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AWS Cloud for Beginners Specialization

Whizlabs

AWS Cloud for Beginners Specialization

Build Your AWS Cloud Computing Skills.

Learn AWS cloud fundamentals, core services, networking, storage, and security.

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Beginner level

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8 weeks to complete
at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
Beginner level

Recommended experience

8 weeks to complete
at 4 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Explain fundamental cloud computing concepts and identify AWS compute, storage, networking, and infrastructure services used to build cloud solutions

  • Describe AWS security principles, identity and access management, cloud monitoring, and best practices for managing and protecting cloud resources

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October 2026

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Specialization - 3 course series

AWS Cloud Fundamentals, Compute and Networking

AWS Cloud Fundamentals, Compute and Networking

Course 1, 6 hours

What you'll learn

  • Understand Elastic Load Balancing, VPC, subnets, CIDR, and network security.

  • Learn about EC2 instances, Linux instance deployment, Auto Scaling, and AWS Lambda.

  • Explore cloud models, deployment approaches, and the benefits of AWS.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Load Balancing
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Category: Scalability
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Capacity Management
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Linux Servers
Category: Security Controls
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Network Security
Category: Virtual Networking
Category: Cloud Deployment
AWS Networking, Content Delivery and Storage

AWS Networking, Content Delivery and Storage

Course 2, 7 hours

What you'll learn

  • Learn the fundamentals of S3, EBS, EC2 instance store, and EFS.

  • Explore CloudFront distributions, caching, domain registration, and Route 53 routing.

  • Understand VPCs, route tables, NAT Gateway, and load balancing.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Storage
Category: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: Network Infrastructure
Category: Virtual Networking
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: Data Storage Technologies
Category: Load Balancing
Category: Network Routing
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Scalability
Category: Amazon S3

What you'll learn

  • Learn the fundamentals of Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.

  • Explore SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and CloudFormation.

  • Understand IAM users, groups, policies, roles, and MFA.

Skills you'll gain

Category: API Gateway
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Multi-Factor Authentication
Category: Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Category: Amazon Web Services
Category: AWS CloudFormation
Category: Event Monitoring
Category: NoSQL
Category: Database Systems
Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Amazon DynamoDB
Category: Relational Databases
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Cloud Management
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)

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