Build And Scale With Aws Cloud - A Hands-On Beginners Guide

Accelerate your AWS Cloud skills with hands-on labs, guided demos, and real-world exercises

What you'll learn

Learn how to leverage AWS services to achieve high availability, scale your application seamlessly, and build flexible, efficient cloud architectures

Set up secure IAM users, roles, and policies to control access to AWS resources and apply best security practices throughout the environment

Launch and manage EC2 instances, create custom AMIs, automate application startup, implement Auto Scaling, and configure Elastic Load Balancing

Use Amazon EFS for scalable, persistent storage and store user data securely with Amazon S3, applying appropriate access controls

Integrate Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) with Secrets Manager for secure credential management, and use KMS for encryption at rest

Send notifications via Amazon SNS using email for system alerts and events

Design a custom VPC with public/private subnets, Internet Gateway, and NAT Gateway, and ensure secure data transmission using ACM and Route 53

Monitor application performance, troubleshoot issues, and visualize metrics using CloudWatch dashboards and logs

By the end, you’ll know how to deploy and manage a full-stack application on AWS, with a focus on integrating each feature into a real-world cloud environment

Requirements

AWS Free Tier account

No prior technical experience needed

Description

What’s in this course?This course offers a hands-on, step-by-step approach to mastering AWS by guiding you through the deployment and scaling of a real-world full-stack application. Starting with foundational cloud concepts, you'll gradually learn how to launch compute resources, manage storage, set up secure networking, and automate infrastructure tasks.As you progress, you'll work with key AWS services like EC2 for virtual machines, RDS for managed databases, and S3 for scalable storage. You'll also implement Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to ensure your application stays highly available under high traffic. Security is woven throughout the course, with practical guidance on configuring IAM roles, managing secrets with Secrets Manager, encrypting data with KMS, and securely routing traffic using Route 53.To complete the picture, you'll use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues in real time. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and confidence to deploy, manage, secure, and scale applications in AWS.Special Note:This course is specially designed not just to help you understand AWS concepts theoretically, but to build confidence in designing scalable and secure architectures. Throughout the course, we follow best practices wherever possible and focus heavily on hands-on learning. Every concept is demonstrated live, with real-time troubleshooting of issues as they arise, giving you exposure to real-world scenarios and practical problem-solving.Course Structure:Concept-based LecturesHands-on demonstrationsReal-world ImplementationPractice testCourse Contents:Learn cloud computing basics and service models (As per NIST)Learn AWS fundamentals and set up & navigate your AWS Free Tier accountManage IAM users, groups, roles, and permissions (AWS Security, Identity, & Compliance Services)Launch and connect to EC2 instances using AMIs and templates (AWS Compute Services)Configure load balancers with target groups and listeners (AWS Compute Services - ELB's)Set up auto scaling with health checks and policies (AWS Compute Services - ASG's)Create and mount shared file systems using EFS (AWS Storage Services)Store data and manage access with Amazon S3 (AWS Storage Services)Launch and manage databases using Amazon RDS (AWS Database Services)Create topics and send notifications with Amazon SNS (AWS Application Integration Services)Build custom networks using VPC, subnets, and gateways (AWS Networking Services)Manage encryption with KMS and use keys with AWS services (AWS Security, Identity, & Compliance Services)Set up subdomains and SSL certificates using Route 53 and ACM (AWS Networking Services)Monitor metrics, logs, and create dashboards with CloudWatch (AWS Management & Governance Services)All sections in this course are demonstrated Live. The intention for enrolled users is to setup their own Cloud environment, perform the exercises and learn by doing!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 GitHub Repository Link

Lecture 3 Course Material - Build and Scale with AWS Cloud - A Hands-on Beginners Guide

Section 2: Cloud Fundamentals

Lecture 4 Topic Introduction

Lecture 5 Introduction to Cloud Computing

Lecture 6 Essential Characteristics

Lecture 7 Service Models

Lecture 8 Deployment Models

Lecture 9 Summary

Section 3: Getting Started with AWS

Lecture 10 Topic Introduction

Lecture 11 Introduction to AWS Cloud

Lecture 12 Regions, Availability Zones & Edge Locations

Lecture 13 AWS Service Types

Lecture 14 Demonstration - AWS Account Setup & Dashboard Walkthrough

Lecture 15 Summary

Section 4: AWS - IAM (Identity and Access Management)

Lecture 16 Topic Introduction

Lecture 17 Introduction to IAM (Users, Groups, Roles, Policies)

Lecture 18 Demonstration - Creating Policy based on a Sample Application

Lecture 19 Demonstration - Creating a New IAM User and Login Credentials

Lecture 20 Summary

Section 5: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Lecture 21 Topic Introduction

Lecture 22 Introduction to EC2 (Instance Types, Launch Templates, Spot/Reserved hosts etc.)

Lecture 23 Creating Linux Instances in AWS (Keypair, Security Groups)

Lecture 24 Creating Windows Instances in AWS (Extracting Password using Keypair)

Lecture 25 Accessing Linux Server (Adding necessary packages for Sample Application)

Lecture 26 Creating AMI using EC2

Lecture 27 Creating Launch Templates

Lecture 28 Create EC2 using Launch Templates

Lecture 29 Summary

Section 6: Load Balancers in AWS

Lecture 30 Topic Introduction

Lecture 31 Understanding Load Balancer (NLB, ALB, Gateway, Target Groups, Listeners)

Lecture 32 Demonstration - Creating Target Group and register EC2 in Target Group

Lecture 33 Demonstration - Creating LB with Listener and Accessing Application using LB DNS

Lecture 34 Demonstration - Creating and Replacing EC2 from Target Group

Lecture 35 Summary

Section 7: Autoscaling Groups in AWS

Lecture 36 Topic Introduction

Lecture 37 Introduction to Autoscaling Groups

Lecture 38 Demonstration - Creating Autoscaling Group using Launch Templates

Lecture 39 Demonstration - Instance Refresh

Lecture 40 Demonstration - Upgrade Application Version

Lecture 41 Demonstration - Simulating Autoscaling Behaviours to react on Health Checks

Lecture 42 Demonstration - Autoscaling Behaviours to react on Health Check Failures for ELB

Lecture 43 Demonstration - Autoscaling Group to Scale Out for CPU Metrics

Lecture 44 Summary

Section 8: Elastic File System in AWS (EFS)

Lecture 45 Topic Introduction

Lecture 46 Getting Started with EFS

Lecture 47 Demonstration - End to End EFS Case Study

Lecture 48 Summary

Section 9: Simple Storage Service in AWS (S3)

Lecture 49 Topic Introduction

Lecture 50 Introduction to S3

Lecture 51 Demonstration - Use Case Explanation and S3 Bucket Operations

Lecture 52 Demonstration - Creating Policy & Role

Lecture 53 Demonstration - Update Launch Template with IAM and upgrade Autoscaling Group

Lecture 54 Summary

Section 10: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Lecture 55 Topic Introduction

Lecture 56 Getting Started with Amazon RDS

Lecture 57 Demonstration - Creating Database Instance

Lecture 58 Demonstration - Accessing the Postgres Database

Lecture 59 Demonstration - Creating Snapshot

Lecture 60 Demonstration - Enabling Automated Backups

Lecture 61 Demonstration - Upgrading Database Instance

Lecture 62 Demonstration - Creating Database from a Snapshot

Lecture 63 Demonstration - Deleting Database Instance

Lecture 64 Demonstration - Use Case (Update Launch Template with IAM Profile & upgrade ASG)

Lecture 65 Summary

Section 11: Simple Notification Service in AWS (SNS)

Lecture 66 Topic Introduction

Lecture 67 Getting Started with SNS

Lecture 68 Demonstration - Creating SNS Topic & Add Subscription

Lecture 69 Demonstration - Use Case Explanation & Code Merge

Lecture 70 Demonstration - Update IAM Role to Access SNS Topic

Lecture 71 Demonstration - Update Launch Template & Run Autoscaling Group Instance Refresh

Lecture 72 Summary

Section 12: Virtual Private Cloud in AWS (VPC)

Lecture 73 Topic Introduction

Lecture 74 Getting Started with VPC

Lecture 75 Demonstration - VPC Creation

Lecture 76 Demonstration - Subnet Creation - Public & Private

Lecture 77 Demonstration - Creating Route Tables & Setting up Subnet Associations

Lecture 78 Demonstration - Creating Internet Gateway & Attaching with VPC

Lecture 79 Demonstration - Adding Route for Internet Gateway in Main Route Table

Lecture 80 Demonstration - Creating NAT Gateway & Adding Route for NAT Gateway

Lecture 81 Demonstration - Setting up Security Group for Sample Application

Lecture 82 Demonstration - Create DB_Subnet_Group for RDS

Lecture 83 Demonstration - Update Launch Template for newly created VPC

Lecture 84 Summary

Section 13: Key Management System in AWS (KMS)

Lecture 85 Topic Introduction

Lecture 86 Demonstration - Creating Key in KMS

Lecture 87 Demonstration - Enable Key Rotation and add Aliases for Key

Lecture 88 Demonstration - Update Launch Template with Key

Lecture 89 Demonstration - Creating Encrypted EFS

Lecture 90 Demonstration - Encryption in RDS

Lecture 91 Summary

Section 14: Route 53 & Cert Manager

Lecture 92 Topic Introduction

Lecture 93 Introduction to Route 53

Lecture 94 Introduction to Cert Manager

Lecture 95 Demonstration - Setting up Sub Domain Name on Route 53 (A Record)

Lecture 96 Demonstration - Creating SSL Cert in Cert Manager & Configuring it with Route 53

Lecture 97 Demonstration - Adding TLS Listener and Attaching Certificate with Load Balancer

Lecture 98 Summary

Section 15: CloudWatch in AWS (Monitoring)

Lecture 99 Demonstration - Creating New Image with CloudWatch Agent

Lecture 100 Demonstration - Update IAM Role to have Access to CloudWatch Components

Lecture 101 Demonstration - Include CloudWatch Agent JSON File in the Code

Lecture 102 Demonstration - Update Launch Template to Start Cloud Watch Agent

Lecture 103 Demonstration - Refresh ASG & Check the Application Logs in CloudWatch LogGroup

Lecture 104 Demonstration - Working with Logs Insights

Lecture 105 Demonstration - Checking Metrics in CloudWatch for Autoscaling, EC2 & RDS

Lecture 106 Demonstration - Creating Dashboard in CloudWatch

Section 16: Practice Exam

Section 17: Conclusion

Lecture 107 Conclusion

Anyone looking to gain practical, hands-on experience in deploying full-stack applications on AWS using real-world scenarios and best practices,Perfect for cloud professionals, DevOps engineers, and SREs aiming to build a strong foundation and confidence in AWS services,deal for academic students, professors, and researchers starting with the fundamentals of cloud computing and AWS