What you'll learn:
- What is the cloud and what it's good for
- Basic terminology of the cloud: Regions, Zones, etc.
- Fundamentals of AWS - Accounts, Cloud Shell, Budgets and more
- Working with the Management Console
- Compute Services - EC2, Beanstalk, ECS, EKS, Lambda Functions and more
- Networking - VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Load balancers and more
- Data Store - RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache and more
- Storing objects with S3
- Messaging - SQS, SNS, EventBridge
- Identity management with IAM and Cognito
- Implementing security in the cloud
- Designing disaster recovery strategy with Route53 and Global Accelerators
- Managing costs
- Architecting applications in the cloud
- Migrating from on-premise to the cloud
Learn AWS from a Certified Architect – and Build Real-World Cloud Systems
AWS is the most widely used public cloud in the world — powering startups, enterprises, and governments alike. Cloud skills are no longer optional — they’re essential for developers, architects, and IT professionals.
In this hands-on course, taught by a certified AWS architect with 20+ years of experience, you'll go far beyond theory.
You'll build a full, modern, cloud-native system on AWS — step by step, service by service — gaining the practical skills and real-world knowledge you need to design and deploy cloud applications with confidence.
Why This Course Is Different
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Most AWS courses list services, show a few demos, and move on.
This course is project-based and practical. Together, we’ll build a fully working, cloud-hosted system called Readit — a fictional bookstore deployed on AWS.
You’ll get hands-on experience with EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and many more services — just like you would in a real job.
You won’t just learn what these services do — you’ll learn when and why to use them, how to combine them effectively, and how to make smart architecture decisions under real-world constraints.
What You’ll Learn
We start with the basics and build up to advanced concepts. Here’s a glimpse of what we’ll cover:
What is the cloud, and why AWS?
Navigating the AWS Console
Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and Elastic Beanstalk
Networking: VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables, Load Balancers
Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, and Glacier
Databases: RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora
Messaging: SQS, SNS, EventBridge
Identity & Security: IAM, Roles, Policies, KMS, Secrets Manager
Monitoring & Logging: CloudWatch, CloudTrail
Cost Optimization and Budgeting
Disaster Recovery & High Availability
And much more...
Real-World Architecture in Action
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As we build our cloud-based system, you'll see the architecture evolve from a simple virtual machine to a resilient, scalable, secure, and fully cloud-native application.
You’ll walk away not just understanding AWS — but being able to explain and justify your architecture decisions, like a real cloud architect.
AWS Architecture Summary Guide
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At the end of the course, you’ll be able to download a comprehensive AWS Architecture Summary — a powerful cheat sheet that captures everything we’ve learned and helps you design and evaluate AWS systems long after the course is over.
I personally use it in my consulting work — and so should you.
Who Is This Course For?
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Software Developers & Architects
DevOps & Sysadmins
IT Professionals moving to the cloud
Anyone who wants to deeply understand AWS, not just memorize it
Do I Need to Know Anything Before?
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Some basic development knowledge helps, but you don’t need to be an expert — and you don’t need any prior AWS experience. We start from the ground up.
All code is provided, and the system is built using .NET and Node.js — but even if you’ve never used them, you’ll be just fine.
About the Instructor
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I’ve been in the software industry for over 20 years and a cloud architect for more than 12. I’ve worked with startups, Fortune 100s, government agencies, and everything in between.
As a certified AWS architect, I’ve designed dozens of cloud-native systems for real-world clients — and I’ve taught hundreds of thousands of students how to do the same, both in-person and online.
Now I want to share everything I’ve learned with you.
This is not your typical “talking head” course — this is real architecture, real AWS, and real skills you can use.
What My Students Say About My Cloud Courses
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"This is the best course I have encountered on Udemy or anywhere. And I say this after buying 8 different Udemy courses before" - Arbaaz
"One of the best classes in the world" - Kkvi1357
"One of the best courses I've done at Udemy - top among maybe 50-100" - Russ
"Memi is a true architect willing to get his hands dirty!" - Kevon
"Excellent" - Ashwani
"Highly recommended" - Shashank
"I am loving it the best part is the project based learning !" - Juhi
"The best course I have taken on Udemy" - Eslam
And lots more...
If you're ready to go from AWS beginner to confident cloud architect — and build something real along the way — then this is the course for you.
Let’s get started!
