Build and Scale with AWS Cloud - A Hands-on Beginners Guide

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Mastering AWS Cloud technologies is a powerful skill set that will elevate your ability to design, build, and scale cloud-based applications. This course is designed for beginners, guiding you through hands-on exercises that will help you not only learn AWS services but also apply them in real-world scenarios. From computing power with EC2 to storage, load balancing, and database management, you'll gain a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and how to scale effectively. You'll start with core cloud fundamentals and then dive into AWS's wide array of services. As the course progresses, you'll work through practical demonstrations, from setting up IAM policies and creating EC2 instances to configuring scalable applications with load balancers and autoscaling groups. In the later sections, you'll learn how to optimize storage with EFS, manage databases with RDS, and monitor your resources with CloudWatch. Each section builds on the last, allowing you to progressively expand your cloud expertise. This course is ideal for beginners with an interest in cloud computing and AWS. No prior cloud experience is required, but basic IT knowledge and an eagerness to learn will be helpful. This is a beginner-level course with practical, hands-on applications throughout. By the end of the course, you will be able to navigate the AWS Management Console, launch and manage EC2 instances, scale applications using load balancers and auto-scaling, and optimize your cloud architecture using AWS's most popular services.