AWS DevOps Essentials
Everything you need to be productive on AWS — before touching EKS.
Not everything goes into Kubernetes. This track covers the core AWS services every DevOps engineer needs: identity, networking, compute, containers, serverless, secrets, observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
Modules
Section titled “Modules”| # | Module | Time | What You’ll Learn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) Deep Dive | 2h | Roles, policies, cross-account, permission boundaries |
| 2 | Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) & Core Networking | 3h | Subnets, NAT, Security Groups, Transit Gateway |
| 3 | Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) & Compute Foundations | 2.5h | Instance types, Spot, ASGs, ALBs |
| 4 | Amazon S3 & Object Storage | 1.5h | Storage classes, lifecycle, bucket policies |
| 5 | Route 53 & DNS Management | 1.5h | Routing policies, health checks, DNSSEC |
| 6 | Elastic Container Registry (ECR) | 1h | Image management, scanning, lifecycle |
| 7 | Elastic Container Service (ECS) & Fargate | 3h | Standalone containers without K8s |
| 8 | AWS Lambda & Serverless Patterns | 2h | Triggers, cold starts, Step Functions |
| 9 | Secrets Management & Configuration | 1.5h | SSM, Secrets Manager, KMS |
| 10 | CloudWatch & Observability | 2h | Metrics, alarms, logs, X-Ray |
| 11 | CI/CD on AWS (Code Suite) | 2h | CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions OIDC |
| 12 | Infrastructure as Code on AWS | 1.5h | Templates, stacks, CDK overview |
| 13 | AWS Data Ingestion + Transformation | 2h | Kinesis, Firehose, Glue, Athena |
Total time: ~25 hours
Prerequisites
Section titled “Prerequisites”- Cloud Native 101 — containers, Docker basics
- Hyperscaler Rosetta Stone — recommended
What’s Next
Section titled “What’s Next”After AWS Essentials, continue to Cloud Deep Dive: AWS EKS Mastery for production Kubernetes on AWS.