AWS is the largest public cloud by revenue and the deepest by service catalog. Amazon launched it in 2006 with S3 and EC2; the current console lists more than 200 services covering compute, storage, databases, networking, machine learning, IoT, and dozens of niche workloads. Most companies use 10-20 of them in practice and ignore the rest.
Effective AWS work splits into two axes. The first is service knowledge: knowing when to reach for ECS Fargate vs Lambda vs EKS, when DynamoDB beats RDS, when SQS replaces a custom queue. The second is operational: IAM policies, VPC networking, CloudWatch logs, cost allocation, Terraform or CDK for everything-as-code. AWS rewards the second skill more than the first — most outages and bills come from misconfiguration, not from picking the wrong service.
What you'll work with in these 38 courses
- Compute: EC2, ECS Fargate, EKS, Lambda, App Runner
- Storage and databases: S3, DynamoDB, RDS (Postgres / Aurora), ElastiCache
- Networking: VPC, ALB / NLB, CloudFront, Route 53, Transit Gateway
- IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, AWS Organizations
- Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, SAM
- Observability: CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry on AWS
Netflix, Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Lyft, NASA JPL, the UK government's digital service, and most of the SaaS companies you've heard of run on AWS. The certification track (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security) is one of the few in tech that genuinely correlates with on-the-job competence.
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