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Start a career as a Cloud Technology Consultant. In this program, you’ll learn in-demand skills to advise clients on the use of cloud technology to meet business objectives. No degree or experience required.
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Understand and translate business goals and drivers into appropriate technical solutions
Provide technical direction and oversight to cloud implementation teams
Create the conceptual, logical and physical design for cloud-based solutions for infrastructure and platforms
Learn how to gather technical requirements, assess client capabilities and analyze findings to provide appropriate cloud solution recommendations
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Prepare for a new career in the fast growing field of cloud consulting. Get professional training designed by AWS and learn how to design and build on AWS from experienced instructors. You’ll also have the chance to unlock career opportunities by connecting with top employers.
Through this nine-course program, you’ll gain in-demand skills that prepare you for an entry-level job in the field. You’ll learn from AWS experts how to understand business goals and drivers, translate those into an appropriate AWS technical solution and provide technical direction and oversight to cloud implementation teams.
After completing this hands-on program, you’ll have the foundational and technical context to understand how to build solutions and solve technical problems and how to choose the right AWS solution. You’ll master both the soft skills to become successful cloud consultants and the technical knowledge to go deep into how software gets built, tested and deployed.
You’ll also be able to work on a capstone project centered on the Well Architected Framework that you can later share in interviews to demonstrate your job-readiness to potential employers.
You can also gain access to the AWS Educate Job Board, where you can explore, search for, and apply to in-demand jobs and internships with leading organizations.
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Through 18 hands-on labs, you’ll use the AWS Management Console to apply skills learned in the videos and readings. Here are a few examples of the activities you’ll perform in this Professional Certificate: In Introduction to Information Technology and AWS Cloud, you’ll create a static website with S3 in the easiest way. This lab will introduce you to the AWS Management Console, help you understand the AWS Cloud, and practice hosting a static website on AWS. In AWS Cloud Technical Essentials, you’ll use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage your AWS services’ access and permissions. You’ll practice the steps to add users to groups, manage passwords, log in as users with various permissions, and view the effects of IAM policies. In Automation in the AWS Cloud, you’ll work with AWS CLI, write a bash script to perform a task/write user data script to download code and run it on EC2 and build a run command to uninstall Apache and install nginx.
Gain a foundational understanding of how computers work
Learn how computers talk to each other to exchange data
Describe terminology and concepts related to AWS services
Articulate key concepts of AWS security measures and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
You will learn to distinguish among several AWS compute services, including Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS.
Understand AWS database and storage offerings, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.
Understand basics of troubleshooting in a cloud environment
Identify resources and routes to assist with understanding and troubleshooting
Introductory level Python programming and Python packages
Explain the different roles in an organization building software
Examine essential soft skills for solving business problems
Describe the process of working with customers and how to use different soft skills
Learn about the use cases for project management in business
Understand the differences between Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Automation in the Cloud can simplify processes, enable agility and scalability, and help you deploy faster. But how should you master these topics to enhance your career potential? The course kicks off by introducing automation in the cloud, comparing the differences between on-premises and cloud. We'll answer why automation is so powerful and you'll get hands-on by working with AWS CLI. Week 1 closes with automation with scripting by sharing examples of how automation helps and the benefits of using scripts. A focus on Automation isn't complete with an overview of Infrastructure as Code. You'll get introduced to Provisioning and Configuration Management and solve an automation problem with AWS CloudFormation. The instructors will then share some simple automation examples and how various tools can help you get the job done. In the course's final week, we'll cover the various AWS Services and features used for automation, how to scale resource management, and use the Systems Manager console and AWS Config for compliance.
Key data types and structures
AWS services for the ETL process
Hands-on skills for Amazon API Gateway and Amazon QuickSight
This course provides a thorough review of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to help you understand how to make informed decisions about your architecture in a cloud-native way and understand the impact of design decisions. By using the Well-Architected Framework, you can understand the risks in your architecture, and learn ways to mitigate them.
In the course, you'll walk through each of the framework's six pillars, which help you produce stable and efficient systems. The Operational Excellence pillar includes the ability to support development and run workloads effectively, gain insight into their operation, and continuously improve supporting processes and procedures to delivery business value. The Security pillar includes the ability to protect data, systems, and assets to take advantage of cloud technologies to improve your security. The Reliability pillar encompasses the ability of a workload to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it’s expected to. The Performance Efficiency pillar includes the ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements. The Cost Optimization pillar includes the ability to run systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point. The final pillar (Sustainability) addresses the long-term environmental, economic, and societal impact of your business activities.
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When you complete this Professional Certificate, you may be able to have your learning recognized for credit if you are admitted and enroll in one of the following online degree programs.¹
When you complete this Professional Certificate, you may be able to have your learning recognized for credit if you are admitted and enroll in one of the following online degree programs.¹
Illinois Tech
Degree · 12-15 months
Illinois Tech
Degree · 12-24 months
¹Successful application and enrollment are required. Eligibility requirements apply. Each institution determines the number of credits recognized by completing this content that may count towards degree requirements, considering any existing credits you may have. Click on a specific course for more information.
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence, security, hybrid and enterprise applications, from 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic regions. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world — including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies — to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. Coursera and AWS have been partners since 2017 providing learners and enterprises globally, the skills they need to succeed. Coursera builds on AWS servers to scale with student demand with confidence around capacity and elasticity and in partnership with AWS. In 2019, Coursera achieved Advanced Tier Partner status and further extended the partnership with AWS Educate, AWS EdStart and AWS Academy collaborations. Coursera's been able to make cloud skills more accessible with 8 AWS courses on the Coursera platform featuring top subject matter experts and the portfolio continues to grow. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.
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Aspiring learners who desire to become job ready for a Cloud Technology Consultant role.
None! Whether you’re completely new to the job field or have had some exposure, this AWS Professional Certificate is the right program for you.
Cloud consulting assists businesses to assess, strategize, plan, implement, and optimize their cloud computing initiatives. Additionally, cloud consulting provides guidance, expertise, and recommendations to organizations looking to benefit from cloud technologies and services to meet their business objectives.
A Cloud Technology Consultant is the bridge between the technical and the business objectives of an organization. They typically advise clients about the design, development and infrastructure of applications.
A Cloud Consultant designs, develops, implements, and tests the infrastructure and application deployments. This position gathers and evaluates user and business requirements and develops specifications/designs. A consultant penetrates deeper in Cloud technologies by helping customers improve their business performance.
The demand for entry-level Cloud Consultants are on the rise globally and is regarded as one of the emerging early cloud careers. Cloud Development & Management (a key part of the Cloud Consultant role) is the fastest-growing major skill cluster at a CAGR of 68% since 2019. (Draup Research).
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
If you subscribed, you get a 7-day free trial during which you can cancel at no penalty. After that, we don’t give refunds, but you can cancel your subscription at any time. See our full refund policy.
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Certificate, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Certificate. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
¹ Median salary and job opening data are sourced from Lightcast™ Job Postings Report. Data for job roles relevant to featured programs (2/1/2024 - 2/1/2025)
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