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Kyle Y. Parsotan
Kyle Y. Parsotan

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AWS Roadmap: Beginner to Advanced

🟒 1. Cloud Fundamentals

Before diving into AWS, understand:

  • What is cloud computing?
  • IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS
  • Regions and Availability Zones
  • Shared Responsibility Model

Recommended: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

πŸ”΅ 2. Core AWS Services

Start with the building blocks:

Category Services
Compute EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk
Storage S3, EBS, Glacier
Databases RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora
Networking VPC, Route 53, CloudFront
Security IAM, KMS, Cognito

🟣 3. Hands-On Projects

  • Host a static website on S3
  • Deploy a serverless function with Lambda
  • Launch a WordPress site on EC2
  • Build a REST API with API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB

🟠 4. DevOps & Automation

  • Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, Terraform
  • CI/CD: CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
  • Monitoring: CloudWatch, X-Ray
  • Containerization: ECS, EKS, Fargate

🟑 5. Security & Identity

  • IAM: Users, Roles, Policies
  • MFA and access keys
  • Encryption with KMS
  • VPC security groups and NACLs
  • Compliance and auditing with AWS Config and CloudTrail

🟀 6. Advanced Architecture

  • Auto Scaling and Load Balancing
  • Multi-tier architecture
  • High availability and fault tolerance
  • Disaster recovery strategies
  • Hybrid cloud and VPNs

βšͺ 7. Specialized Services

Explore based on your goals:

Goal Services
AI/ML SageMaker, Rekognition, Comprehend
Big Data EMR, Athena, Glue, Redshift
IoT AWS IoT Core, Greengrass
Mobile/Web Apps Amplify, AppSync

πŸš€ 8. Certifications Path

Level Certification
Beginner Cloud Practitioner
Associate Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps Admin
Professional Solutions Architect Pro, DevOps Engineer
Specialty Security, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, etc.

πŸ“š Recommended Resources

Type Resource
Docs AWS Documentation
Interactive AWS Skill Builder
Courses A Cloud Guru, freeCodeCamp, Coursera
Practice AWS Labs on GitHub, Qwiklabs

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