Week 1: Cloud Computing & AWS Core Services (Days 1–7)

📍 Day 1 – Intro to Cloud Computing

• What is Cloud? (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Benefits of Cloud Computing
• AWS vs Azure vs GCP
• AWS Free Tier, Account Setup

📍 Day 2 – AWS Global Infrastructure

• Regions, Availability Zones
• Edge Locations, CDN
• Hands-on: Tour AWS Console

📍 Day 3 – Amazon EC2 (Virtual Servers)

• Launching EC2 instances
• Key pairs, Security Groups
• SSH into EC2, Install Apache

📍 Day 4 – Amazon S3 (Object Storage)

• Buckets, Objects, Storage Classes
• Permissions & Lifecycle Policies
• Hands-on: Host static website on S3

📍 Day 5 – IAM (Identity & Access Management)

• Users, Groups, Roles, Policies
• MFA, Least Privilege Principle
• Hands-on: Create IAM user with S3 access

📍 Day 6 – AWS CLI & SDKs

• Install CLI, Configure profile
• S3 and EC2 with CLI
• AWS SDK intro (Python boto3 / Node.js optional)

📍 Day 7 – Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) & Auto Scaling

• Types of Load Balancers
• Launch Template & Auto Scaling Group
• Hands-on: Scalable Web App

Week 2: Storage, Networking, Databases, Monitoring (Days 8–14)

📍 Day 8 – Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)

• Supported DBs: MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Backups, Multi-AZ, Read Replicas
• Hands-on: Launch RDS and connect with EC2

📍 Day 9 – Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

• Subnets, Route Tables, Internet Gateways
• NACLs vs Security Groups
• Hands-on: Create custom VPC with public & private subnets

📍 Day 10 – Amazon CloudFront (CDN)

• Distributions, Origins, Edge Locations
• Caching behavior, invalidation
• Hands-on: S3 + CloudFront setup

📍 Day 11 – Amazon Route 53 (DNS Service)

• Hosted zones, Record sets
• Routing policies: Simple, Weighted, Failover
• Hands-on: Register domain and create DNS record

📍 Day 12 – AWS Lambda (Serverless Compute)

• Function triggers (API Gateway, S3, etc.)
• IAM Role for Lambda
• Hands-on: Simple Python function

📍 Day 13 – CloudWatch & CloudTrail

• Monitoring Metrics, Logs, Alarms
• Log Insights basics
• Hands-on: Monitor EC2 + custom metrics

📍 Day 14 – AWS Cost Management

• Pricing calculator
• Budgets, Billing alerts
• Cost Explorer

 Week 3: Advanced Concepts, Projects, Deployment (Days 15–21)

📍 Day 15 – Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation

• Templates (YAML/JSON)
• Create/Update/Stack
• Hands-on: Launch EC2 + S3 via template

📍 Day 16 – Elastic Beanstalk

• Simplified app deployment
• Supported platforms
• Hands-on: Deploy Python or Node.js app

📍 Day 17 – CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline

• CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
• Full pipeline setup
• Hands-on: Deploy from GitHub repo

📍 Day 18 – Containers with ECS & ECR

• Docker basics
• ECR (Elastic Container Registry)
• ECS (Fargate launch mode)

📍 Day 19 – AWS Security Best Practices

• Shared responsibility model
• Encryption (S3, EBS, RDS)
• KMS (Key Management Service)

📍 Day 20 – Capstone Project

Choose 1:

• Scalable Web App (EC2 + ELB + RDS + S3 + CloudFront)
• Serverless App (API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB)
• CI/CD Pipeline with Beanstalk

📍 Day 21 – Review & Certification Prep

• Recap all services
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Practice questions (AWS CCP or SAA)
• Tips for the exam & certification path

🧰 Key AWS Services Covered:

• EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, Route 53, CloudFront, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, CodePipeline, CloudFormation

🎓 Optional Certifications After This Course:

• AWS Microsoft Certifcate