Aws Certified Cloud Practitioner Clf-C02 [2025 / Latest]

Build strong AWS foundation | Pass AWS certification exam | 40+ Hands-on labs & full test | No prior experience required

What you'll learn

Clear AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification exam confidently !

Build strong foundation in AWS by mastering core AWS services e.g. EC2, S3, ELB, IAM, VPC

Expand your AWS knowledge across 70+ widely used AWS services

40+ hands-on exercises to further strengthening your AWS skills.

25 Sections quizzes, 1 Full practice test with explanation and 700+ slides available for download.

Requirements

No programming skills or IT skills required

Description

"A strong technical foundation is the key to a successful AWS career - build it once, build it right "With this belief, I have built this course from the ground up, drawing from a decade of AWS expertise and 20 years in IT.    So get ready to immerse yourself fully into this course.. ~ChetanAbout this course:This is not just any other AWS Certification course, this course provides everything you need to know as a techie. We are going to cover even the most basics such as What is VM? What is container? How HTTPS work? How DNS works?  What is object storage? What is Generative AI? and many more such topics. Hence look this as a comprehensive course beyond the AWS.This course provides you everything to pass your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam (CLF-C02)This course provides the hands-on experience to get started with AWS. No prior IT or Cloud experience required. This course can be taken by absolutely beginners.Course topics:AWS Cloud - A big pictureCloud ConceptsAWS Global Infrastructure - Regions, AZ, Edge locations, Local Zones, Wavelegth zonesAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Amazon EC2Containers on AWS - ECS, EKSAWS Serverless - AWS Lambda & FargateLoad Balancing and Autoscaling - Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Autoscaling Group (ASG)DNS and Edge Networking - Route53, Amazon CloudFront, Global AcceleratorStorage Services - Amazon S3, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), EFS/FSxDatabases in AWS - RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Neptune etc.Big data and Analytics in AWS - Amazon Glue, EMR, Athena, RedshiftNetworking in AWS - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, DirectConnectApplication Integration services - API gateway, AppSync, SNS, SQS, MQInfrastructure deployment - Amazon CloudFormation, CDKDevOps in AWS - CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, ElasticBeanstalkInfrastructure Management - AWS Systems Manager, AWS ConfigMonitoring & Logging - Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudTrail, X-RayMachine learning in AWS - Amazon SageMaker, AI Services (Rekognition, Transcribe, Polly, Translate etc.)Generative AI in AWS - Amazon Bedrock and Amazon QSecurity in AWS - AWS KMS, WAF, Shield, Secrets Manager, Inspector etc.AWS Account Management - AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, RAMAWS Billing - AWS Calculator, AWS Cost ExplorerAWS SupportAWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS Cloud Adoption FrameworkAWS Shared responsibility modelAdditional AWS Services - AWS IoT, Migration services, License manager etc.Exam prepartion tipsFull Practice Test (65 questions)Pre-requistes:You will need an AWS account for performing all the labs. Instructions for creating an AWS account and configuring it are provided in the Course pre-requisite section.

Overview

Section 1: Course introduction

Lecture 1 About me

Lecture 2 Introduction

Lecture 3 Know your exam

Section 2: Download course slides

Lecture 4 Download slides

Section 3: AWS Cloud - A Big picture (Bird's eye view)

Lecture 5 AWS Cloud - A Big picture

Section 4: Course pre-requisites for exercises

Lecture 6 Pre-requisites for the course

Lecture 7 Create new AWS Account

Lecture 8 Setup cost budget for the account spend

Lecture 9 Create an IAM user for yourself

Lecture 10 Create SSH key pair

Lecture 11 (Optional) Buy and configure Public domain name

Lecture 12 Quick walkthrough of AWS console

Section 5: Cloud Concepts

Lecture 13 Section introduction

Lecture 14 What is Cloud computing?

Lecture 15 Characteristics of the Cloud

Lecture 16 Advantages of Cloud computing

Lecture 17 Deployment models of Cloud - Private, Public and Hybrid

Lecture 18 Types of Cloud computing service models - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Lecture 19 Cloud concepts - Section summary

Section 6: AWS Global Infrastructure

Lecture 20 AWS Region and AZs

Lecture 21 AWS Edge locations

Lecture 22 AWS Local zone, Wavelength zone and Outpost

Lecture 23 AWS Global Infrastructure - Section summary

Section 7: AWS IAM

Lecture 24 Introduction to AWS IAM

Lecture 25 AWS Account and IAM users

Lecture 26 [Exercise] Create an IAM user

Lecture 27 [Exercise] Set up MFA for an IAM user

Lecture 28 IAM Policy

Lecture 29 [Exercise] Create IAM policy

Lecture 30 IAM Users, IAM Group and IAM Role

Lecture 31 [Exercise] Create IAM group

Lecture 32 IAM Role - Deep dive

Lecture 33 [Exercise] IAM Credentials - Access keys

Lecture 34 [Exercise] Using AWS CLI

Lecture 35 [Exercise] Using AWS SDK

Lecture 36 Understanding relation between AWS APIs, CLI and SDK

Lecture 37 IAM Audit

Lecture 38 AWS IAM - Section summary

Section 8: AWS Compute - EC2

Lecture 39 Introduction to AWS Compute services

Lecture 40 Amazon EC2

Lecture 41 EC2 configuration options

Lecture 42 [Exercise] Launch Linux EC2 instance

Lecture 43 [Exercise] Launch Windows EC2 instance

Lecture 44 EC2 Instance types and family

Lecture 45 Storage for EC2 - EBS and Instance Store

Lecture 46 Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Lecture 47 [Exercise] Create a webserver AMI

Lecture 48 EC2 Image builder

Lecture 49 VPC for EC2 (default)

Lecture 50 Security Group

Lecture 51 EC2 Userdata

Lecture 52 EC2 SSH Key pair

Lecture 53 [Exercise] Launch a webserver using EC2 Userdata

Lecture 54 IAM Role for EC2

Lecture 55 [Exercise] Create and use IAM Role for EC2

Lecture 56 EC2 Pricing - Purchasing plans

Lecture 57 EC2 Pricing - On-demand instances

Lecture 58 EC2 Pricing - Spot instances

Lecture 59 EC2 Pricing - Reserved Instances

Lecture 60 EC2 Pricing - Savings plan

Lecture 61 Managing EC2 capacity with ODCR

Lecture 62 EC2 Pricing plans summary & comparison

Lecture 63 EC2 Tenancy - Shared and Dedicated

Lecture 64 EC2 Tags

Lecture 65 Amazon EC2 - Section summary

Section 9: AWS Compute - Containers, ECS, EKS and Lambda

Lecture 66 Section introduction

Lecture 67 Container basics

Lecture 68 Docker basics

Lecture 69 [Exercise] Run docker containers on EC2

Lecture 70 Microservices and Container orchestration

Lecture 71 Amazon ECS

Lecture 72 Amazon ECS - How it works?

Lecture 73 Amazon EKS

Lecture 74 Amazon EKS - How it works?

Lecture 75 AWS Fargate - Serverless container runtime

Lecture 76 AWS Serverless compute

Lecture 77 AWS Lambda

Lecture 78 [Exercise] Build a serverless weather App with AWS Lambda

Lecture 79 Section summary

Section 10: Load Balancer & Auto Scaling

Lecture 80 Introduction to High Availabiility and Scalability

Lecture 81 AWS Elastic Load Balancer

Lecture 82 [Exercise] Application Load Balancer with two backend EC2 instances

Lecture 83 EC2 Autoscaling group (ASG)

Lecture 84 Section summary

Section 11: VPC and Networking

Lecture 85 VPC basics

Lecture 86 VPC CIDR - How to address VPC

Lecture 87 [Exercise] Create a VPC

Lecture 88 VPC Subnets and Route tables

Lecture 89 [Exercise] Create VPC subnets and Route tables

Lecture 90 [Exercise] Launch EC2 in Public and Private subnets

Lecture 91 NAT Gateway

Lecture 92 [Exercise] Create and use NAT-Gateway

Lecture 93 VPC Firewalls - Security Group

Lecture 94 Default VPC

Lecture 95 VPC Firewalls - NACL

Lecture 96 VPC Design for a Web application

Lecture 97 VPC endpoints and PrivateLink

Lecture 98 VPC Peering

Lecture 99 AWS Transit Gateway

Lecture 100 AWS Site-to-Site VPN

Lecture 101 AWS Client VPN

Lecture 102 AWS Direct Connect

Lecture 103 Section summary

Section 12: DNS and Edge Networking

Lecture 104 Introduction to DNS and Edge Networking

Lecture 105 DNS Basics

Lecture 106 Amazon Route 53

Lecture 107 Route 53 hosted zones

Lecture 108 [Exercise] Website with custom domain name

Lecture 109 Route 53 routing policies

Lecture 110 Edge Networking in AWS

Lecture 111 Edge Networking - Amazon CloudFront

Lecture 112 [Exercise] Host HTTPS website with Amazon CloudFront and EC2

Lecture 113 Edge Networking - AWS Global Accelerator

Lecture 114 Edge Networking - S3 Transfer accelerator

Lecture 115 Section summary

Section 13: AWS Storage services

Lecture 116 Introduction to AWS Storage services

Lecture 117 Block storage vs File Storage vs Object Storage

Lecture 118 Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

Lecture 119 EBS volume types

Lecture 120 [Exercise] Create and attach EBS volume to EC2

Lecture 121 EBS Snapshots

Lecture 122 [Exercise] Create EBS snapshot

Lecture 123 EBS features - Good to know

Lecture 124 [Exercise] Detete EBS Volume

Lecture 125 Elastic Block Storage (EBS) - Summary

Lecture 126 Introduction to Amazon S3

Lecture 127 S3 Bucket

Lecture 128 [Exercise] Create S3 bucket

Lecture 129 S3 storage classes [Important]

Lecture 130 S3 Intelligent tiering

Lecture 131 [Exercise] S3 storage classes

Lecture 132 S3 security

Lecture 133 S3 Bucket Policy

Lecture 134 [Exercise] Public S3 bucket

Lecture 135 S3 Lifecycle policy

Lecture 136 S3 Static website

Lecture 137 [Exercise] Host a static website on S3

Lecture 138 S3 Bucket versioning

Lecture 139 [Exercise] S3 bucket versioning

Lecture 140 S3 Replication

Lecture 141 [Exercise] S3 Bucket Replication

Lecture 142 S3 IAM Access Analyzer

Lecture 143 Amazon S3 - Summary

Lecture 144 Introduction to EFS

Lecture 145 Introduction to FSx - Windows, Lustre, OpenZFS

Lecture 146 Section summary

Section 14: AWS Data migration and hybrid storage services

Lecture 147 Overview of AWS data migration services

Lecture 148 AWS Snow devices

Lecture 149 AWS DataSync

Lecture 150 AWS Storage gateway

Lecture 151 Section summary

Section 15: AWS Database services

Lecture 152 Introduction to AWS databases

Lecture 153 Amazon RDS

Lecture 154 [Exercise] Create MySQL RDS database

Lecture 155 Amazon RDS features

Lecture 156 Amazon Aurora DB

Lecture 157 SQL vs NoSQL

Lecture 158 Amazon DynamoDB

Lecture 159 Amazon DynamoDB features

Lecture 160 Amazon DocumentDB

Lecture 161 Amazon ElastiCache

Lecture 162 Amazon Neptune

Lecture 163 Amazon Timestream and QLDB

Lecture 164 Amazon DMS - Database Migration Service

Lecture 165 Section summary

Section 16: AWS Big data and Analytics services

Lecture 166 What is big data and analytics?

Lecture 167 Overview of AWS Analytics services

Lecture 168 Amazon Kinesis

Lecture 169 AWS Glue

Lecture 170 Amazon EMR

Lecture 171 Amazon Athena

Lecture 172 Amazon Redshift

Lecture 173 Amazon QuickSight

Lecture 174 [Exercise] Build an end to end data pipeline using AWS services

Lecture 175 Section summary

Section 17: AWS Application Integration services

Lecture 176 Amazon API gateway, AppSync, SQS, SNS, EventBridge

Lecture 177 Amazon API gateway

Lecture 178 AWS AppSync

Lecture 179 Amazon SQS

Lecture 180 [Exercise] Create SQS queue and send message

Lecture 181 Amazon SNS

Lecture 182 [Exercise] Create SNS topic and send notification

Lecture 183 Amazon EventBridge

Lecture 184 [Exercise] Notify when EC2 changes state

Lecture 185 Amazon MQ

Lecture 186 Section summary

Section 18: Infrastructure & Application deployment (DevOps)

Lecture 187 Section introduction

Lecture 188 Overview of Infrastructure deployment

Lecture 189 AWS CloudFormation

Lecture 190 [Exercise] Launch AWS Cloudformation stack

Lecture 191 AWS CDK - Cloud Development Kit

Lecture 192 Introduction to AWS DevOps services

Lecture 193 AWS CodeCommit [service to be discontinued]

Lecture 194 AWS CodeBuild

Lecture 195 AWS CodeDeploy

Lecture 196 AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 197 AWS CodeArtifact

Lecture 198 Application deployment and Amazon Lightsail

Lecture 199 AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Lecture 200 [Exercise] Launch an application with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Lecture 201 Section summary

Section 19: Infrastructure Management & Compliance

Lecture 202 Introduction to infrastructure management

Lecture 203 AWS Systems Manager

Lecture 204 [Exercise] Connect and run commands on EC2 using Systems Manager

Lecture 205 AWS Config

Lecture 206 Section summary

Section 20: AWS Monitoring and Logging

Lecture 207 Introduction to AWS Monitoring and Logging services

Lecture 208 Amazon CloudWatch

Lecture 209 [Exercise] Create a CloudWatch Alarm for EC2

Lecture 210 [Exercise] Collect CloudWatch logs from EC2

Lecture 211 Amazon CloudTrail

Lecture 212 Amazon X-Ray

Lecture 213 AWS Health Dashboard

Lecture 214 Section summary

Section 21: Machine Learning and AI

Lecture 215 Overview of AWS AI/ML Services

Lecture 216 [Demo] Amazon Rekognition

Lecture 217 [Demo] Amazon Polly

Lecture 218 [Demo] Amazon Transcribe

Lecture 219 [Demo] Amazon Textract

Lecture 220 [Demo] Amazon Translate

Lecture 221 [Demo] Amazon Comprehend

Lecture 222 Amazon Kendra

Lecture 223 Amazon Lex

Lecture 224 Amazon Personalize

Lecture 225 Amazon Forecast

Lecture 226 Amazon Fraud Detector

Lecture 227 Amazon Connect

Lecture 228 Amazon SageMaker - AWS ML Platform

Section 22: Generative AI in AWS

Lecture 229 Introduction to AI, ML & Deep learning

Lecture 230 Overview of AWS GenAI services

Lecture 231 [Demo] Amazon Bedrock

Lecture 232 Prompt Engineering and RAG

Lecture 233 Amazon Q

Lecture 234 Section summary

Section 23: AWS Secuity

Lecture 235 Overview of AWS Security services

Lecture 236 Data security basics

Lecture 237 AWS KMS

Lecture 238 AWS CloudHSM

Lecture 239 Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM)

Lecture 240 AWS Secrets Manager

Lecture 241 Amazon Macie

Lecture 242 AWS WAF - Web Application Firewall

Lecture 243 AWS Shield

Lecture 244 Amazon Inspector

Lecture 245 Amazon GuardDuty

Lecture 246 AWS Security Hub

Lecture 247 Amazon Detective

Lecture 248 AWS Network Firewall & Firewall Manager

Lecture 249 AWS Artifact

Lecture 250 Penetration testing in AWS

Lecture 251 Section summary

Section 24: AWS Account Management

Lecture 252 AWS Organization

Lecture 253 SCP - Service Control Policy

Lecture 254 Consolidated billing

Lecture 255 [Exercise] SCP in AWS Organization

Lecture 256 AWS Control Tower

Lecture 257 AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)

Lecture 258 Section summary

Section 25: AWS Billing and Cost Management

Lecture 259 AWS Billing Dashboard and Tools

Lecture 260 [Demo] AWS Pricing Calculator

Lecture 261 [Demo] AWS Billing tools

Lecture 262 AWS Cost control tools

Lecture 263 [Demo] AWS cost control tools

Lecture 264 Section summary

Section 26: AWS Support

Lecture 265 AWS Support overview

Lecture 266 AWS Support plans*

Lecture 267 AWS Trusted Advisor

Lecture 268 AWS Service Quotas

Lecture 269 Section summary

Section 27: AWS Well-architected and Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

Lecture 270 AWS general design principles

Lecture 271 AWS Well-architected Framework

Lecture 272 AWS Well-architected Tool

Lecture 273 AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

Lecture 274 Section summary

Section 28: AWS Partners Network, AWS Professionals services and AWS Community

Lecture 275 AWS enagement model

Lecture 276 AWS Professional services

Lecture 277 AWS Partner Network (APN)

Lecture 278 AWS Training and Certification

Lecture 279 AWS Community - re:post

Lecture 280 Section summary

Section 29: AWS Shared Responsibility Model*

Lecture 281 AWS Shared Responsibility model

Lecture 282 AWS Accetable Use policy

Section 30: Extra lectures - Other AWS services which are good to go through

Lecture 283 AWS Migration services

Lecture 284 AWS Marketplace

Lecture 285 AWS License Manager

Lecture 286 Other AWS Services

Lecture 287 Section summary

Section 31: Extra lectures - AWS IoT Services (for Developers)

Lecture 288 AWS IoT Core

Lecture 289 AWS IoT Greengrass

Lecture 290 [Exercise] Connect simulated device to IoT Core

Section 32: Exam preparation and final tips

Lecture 291 Introduction

Lecture 292 Know your exam

Lecture 293 AWS official sample 10 exam questions

Lecture 294 How to approach exam questions?

Lecture 295 Practice test (65 questions)

Lecture 296 Getting 30 mins extra time for the exam

Lecture 297 Scheduling an exam

Lecture 298 Benefit for your next AWS Certification exam

Section 33: Practice Test

Section 34: Thank you and all the best!

Lecture 299 Thank you..

This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn AWS from stratch and earn their AWS Cloud Practitioner certificate