Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Course Duration: 14–15 Weeks (Flexible) | Mode: Offline/Online

Goal: To equip students with the knowledge, hands-on experience, and practical skills required to design, deploy, manage, and secure applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform.

Module 1: Cloud & AWS Fundamentals (Week 1)

What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Service Models (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)
Cloud Deployment Models (Public/Private/Hybrid)
AWS Overview
AWS Global Infrastructure
AWS Free Tier Usage Guidance

Module 2: Identity and Access Management (IAM) (Week 1–2)

IAM Users, Groups, Roles
IAM Policies (JSON structure)
MFA, Password Policies
AWS Organizations & SCPs
Best Practices

Module 3: Amazon EC2 (Week 2)

EC2 Instance Types
AMIs
Security Groups
Key Pairs
EBS Volumes & Snapshots
Elastic IPs
EC2 Purchasing Options

Module 4: Storage Services (Week 3)

Amazon S3

Buckets, Objects
S3 Storage Classes
Versioning, Encryption
Lifecycle Policies
Static Website Hosting
S3 Transfer Acceleration

EFS & FSx

Elastic File System
FSx for Windows & Lustre

Module 5: Networking & VPC (Week 4–5)

VPC Basics
Subnets (Public vs Private)
Route Tables
Internet Gateway
NAT Gateway
NACLs vs Security Groups
VPC Peering and VPN
VPC Endpoints

Module 6: Load Balancers & Auto Scaling (Week 6)

ELB Types (ALB, NLB, CLB)
Target Groups
Auto Scaling Groups
Launch Templates
Health Checks
Scaling Policies

Module 7: Databases on AWS (Week 7)

Amazon RDS (MySQL/Postgres/Oracle/SQL Server)
Read Replicas
Multi-AZ
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Aurora
Amazon ElastiCache

Module 8: Serverless Computing (Week 8)

AWS Lambda
Event-driven architecture
Lambda + S3 + DynamoDB Integrations
API Gateway Basics
Step Functions

Module 9: Containers (Week 9)

Docker Basics
Amazon ECS
Fargate
ECR (Container Registry)
Kubernetes on AWS (EKS – overview)

Module 10: Monitoring & Logging (Week 10)

Amazon CloudWatch
CloudWatch Logs
CloudWatch Metrics & Alarms
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config

Module 11: Security, Compliance & Encryption (Week 10–11)

AWS Shared Responsibility Model
KMS
Shield & WAF
Secrets Manager
GuardDuty
Inspector