Cloud Fundamentals (AWS)
Build the mental model that makes infrastructure code mean something.
You can't automate a cloud you don't understand. This track drives real AWS APIs with the CLI against a safe mock cloud — storage, compute, networking, IAM, and messaging — with no account, no credit card, and zero blast radius. By the end, when you write Terraform you'll know exactly what it's creating and why it's shaped that way.
By the end, you can
- Authenticate and drive AWS from the CLI, slicing output with jq
- Create and inspect S3, DynamoDB, and IAM resources for real
- Reason about VPCs, subnets, and least-privilege policies
- Wire services together with SQS queues and SNS pub/sub
What's inside
Where this track goes
The first lessons are free — no card. Pro unlocks the production depth that turns this into a job-ready skill.
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Authenticated AWS calls
Drive the aws CLI against a mock cloud; sts get-caller-identity + jq.
Your first bucket
S3 mb/cp/ls — create and inspect real-shaped resources.
Pro — what you unlock next
ProIAM & policies
Users + least-privilege policies, attached and verified.
EC2 & networking
VPC → subnet → run-instances; the compute & networking mental model.
DynamoDB
create-table, put/get, and scan a NoSQL table.
Messaging (SQS & SNS)
Queue round-trips and SNS→SQS pub/sub fan-out, proven end to end.
Multi-service capstone
Wire an S3 + DynamoDB + IAM backbone from a brief.
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