AWS Learning

Welcome to the Learning Method guide for AWS.

Philosophy

1. Real-World Systems: We start with the problem, not the feature.
2. No Fluff: Marketing implementation details are stripped away.
3. Mental Models: We use analogies to build intuition.

Curriculum

Compute

• EC2: The raw servers.
• Lambda: Serverless functions.
• Elastic Beanstalk: PaaS for web apps.
• Lightsail: Simplified VPS.
• EKS: Managed Kubernetes.

Storage & Database

• S3: Infinite object storage.
• Aurora & RDS: Managed relational databases.

Networking

• VPC: Your private network slice.

Security & Identity

• IAM: Identity and Access Management.

Observability & Management

• CloudWatch: Metrics and logs.
• AWS Health: Status of AWS itself.
• User Notifications: Centralized alerts.
• Billing: Cost control.

AI & Machine Learning

• Bedrock: Generative AI APIs.