AWS Ultimate Guide: From Beginner to Advanced
AWS Ultimate Guide: From Beginners to Advanced delivers a practical, end-to-end path for learning, designing, and operating on AWS. It provides clear explanations, hands-on labs, diagrams, and chapter review questions so you can move from fundamentals to production-grade architectures with confidence. Each chapter builds progressively-helping you internalize essential concepts and apply them in real scenarios.
What You'll LearnCloud Foundations
Availability, reliability, scalability, elasticity, multitenancy, global reach, and deployment models (cloud, hybrid, private)-and why cloud is the future, not a trend.
Cloud Economics & Cost Control
CapEx vs. OpEx, right-sizing, licensing, AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, Cost & Usage Reports, Pricing Calculator, cost allocation tags, and consolidated billing strategies.
Core AWS Building Blocks
Identity & Access (IAM), compute with EC2 (launching, securing, sizing, and purchasing options), networking with VPC (subnets, routing, NAT, SGs vs. NACLs), and DNS with Route 53.
Storage & Data Management
S3 fundamentals, security and versioning, storage classes and lifecycle policies, EBS/EFS/FSx selection, snapshots, performance tuning, and common data patterns.
Scalability & Resilience
Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB/Gateway LB), TLS/offloading, sticky sessions, draining, Auto Scaling policies, health checks, and multi-AZ design.
Observability & Governance
CloudWatch metrics/alarms/logs, EventBridge, CloudTrail, Config, Health dashboards, and cross-account monitoring patterns.
Databases & Persistence
RDS/Aurora for relational, DynamoDB for NoSQL, ElastiCache for in-memory-HA, backups, read replicas, global tables, and streaming integrations.
Modern Architectures
Serverless with Lambda and API Gateway, containers with ECR/ECS/Fargate/EKS, when to choose each, and how to integrate with load balancers and CI/CD.
Analytics & AI/ML on AWS
Data lakes and ETL with Glue/Lake Formation, Redshift & Athena for analytics, OpenSearch & QuickSight for search/BI; AI services from Rekognition and Textract to SageMaker.
Security & Compliance
Shared Responsibility Model, IAM best practices, encryption with KMS, secrets with Secrets Manager, WAF/Shield/Firewall Manager, GuardDuty/Inspector/Macie/Detective/Security Hub.
Architecture Excellence & Migration
Apply the six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework and use the Well-Architected Tool; plan migrations with AWS CAF, and leverage DMS, DataSync, Snow, Transfer, and MGN.
Resilience & Operations
Backup/DR strategies (RPO/RTO, backup/restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site), AWS Backup, and how to choose the right AWS Support plan.
Hands-On Labs for account setup, IAM, EC2, cost controls, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and more.
Diagrams to visualize architectures.
Chapter Review Questions to reinforce learning and prep for real-world use (and certifications).
Practical Patterns you can apply immediately in production.
Bonus Learning Resources
Customer Reviews
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