Foundations of Web and Cloud Development

Cloud infrastructure powers nearly every digital interaction today, yet for most professionals AWS remains an opaque set of services that someone else manages. The gap between knowing AWS exists and knowing how to use it confidently is costing teams speed, money, and opportunity. In this course, taught by AWS Certified DevOps Professional Sean Baier, you'll map the core AWS service categories — compute, storage, networking, databases, analytics, machine learning, application integration, security, and governance — to real business problems. You'll provision a Lambda function, query a live dataset in QuickSight, configure an SNS notification pipeline, and set up IAM users with least-privilege access, building practical confidence with each new service. By the end of this course, you'll be able to evaluate AWS services against specific use cases, justify architectural choices to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and take your first steps toward deploying and managing cloud resources independently.

The web is built on HTML. Every page you visit, every button you click, and every form you fill out exists because someone wrote HTML to put it there. If you've ever wanted to build something on the internet and wondered where to start, HTML is the right first move — it's the foundational layer that every other web technology sits on top of. In this course, you'll set up a professional coding environment, write your first HTML document, and build fully structured web pages from scratch. You'll work with the core elements that make up every website: text, images, links, lists, forms, tables, and the semantic tags that give your pages both structure and accessibility. Along the way, you'll avoid the common mistakes that trip up beginners and publish your finished site live on the internet using GitHub. By the end of this course, you'll have a published HTML webpage and the foundational skills to continue into CSS and JavaScript with confidence.