This course is intended to introduce students to Amazon Web Services, including AWS storage options, Elastic Load Balancing/autoscaling and Amazon EC2. You will also learn to comfortably manage database services such as DynamoDB and Amazon RDS.

Students will also learn how to monitor your deployment using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms, along with maintaining user access with Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) and reducing deployment complexity with Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. We will discuss Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and how they can be used in developing decoupled, microservice based architectures.

This course serves as the foundation for subsequent courses, including the AWS Developing certification, the AWS Solutions Architecture certification and the AWS SysOps certification courses.

• An understanding of basic system operations, server configuration, networking and databases is recommended.