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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.

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Approx. 14 hours to complete

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Subtitles: English

What you will learn

You will be able to make an informed decision about when and how to apply key AWS services for compute, storage, and database to different use cases.

Skills you will gain

Compute
Cloud Computing Security
AWS cloud
Networking
Storage

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Beginner Level

If you do not have a technical background, we recommend you complete AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials before enrolling in the course.

Approx. 14 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

Instructor

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Morgan Willis
Top Instructor

Senior Cloud Technologist

AWS Training & Certification

467,310 Learners

16 Courses

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Amazon Web Services

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.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

4 hours to complete

Week 1

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).

4 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 57 min), 12 readings, 1 quiz

12 videos

Welcome to AWS Cloud Technical Essentials3m

Meet the Instructors2m

Introduction to Week 16m

AWS Global Infrastructure5m

Interacting with AWS5m

Introduction to Exercise 11m

Security and the AWS Shared Responsibility Model5m

Protect the AWS Root User3m

Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management8m

Role Based Access in AWS8m

Introduction to Exercise 21m

Hosting the Employee Directory Application on AWS5m

12 readings

Pre-Course Survey10m

Reading 1.2: What is AWS?10m

Reading 1.3: AWS Global Infrastructure10m

Reading 1.4: Interacting with AWS10m

Exercise 1: Create an AWS Account20m

Reading 1.5: Security and the AWS Shared Responsibility Model10m

Reading 1.6: Protect the AWS Root User10m

Readings 1.7: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management10m

Reading 1.8: Role Based Access in AWS10m

Exercise 2: Following IAM Best Practices20m

Mid-Course Survey10m

AWS Instructor Hours - September 202110m

1 practice exercise

Week 1 Quiz20m

Week

Week 2

4 hours to complete

Week 2

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).

4 hours to complete

14 videos (Total 67 min), 10 readings, 1 quiz

14 videos

Introduction to Week 22m

Compute as a Service on AWS2m

Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud5m

Amazon EC2 Instance Lifecycle5m

Introduction to Exercise 32m

Container Services on AWS3m

What is Serverless?4m

Introduction to AWS Lambda7m

Choose the Right Compute Service9m

Networking on AWS2m

Introduction to Amazon VPC9m

Amazon VPC Routing7m

Secure Your Network with Amazon VPC Security4m

Introduction to Exercise 41m

10 readings

Reading 2.1: Compute as a Service on AWS10m

Reading 2.2: Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud10m

Reading 2.25: Amazon EC2 Instance Lifecycle15m

Exercise 3: Launch the Employee Directory Application on Amazon EC220m

Reading 2.3: Container Services on AWS10m

Reading 2.4: Serverless and AWS Lambda10m

Reading 2.5: Networking on AWS10m

Reading 2.6: Introduction to Amazon VPC10m

Reading 2.7: Amazon VPC Routing and Security15m

Exercise 4: Creating a VPC and Relaunching the Employee Directory Application on Amazon EC220m

1 practice exercise

Week 2 Quiz20m

Week

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Week 3

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.

3 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 51 min), 10 readings, 1 quiz

11 videos

Introduction to Week 31m

Storage Types on AWS2m

Amazon EC2 Instance Storage and Amazon Elastic Block Store4m

Object Storage with Amazon S39m

Choose the Right Storage Service7m

Introduction to Exercise 53m

Explore Databases on AWS3m

Amazon Relational Database Service5m

Purpose Built Databases on AWS5m

Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB6m

Introduction to Exercise 61m

10 readings

Reading 3.1: Storage Types on AWS10m

Reading 3.2: Amazon EC2 Instance Storage and Amazon Elastic Block Store15m

Reading 3.3: Object Storage with Amazon S315m

Reading 3.4: Choose the Right Storage Service10m

Exercise 5: Create an Amazon S3 Bucket20m

Reading 3.5: Explore Databases on AWS10m

Reading 3.6: Amazon Relational Database Service10m

Reading 3.8: Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB10m

Reading 3.9: Choose the Right AWS Database Service10m

Exercise 6: Amazon DynamoDB20m

1 practice exercise

Week 3 Quiz15m

Week

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Week 4

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.

3 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 48 min), 7 readings, 2 quizzes

8 videos

Introduction to Week 41m

Monitoring on AWS4m

Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch10m

Optimizing Solutions on AWS3m

Route Traffic with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing7m

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling11m

Introduction to Exercise 71m

Redesigning the Employee Directory Application9m

7 readings

Reading 4.1: Monitoring on AWS10m

Reading 4.2: Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch10m

Reading 4.3: Optimizing Solutions on AWS10m

Reading 4.4: Route Traffic with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing10m

Reading 4.5: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling10m

Exercise 7: Configure High Availability for your Application20m

Post-Course Survey10m

2 practice exercises

Week 4 Quiz15m

End of Course Assessment25m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM AWS CLOUD TECHNICAL ESSENTIALS

by KPMay 10, 2021

This is very good course for a beginner. This course gives good motivation to kick off to a good start into AWS learning and good foundational knowledge to be comfortable with further studies on AWS

by SDMay 16, 2022

Great course to start exploring the AWS cloud world. However, the assignments /exercises should be updated with latest steps from the AWS Management Console.

by HSApr 27, 2021

This course is excellently designed for easy understanding of the concepts. Thank you for all the efforts Coursera has put into building this.

by RPMar 31, 2022

Fantasic labs! There is a ton of material but because it is presented in bite sized chuncks with enthusiastic presenters I learned and retained much of the information.

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