Free online courseAWS cloud for beginners

Course Description

Move from cloud curiosity to practical AWS confidence with a beginner-friendly learning path focused on the infrastructure and networking skills employers look for. This free online course helps you understand how cloud works and how AWS delivers compute, storage, networking, and security as scalable services you can provision in minutes. Along the way, you’ll develop the mindset needed to choose the right building blocks for reliable systems rather than guessing your way through the console.

You’ll start with core concepts such as cloud service models and the idea of virtualization, then quickly shift into hands-on setup so you can create an AWS free account and navigate the environment with purpose. From there, you’ll work deeply with Amazon EC2, including how different instance families fit different workloads and how to make smarter decisions about purchasing options, images, volumes, and snapshots. Practical labs guide you through launching Windows and Linux instances, configuring basic services, and understanding instance metadata to troubleshoot and automate confidently.

Networking and infrastructure are a major focus, so you’ll spend time mastering Amazon VPC from fundamentals to real architectures: subnets, route tables, internet gateways, NAT, network ACLs, endpoints, and peering across regions. You’ll also see how common production needs are handled on AWS, such as distributing traffic with load balancers, keeping services responsive with Auto Scaling, and protecting accounts with IAM users, groups, roles, and cross-account access patterns.

To round out your foundational toolkit, the course introduces essential storage and data services, including S3 and its features such as versioning, lifecycle policies, replication, and static website hosting, plus EBS and EFS usage patterns. You’ll gain context on databases with RDS and DynamoDB, learn how Route 53 routing works, explore CloudFront for content delivery, and get exposure to event-driven services like SQS, SNS, and Lambda through practical trigger-based labs. By the end, you’ll be equipped to build, connect, secure, and scale simple AWS solutions with clarity.