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Karan Pratap Singh
Karan Pratap Singh

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AWS Roadmap

Today, we'll take a look at a brief AWS roadmap. Our goal is to focus on fundamentals then identify and learn the most commonly used services first and learn specialized services on a need to know basis.


Summary

Here a summary of the services we'll be discussing.

Fundamentals

  • Regions and Availability Zones
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    • Private & Public Subnet
    • Internet & NAT Gateway
    • ACLs and Security Groups

Frontend

  • CloudFront
  • Simple Storage Service (S3)
  • Amplify
  • Cognito
  • Elastic Beanstalk

Backend

Compute

  • Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    • Auto Scaling Groups
  • Lambda
  • Lightsail

Database

  • Relational Database Service (RDS)
  • Aurora
  • DynamoDB
  • ElastiCache

Networking & Delivery

  • API Gateway
  • Route 53
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
    • Application Load Balancing (ALB)
    • Network Load Balancing (NLB)
  • Certificate Manager (ACM)

Integration

  • Simple Queue Service (SQS)
  • Simple Notification Service (SNS)
  • EventBridge
  • Step Functions

Containers

  • Elastic Container Service (ECS)
  • Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
  • App Runner

Monitoring

  • CloudWatch
    • Metrics
    • Alarms
    • Log Groups

DevOps

  • Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
  • CodeBuild
  • CodeDeploy
  • CodePipeline

Data Engineering

  • Athena
  • Kinesis
  • Redshift
  • Glue
  • Lake Formation

This only scratches the surface of what AWS is capable of! I hope this was helpful, you can find the complete roadmap here as well. As always, feel free to reach out anytime!

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AR.BHARADWAJ

Sir the article is nice but could you please tell me what is the certification to be done from start like beginner courses in laws or azure any cloud platforms please sir

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Mark Thomas

I started with the AWS Cloud Practitioner - Foundation level. There are some great courses on Udemy which are very cheap.

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Devika Sai

Can I know what job roles do we get in cloud by following this roadmap?