Core Concepts |
Cloud basics, AWS global infrastructure, Regions & AZs, Shared responsibility model |
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Compute |
EC2 basics, AMIs, Autoscaling, Elastic Load Balancer, EC2 Spot/Reserved Instances |
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Storage |
S3 basics, Versioning, Lifecycle rules, Glacier, EBS, EFS, FSx |
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Networking |
VPC, Subnets, Route tables, Internet Gateway, NAT, Security Groups, NACLs |
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Databases |
RDS basics, DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift, ElastiCache |
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Security & IAM |
IAM users/roles/policies, KMS, Secrets Manager, Cognito, GuardDuty |
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Serverless |
Lambda basics, EventBridge, API Gateway, Step Functions, SAM, AppSync |
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Containers |
ECS, Fargate, EKS, ECR, Service Mesh (App Mesh) |
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Monitoring & Logging |
CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray, AWS Config |
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Cost Management |
Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, Savings Plans, RI management |
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DevOps & CI/CD |
CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, CDK |
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Analytics |
Athena, EMR, Glue, Kinesis, QuickSight, Data Pipeline |
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AI/ML Services |
SageMaker, Comprehend, Rekognition, Lex, Polly, Transcribe |
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Migration & Hybrid |
Snowball, Snowmobile, DMS, Storage Gateway, Outposts |
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Edge & Global Services |
CloudFront, Route 53, Global Accelerator, Wavelength |
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Advanced Security |
WAF, Shield, Inspector, Macie, Control Tower, Organizations |
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Enterprise Architecture |
Well-Architected Framework, Multi-account strategy, Landing Zones |
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Advanced Compute |
HPC on AWS, Graviton instances, Inferentia, Elastic Fabric Adapter |
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Big Data & Lakehouse |
Lake Formation, Glue Data Catalog, Redshift Spectrum, OpenSearch |
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Expert Topics |
Multi-region design, Disaster recovery, Chaos engineering, Governance at scale |
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