Highly available web application
Deliverable: A two-tier application deployed across multiple availability zones behind a load balancer with Auto Scaling, plus a written test showing it survives an instance being terminated.
Course
AWS Cloud Computing
AWS taught by building and breaking infrastructure rather than by memorising service names, ending with an architecture you have deployed, secured, costed and can defend.
- Duration: 5 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: intermediate
What you will be able to do
- Design a VPC with public and private subnets and explain every routing decision
- Apply least-privilege IAM policies and diagnose why an action is being denied
- Deploy a highly available application across multiple availability zones
- Choose between EC2, containers and Lambda for a given workload and justify it
- Estimate the monthly cost of an architecture before building it
- Configure monitoring and alerting that catches a failure before a user reports it
Who this course is for
- Graduates in engineering, computer applications or IT
- System administrators, network engineers and support staff moving to cloud roles
- Developers who want to deploy and operate what they build
- Comfort with the Linux command line helps; we cover what you need
Syllabus
9 modules · 5 months
Module 1. Cloud foundations and account setup
- What cloud actually changes, and what it does not
- Regions, availability zones and edge locations
- The shared responsibility model in practice
- Account setup, billing alarms and the free tier boundaries
- Navigating the console and the CLI
Module 2. Identity and access management
- Users, groups, roles and policies
- Least privilege, and why almost everyone starts too permissive
- Reading a policy document and predicting what it allows
- Debugging an access denied error methodically
- Multi-factor authentication and credential rotation
Module 3. Compute
- EC2 instance families and choosing sensibly between them
- Key pairs, connecting, and what to do when you cannot
- AMIs, snapshots and immutable infrastructure thinking
- Auto Scaling groups and launch templates
- Load balancers and health checks
- Containers on ECS, and when they beat plain EC2
Module 4. Storage
- S3 buckets, objects, and the storage classes that change your bill
- Bucket policies and the public-access mistakes that cause breaches
- Versioning, lifecycle rules and cross-region replication
- EBS volumes, types and snapshots
- CloudFront and caching at the edge
Module 5. Networking
- VPC design with public and private subnets
- Route tables, internet gateways and NAT
- Security groups versus network ACLs, and when each applies
- VPC peering and endpoints
- Diagnosing why an instance cannot reach the internet
Module 6. Databases
- RDS engines, multi-AZ and read replicas
- Backups, restore testing and the difference between them
- DynamoDB and when a key-value store is the right choice
- ElastiCache and caching strategy
Module 7. Serverless
- Lambda execution model, cold starts and limits
- API Gateway and building a serverless API
- Event-driven patterns with S3, SQS and EventBridge
- When serverless is the wrong answer
Module 8. Monitoring, cost and operations
- CloudWatch metrics, logs, dashboards and alarms
- CloudTrail and auditing who did what
- Reading a bill and finding what is driving it
- Right-sizing, reserved capacity and savings plans
- Tagging strategy that makes cost attributable
Module 9. Infrastructure as code and exam preparation
- CloudFormation templates and stacks
- Repeatable environments and drift
- Well-Architected Framework pillars
- Solutions Architect Associate exam question practice
Tools and technologies you will use
- AWS Management Console
- AWS CLI
- EC2, EBS and Auto Scaling
- S3 and CloudFront
- VPC, security groups and route tables
- IAM
- RDS and DynamoDB
- Lambda and API Gateway
- CloudWatch and CloudTrail
- CloudFormation
Projects you will build
Secure VPC build from scratch
Deliverable: A VPC with public and private subnets, NAT, security groups and least-privilege IAM roles, documented with a network diagram and a justification for each routing decision.
Serverless data processing pipeline
Deliverable: An S3 upload triggering a Lambda that processes the file and writes results to DynamoDB, with error handling, a dead-letter queue and CloudWatch alarms.
Cost and architecture review
Deliverable: A written review of your own project architecture against the Well-Architected pillars, with a monthly cost estimate and three specific changes that would reduce it.
Where this course can take you
- Cloud Engineer
- AWS Solutions Architect
- DevOps Engineer
- Cloud Support Engineer
- Systems Engineer
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 5 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Share your details and an advisor will confirm the current fee.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
Why this course makes you break things
Most AWS training is a guided tour. Click here, name this bucket, observe that it worked. Learners finish able to follow instructions and unable to diagnose anything, which is a problem because diagnosis is most of a cloud engineer’s job.
So a good part of this course is deliberately spent on failure. Your instance cannot reach the internet — work out whether it is the route table, the security group, the network ACL or the missing NAT gateway. Your Lambda cannot read the bucket — read the IAM policy and predict what it actually allows before changing anything.
That methodical narrowing is the skill. It is also exactly what a cloud interview tests, because it cannot be memorised.
Cost is taught as a first-class subject
Almost no beginner course covers billing seriously, and it is one of the first things a real employer cares about.
You will set billing alarms in week one, estimate the monthly cost of an architecture before building it, and finish with a review that identifies three specific reductions in your own design. Engineers who can say “this change saves forty percent of the compute line” get listened to.
The certification, honestly
The Solutions Architect Associate is worth having. It gets you through automated screening and it structures your learning usefully.
It is not a job qualification on its own, and the market has enough certificate-holders without hands-on experience that interviewers now probe hard for the difference. The four projects in this course exist so that when someone asks what you have actually built, you have a specific answer with decisions you can defend.
Questions
AWS Cloud Computing — frequently asked questions
Do I need to pass the AWS certification to get a cloud job?
It helps considerably with automated screening, because many job descriptions list it and recruiters filter on it. It is not sufficient on its own. Interviewers ask you to design something and explain the trade-offs, and a certificate without hands-on building does not survive that conversation. This course prepares you for both.
Will running practice resources cost me money?
Some, if you are careless — which is itself part of the lesson. We teach billing alarms and free-tier boundaries in the first module, and every project specifies what to shut down afterwards. Learning to watch your own bill is a genuine job skill, since cost control is a real part of cloud engineering work.
Should I learn AWS, Azure or Google Cloud?
AWS has the largest market share and the widest range of job postings in India, which makes it the safest first choice. The underlying concepts — networking, identity, storage tiers, scaling — transfer almost entirely, so a second provider takes weeks rather than months once you know the first properly.
Is this course enough to become a DevOps engineer?
It is a substantial part of the foundation, not the whole of it. DevOps also needs CI/CD pipelines, containers and orchestration, and configuration management. This course covers the cloud infrastructure layer well and touches infrastructure as code; a dedicated DevOps track builds the pipeline and automation side on top.
How much Linux do I need before starting?
Enough to move around a filesystem, edit a file and read a log. If you can do those, you will be fine — the first compute module covers connecting to instances and the commands you need. Complete beginners on the command line usually find our Python or full stack course a gentler starting point.
Enquire about AWS Cloud Computing
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
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