### Course Overview
- **Course Title:** AWS Cloud Essentials for a Devops Engineer
- **Instructor:** Gourav Shah
- **Target Audience:**
- DevOps Engineers
- IT Professionals
- Cloud Computing Enthusiasts
- **Prerequisites:**
- A laptop or a desktop with a Web Browser
- Terminal software e.g. iterm, bash, conemu
### Curriculum Highlights
- **Key Topics Covered:**
- What is Cloud Computing and AWS Essential Services
- Networking on cloud, building secure infrastructure with Virtual Private Cloud
- Setting up users and roles, defining access policies using IAM
- Launching and operating servers on cloud with EC2
- Leveraging managed database services with RDS
- Setting up highly available, redundant and scalable storage with S3
- Dynamically provisioning capacity with Autoscaling and ELBs
- Auxiliary services such as Cloudformation, SES, SNS etc.
- **Key Skills Learned:**
- Cloud Computing Fundamentals
- AWS Services
- Secure Infrastructure Building
- Managed Database Services
- Scalable Storage Solutions
- Capacity Provisioning
- Auxiliary Cloud Services
### Course Format
- **Duration:** 6 hours on-demand video
- **Format:** Self-paced online course
- **Resources:**
- Assignments
- 2 articles
- 1 downloadable resource
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of completion