Module 0 Beginner 3 Hours

Foundations & Mental Models

The First-Principles Mindset: Global Infrastructure, Cost Guardrails & Architecture Literacy

Master the mental models required to evaluate cloud architectures. Learn how AWS Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge locations interact, how the Shared Responsibility Model shapes security, and how to read complex system topologies.

AWS Global InfrastructureIAMAWS BudgetsCost Anomaly DetectionAWS Organizations
Module 1 Beginner 4 Hours

Global Static Website & CDN Architecture

High-Performance, Zero-Maintenance Edge Distribution with S3, CloudFront & Route 53

Learn how to build sub-50ms latency static websites and Single Page Applications (SPAs) with 99.99% availability using Amazon S3, CloudFront CDN, Route 53 DNS, and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).

Amazon S3Amazon CloudFrontAmazon Route 53AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)CloudFront Functions
Module 2 Beginner 5 Hours

Compute Fundamentals & Auto Scaling

Stateless Elasticity: EC2, Application Load Balancers & Auto Scaling Groups

Master horizontal scaling and compute elasticity on AWS. Learn how to architect multi-AZ compute clusters behind Application Load Balancers (ALBs), configure dynamic Auto Scaling policies, and decouple server state.

Amazon EC2Application Load Balancer (ALB)Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)Amazon Machine Images (AMI)AWS Systems Manager Session Manager
Module 3 Intermediate 6 Hours

Serverless Architecture & Event-Driven Systems

Pay-Per-Execution: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS & EventBridge

Master event-driven serverless architecture on AWS. Learn how to architect zero-idle-cost backends using Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon SQS buffering, and EventBridge choreographies.

AWS LambdaAmazon API GatewayAmazon SQSAmazon EventBridgeAmazon DynamoDBAWS Step Functions
Module 4 Intermediate 6 Hours

Databases & Data Persistence

Relational ACID vs Key-Value NoSQL vs In-Memory Caching

Master database selection on AWS. Compare Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, DynamoDB single-table design, and ElastiCache Redis under extreme concurrency and throughput.

Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL)Amazon Aurora Serverless v2Amazon DynamoDBAmazon ElastiCache (Redis)AWS RDS Proxy
Module 5 Intermediate 6 Hours

Networking & Security Foundation

VPC Topology, Subnet Isolation, Least Privilege IAM & KMS Encryption

Master zero-trust cloud network architecture. Learn how to design multi-tier VPCs, route tables, Security Groups, NACLs, NAT Gateways, VPC Interface Endpoints (PrivateLink), and AWS KMS envelope encryption.

Amazon VPCAWS IAMAWS Key Management Service (KMS)AWS Secrets ManagerAWS WAFAWS PrivateLink
Module 6 Advanced 7 Hours

Data Lakes, Analytics & Batch Processing

Schema-on-Read, Serverless Lakehouse & Real-Time Stream Ingestion

Master big data analytics on AWS. Learn how to ingest high-velocity event streams with Kinesis, build an S3 Lakehouse with Glue Data Catalog, run ad-hoc serverless SQL queries with Athena, and power BI data warehouses with Redshift.

Amazon S3 LakehouseAWS GlueAmazon AthenaAmazon Kinesis Data StreamsAmazon Redshift Serverless
Module 7 Advanced 8 Hours

Containers & Modern Application Platforms

Microservices Orchestration: Amazon ECS Fargate vs Amazon EKS

Master modern containerization on AWS. Compare serverless container orchestration (AWS Fargate) with Kubernetes on AWS (EKS), container security in ECR, service discovery with AWS Cloud Map, and ALB path-based ingress routing.

Amazon ECS (AWS Fargate)Amazon EKS (Kubernetes)Amazon ECRApplication Load Balancer (ALB)AWS Cloud MapKarpenter
Module 8 Advanced 6 Hours

DevOps, CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code

Automate Everything: GitOps, Blue/Green Deployments & CDK/Terraform

Master automated delivery pipelines and declarative cloud provisioning on AWS. Learn how to architect end-to-end CI/CD with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, AWS CDK (TypeScript), and Terraform.

AWS CodePipelineAWS CodeBuildAWS CodeDeployAWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)HashiCorp TerraformAWS Systems Manager (SSM)
Module 9 Advanced 6 Hours

Observability, Monitoring & Reliability

The 3 Pillars of Telemetry: Metrics, Logs, Traces & Automated Self-Healing

Master production telemetry on AWS. Learn how to correlate Amazon CloudWatch Metrics/Logs/Alarms, AWS X-Ray distributed traces, CloudTrail audit trails, and AWS Config compliance rules to minimize MTTR.

Amazon CloudWatch (Metrics & Logs)AWS X-RayAWS CloudTrailAWS ConfigAWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)
Module 10 Expert 12 Hours

Advanced Real-World Capstone Systems

Enterprise-Scale Architectures: Streaming, Banking, Multi-Tenant SaaS & IoT

Deconstruct complex, multi-service enterprise architectures based on real-world industry leaders. Study before-and-after transformations, multi-region active-active topologies, zero-RPO/RTO ledgers, and million-device IoT pipelines.

Amazon Route 53 ArcAmazon DynamoDB Global TablesAWS Elemental MediaConvertAWS IoT CoreAmazon TimestreamAmazon Aurora Global Database