Hands-on AWS CloudOps learning without endless videos. Build real skills, pass the certification.
Each chapter follows a proven learning path:
- 📖 Notes - Complete theory covering all exam topics and real-world scenarios
- 🛠️ Hands-on Labs - Build the "CloudMart" e-commerce platform from startup to enterprise
- 📝 Practice Questions - Test your knowledge with exam-style questions
- 📋 Cheatsheets - Quick reference for services, their concepts, and best practices
- Monitoring & Observability - CloudWatch, logging, alarms, and operational monitoring
- Notes: 8 AWS monitoring services with detailed explanations
- Labs: 11 hands-on labs following the CloudMart story
- Practice Questions: Exam-style questions to test your knowledge
- Cheatsheet: Quick reference for rapid review
- Security & Identity - IAM, KMS, least-privilege access patterns
- Networking - VPC, security groups, load balancers, endpoints
- Compute - EC2, Auto Scaling, containers, serverless
- Storage - S3, EBS, backups, data lifecycle
- Database - RDS, DynamoDB operations and monitoring
- Deployment - CloudFormation, CI/CD, automation
- Cost & Advanced Topics - Budgets, optimization, multi-account
You will build CloudMart - a complete e-commerce platform that grows from a simple startup to an enterprise-scale operation. Each chapter adds new capabilities.
Try not to skip labs - The story connects all labs together, and each builds on the previous ones.
We prioritize free tier usage in all labs:
- Most labs are completely free
- Paid labs use minimal resources (typically $1-5)
- Clear cost warnings and cleanup instructions
Choose your starting point based on your experience:
- Learn core AWS concepts like regions, availability zones, and IAM basics
- Time needed: 2-3 hours of reading
- Install and configure AWS CLI
- Create IAM users
- Time needed: 1-2 hours of setup