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title: AWS - Amazon Web Services Tutorial | Scaler Topics 
description: Basic to advanced AWS tutorial for programmers. Learn AWS with step-by-step guide along with applications and example programs by Scaler Topics.
category: AWS
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## Why Learn AWS?
The `Cloud computing` market is experiencing exponential growth in demand. Learning and adapting to the Cloud Computing Services and its infrastructure is essential. Please consider the below reasons necessary to learn AWS:

* `AWS` (Amazon Web Services) is the fastest-growing and widely used cloud platform offering its services globally.
* With the emergence of `cutting-edge` technologies, expertise in Cloud Computing is essential for IT Professionals.
* The demand for AWS and Cloud Computing Skills is Outstripping the Supply as there is an increase in the percent of jobs requiring AWS Skills.
* Increase in the number of cloud migrations to AWS.
* AWS Skills are well paid and remunerated.
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## Applications of AWS
Amazon Web Services is used in many different applications, including:

* Storage and Data, Backup recovery, Disaster Management
* Game Development
* Website and Application Hosting
* Big Data Management and Analytics
* AI & ML
* Internet of Things
* Social Networking
* Content Delivery, Content Management, and Media Distribution
* Mobile Applications
* Search Engines
* Augmented and Virtual Reality
* Media sharing and many more.

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## Advantages of AWS
AWS offers multiple benefits, which makes it the leading and successful cloud provider. Below are a few of the advantages of AWS:

* AWS is cost-effective with the pay-as-you-go pricing model.
* It doesn't have any up-front or long-term commitments.
* Allows users to leverage the advantage of using familiar/already known programming models, operating systems, databases, and architectures.
* AWS is easy-to-use which helps users to deploy applications globally in just a few clicks.
* AWS also provides easy management with no overhead costs. There is no charge for maintaining the data centers/servers on the Cloud, which is way cheaper than maintaining and managing private/dedicated servers.
* It is easily scalable according to usage, and we can also manually add/remove the capacities.
* AWS provides consolidated management and billing.
* Users can make easy and faster deployments.
* It also offers hybrid and migration capabilities.
* Access to the resources in AWS Cloud is effortless and quick.
* AWS provides a user-friendly interface that is easy to navigate.

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## Audience

Knowledge of AWS is one of the most important skills employers look for these days. 

Learning AWS courses/services can assist you in developing your AWS abilities and skills, whether you are a beginner hoping to enter the world of cloud computing or an experienced professional looking to advance in your career. 

Anyone interested in starting their adventure into the world of Amazon Web Services should start learning AWS.

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## Prerequisite

Learning AWS doesn't require any specific requirements. However, to get the most from this study path, be sure you are already familiar with the fundamentals of cloud computing, understand operating systems like `Windows OS, Linux`, etc., and are familiar with internet and networking fundamentals, virtualization, and storage. 

Not least, among other things, you need to understand the basics of coding.

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## Career Opportunity of Learning AWS

Learning AWS can result in several high-paying IT employment. It's essential to stay updated if you want to advance your career in AWS. Earning an `AWS Certification` will give your resume an extra advantage.

The AWS certification is one of the most desirable certifications in the `IT industry`. These certifications confirm one's proficiency with the AWS platform and, as a result, make it possible to apply for many AWS positions. Several career options include:

* Cloud Architect
* Cloud Developer
* Cloud Systems Administrator
* Cloud DevOps Engineer
* Cloud Software Engineer
* SysOps Administrator
* Cloud Security Engineer
* Cloud Network Engineer
* Cloud Data Architect
* Cloud Consultant
* Cloud Support Associate/Engineer etc

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The most popular cloud platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), provides more than 200 included services that combine infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and packaged software as a service (SaaS) solutions. 

AWS has data centers spread worldwide and provides the deepest functionality within those featured services. These AWS services offer to compute, build, storage, and network functionalities with pay-as-you-go pricing.

AWS provides services and solutions to millions of customers and communities, including industries, start-ups, enterprises, public sector organizations, and many more.

AWS Tutorial

What is AWS?

AWS Services (Amazon Web Service)

AWS Regions, AZs, Edge Locations and Data Centers

Guide to Creating and Activating AWS Account

AWS Management Console

AWS Certification Path

Introduction To AWS

What is EC2 in AWS?

How to Create EC2 Instance in AWS?

AWS EC2 Instance Types

EC2 Security Groups

Elastic Beanstalk

EBS Snapshots

EBS Volume Types

EBS Multi Attach in AWS

Amazon Machine Images ( AMI )

EFS in AWS

AWS EBS vs EFS

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

AWS Instance Purchase Options

EC2 Instance Connect

AWS Spot Fleet

Placement Groups in AWS

Elastic Network Interface (ENI)

EBS | Elastic Block Storage 

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

AWS Fargate

AWS App Runner

Compute

AWS Athena

AWS EMR

AWS Kinesis

Kinesis Video Streams

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Kinesis Data Firehose

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

Glue

AWS Elasticsearch

AWS Data Exchange

AWS Appflow

Kinesis OpenSearch

Analytics

What is Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)?

RDS Billing and Provisioning

Scalability and Performance ( RDS)

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ

Read Replicas( RDS )

What is Amazon Aurora?

Aurora Replicas

Cross-Region Read Replicas (Aurora)

Global Database ( Aurora ) in AWS

Multi-Master ( Aurora )

Amazon Aurora Serverless

Aurora Fault Tolerance and Self Healing (Aurora)

Aurora Auto Scaling in AWS

Backup and Restore in Aurora

High Availability Approaches for Databases ( RDS , Aurora)

AWS Babelfish

Amazon DynamoDB

DynamoDB Cross-Region Replication with Global Tables

DynamoDB Consistency Models

DynamoDB Transactions

Amazon DynamoDB Query

DynamoDB Performance Optimization

Indexes (DynamoDB)

Working of DAX ( DynamoDB Accelerator) Part- 2

DynamoDB TTL

DynamoDB Streams

DynamoDB API Calls

Integrations, Best Practices, Scalability

DynamoDB Autoscaling in AWS

AWS DocumentDB

Amazon ElastiCache

Memcached

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis

Caching Strategies

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Neptune

AWS Timestream

High Availability Approaches ( DynamoDB)

AWS Databases

AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service)

AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service)

Amazon Simple Workflow (Amazon SWF)

AWS Airflow

Amazon MQ

AWS Step Functions

Application Integration & Messaging

Amazon Simple Storage Service ( S3 )

S3 Storage Classes

Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management

S3 Bucket Policy

Hosting a Static Website on S3

S3 Cross-origin Resource Sharing (S3 CORS)

S3 Transfer Acceleration

S3 Presigned URLs

AWS S3 Versioning

S3 Data Encryption

Replication in S3

S3 MFA Delete

S3 Object Lock

S3 Event Notifications

Amazon S3 Select

S3 Glacier Select

aws snowflake

AWS Data Lake

Storage Gateway

AWS FSx

AWS Disaster Recovery

Storage

AWS Snow Family

AWS Application Discovery Service

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

AWS DataSync

AWS Transfer Family

AWS Schema Conversion Tool

AWS Migration

What is AWS IAM?

IAM Elements in AWS

Authentication Methods

IAM Users in AWS

Inline Policies Vs Managed Policies

IAM Instance Profiles

AWS STS (Security Token Service)

IAM Best Practices

Directory Services

AWS Resource Access Manager

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS KMS ( Key Management Service)

AWS Cognito

AWS Certificate Manager

What is AWS GuardDuty?

What is AWS WAF?

AWS Shield

AWS Cloud HSM

AWS Trusted Advisor

Amazon Inspector

AWS SSO (Single Sign-On)

AWS Detective

AWS Audit Manager

AWS Security Hub

AWS Shared Responsibility Model

Security, Identity & Compliance

What is VPC in AWS?

Route Tables

Subnets in AWS

NACL ( Network Access Control Lists )

Security Groups Vs NACL

NAT Gateway ( Network Address Translation )

AWS Virtual Private Gateway

AWS Internet Gateway

AWS VPC Endpoint

VPC Peering 

VPC Flow Logs

AWS VPN

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Route 53

AWS PrivateLink

AWS Private 5G

AWS Transit Gateway

Networking

AWS CloudFront

AWS Edge Locations

Origins

Distributions

Cache Behaviour

Signed URLs and Cookie

Origin Access Identity in AWS

AWS Global Accelerator

AWS Content Delivery

AWS Lambda

Lambda@ Edge

Amazon API Gateway

Serverless

Amazon CloudWatch

AWS CloudWatch Alarms

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Amazon CloudWatch Events

AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudWatch vs CloudTrail

AWS EventBridge

AWS Cost Management

AWS Config

AWS Systems Manager

AWS CloudFormation

CloudFormation Templates

AWS App Mesh

AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model)

Get Started with Terraform AWS

AWS Organizations

AWS OpsWorks

AWS Backup

Monitoring, Auditing & Management

What is Load Balancing in AWS?

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

What is a Network Load Balancer?

Load Balancing and Auto Scaling

AWS Tutorial

What to expect from the course