School of Cloud & DevOps

Cloud Foundations: 16 weeks for beginners (no prior Linux or cloud background required).

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What You’ll Learn

Cloud Foundations curriculum overview.

  • Phase 1 goal: Build cloud literacy.

  • Week 1-4: Cloud concepts, AWS account and core services, compute services (EC2, Lambda), SSH and security basics, Mini-Projects_1.

  • Week 5-7: Networking with VPCs, storage and databases (S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB), host a static site on S3, Mini-Projects_2.

  • Week 8-10: Identity and Security (IAM Users, Roles, Policies, Shared Responsibility Model), least-privilege policies, CloudWatch dashboards, SNS/SQS/EventBridge, Mini-Projects_3.

  • Week 11-12: Cost Management with AWS Budgets and Cost Explorer, Course Project and Final Exams.

Program Curriculum

Capstone Project

You will design and deploy a small but realistic cloud workload on AWS, applying networking, security, monitoring, and cost best practices from the program.

Certification Preparation

The curriculum aligns with the core topics of entry‑level AWS certifications and gives you the practical experience needed to continue towards AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or similar exams.