🚀 AWS Learning Roadmap – Beginner to Cloud Pro

✅ Phase 1: Networking & Core AWS Services (Foundation)

🔹 Class 1: Networking Fundamentals

• IP Addressing & Subnetting
• VPC, Subnets, Route Tables
• VPC Peering
• VPC Flow Logs
• VPC Endpoints
• Security Groups vs NACLs
• NAT Gateway
• Internet Gateway

🔹 Class 2: Compute Services

• EC2 Instances
• Instance Types & Pricing
• Key Pairs & SSH
• Launch Templates
• EBS Volumes & Snapshots
• AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
• Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)

🔹 Class 3: Storage Services

• S3 (Buckets, Storage Classes, Lifecycle Policies)
• EFS & FSx
• Glacier
• S3 Versioning & Policies
• S3 + CloudFront + Route 53 Setup

🔹 Class 4: IAM (Identity & Access Management)

• IAM Users, Groups, Roles
• IAM Policies
• MFA & IAM Best Practices
• AssumeRole and Cross-Account Access

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✅ Phase 2: Intermediate AWS Concepts

🔹 Class 5: Load Balancing & DNS

• Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• Application Load Balancer (ALB)
• Network Load Balancer (NLB)
• Route 53 – DNS, Routing Policies, Health Checks
• SSL/TLS Certificates with ACM

🔹 Class 6: Monitoring & Logging

• CloudWatch Metrics, Alarms, Dashboards
• CloudTrail
• VPC Flow Logs
• SSM Agent & CloudWatch Logs Agent

🔹 Class 7: Serverless Services

• Lambda Functions
• API Gateway
• DynamoDB
• Step Functions
• EventBridge
• SNS, SQS Basics

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✅ Phase 3: Real-World Projects

🔹 Class 8: Infrastructure as Code

• AWS CloudFormation
• Terraform (Basics)
• Intro to CDK

🔹 Class 9: DevOps & CI/CD

• CodeCommit (Git)
• CodeBuild
• CodeDeploy
• CodePipeline
• Automating Deployment with Cloud9
• Jenkins (Optional for CI/CD)

🔹 Class 10: Containerization

• Docker on EC2
• Amazon ECS
• ECS Fargate
• ECR (Elastic Container Registry)
• Basic Project: Deploy Docker App on ECS

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✅ Phase 4: Advanced Topics & Career Prep

🔹 Class 11: Database Services

• RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
• Aurora
• DynamoDB
• Redshift (Basics)

🔹 Class 12: Security & Best Practices

• WAF & Shield
• KMS (Key Management Service)
• Secrets Manager & Parameter Store
• Shared Responsibility Model
• Billing & Cost Optimization Tools

🔹 Class 13: Final Projects

• Portfolio Project (Website on EC2 with Route53 + S3)
• Deploy React App using AWS Amplify
• Real-Time Autoscaling with Alarms
• Multi-AZ Architecture
• High Availability + Load Balancing

🔹 Class 14: Interview Preparation

• How to Introduce Yourself as a DevOps Engineer
• Real-Time Scenario Questions
• Troubleshooting Practice
• AWS Whitepapers (Optional but useful)

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