AWS Technical Essentials
- Free
- No certificate
- Beginner
- 4 hours
AWS Technical Essentials is a four-hour digital course on AWS Skill Builder for people in technical roles who are new to AWS. Its access tier is listed as Free and its level as Fundamental. The course introduces the essential services and common solutions across compute, database, storage, networking, monitoring and security, and has you working in AWS through hands-on course experiences, interactive lessons, videos, demonstrations and knowledge-check questions. Objectives include navigating the AWS Management Console, explaining IAM and security measures, distinguishing compute services such as EC2 and Lambda and container services such as ECS and EKS, describing RDS, DynamoDB and S3, exploring networking services and configuring CloudWatch monitoring.
AWS recommends IT experience and basic knowledge of data-centre components but says no prior cloud or AWS experience is required. The page lists no certificate or badge; the course is free to take with a free Skill Builder account, and it is available in English and 16 other languages. The page carries an Updated label and a note that the course has been refreshed with the same learning objectives.
What you’ll learn
- Navigate the AWS Management Console and explain core terminology
- Describe IAM and AWS security measures
- Distinguish compute services (EC2, Lambda) and container services (ECS, EKS)
- Describe RDS, DynamoDB and S3 and when to use each
- Configure Amazon CloudWatch monitoring
Who it’s for
Developers, sysadmins and solutions architects with IT experience who want a technical rather than business-level first look at AWS.
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