Cloud Engineering (AWS & Azure) course

Overview

Develop practical, job-ready competency in cloud engineering on both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Each week teaches a core capability, such as networking, compute, storage, identity and automation, on both platforms side by side, so you understand the concepts and can work on either. You will build with Terraform, secure and monitor what you deploy, and finish by architecting a multi-cloud solution. The content aligns with the topics covered by the AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Microsoft AZ-104 Azure Administrator certifications. Exam fees are separate and a pass cannot be guaranteed.

Syllabus

1. Module 1

   Multi-Cloud Foundations

   Cloud service and deployment models, the shared responsibility model, AWS accounts and Azure subscriptions, regions and availability zones, the consoles and command-line tools, and organising resources with AWS Organizations and Azure management groups.

2. Module 2

   Virtual Networking

   AWS VPC and Azure Virtual Network: subnets, routing, NAT, peering, security groups and network security groups, DNS, and connecting networks securely.

3. Module 3

   Compute & Elastic Scaling

   EC2 and Azure Virtual Machines, auto scaling groups and virtual machine scale sets, load balancing, availability design, and choosing the right compute option.

4. Module 4

   Storage & Data Persistence

   S3, EBS and EFS alongside Azure Blob, Files and managed disks, lifecycle policies, replication, and managed databases on both platforms.

5. Module 5

   Identity, Access & Cloud Security

   AWS IAM and Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, least-privilege design, multi-factor authentication, and key and secret management with KMS and Key Vault.

6. Module 6

   Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

   Writing Terraform modules, remote state and locking, separating environments, and deploying equivalent infrastructure to AWS and Azure from one codebase.

7. Module 7

   Serverless & Managed Services

   AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, event-driven design, API gateways, queues and messaging, and when managed services beat running your own.

8. Module 8

   Monitoring, Reliability & Disaster Recovery

   CloudWatch, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, alerting, backup, cross-region recovery, Azure Site Recovery, and designing for failure.

9. Module 9

   Governance, Cost & Multi-Cloud Strategy

   Tagging, budgets and FinOps, AWS Config and service control policies, Azure Policy, avoiding lock-in, hybrid and multi-cloud patterns, and exam-readiness review.

10. Module 10

    Production Capstone Project

    Architect and provision a multi-cloud solution with secure networking, automated scaling, monitoring and a disaster-recovery plan, all defined in Terraform.

Who it's for

IT support and systems administrators, network engineers, developers and career changers who want to work in cloud engineering, and anyone who needs to be confident on both AWS and Azure.

Tools covered

AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda), Microsoft Azure (VMs, Blob, VNet, Entra ID, Functions), Cloud Virtual Networking, Compute & Auto-Scaling, Cloud Storage & Databases, Identity & Access Management, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Serverless & Managed Services, Monitoring & Disaster Recovery, FinOps & Cloud Governance, Multi-Cloud Architecture.