Cloud Computing

Course Duration: 10–16 Weeks (Flexible) | Mode: Offline/Online

Goal: Make students job-ready for Cloud Engineer / Cloud Admin / Solutions Architect roles.

MODULE 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing (Week 1)

What is Cloud Computing?
History of cloud
Cloud characteristics (on-demand, elasticity, pay-per-use)
Types of cloud: Public, Private, Hybrid
Cloud service models: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Virtualization basics (Hypervisors, VM vs Containers)

MODULE 2: Networking for Cloud (Week 1–2)

IP, CIDR, Subnets
Routing & switching basics
DNS, Load Balancing
Firewalls, NAT Gateways
VPN, Direct Connect

MODULE 3: Compute Services (Week 2)

Virtual machines (EC2/Compute Engine/VM)
Instance types & sizing
AMIs/Images
Auto Scaling concepts
Managed compute options (EKS, AKS, Lambda)

MODULE 4: Storage Services (Week 2–3)

Object storage (S3/Blob/Cloud Storage)
Block storage (EBS/Persistent Disk)
File storage (EFS/Filestore)
Life cycle policies
Backup & restore
Disaster Recovery concepts

MODULE 5: Databases in the Cloud (Week 3)

RDS / Cloud SQL
NoSQL (DynamoDB/Firestore/CosmosDB)
In-memory databases (Redis/ElastiCache)
Database backups & snapshots
High availability concepts

MODULE 6: Identity, Security & Compliance (Week 3–4)

IAM: Users, Groups, Roles, Policies
MFA, Key Management
Shared Responsibility Model
Cloud Security Best Practices
Resource policies, ACLs
WAF, Shield, Firewalls

MODULE 7: Serverless Computing (Week 4)

What is serverless?
Functions (AWS Lambda / Azure Functions / Cloud Functions)
Triggers & event-driven architecture
API Gateway
Benefits & limitations

MODULE 8: Containers & Kubernetes on Cloud (Week 5)

Containers vs VMs
Docker Basics
Kubernetes architecture
Managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)
Deploying containerized apps
Autoscaling, load balancing, storage in K8s

MODULE 9: DevOps on Cloud (Week 6)

Cloud-native CI/CD
CodeCommit / GitHub / GitLab
CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline
Logging & Monitoring (CloudWatch/StackDriver/App Insights)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) intro

MODULE 10: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform/CloudFormation (Week 6–7)

IaC fundamentals
Terraform basics: Providers, Variables, Modules
State management
CloudFormation templates
Cost-efficient infrastructure provisioning

MODULE 11: Architecting on Cloud (Week 8)

High availability vs fault tolerance
Scalability (horizontal vs vertical)
Load balancing strategies
Multi-region architecture
Microservices on cloud
Disaster Recovery: RTO/RPO
Cost optimization