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Are you in a technical role and want to learn the fundamentals of AWS? Do you aspire to have a job or career as a cloud developer, architect, or in an operations role? If so, AWS Cloud Technical Essentials is an ideal way to start. This course was designed for those at the beginning of their cloud-learning journey - no prior knowledge of cloud computing or AWS products and services required!
Throughout the course, students will build highly available, scalable, and cost effective application step-by-step. Upon course completion, you will be able to make an informed decision about when and how to apply core AWS services for compute, storage, and database to different use cases. You’ll also learn about cloud security with a review of AWS' shared responsibility model and an introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). And, you’ll know how AWS services can be used to monitor and optimize infrastructure in the cloud.
AWS Cloud Technical Essentials is a fundamental-level course and will build your competence, confidence, and credibility with practical cloud skills that help you innovate and advance your professional future. Enroll in AWS Cloud Technical Essentials and start learning the technical fundamentals of AWS today!
Note: This course was designed for learners with a technical background. If you are new to the cloud or come from a business background, we recommend completing AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (https://www.coursera.org/learn/aws-cloud-practitioner-essentials) before enrolling in this course.
Welcome to AWS Cloud Technical Essentials Week 1! In this week, you will learn the definition of cloud computing and how to describe the cloud value proposition. You will learn how to differentiate between workloads that run on-premises versus in the cloud, and how to create an AWS account. You will also get an overview of Amazon Web Services, including how to differentiate between AWS Regions and Availability Zones, and the different ways that you can interact with AWS. Finally, you will learn best practices for using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Welcome to AWS Cloud Technical Essentials•3 minutes
Meet the Instructors•2 minutes
Course Feedback•2 minutes
Introduction to Week 1•5 minutes
AWS Global Infrastructure•7 minutes
Interacting with AWS•6 minutes
Security and the AWS Shared Responsibility Model •5 minutes
Protect the AWS Root User •3 minutes
Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management •7 minutes
Role Based Access in AWS•6 minutes
Introduction to Lab 1•1 minute
Demo AWS IAM•9 minutes
Hosting the Employee Directory Application on AWS•6 minutes
13 readings•Total 125 minutes
Welcome to the Course•5 minutes
Course Roadmap•2 minutes
Pre-Course Survey•1 minute
Reading 1.2: What is AWS?•15 minutes
Reading 1.3: AWS Global Infrastructure•20 minutes
Reading 1.4: Interacting with AWS•10 minutes
Reading 1.5: Security and the AWS Shared Responsibility Model•15 minutes
Reading 1.6: Protect the AWS Root User•20 minutes
Reading 1.7: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management•15 minutes
Reading 1.8: Role Based Access in AWS•10 minutes
IAM Roles and the Employee Directory Application•5 minutes
Default Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon EC2•5 minutes
Mid-Course Survey•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 1 Quiz•30 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
Lab 1: Introduction to IAM•60 minutes
3 plugins•Total 35 minutes
Optional Course Feedback Survey•10 minutes
Pre-Course Survey•10 minutes
Mid-Course Survey•15 minutes
Week 2: Compute & Networking
Module 2•5 hours to complete
Module details
Welcome to Week 2, where you will learn how AWS compute services differ from other AWS services. The content for this week covers the basic components of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) architecture, and how to differentiate between a container and a virtual machine. You will also learn about the features and advantages of using serverless technologies, basic networking concepts, and the features of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
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17 videos9 readings1 assignment1 app item
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17 videos•Total 81 minutes
Introduction to Week 2•2 minutes
Compute as a Service on AWS •2 minutes
Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud •5 minutes
Amazon EC2 Instance Lifecycle•5 minutes
Demonstration: Launching the Employee Directory Application•7 minutes
Container Services on AWS•3 minutes
Introduction to Serverless•3 minutes
Serverless with AWS Fargate•3 minutes
Introduction to AWS Lambda•7 minutes
Choose the Right Compute Service•8 minutes
Networking on AWS•2 minutes
Introduction to Amazon VPC•9 minutes
Amazon VPC Routing•7 minutes
Secure Your Network with Amazon VPC Security•5 minutes
Reading 2.6: Introduction to Amazon VPC•15 minutes
Reading 2.7: Amazon VPC Routing and Security•20 minutes
Common network troubleshooting steps for Amazon VPC•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 45 minutes
Week 2 Quiz•45 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
Lab 2: Creating a VPC•60 minutes
Week 3: Storage & Databases on AWS
Module 3•4 hours to complete
Module details
Welcome to Week 3! This week, you will learn important concepts for AWS storage services—such as buckets and objects for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and how Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is used on AWS. You will also explore databases on AWS, and the use cases for each AWS storage service.
What's included
12 videos8 readings1 assignment1 app item
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12 videos•Total 59 minutes
Introduction to Week 3•1 minute
Storage Types on AWS•2 minutes
Amazon EC2 Instance Storage and Amazon Elastic Block Store•4 minutes
Reading 3.8: Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB•10 minutes
Reading 3.9: Choose the Right AWS Database Service•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 3 Quiz•30 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
Lab 3: Configuring a Web Application•60 minutes
Week 4: Monitoring & Optimization
Module 4•6 hours to complete
Module details
Welcome to Week 4, where you will learn about the benefits of monitoring on AWS, and how to optimize solutions on AWS. You will also learn about the function of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and how to differentiate between vertical scaling and horizontal scaling.
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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Reviewed on Dec 3, 2023
this is a very good and explanative course, I advice those who want to learn to pay rapt attention cause it is not a piece of cake but I believe if u put your mind to it, you can achieve your goal
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Achieved a great knowledge on the foundation level about AWS. Amazing Guidance by the Alana Layton and Morgan Willis. Especially the Quiz game shows were quite interesting :)
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Reviewed on Feb 20, 2025
A good overview of basic AWS services and functioning, with useful worked examples
(the app used is extremely basic, but that's beside the point, which is how to set up a system using AWS)
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