Demystify the Cloud: Amazon Web Services Basics

Amazon Web Services or AWS Cloud is often a “black box” of magic that you’re told is vital to the success of a modern business. In this course, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Sean Baier walks you through the fundamentals of Cloud Computing and breaks down the core cloud services AWS offers and provides common use-cases of each one. Sean starts by explaining what the cloud is, the pitfalls of life before the cloud, and why the need for the cloud arose. Continuing with cloud fundamentals, he covers the different cloud computing types and deployment models while discussing how they help solve some of the problems of the pre-cloud era. He then walks through each of the core top-level categories and their services, such as, Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, and Security. Throughout the course, Sean explains what each service is and how they help your team become more agile, innovate faster, and enable scalability. After watching this course you will be able to explain what the AWS cloud truly is, how it operates, and why it can be valuable to you in any role whether that’s engineering, sales, marketing, or finance.