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AWS For Beginners with Hands-On Labs

AWS For Beginners with Hands-On Labs
Level: Beginner

Learn AWS essentials by doing - beginner-friendly lessons and guided labs on core services so you can deploy, secure, monitor, and scale in the cloud with confidence.

Course Duration: 3.53 Hours
Sanjeev Thiyagarajan

Sanjeev Thiyagarajan

Network Engineer, Trainer

Get practical, job-ready AWS skills through short, beginner-friendly lessons paired with guided labs you can run in your own account. Each module introduces what the service is for, common use cases, and a straightforward lab to reinforce the concept.

What you’ll learn and build

  • AWS EC2 + Lab: Launch and secure your first virtual server—the most common cloud compute resource.

  • AWS S3 + Lab: Store and retrieve files at scale with durable, cost‑effective object storage.

  • AWS VPC + Lab: Design a private, customizable network to isolate and protect your resources.

  • AWS Lambda + Lab: Run code on demand without managing servers using event‑driven compute.

  • AWS RDS + Lab: Set up a managed relational database with automated maintenance and backups.

  • AWS DynamoDB + Lab: Create a fast, serverless NoSQL database for key‑value and document workloads.

  • AWS IAM + Lab: Control access with users, roles, and policies based on least privilege.

  • AWS CloudWatch + Lab: Monitor resources and apps with metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerts.

  • AWS Auto Scaling/ELB + Lab: Distribute traffic and automatically scale for performance and resilience.

  • AWS SNS/SQS + Lab: Decouple components with pub/sub notifications and reliable message queues.

Who this course is for

  • Absolute beginners to cloud or AWS

  • Developers, QA, data, and IT professionals moving to the cloud

  • Learners preparing for foundational AWS knowledge (great prep before Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect – Associate)

What you’ll take away

  • Confidence navigating the AWS Console and CLI

  • The ability to deploy, secure, monitor, and scale core AWS services

  • A portfolio of completed labs showing real, hands‑on experience

By the end, you won’t just recognize AWS service names—you’ll have used them to build working solutions.

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About the instructor

  • Sanjeev Thiyagarajan

    Sanjeev Thiyagarajan

    Network Engineer, Trainer

    Sanjeev has 8+ years of IT experience working primarily as a network engineer for prominent network vendors. He has worked on designing & testing large networks for Fortune 500 companies ranging from Enterprise Customers to Cloud & Service providers. Sanjeev has been creating online courses for several years, teaching various topics, including programming, automation, and cloud.