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Arno Pretorius
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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.


Topics to master as a beginner to cloud computing:


  • 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


A final note...

For those that are interested in learning Cloud Computing from scratch, feel free to check out my latest course:


Cloud Computing on AWS: Ultimate Beginners Course - 2022

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Khushi •

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

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Arno Pretorius •

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

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monikaspec641 •

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

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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!