and high availability

• Cloud storage services (S3, EBS and EFS)

• Databases

• Basic deployment on AWS

• DNS services and content delivery

• The basic concept of containers and serverless computing

• The basic concept of cloud monitoring and integration

• The basic concept of security and encryption

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A final note...

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Cloud Computing on AWS: Ultimate Beginners Course - 2022

Comments

[Khushi]

Thanks I was thinking to start with aws. This seems helpful.😊

[Arno Pretorius]

My pleasure! Thank you for your feedback! Definitely, AWS is a very fun topic to learn!

[monikaspec641]

I am completing the cloud practitioner essentials course for the AWS cloud practitioner certificate. This will help a lot for my examination revision.

[Arno Pretorius]

Hi! I'm glad to hear that this outline will be of some value to you! Good luck with your preparations for your CCP exam!