Cloud & DevOps Engineering 100% Placement Guaranteed • Full Fees Refund Within 6 Months Beginner → Advanced

AWS Certified Solutions Architect & Cloud Engineering Master Program

100% Placement Guaranteed | Production Cloud Engineering, AWS Solutions Architecture, Terraform IaC, Kubernetes, DevOps & SAA-C03 Certification | 100% Placement Guaranteed* (6 Months Fees Refund*)

⭐ 4.97 / 5.0 (720+ alumni placed)
Duration: 28 Weeks
Practical & Live: 420 Hours
Assurance: 100% Fees Refund* in 6 Months
Hands-on Industry Stack

Technologies You Will Master

12 Tools
Amazon EC2 Compute Clusters
Amazon S3 Object Storage
AWS EKS Kubernetes
Serverless Event-Driven
Terraform IaC Infrastructure
Docker Containers
Amazon RDS Managed DB
DynamoDB NoSQL Database
CloudFront Edge Delivery
Linux Shell OS Hardening
AWS IAM Zero-Trust
AWS CodePipeline DevOps Release
Live Cohort Batch: Enrollment Active
✓ 100% Fees Refund Assurance 6-Mo Guarantee*
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Official Placement Assurance Guarantee*

100% Fees Refund* If Not Placed Within 6 Months

We believe in real career outcomes, not just empty certificates. If you complete the course modules, project milestones, and mock interview assessments but do not secure an IT engineering placement within 6 Months of course completion, MockAttempt guarantees a 100% full refund of your tuition fees* directly to your bank account with zero deductions.

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6-Month Dedicated Placement Window Continuous recruitment drives and personal career advisor support until you receive your offer letter.
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150+ Direct Corporate Hiring Partners Direct interview shortlisting with product engineering firms, top MNCs, and funded technology startups.
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Unlimited AI Mock Interviews & Copilot Full access to MockAttempt AI Virtual Interviewer, real-time code teleprompter, and algorithmic grading.
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Legally Backed Written Assurance Official signed placement guarantee agreement issued to every candidate upon cohort enrollment.
*Terms & Conditions Apply: Subject to academic mastery criteria (>98% in daily topic mock tests with 100+ tests/topic, >98% daily AI voice viva, ≥95% exit evaluation), capstone defense, and placement drive attendance. Review Full Legal Refund Policy →

Program Overview & Architectural Focus

Become a job-ready AWS Cloud Engineer and Solutions Architect by mastering AWS infrastructure, networking, security, compute, storage, databases, serverless, containers, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, cost optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, and real-world cloud architecture. Build production-grade cloud portfolios and solve practical enterprise architecture scenarios.

### 🛡️ 100% Placement Assurance & Fees Refund Guarantee* (6-Month Window)
MockAttempt officially guarantees that upon graduating from this program and clearing the Job-Ready Assessment Pipeline, you will secure an IT engineering placement within 6 Months of course completion. If you are not placed within this 6-month post-completion period, you receive a **100% full refund of your course tuition fees*** directly into your bank account.

### 🎯 Multi-Dimensional Mastery & Assessment Framework (All Topics)
To ensure every graduate is genuinely world-class and job-ready for tier-1 enterprises:
- **Daily Topic Mock Tests (>98% Score Required)**: For every daily topic, students must score over 98% in proctored mock assessments. Students have access to **100+ dedicated Mock Tests per topic** to practice thoroughly.
- **Daily Topic-Wise AI Technical Interviews (>98% Score Required)**: Candidates undergo targeted AI technical voice interviews strictly testing that day's concept, requiring a >98% score.
- **Final Exit Benchmark (≥95% Minimum Score)**: To prove successful program completion and activate placement drives, candidates must achieve at least 95% in the comprehensive Final AI Interview and Mock Exam.
- **Multiple Re-Attempt Opportunities**: Students receive multiple chances to re-take assessments. Our goal is not just testing rote theoretical concepts, but rigorously developing **logical skills, problem-solving skills, and communication/articulation skills**.

*\*Terms & Conditions Apply. Subject to program milestones, attendance, project defense, topic mastery criteria, and active participation in placement drives.*

### 🎯 Target Engineering Roles & Audience
Aspiring AWS Cloud Engineers, Cloud Solutions Architects, Cloud Infrastructure Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Systems Administrators, and Software Engineers seeking enterprise cloud architecture mastery.
PROGRAM LENGTH
28 Weeks
PRACTICAL HOURS
420 Hours
AI COPILOT
Included Free
FEES REFUND
6-Mo Guarantee*

Enterprise Technologies & Toolchain Mastered

Production-level toolchain and engineering ecosystems practiced during hands-on lab sessions, code reviews, and capstone engineering.

12 Technologies Covered
AWS EC2
Compute Clusters
AWS S3
Object Storage
Amazon EKS
Kubernetes
AWS Lambda
Event-Driven
Terraform
Infrastructure
Docker
Containers
AWS RDS & Aurora
Managed DB
DynamoDB
NoSQL Database
CloudFront CDN
Edge Delivery
Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu)
OS Hardening
IAM & Security
Zero-Trust
Git / CI-CD
DevOps Release
Additional Libraries, Protocols & Tools Practiced:
AWS Solutions Architecture Enterprise Multi-AZ VPC IAM Security & Governance EC2 Auto Scaling & ALB Amazon S3 & EFS Storage Amazon RDS & Aurora Multi-AZ NoSQL DynamoDB & Global Tables Serverless Lambda & API Gateway SQS, SNS & EventBridge Docker & Amazon ECR Amazon ECS & AWS Fargate Amazon EKS Kubernetes Terraform Infrastructure as Code CloudFormation & Drift Detection CloudWatch & Distributed Tracing GitHub Actions CI/CD & OIDC AWS Well-Architected Framework Disaster Recovery (RPO/RTO) FinOps & Cost Optimization SAA-C03 Exam Certification

Structured Learning Path Roadmap (10 Phases)

Progressive pedagogical journey designed by staff engineers to transition candidates from fundamentals to enterprise defense.

Phase 1

Phase 1: Cloud Paradigms & Systems Architecture Foundations

Phase 2

Phase 2: Linux Administration & Enterprise Network Engineering

Phase 3

Phase 3: AWS Core Services, IAM Governance & VPC Networking

Phase 4

Phase 4: Elastic Compute, Scalable Storage & Managed Databases

Phase 5

Phase 5: Serverless Architecture & Asynchronous Event-Driven Systems

Phase 6

Phase 6: Containers, Orchestration & Amazon EKS Kubernetes

Phase 7

Phase 7: Infrastructure as Code, DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines

Phase 8

Phase 8: Cloud Security, Full-Stack Observability & Disaster Recovery

Phase 9

Phase 9: Well-Architected Framework, System Design & 12 Architecture Cases

Phase 10

Phase 10: SAA-C03 Certification Prep, Capstone Defense & Career Placement

🎯 ACADEMIC MASTERY & EVALUATION CRITERIA

Daily Topic Mastery (>98%), AI Interviews & Exit Benchmark (≥95%)

Multiple Retakes Allowed

Our goal is never simple rote memorization. MockAttempt is engineered to forge elite software professionals with world-class logical skills, problem-solving skills, and architectural communication clarity. For each topic and before graduating, students must clear our rigorous multi-dimensional evaluation pipeline:

📝 1. Daily Topic Mock Tests >98% Required

For every single day's lesson/topic, candidates must score over 98% in proctored mock assessments. Students have access to 100+ dedicated Mock Tests per topic to practice edge cases, algorithmic variations, and syntax nuances until full clarity is proven.

🎙️ 2. Daily Topic AI Interviews >98% Required

Students undergo daily interactive, topic-specific AI voice and coding technical interviews. The AI strictly focuses on that day's concept, posing Socratic follow-ups to evaluate depth, articulation, and reasoning speed with a >98% score benchmark.

🎓 3. Final Exit Benchmark ≥95% Required

At the conclusion of the program, students must achieve a minimum of 95% in the comprehensive Final AI Technical Interview and Grand Mock Assessment to certify completion and qualify for corporate recruitment drives and the 100% Fees Refund Guarantee*.

🔄 4. Multiple Retake Opportunities Mastery First

Students receive multiple opportunities to re-attempt tests and interviews. The objective is not punitive but pedagogical: detailed telemetry, Big-O feedback, and AI hints help candidates learn from mistakes and cement true conceptual mastery.

Holistic Competencies Evaluated Beyond Rote Theory:
🧠 Logical & Algorithmic
🛠️ Problem Solving
🗣️ Communication Skills
🏗️ System Architecture
*Disclaimer: The 100% Fees Refund Placement Guarantee is legally conditioned on meeting these academic mastery benchmarks, attending ≥90% of live cohorts, and actively participating in coordinated corporate interview drives.

Comprehensive Curriculum & Modules (63 Modules)

Hands-on engineering syllabus with real production implementations, daily mock tests & AI defense.

In this module, students master Introduction to Cloud Computing & AWS Global Infrastructure through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Cloud Paradigms & Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
120 min

Core definitions of cloud computing, traditional data centers vs cloud economics, CAPEX to OPEX transition, cloud deployment models (public, private, hybrid, multi-cloud), and the AWS shared responsibility model.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Scalability, Elasticity, High Availability & Fault Tolerance
120 min

Key architectural tenets: vertical vs horizontal scalability, elasticity dynamics, high availability metrics, fault tolerance boundaries, disaster recovery objectives (RPO/RTO), and pay-as-you-go financial models.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ AWS Global Infrastructure Topology
120 min

Global cloud footprint: AWS Regions, Availability Zones (AZs), Local Zones, Wavelength Zones, Edge Locations (Points of Presence), Regional Edge Caches, and global low-latency backbone connectivity.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master IT Infrastructure, Virtualization & Systems Fundamentals through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Hardware Architecture, Virtualization & Hypervisors
120 min

Bare-metal architecture: CPU architectures (x86 vs ARM/Graviton), memory hierarchies, storage buses, Type-1 (bare-metal) vs Type-2 hypervisors, and virtualization overhead.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Virtual Machines, Operating Systems & File Systems
120 min

VM abstractions, guest operating systems, kernel architecture, block storage vs object storage vs file systems, inode mechanics, and application runtime isolation.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Processes, Ports & Client-Server Application Infrastructure
120 min

Process lifecycles, daemon services, system threads, TCP/UDP port binding, client-server handshake, reverse proxies, and tiered application infrastructure architecture.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Linux Fundamentals & Cloud Operating System Mechanics through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Linux Distributions & Filesystem Hierarchy (FHS)
120 min

Enterprise distributions (Amazon Linux 2023, Ubuntu, RHEL), Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (/etc, /var, /opt, /proc, /sys), navigation, file creation, and directory operations.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ User Management, Ownership & POSIX Permissions
120 min

Users, groups, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, standard POSIX permissions (read, write, execute), octal modes (chmod), ownership (chown, chgrp), and sudo privilege escalation.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Core Shell Utilities & Text Stream Processing
120 min

Essential Linux command-line tools: ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, find, grep, awk, sed, curl, wget, ps, top, df, du, netstat, ss, and environment variables.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Enterprise Linux Administration, Troubleshooting & Shell Mastery through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Secure Shell (SSH), Key Authentication & File Transfer
120 min

SSH daemon configuration (/etc/ssh/sshd_config), key pair generation (ed25519, RSA), ssh-agent, bastion jumping, secure file copy (scp, sftp), and remote command execution.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ systemd Service Management, Journald & Cron Scheduling
120 min

Service lifecycles, unit files (/etc/systemd/system/), systemctl operations, journalctl log inspection, automated job scheduling with crontab, and at daemon execution.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Disk Partitioning, LVM, Mounting & Production Troubleshooting
120 min

Block storage management, fdisk, parted, Logical Volume Management (PV, VG, LV), formatting (ext4, XFS), fstab auto-mounting, memory pressure triage, and system rescue modes.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Networking Essentials, OSI/TCP-IP Models & Network Protocols through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ OSI 7-Layer vs TCP/IP 4-Layer Network Architectures
120 min

Encapsulation and de-encapsulation, physical transmission, data link frames, MAC addressing, network IP routing, transport segment multiplexing, and application protocols.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ IP Addressing (IPv4 & IPv6), Ports & Transport Protocols
120 min

IPv4 classful vs classless addressing, IPv6 128-bit architecture, port ranges (well-known, registered, dynamic), TCP three-way handshake, connection teardown, and UDP stateless streaming.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Core Application Protocols: DNS, DHCP, HTTP/HTTPS & TLS/SSL
120 min

Domain Name System resolution hierarchy (root, TLD, authoritative), DHCP lease allocation, HTTP request/response semantics, status codes, and TLS 1.3 handshake cryptographic negotiation.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Enterprise Network Design, CIDR, Subnetting & Routing Architecture through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ CIDR Calculations & Enterprise Subnet Masking
120 min

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation, subnet masks, binary arithmetic, calculating network IDs, broadcast addresses, usable host capacity, and non-overlapping IP address planning.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Public vs Private Subnet Topologies & Route Tables
120 min

Dual-tier and three-tier network topologies, default gateways, route table evaluation order, destination targets, local routing, and internet egress isolation.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Gateways, Firewalls, Load Balancing & Network Troubleshooting
120 min

Stateful vs stateless inspection, network firewalls, NAT gateways, load balancer concepts, ping, traceroute, mtr, tcpdump, and netcat network diagnostic triage.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master AWS Account Management, Organizations, Billing & CLI / SDK through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ AWS Account Hierarchy, Root User Security & Organizations
120 min

AWS account boundaries, multi-account strategy, root user hardening, AWS Organizations, Organizational Units (OUs), and Service Control Policies (SCPs) guardrails.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ AWS Management Console, AWS CloudShell & Service Quotas
120 min

Console navigation, AWS CloudShell browser-based terminal, service quota management, requesting limit increases, and AWS Health Dashboard notifications.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ AWS CLI Configuration, Profiles & AWS SDK Architecture
120 min

Installing AWS CLI v2, named profiles, credentials management (~/.aws/credentials), session tokens, AWS SDK concepts (Boto3, Node.js AWS SDK), and AWS pricing dimensions.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM), Least Privilege & Security Governance through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ IAM Principals: Users, Groups, Roles & Instance Profiles
120 min

IAM entities, root vs IAM users, group memberships, assume-role trust policies, service-linked roles, and EC2 instance profiles for zero-credential compute access.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ IAM Policy Evaluation Logic, JSON Syntax & Boundaries
120 min

IAM JSON policy anatomy (Version, Statement, Effect, Action, Resource, Condition), explicit deny evaluation, identity-based vs resource-based policies, and permission boundaries.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Multi-Account Access, MFA Enforcement & Key Rotation
120 min

Cross-account STS AssumeRole delegation, enforcing Multi-Factor Authentication via IAM conditions, access key lifecycle, automated credential rotation, and IAM Credential Reports.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Amazon VPC Fundamentals, Subnetting, Gateways & Security Groups through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Custom Amazon VPC Provisioning & Multi-AZ Subnet Allocation
120 min

VPC CIDR block allocation (/16 to /28), creating public and private subnets across multiple AZs, reserving AWS networking IPs (.0 to .3 and .255), and VPC flow logs.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways & Route Table Architecture
120 min

Attaching Internet Gateways (IGWs), allocating Elastic IPs, provisioning highly available NAT Gateways in public subnets, and configuring public/private route tables.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Security Groups vs Network ACLs (NACLs) Defense-in-Depth
120 min

Stateful Security Groups (allow-only, instance level) vs stateless Network ACLs (allow/deny, subnet level, numbered rule evaluation), and egress filtering patterns.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Advanced VPC Architecture, Peering, Transit Gateway & PrivateLink through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ VPC Peering & Inter-Region Peering Connections
120 min

Non-overlapping VPC peering connections, routing table updates, inter-region peering encryption, non-transitive peering limitations, and traffic costs.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ AWS Transit Gateway Hub-and-Spoke Enterprise Architecture
120 min

Transit Gateway (TGW) attachments, route tables, multi-VPC hub-and-spoke topologies, cross-account RAM sharing, and centralized internet egress architecture.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ VPC Endpoints, AWS PrivateLink & Hybrid Connectivity
120 min

Gateway VPC Endpoints (S3, DynamoDB) with route table integration, Interface Endpoints (PrivateLink) with ENI injection, Site-to-Site IPsec VPN, and AWS Direct Connect dedicated fiber.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Amazon EC2 Architecture, Compute Instances, AMIs & Lifecycle through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ EC2 Instance Families, CPU Architectures & Sizing
120 min

General Purpose (T4g, M6i), Compute Optimized (C7g), Memory Optimized (R6i), Storage Optimized (I3en), x86 vs AWS Graviton3 ARM silicon, and vCPU sizing.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), Key Pairs & Instance Metadata
120 min

Custom AMIs, AWS Marketplace AMIs, automated AMI creation with EC2 Image Builder, SSH key pairs, User Data boot scripts, and Instance Metadata Service (IMDSv2) token security.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Purchasing Models: On-Demand, Spot, Reserved & Savings Plans
120 min

Pricing optimization: On-Demand flexible workloads, Spot Instances for fault-tolerant batch processing, Standard vs Convertible Reserved Instances (RIs), and Compute vs EC2 Instance Savings Plans.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Elastic Compute Auto Scaling, Launch Templates & Scaling Policies through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ EC2 Launch Templates & Auto Scaling Groups (ASG)
120 min

Launch configuration deprecation, Launch Templates (versioning, mixed instance types, spot allocation strategies), Auto Scaling Group min/max/desired capacities, and cooldown timers.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Dynamic Scaling Policies: Target Tracking, Step & Scheduled Scaling
120 min

Target tracking policies (CPU utilization, ALB request count per target), step scaling with CloudWatch alarms, scheduled scaling for predictable traffic, and predictive scaling algorithms.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ ASG Health Checks, Instance Refresh & Termination Policies
120 min

EC2 status checks vs ELB health checks, graceful instance termination, lifecycle hooks (launching/terminating states), zero-downtime rolling instance refreshes, and capacity rebalancing.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Elastic Load Balancing (ALB, NLB, GLB) & High Availability Traffic Management through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Application Load Balancer (ALB) Layer 7 Architecture
120 min

ALB listeners, target groups, path-based routing, host-based routing, HTTP header matching, HTTP to HTTPS redirection, and WebSockets / gRPC support.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Network Load Balancer (NLB) Layer 4 Ultra-Low Latency
120 min

NLB connection handling, millions of requests per second, static Elastic IPs per AZ, TCP/UDP/TLS termination, and preserving source client IP addresses.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ SSL/TLS Termination, SNI & Gateway Load Balancers (GLB)
120 min

ACM SSL certificate integration, Server Name Indication (SNI) multi-domain hosting, sticky sessions (cookie affinity), and Gateway Load Balancers for third-party virtual appliance inspection.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Amazon S3 Object Storage, Storage Classes, Lifecycle & Security through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ S3 Object Storage Fundamentals, Buckets & Global Namespace
120 min

Bucket naming rules, global namespace, object keys, metadata, versioning, multipart uploads for multi-gigabyte files, and static website hosting.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ S3 Storage Classes & Automated Lifecycle Management
120 min

S3 Standard, Intelligent-Tiering, Standard-IA, One Zone-IA, Glacier Instant Retrieval, Glacier Flexible Retrieval, Glacier Deep Archive, and automated transition/expiration lifecycle policies.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ S3 Security: Bucket Policies, IAM, Encryption & Presigned URLs
120 min

Server-Side Encryption (SSE-S3, SSE-KMS, SSE-C), Bucket Policies, Block Public Access controls, Access Control Lists (ACLs), S3 Object Lock, and generating time-limited presigned URLs.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Volumes, Snapshots & Performance through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ EBS Volume Types: SSD (gp3, io2) vs HDD (st1, sc1)
120 min

General Purpose SSD (gp3 baseline 3,000 IOPS / 125 MB/s), Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2 Block Express for sub-millisecond latencies), Throughput Optimized HDD (st1), and Cold HDD (sc1).

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ EBS Snapshots, Incremental Backups & Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
120 min

Point-in-time incremental snapshots, S3 snapshot durability, fast snapshot restore (FSR), Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) backup automation, and cross-region snapshot copying.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ EBS Encryption, Multi-Attach & Volume Modification
120 min

KMS envelope encryption, encrypting unencrypted volumes via snapshots, EBS Multi-Attach on io2 volumes, and elastic volume modifications (size, IOPS, throughput) without downtime.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Shared Distributed Cloud Storage through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Amazon EFS Architecture, Mount Targets & POSIX Compliance
120 min

Fully managed elastic NFSv4 shared file system, mount targets across multiple AZs, POSIX compliance, Linux permissions, and concurrent multi-EC2 instance access.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Performance Modes & Throughput Modes (Bursting vs Provisioned)
120 min

General Purpose vs Max I/O performance modes, Bursting Throughput vs Elastic Throughput vs Provisioned Throughput, and latency optimization for distributed workloads.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ EFS Lifecycle Management & Infrequent Access (IA) Storage
120 min

Automated tiering to EFS Infrequent Access (EFS IA) and EFS Archive, lifecycle transition policies, backup integration with AWS Backup, and hybrid on-premises mounting via Direct Connect.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Managed Relational Databases: Amazon RDS & High Availability Amazon Aurora through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Amazon RDS Engines, Provisioning & Parameter Groups
120 min

Supported engines (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle), instance classes, storage auto-scaling, DB parameter groups, and option groups.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ RDS Multi-AZ Deployments & Synchronous Failover Mechanics
120 min

Synchronous physical replication to standby instance in secondary AZ, automatic DNS failover, zero data loss, maintenance windows, and automated snapshots.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Amazon Aurora Architecture, Serverless v2 & Global Databases
120 min

Distributed log-structured storage architecture, 6 storage copies across 3 AZs, up to 15 auto-scaling read replicas, sub-second failover, Aurora Serverless v2, and Aurora Global Database replication.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master NoSQL Databases at Scale: Amazon DynamoDB Architecture & Global Tables through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ DynamoDB Data Model: Partition Keys, Sort Keys & Items
120 min

Key-value and document data model, primary key design (partition key only vs composite partition + sort key), partitions, hash distribution, and schema-less item attributes.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Secondary Indexes: Global Secondary Indexes (GSI) vs LSI
120 min

Local Secondary Indexes (LSI - shared partition key, alternative sort key, created at table creation) vs Global Secondary Indexes (GSI - custom partition and sort key, asynchronous replication).

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Capacity Modes, DynamoDB Streams, TTL & Global Tables
120 min

Provisioned capacity with auto-scaling vs On-Demand capacity, Read/Write Capacity Units (RCUs/WCUs), Time to Live (TTL) automated expiration, DynamoDB Streams, and multi-region active-active Global Tables.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master In-Memory Distributed Caching: Amazon ElastiCache (Redis & Memcached) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ In-Memory Caching Fundamentals & Latency Optimization
120 min

Sub-millisecond read latency, caching design patterns (Cache-Aside / Lazy Loading vs Write-Through), cache stampede mitigation, and TTL expiration strategies.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Architecture & Replication
120 min

Redis data structures (strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets), primary-replica cluster topologies, Multi-AZ with automatic failover, cluster mode enabled (sharding across slots), and backups.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Session Management, Pub/Sub & Memcached Comparison
120 min

Distributed session storage for stateless compute, Redis Pub/Sub capabilities, comparing Redis (rich data structures, persistence, replication) vs Memcached (pure multi-threaded simple caching).

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Serverless Compute: AWS Lambda Architecture, Runtime & Concurrency through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Lambda Execution Model, Handlers & Event Payloads
120 min

Function anatomy: entry point handler, event and context objects, supported runtimes (Python, Node.js, Java, Go, custom runtimes), and memory/vCPU proportional allocation.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Cold Starts, Execution Context & Provisioned Concurrency
120 min

Function virtualization lifecycle, cold start latency mitigation, init phase optimization, reusing execution context connections, and Provisioned Concurrency for zero-cold-start performance.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Lambda IAM Permissions, Layers, VPC Access & Ephemeral Storage
120 min

Function execution roles vs resource-based invocation policies, modular Lambda Layers for shared dependencies, VPC ENI attachment mechanics, and ephemeral storage (/tmp up to 10 GB).

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Modern API Management: Amazon API Gateway (REST, HTTP & WebSocket) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ API Gateway Types: REST APIs vs HTTP APIs vs WebSockets
120 min

Comparing feature sets, HTTP APIs (low latency, cost-effective, CORS, OIDC), REST APIs (advanced caching, request validation, WAF, API keys), and WebSocket APIs for full-duplex communication.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Routing, Stages, Deployments & Canary Releases
120 min

Resources, HTTP methods, stage deployments (dev, stage, prod), stage variables, mapping templates (VTL), and canary release deployments with gradual traffic shifting.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ API Security: IAM, Cognito User Pools, Lambda Authorizers & Throttling
120 min

Securing API endpoints using IAM credentials, Amazon Cognito User Pool authorizers, custom Lambda authorizers (token / request-based), usage plans, and token bucket rate throttling.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Event-Driven Serverless Architectures & Asynchronous Decoupling through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Synchronous vs Asynchronous Distributed Systems
120 min

Coupling hazards in synchronous HTTP architectures, microservices decoupling, eventual consistency, idempotency keys, and error handling in event-driven systems.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Lambda Event Source Mappings & Trigger Mechanisms
120 min

Push invocation models (API Gateway, SNS, S3, CloudWatch Events) vs poll-based Event Source Mappings (SQS, DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis, Kafka), and batch window tuning.

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✓ Dead-Letter Queues (DLQ) & Failure Destination Architecture
120 min

Asynchronous failure handling, maximum retry attempts, message age limits, configuring Dead-Letter Queues (SQS/SNS), and Lambda On-Failure / On-Success Destinations.

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In this module, students master Message Queuing: Amazon SQS (Standard, FIFO & Dead-Letter Queues) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Amazon SQS Standard Queues Architecture & Semantics
120 min

Distributed message queue, nearly unlimited throughput, at-least-once message delivery, best-effort message ordering, message deduplication challenges, and payload limits.

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✓ Amazon SQS FIFO Queues & Guaranteed Exact-Once Processing
120 min

Strict First-In-First-Out delivery, exactly-once processing, Message Group ID for partitioned ordering, Message Deduplication ID, and throughput scaling with high-throughput FIFO.

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✓ Visibility Timeout, Long Polling & Dead-Letter Queues (DLQ)
120 min

Visibility timeout mechanics, extending message visibility during processing, short polling vs long polling (WaitTimeSeconds = 20), redrive policies, and DLQ error analysis.

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In this module, students master Pub/Sub Messaging: Amazon SNS Fan-Out & Multi-Channel Notifications through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Amazon SNS Architecture & Topic Subscriptions
120 min

Publish/Subscribe design pattern, SNS topics (Standard vs FIFO), message publication, subscriber protocols (SQS, Lambda, HTTP/HTTPS endpoints, Email, SMS, Mobile Push).

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✓ SNS Fan-Out Architecture Pattern to Multiple Queues
120 min

Decoupling microservices by fanning out a single published message to multiple SQS queues for parallel asynchronous consumption by different downstream systems.

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✓ Message Filtering, Deduplication & Access Policy Hardening
120 min

Subscription filter policies based on message attributes, FIFO SNS ordering, message encryption with KMS, and topic access policies restricting publishing rights.

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In this module, students master Enterprise Event Streaming: Amazon EventBridge Buses & Rules through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ EventBridge Architecture, Default & Custom Event Buses
120 min

Serverless event bus, default event bus for AWS service events, custom event buses for enterprise applications, partner event sources (Datadog, PagerDuty), and global endpoints.

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✓ Event Patterns, Filtering Rules & Target Routing
120 min

Declarative JSON event pattern matching (source, detail-type, prefix, numeric range), routing events to 30+ AWS targets (Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, ECS tasks, API destinations).

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✓ Input Transformers, Dead-Letter Queues & EventBridge Pipes
120 min

Transforming event payloads before dispatching to targets, target-level DLQs, Amazon EventBridge Pipes for point-to-point integrations with built-in filtering and enrichment, and Schema Registry.

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In this module, students master Distributed Event Streaming: Apache Kafka & Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Apache Kafka Core Concepts: Topics, Partitions & Brokers
120 min

Distributed commit log architecture, event publishing, topics partitioned for parallel consumption, consumer groups, offsets, replication factor, and high-throughput streaming.

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✓ Amazon MSK Cluster Architecture & High Availability
120 min

Fully managed Apache Kafka clusters on AWS, broker distribution across multiple AZs, automatic broker replacement, storage auto-scaling, and Zookeeper vs Kraft metadata mode.

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✓ Amazon MSK Security, Producer/Consumer Integration & MSK Connect
120 min

Authentication via IAM, TLS encryption in transit and at rest with KMS, VPC networking, connecting Lambda triggers, and streaming data with MSK Connect.

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In this module, students master Docker Containerization Fundamentals, Dockerfile & Multi-Stage Builds through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Containerization Principles vs Virtual Machines
120 min

Linux namespaces (PID, NET, IPC, MNT, UTS), cgroups resource throttling, container immutability, image layer caching, and comparing containers to virtual machines.

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✓ Production Dockerfile Best Practices & Multi-Stage Builds
120 min

Writing minimal, hardened Dockerfiles: base image selection (Alpine, Distroless), multi-stage compilation builds, non-root user execution, .dockerignore, and layer minimization.

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✓ Docker Networking, Volumes & Multi-Container Compose
120 min

Bridge, host, and overlay networks; bind mounts vs managed volumes for persistent data; and orchestrating multi-container stacks with Docker Compose.

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In this module, students master Container Image Management: Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Amazon ECR Repository Architecture & Docker CLI Auth
120 min

Private and public container registries, authentication tokens via AWS CLI (aws ecr get-login-password), pushing and pulling container images, and tag immutability.

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✓ Vulnerability Scanning with Amazon Inspector & Clair
120 min

Enhanced vulnerability scanning powered by Amazon Inspector (CVE detection, severity scoring), automated scan-on-push, and continuous vulnerability monitoring.

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✓ ECR Lifecycle Policies & Cross-Region / Cross-Account Replication
120 min

Automating repository hygiene: purging untagged images, retaining last N images via lifecycle rules, cross-region replication for global deployments, and cross-account access policies.

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In this module, students master Container Orchestration: Amazon ECS, Task Definitions & AWS Fargate through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Amazon ECS Architecture: Clusters, Task Definitions & Services
120 min

ECS control plane, Task Definitions (JSON blueprint specifying CPU, memory, container definitions, port mappings, log drivers), Tasks vs continuous Services.

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✓ Launch Types: EC2 Capacity Providers vs Serverless AWS Fargate
120 min

Managing container compute: EC2 instance clusters with Capacity Providers and Auto Scaling vs serverless AWS Fargate (zero server management, pay-per-vCPU-second).

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✓ ECS Networking (awsvpc), ALB Integration & Service Auto Scaling
120 min

awsvpc network mode (dedicated ENI per task), Application Load Balancer target group registration, dynamic port mapping, and Target Tracking Service Auto Scaling based on CPU/memory.

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In this module, students master Enterprise Kubernetes on Cloud: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Kubernetes Control Plane & Amazon EKS Architecture
120 min

Kubernetes architectural components: API server, etcd, scheduler, controller-manager, kubelet, kube-proxy; AWS managed control plane across 3 AZs; and kubectl CLI configuration.

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✓ Core Kubernetes Objects: Pods, Deployments, Services & Ingress
120 min

Pod lifecycles, declarative Deployments with rolling updates, Service abstractions (ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer), and Ingress controllers (AWS Load Balancer Controller).

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✓ EKS Node Groups, IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) & Secrets
120 min

Managed Node Groups vs Karpenter dynamic auto-provisioning, IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) with OIDC federation, ConfigMaps, and AWS Secrets Store CSI Driver integration.

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In this module, students master Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CloudFormation Templates & Drift Detection through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Declarative CloudFormation Syntax (YAML / JSON)
120 min

CloudFormation template anatomy: Parameters, Resources, Outputs, Mappings, Conditions, and Metadata; intrinsic functions (Ref, Fn::GetAtt, Fn::Sub, Fn::Join).

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✓ Stack Operations, Change Sets & Nested Stacks
120 min

Creating, updating, and deleting stacks; previewing changes with Change Sets; modularizing architecture with Nested Stacks; and cross-stack references via exported outputs.

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✓ Stack Drift Detection, Rollback Triggers & StackSets
120 min

Detecting manual infrastructure changes with drift detection, automated rollback on CloudWatch alarm breaches, deletion policies (Retain, Snapshot), and multi-account StackSets.

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In this module, students master Enterprise Infrastructure as Code: HashiCorp Terraform Architecture & State Management through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Terraform Core Workflow & HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL)
120 min

Terraform architecture: init, plan, apply, destroy lifecycle; HCL syntax; variables, outputs, local values; and configuring the official AWS Provider with default tags.

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✓ Terraform State Architecture: S3 Backend & DynamoDB Locking
120 min

The terraform.tfstate file, remote backend configuration with Amazon S3, state locking and concurrency control using Amazon DynamoDB, state inspection, and terraform import.

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✓ Modular Terraform Engineering, Workspaces & Dynamic Blocks
120 min

Building reusable, versioned infrastructure modules; managing multi-environment isolation (dev, staging, prod) via Terraform Workspaces and directory layouts; and dynamic blocks.

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In this module, students master Centralized Monitoring: Amazon CloudWatch Metrics, Logs, Dashboards & Alarms through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Amazon CloudWatch Metrics, Dimensions & Custom Metrics
120 min

Standard hypervisor metrics (EC2 CPU, Network, Disk), metric statistics (Average, Sum, p90, p99), custom application metrics via PutMetricData, and metric math expressions.

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✓ CloudWatch Logs Architecture, Metric Filters & Logs Insights
120 min

Log groups, log streams, CloudWatch Unified Agent installation for OS memory/disk metrics, metric filters generating alarms from regex patterns, and CloudWatch Logs Insights querying.

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✓ CloudWatch Alarms, Composite Alarms & Executive Dashboards
120 min

Static threshold alarms vs anomaly detection alarms, alarm states (OK, ALARM, INSUFFICIENT_DATA), composite alarms grouping multiple signals, and building real-time operational dashboards.

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In this module, students master Governance, Auditing & Compliance: AWS CloudTrail API Logging through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ AWS CloudTrail Architecture & API Call Auditing
120 min

Continuous recording of AWS management and data events, event history lookup, management events (IAM changes, EC2 launches) vs data events (S3 object access, Lambda invocations).

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✓ Multi-Region Multi-Account Trails & Log File Integrity
120 min

Creating organization-wide trails delivering to an encrypted centralized S3 bucket, log file integrity validation with SHA-256 hashing, and CloudWatch Logs stream integration.

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✓ CloudTrail Event Analysis & Automated Security Auditing
120 min

Investigating unauthorized API calls, identifying root-cause actors (access key, IAM role, source IP), streaming events to CloudWatch for automated SNS alerting on critical security events.

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In this module, students master Distributed Observability: OpenTelemetry, AWS X-Ray & Incident Triage through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Distributed Tracing Fundamentals & Microservices Latency
120 min

The three pillars of observability (metrics, logs, traces), trace IDs, spans, propagation headers (W3C Trace Context, X-Amzn-Trace-Id), and isolating microservice latency bottlenecks.

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✓ AWS X-Ray Architecture, Daemon & Service Maps
120 min

Instrumenting applications with AWS X-Ray SDK, X-Ray daemon running on EC2/ECS/EKS, generating interactive Service Maps, and filtering traces using filter expressions.

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✓ AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) & Incident Triage
120 min

Vendor-neutral telemetry collection with OpenTelemetry Collector, routing traces and metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Prometheus; correlation IDs; and incident root-cause triage.

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In this module, students master Version Control & Collaborative Git Workflows for Cloud Engineers through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Git Core Internals, Plumbing & Working Tree Operations
120 min

Git object model (blobs, trees, commits, tags), staging area mechanics, branching pointers, stash, cherry-pick, merge vs rebase, and resolving merge conflicts.

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✓ Enterprise Branching Strategies (GitFlow, Trunk-Based)
120 min

Comparing GitFlow (feature, develop, release, hotfix) vs Trunk-Based Development with feature flags for high-frequency cloud deployments, pull requests, and peer reviews.

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✓ Git Security, Signed Commits & Secrets Hygiene
120 min

Protecting branches, requiring status checks and PR approvals, GPG commit signing, pre-commit hooks, and preventing credential leaks using git-secrets and Trufflehog.

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In this module, students master Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Principles & Pipelines through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ CI/CD Foundations: Build, Test, Package, Release & Deploy
120 min

Core tenets of continuous integration (automated unit/integration tests, linting, packaging), continuous delivery vs continuous deployment, artifact immutability, and rollback mechanics.

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✓ Deployment Strategies: Rolling, Blue/Green & Canary
120 min

Rolling updates with capacity management, Blue/Green zero-downtime traffic switching via load balancers, Canary gradual percentage shifts, and automated health check rollbacks.

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✓ DevSecOps Integration: SAST, DAST & Container Image Scanning
120 min

Embedding security into CI/CD: Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), dependency vulnerability scanning, and container CVE gates.

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In this module, students master Native AWS DevOps Tooling: AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy & CodePipeline through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ AWS CodeBuild: Serverless Build Execution & buildspec.yml
120 min

Managed serverless build environment, custom container build runtimes, buildspec.yml lifecycle phases (install, pre_build, build, post_build), artifacts, and cache management.

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✓ AWS CodeDeploy: EC2, Lambda & ECS Automated Deployments
120 min

Deployment configurations (AllAtOnce, HalfAtATime, OneAtATime, Canary10Percent5Minutes), appspec.yml lifecycle hooks, in-place vs blue/green deployments, and rollback triggers.

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✓ AWS CodePipeline: Multi-Stage Orchestration & Approvals
120 min

Orchestrating source, build, test, manual approval gates, and deployment stages; integration with GitHub; pipeline triggers; and cross-account pipeline deployments.

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In this module, students master Automated Cloud Deployments with GitHub Actions & AWS OpenID Connect (OIDC) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ GitHub Actions Architecture: Workflows, Jobs, Steps & Runners
120 min

Workflow syntax (.github/workflows/), GitHub-hosted vs self-hosted runners, job dependencies (needs), step execution, environment variables, and GitHub Secrets.

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✓ Secure Passwordless AWS Authentication with OIDC
120 min

Eliminating hardcoded long-lived AWS IAM access keys: configuring AWS IAM OIDC Identity Provider for GitHub, assume-role trust policies with subject claims (sub: repo:org/repo:ref).

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✓ End-to-End Container CI/CD Pipeline to Amazon ECS / EKS
120 min

Building a complete production pipeline: checkout, lint, test, build Docker image, authenticate to ECR, push image, update ECS Task Definition / Helm chart, and deploy with automated rollback.

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In this module, students master AWS Cloud Security Architecture & Enterprise Defense-in-Depth through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ AWS Shared Responsibility Model Deep-Dive
120 min

Customer responsibility (in the cloud - data, IAM, OS, network configuration) vs AWS responsibility (of the cloud - hardware, software, networking, facilities) across IaaS, PaaS, and serverless.

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✓ Defense-in-Depth Architecture: Perimeter to Data Layer
120 min

Multi-layered security boundaries: Edge protection (Route 53, CloudFront, Shield, WAF), Network perimeter (VPC, NACL, SG), Compute (hardened AMIs, patching), and Data (KMS, Macie).

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✓ Security Governance, Compliance Frameworks & CIS Benchmarks
120 min

Aligning architectures with CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, AWS Artifact audit reports, and security posture monitoring.

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In this module, students master Cloud Security & Compliance Services: KMS, Secrets Manager, WAF, GuardDuty & Security Hub through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ AWS Key Management Service (KMS) & Envelope Encryption
120 min

Customer Managed Keys (CMK) vs AWS Managed Keys, symmetric vs asymmetric keys, key policies, grants, envelope encryption (Data Keys), and automated annual key rotation.

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✓ AWS Secrets Manager & Parameter Store vs SSM Session Manager
120 min

Secrets Manager automated rotation with Lambda, Parameter Store (Standard vs Advanced parameters), and SSH-free secure terminal access via AWS Systems Manager Session Manager.

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✓ AWS WAF, AWS Shield, Amazon GuardDuty & Security Hub
120 min

AWS WAF Web ACL rules (SQLi, XSS, rate limiting, IP reputation), AWS Shield Standard vs Advanced DDoS defense, GuardDuty intelligent threat detection, and Security Hub compliance posture.

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In this module, students master Cryptography, Key Management & Zero-Trust Cloud Architecture through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Encryption at Rest & Encryption in Transit Across AWS Services
120 min

Enforcing TLS 1.2+ for in-transit traffic, default encryption for S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB; client-side vs server-side encryption; and enforcing SSL/TLS via bucket policies (aws:SecureTransport).

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✓ Zero-Trust Architecture Principles in Cloud Environments
120 min

Eliminating perimeter trust assumptions, continuous verification of identity and device health, micro-segmentation of workloads, and mutual TLS (mTLS) service-to-service communication.

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✓ Sensitive Data Discovery with Amazon Macie & Security Auditing
120 min

Discovering personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive financial data in S3 using Amazon Macie machine learning, generating findings, and automated remediation workflows.

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In this module, students master High Availability Design Patterns, Multi-AZ Architectures & Distributed Systems through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ High Availability (HA) Principles & SLAs (99.9% to 99.999%)
120 min

Calculating system availability across serial vs parallel components, understanding downtime budgets (99.9% = 8.76 hrs/yr vs 99.999% = 5.26 mins/yr), and designing out single points of failure.

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✓ Multi-AZ Architectural Patterns for Compute, Storage & Data
120 min

Decoupling compute from state, multi-AZ Auto Scaling across 3 availability zones, synchronous database replication, stateless web tiers, and session offloading to distributed caches.

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✓ Stateless Architecture, Distributed Consensus & CAP Theorem
120 min

Stateless microservices scaling, state externalization, distributed consensus principles, and navigating CAP theorem trade-offs (Consistency vs Availability vs Partition tolerance) on AWS.

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In this module, students master Fault Tolerance, Failure Domains & Self-Healing Cloud Systems through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Failure Domains, Blast Radius Containment & Cell-Based Architecture
120 min

Defining failure boundaries (instance, rack, AZ, region), designing cell-based architectures to contain outages, partition isolation, and preventing cascading systemic failures.

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✓ Redundancy, Active-Active vs Active-Passive Topologies
120 min

Designing N+1 and 2N hardware redundancy, comparing Active-Active multi-AZ traffic distribution vs Active-Passive hot/warm standby failover topologies.

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✓ Self-Healing Mechanisms, Automated Health Checks & Auto-Recovery
120 min

EC2 auto-recovery based on hardware CloudWatch alarms, ALB health check eviction, ASG instance replacement, and automated self-healing workflows via EventBridge and Lambda.

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In this module, students master Resilience Engineering, Bulkheads, Circuit Breakers & Chaos Principles through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Resilience Design Patterns: Timeouts, Retries & Exponential Backoff
120 min

Preventing thread exhaustion: configuring aggressive client timeouts, retries with exponential backoff and randomized jitter to prevent thundering herd problems.

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✓ Circuit Breaker & Bulkhead Isolation Patterns
120 min

Circuit breaker state machine (Closed, Open, Half-Open) to fail fast on downstream service degradation, and bulkhead isolation partitioning thread pools and database connections.

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✓ Queue-Based Buffering, Graceful Degradation & Chaos Engineering
120 min

Leveling traffic spikes with SQS queue-based load leveling, degrading non-critical features during peak load, and injecting deliberate failures with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS).

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In this module, students master Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (RPO, RTO, Pilot Light & Multi-Region DR) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Disaster Recovery (DR) Metrics: RPO, RTO & Impact Analysis
120 min

Recovery Point Objective (RPO - acceptable data loss window) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO - acceptable downtime window), business impact analysis, and DR tier selection.

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✓ The 4 AWS Disaster Recovery Strategies
120 min

Detailed comparative analysis: 1. Backup & Restore (hours RPO/RTO), 2. Pilot Light (minimal core running), 3. Warm Standby (scaled-down duplicate), 4. Multi-Region Active-Active (sub-second RPO/RTO).

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✓ Multi-Region Replication, Failover Testing & Route 53 Health Checks
120 min

S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR), Aurora Global Database replication, RDS cross-region read replicas, Route 53 DNS failover routing policies, and running regular disaster recovery game days.

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In this module, students master AWS Economics, Pricing Models, Savings Plans & Spot Strategies through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ AWS Pricing Anatomy: Compute, Storage & Data Egress Charges
120 min

Unpacking AWS pricing models, identifying hidden cost drivers: inter-AZ data transfer fees, internet data egress, NAT Gateway hourly and data processing charges, and public IPv4 fees.

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✓ Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances (RIs) Optimization
120 min

Compute Savings Plans vs EC2 Instance Savings Plans, 1-year vs 3-year commitments, All Upfront vs Partial Upfront vs No Upfront payment options, and RI marketplace liquidity.

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✓ Spot Instance Fleet Engineering & Fault-Tolerant Architectures
120 min

Spot pricing mechanics, Spot Advisor interruption frequency, configuring Auto Scaling Spot Fleets with capacity-optimized allocation strategies, and handling rebalance recommendations.

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In this module, students master Cloud FinOps, Resource Right-Sizing & AWS Cost Optimization through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ FinOps Culture, Cost Allocation Tags & AWS Organizations Billing
120 min

The FinOps lifecycle (Inform, Optimize, Operate), mandatory cost allocation tagging strategies, consolidated billing in AWS Organizations, and department chargebacks.

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✓ AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets & Anomaly Detection
120 min

Forecasting spend with AWS Cost Explorer, setting proactive threshold alerts in AWS Budgets (actual and forecasted spend), and detecting sudden bill shocks with AWS Cost Anomaly Detection.

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✓ Resource Right-Sizing, AWS Compute Optimizer & S3 Cleanup
120 min

Right-sizing over-provisioned EC2/RDS instances using AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations, eliminating unattached EBS volumes/snapshots, and tuning S3 lifecycle transition rules.

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In this module, students master AWS Well-Architected Framework: The 6 Pillars of Excellence through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Operational Excellence & Security Pillars
120 min

Operational Excellence (infrastructure as code, small reversible changes, preparing for failures) and Security (identity foundations, traceability, protecting data at rest/transit, incident response).

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✓ Reliability & Performance Efficiency Pillars
120 min

Reliability (recovering automatically from failure, testing recovery procedures, horizontal scaling) and Performance Efficiency (democratizing advanced technologies, serverless, selecting optimal resources).

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✓ Cost Optimization & Sustainability Pillars
120 min

Cost Optimization (measuring efficiency, paying for consumption, expenditure analysis) and Sustainability (understanding environmental impact, maximizing utilization, adopting efficient hardware).

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In this module, students master Cloud Architecture Patterns: 3-Tier, Microservices, Event-Driven & Multi-Account through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Classical 3-Tier Web Application Architecture
120 min

Presentation tier (CloudFront, S3, ALB), Application tier (EC2 Auto Scaling in private subnets), and Database tier (Multi-AZ RDS in isolated subnets) with end-to-end security.

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✓ Serverless & Microservices Event-Driven Topologies
120 min

Decomposed domain-driven microservices, asynchronous pub/sub messaging, choreography vs orchestration with AWS Step Functions, and API Gateway fronting Lambda and DynamoDB.

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✓ Enterprise Multi-Account & Hybrid Cloud Architectures
120 min

Multi-account separation (core security, log archive, shared services, dev, staging, prod), AWS Control Tower landing zones, Direct Connect hybrid connectivity, and AWS Outposts.

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In this module, students master Enterprise Cloud Governance, AWS Organizations & Control Tower Landing Zones through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ AWS Control Tower & Automated Multi-Account Provisioning
120 min

Automated Landing Zone setup, Account Factory for provisioning compliant new accounts, baseline VPCs, and centralized identity federation with AWS IAM Identity Center (Single Sign-On).

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✓ Service Control Policies (SCPs) & Organizational Guardrails
120 min

Writing preventive SCP guardrails (disabling non-allowed regions, enforcing encryption, preventing deletion of CloudTrail logs, restricting root user usage), and tag enforcement policies.

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✓ AWS Config: Compliance Rules, Conformance Packs & Remediation
120 min

Continuously auditing AWS resource configurations, managed vs custom AWS Config rules, evaluating compliance status against benchmarks, and automated remediation via SSM documents.

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In this module, students master Cloud System Design Fundamentals: Scalability, Availability & CAP Theorem through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ System Design Foundations: Requirements Scoping & Traffic Estimation
120 min

Clarifying functional vs non-functional requirements, estimating Daily Active Users (DAU), read/write ratios, queries per second (QPS), bandwidth, and multi-year storage capacity requirements.

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✓ Scalability, Latency & Throughput Trade-Offs
120 min

Horizontal vs vertical scaling, identifying system bottlenecks, Amdahl's law, latency percentiles (p50, p99, p99.9), network throughput constraints, and caching hierarchies.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Distributed Consistency Models & The CAP Theorem
120 min

Strong consistency vs eventual consistency, ACID vs BASE transactions, CAP theorem trade-offs in distributed cloud databases, PACELC theorem, and distributed leader election.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Distributed System Components: Load Balancers, Caches, Queues & Global CDNs through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Edge Caching & Global Content Delivery Networks (Amazon CloudFront)
120 min

CloudFront distribution architecture, Edge Locations, Origin Access Control (OAC), origin failover, caching policies, CloudFront Functions vs Lambda@Edge for edge logic.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Distributed In-Memory Caching & Database Sharding
120 min

Redis caching layers, cache eviction algorithms (LRU, LFU), consistent hashing, horizontal database sharding, partition keys, and read/write connection splitters.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Message Queues, Event Streams & Asynchronous Worker Pools
120 min

Decoupling ingest from processing using message queues (SQS, Kafka), worker pooling, backpressure handling, dead-letter redrive, and idempotency in distributed workers.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master High-Level (HLD) & Low-Level (LLD) Cloud Architecture Design & Blueprints through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Creating Industry-Standard High-Level Design (HLD) Blueprints
120 min

Drafting comprehensive HLD documents: system overview, architectural topology diagrams, service boundaries, technology rationale, security model, and failover workflows.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Creating Detailed Low-Level Design (LLD) Specifications
120 min

Drafting low-level specifications: API endpoint contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger), database schemas (ER diagrams, DynamoDB single-table design), class/component interfaces, and network port matrices.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Architecture Defense, Trade-Off Analysis & Executive Storytelling
120 min

Presenting and defending cloud architectures to engineering leadership: articulating trade-offs (cost vs latency vs availability), risk registers, and migration roadmaps.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) Exam Mastery & Strategy through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ SAA-C03 Exam Blueprint & Domain Weightage Breakdown
120 min

Comprehensive review of the 4 exam domains: Design Secure Architectures (30%), Design Resilient Architectures (26%), Design High-Performing Architectures (24%), Design Cost-Optimized Architectures (20%).

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Scenario-Based Multiple-Choice Question Deconstruction
120 min

Dissecting tricky scenario questions: identifying key constraints ('most cost-effective', 'least operational overhead', 'lowest latency', 'highest availability'), and ruling out distractors.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Full-Length Timed Mock Examinations & Review Clinics
120 min

Simulating actual 130-minute 65-question proctored exam conditions, in-depth question-by-question review, score gap analysis, and final revision cheat-sheets.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Enterprise Cloud Troubleshooting, Incident Workflows & Production Support through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (4 Lessons):
✓ EC2 & Compute Layer Outages: CPU, Memory & Disk Exhaustion
120 min

Diagnosing high CPU utilization, memory leaks triggering OOM-killer, disk space exhaustion on root volume, recovering corrupted fstab files, and SSH connectivity triage.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Network Layer Failures: Security Groups, NACLs & NAT Outages
120 min

Debugging network connectivity issues: isolating Security Group vs NACL blocks, asymmetric routing, NAT Gateway connection exhaustion, Route 53 DNS propagation delays, and ALB 502/504 errors.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Database Incidents: Connection Saturation, Slow Queries & Storage Failures
120 min

Diagnosing RDS max connections exceeded, CPU spikes from missing database indexes, read replica replication lag, storage auto-scaling limits, and Aurora failover analysis.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Incident Management Workflow: Detection, Triage, Mitigation & Postmortems
120 min

The enterprise incident workflow: automated alert triage, establishing incident bridges, root-cause isolation, emergency mitigation, service recovery, and writing blameless postmortems.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Cloud Automation with Linux Bash Scripting & Systems Tooling through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Bash Scripting Foundations: Syntax, Variables & Control Structures
120 min

Shebang, variable scoping, command substitution, exit codes, if/else conditionals, loops (for, while), functions, and command-line arguments ($1, $2, $@).

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Defensive Shell Scripting & Error Handling (set -euo pipefail)
120 min

Writing robust production shell scripts: trap signals (ERR, EXIT), defensive flags (set -euo pipefail), validating dependencies, input sanitization, and structured logging.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Practical Cloud Operations Automation with Bash
120 min

Automating Linux administrative tasks: log parsing with awk/sed, disk space monitors with email alerting, automated tar backups to S3 via AWS CLI, and user onboarding automation.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Cloud Automation with Python, Boto3 SDK & Infrastructure Scripting through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Python Foundations for Cloud Engineers: Data Structures & JSON
120 min

Python fundamentals: lists, dictionaries, string formatting, file I/O, error handling with try/except, parsing JSON payloads, and making REST API calls with requests.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ AWS SDK for Python (Boto3): Clients, Resources & Paginators
120 min

Boto3 architecture: low-level Clients vs high-level Resources, authentication via IAM instance profiles/credentials, handling paginated API responses (Paginators), and Collections.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Production Cloud Automation Scripts with Boto3
120 min

Building real-world operational scripts: automated EC2 instance stopping/starting schedules, auditing unattached EBS volumes, purging old S3 versions, and automated security reporting.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master AWS Cloud Migration Framework (6R Model) & Enterprise Modernization through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Enterprise Cloud Migration Assessment & Application Discovery
120 min

Cloud readiness assessment, total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, application dependency mapping with AWS Application Discovery Service, and migration wave planning.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ The 6R Cloud Migration Strategies Deep-Dive
120 min

Detailed evaluation of the 6R framework: Rehost (lift-and-shift via AWS Application Migration Service), Replatform (lift, tinker & shift), Repurchase (drop-and-shop SaaS), Refactor (re-architect), Retire, and Retain.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Legacy Enterprise Modernization Pathways
120 min

Modernization roadmaps: decomposing monolithic applications into containerized microservices, migrating self-hosted databases to Amazon Aurora/RDS, and adopting serverless event architectures.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Solutions Architect Real-World Architecture Exercises (12 Industry Scenarios) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Consumer Platforms: E-Commerce, Video Streaming & Job Portals
120 min

Hands-on architectural designs: 1. High-traffic global e-commerce with flash sale spikes, 2. Global video streaming CDN with DRM, 3. High-concurrency job portal with resume indexing and search.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Regulated Industries: Banking, Healthcare & Payment Gateways
120 min

Compliant cloud architectures: 4. Core banking system with multi-region zero-RPO failover, 5. HIPAA-compliant healthcare data platform, 6. PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant payment processing gateway.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ High-Scale Enterprise: Airline Booking, IoT Telemetry & SaaS
120 min

Complex distributed architectures: 7. Airline reservation engine with distributed locking, 8. Global IoT telemetry ingestion with Kinesis/MSK, 9. Multi-tenant B2B SaaS platform with tenant data isolation.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master Cloud Engineering Coding & Automation (75+ Hands-on Problems) through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Linux, Systems & Log Processing Coding Challenges (25 Problems)
120 min

Automated log parsing, detecting brute-force IP attacks from auth logs, identifying top memory/CPU consumers, auditing file permissions, and directory tree deduplication.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ AWS CLI, Bash & Infrastructure Automation Challenges (25 Problems)
120 min

Scripted multi-VPC provisioning, automated AMI backup rotations, finding public S3 buckets, snapshot cleanup scripts, and IAM key expiration scanners.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Python, Boto3 SDK & Cloud Engineering Challenges (25+ Problems)
120 min

Serverless automated tagging enforcers, real-time Slack alerting for AWS Health events, dynamic Route 53 failover automation, and automated multi-account cost audit reports.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master AWS Cloud Solutions Architect & DevOps Technical Interview Preparation through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ Core AWS Services & Architectural Decision Interview Questions
120 min

Comprehensive interview defense: EC2 vs Fargate vs Lambda trade-offs, RDS vs DynamoDB data modeling, SQS vs SNS vs EventBridge, and ALB vs NLB routing decisions.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Scenario-Based Solutions Architecture Whiteboarding Defense
120 min

Solving live scenario questions: 'How do you design a system to survive an AWS region outage?', 'How do you connect private on-premises subnets to AWS with zero public exposure?', and 'How do you cut AWS cloud bills by 40%?'

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Cloud System Design & Live Whiteboard Interview Clinic
120 min

Simulated whiteboard interviews: sketching architecture diagrams, explaining trade-offs, addressing capacity estimations, and demonstrating deep knowledge of AWS failure modes.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense

In this module, students master MockAttempt Placement Preparation, Resume Engineering & Technical Mock Interviews through hands-on cloud labs, architecture diagrams, and real-world configuration exercises.

Detailed Lesson Breakdown & Exercises (3 Lessons):
✓ ATS-Optimized Cloud & Solutions Architect Resume Construction
120 min

Engineering an ATS-proof resume highlighting production AWS architecture, Terraform IaC repos, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, cost optimizations, and verifiable metrics.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ LinkedIn Profile Optimization, GitHub Portfolio & Technical Presence
120 min

Showcasing production architecture diagrams on GitHub, publishing technical blog teardowns, LinkedIn recruiter visibility, and networking strategies for cloud engineering roles.

100+ Mock Tests • AI Oral Defense
✓ Mock Technical Interviews & Multi-Round Placement Drives
120 min

Comprehensive multi-round mock interviews (Linux, Networking, AWS Architecture, Terraform, Live Whiteboarding, HR), IRT benchmark assessments, and 100% Placement Drives.

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Portfolio Capstone & Production Projects (13 Projects)

Build and defend production repositories featuring clean architecture, CI/CD, and benchmark testing.

mini
⏱️ 30 Practical Hours

Linux Server Administration & Hardened Cloud Infrastructure Lab

Engineering Problem Statement: A fintech client requires a hardened Linux server baseline meeting CIS benchmarks with zero password authentication, centralized audit logging, automated daily backups, and strict firewall egress filtering.

Deploy, harden, and administer an enterprise-grade Linux server on AWS. Configure SSH key authentication, non-root users, systemd services, automated cron jobs, LVM storage, firewalls with UFW/iptables, and system monitoring.

mini
⏱️ 35 Practical Hours

Multi-Account IAM Security Architecture & Least-Privilege Governance Lab

Engineering Problem Statement: An enterprise development organization suffered a credential leak from hardcoded IAM access keys. Build a zero-credential architecture using IAM roles, permission boundaries, temporary STS tokens, and automated key rotation.

Design and implement a secure multi-account IAM access architecture across Development, Staging, and Production environments with AWS Organizations, SCPs, cross-account AssumeRole delegation, and enforced MFA.

major
⏱️ 45 Practical Hours

Production 3-Tier High-Availability AWS Network & VPC Peering Infrastructure

Engineering Problem Statement: Design a production network architecture supporting 100,000 concurrent web users across 3 availability zones with strict network segmentation, zero direct internet database exposure, and redundant NAT gateways.

Design and provision a highly available, multi-AZ custom Amazon VPC with isolated public, private application, and private database subnets, dual NAT Gateways, Gateway VPC Endpoints, and secure inter-VPC peering.

major
⏱️ 50 Practical Hours

Highly Available Auto-Scaling Web Application with ALB, Route 53 & RDS Multi-AZ

Engineering Problem Statement: An e-commerce platform experiences erratic traffic surges between 500 and 50,000 requests/sec. Design a self-healing compute tier that dynamically scales based on CPU and request latency while guaranteeing database zero-downtime failover.

Architect and deploy a fault-tolerant, auto-scaling web application across multiple AZs utilizing Route 53 DNS, an Application Load Balancer with SSL/TLS termination, EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, and an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Multi-AZ database.

major
⏱️ 40 Practical Hours

Secure Enterprise Cloud Storage & Document Distribution System

Engineering Problem Statement: A healthcare records provider requires HIPAA-compliant storage for 50 million medical records with automated transition to deep archive after 90 days, immutable Object Lock against ransomware, and time-bounded doctor access URLs.

Build an enterprise document management and storage platform leveraging Amazon S3, KMS customer-managed encryption, automated lifecycle policies to Glacier, presigned URLs for secure temporary downloads, and Amazon EFS shared storage.

major
⏱️ 45 Practical Hours

Resilient E-Commerce Database Architecture (Aurora Multi-Master, DynamoDB & ElastiCache)

Engineering Problem Statement: An online marketplace suffers severe database bottlenecks during peak holiday sales. Offload 85% of read queries through distributed Redis caching, migrate user session state to DynamoDB, and scale transactional queries across Aurora read replicas.

Construct a polyglot persistence database tier for an e-commerce platform combining Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with auto-scaling read replicas, Amazon DynamoDB for cart and session management, and Amazon ElastiCache for Redis caching.

major
⏱️ 50 Practical Hours

Serverless Event-Driven Order Processing & Notification System

Engineering Problem Statement: A legacy synchronous order API frequently crashes under peak loads due to database lock contention. Re-architect the order pipeline into an asynchronous event-driven system with dead-letter queue retries and guaranteed FIFO delivery.

Build a serverless asynchronous order processing architecture using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS FIFO queues, Amazon SNS for customer notifications, Amazon EventBridge, and DynamoDB.

major
⏱️ 55 Practical Hours

Production Microservices & Container Platform on Amazon ECS & Amazon EKS

Engineering Problem Statement: An enterprise needs to modernize its monolithic core into 5 microservices running in isolated containers with zero server management overhead on Fargate, while operating a mission-critical Kubernetes cluster on EKS with IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA).

Containerize a multi-tier microservices application, store optimized container images in Amazon ECR with vulnerability scanning, and deploy dual production orchestrations across Amazon ECS (AWS Fargate) and managed Amazon EKS (Kubernetes).

major
⏱️ 50 Practical Hours

Complete AWS Infrastructure as Code with Terraform & GitHub Actions CI/CD

Engineering Problem Statement: Manual AWS console configurations led to severe configuration drift between staging and production environments. Implement a 100% declarative GitOps infrastructure pipeline with strict automated PR validation and automated multi-environment promotion.

Codify an entire enterprise AWS cloud footprint using modular HashiCorp Terraform with S3 remote state and DynamoDB state locking. Implement automated linting, security scanning (tfsec), plan preview, and zero-downtime deployment pipelines in GitHub Actions.

major
⏱️ 45 Practical Hours

Centralized CloudWatch Observability, Distributed Tracing & Automated Incident Remediation

Engineering Problem Statement: Engineering teams spend hours diagnosing intermittent 504 Gateway Timeouts in microservice call chains. Implement distributed tracing with AWS X-Ray and automated self-healing scripts that automatically recycle degraded instances upon alarm trigger.

Deploy enterprise-wide observability across compute, network, and database layers using Amazon CloudWatch agent, Logs Insights, composite alarms, AWS X-Ray distributed tracing, and automated EventBridge self-healing remediation.

major
⏱️ 45 Practical Hours

Enterprise Security Hardening with AWS KMS, WAF, GuardDuty & Security Hub Audit

Engineering Problem Statement: Pass an uncompromising third-party SOC 2 and ISO 27001 cloud security audit by eliminating public database/S3 exposure, enforcing encryption in transit and at rest, and deploying automated threat detection that flags anomalous IAM activity in real time.

Implement enterprise-wide defense-in-depth security: AWS WAF rate-limiting and OWASP Top 10 protection on ALBs, KMS envelope encryption, AWS Secrets Manager rotation, continuous threat detection with Amazon GuardDuty, and compliance auditing with AWS Security Hub.

major
⏱️ 50 Practical Hours

Multi-Region Active-Passive Disaster Recovery Architecture

Engineering Problem Statement: A banking regulatory authority mandates that the financial transaction system must survive a catastrophic regional cloud outage with less than 60 seconds of transaction loss and restore operations within 5 minutes.

Architect and validate a warm standby multi-region disaster recovery solution for a business-critical financial platform with strict RPO < 1 minute and RTO < 5 minutes using Route 53 health-check failover, S3 Cross-Region Replication, and Aurora Global Database.

capstone
⏱️ 70 Practical Hours

Enterprise Multi-Tier Cloud Platform Capstone

Engineering Problem Statement: A Fortune 500 enterprise is migrating its core digital commerce and banking platform to AWS. You are the Lead Solutions Architect responsible for end-to-end architecture design, Terraform IaC automation, high-availability multi-AZ deployment, security audit defense, disaster recovery validation, and executive board presentation.

Design, codify in Terraform, deploy, and defend an end-to-end enterprise cloud platform: Route 53 latency routing, CloudFront CDN, AWS WAF, multi-AZ VPC, containerized microservices on Amazon EKS, Aurora Global Database, ElastiCache Redis, SQS/SNS event streaming, centralized CloudWatch observability, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and FinOps cost optimization audit.

Progressive Certification Ladder (5 Verified Levels)

Candidates earn industry shareable digital credentials as they clear milestone coding rounds and architecture reviews.

L1

Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner & Linux Operations Specialist

CAP-LOS

Cloud Fundamentals Linux Administration Shell Scripting TCP/IP CIDR Subnetting Network Troubleshooting
L2

Certified AWS Networking & Security Infrastructure Associate

CAN-SIA

AWS IAM Multi-AZ VPC Security Groups NACLs Transit Gateway VPC Endpoints
L3

Certified AWS Serverless & Cloud Database Specialist

CAS-CDS

EC2 Auto Scaling ALB Amazon S3 Amazon Aurora DynamoDB AWS Lambda SQS / SNS
L4

Certified AWS DevOps & Terraform Infrastructure Engineer

CAD-TIE

Docker Amazon ECR AWS Fargate Amazon EKS Terraform HCL GitHub Actions CloudWatch
L5

Certified Enterprise AWS Solutions Architect & Platform Engineer

CEA-SPE

Well-Architected 6 Pillars Cloud System Design Multi-Region DR FinOps AWS WAF & KMS Enterprise Capstone

🎯 Target Audience & Career Persona

Aspiring AWS Cloud Engineers, Cloud Solutions Architects, Cloud Infrastructure Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Systems Administrators, and Software Engineers seeking enterprise cloud architecture mastery.

📋 Academic & Technical Prerequisites

No prior AWS cloud experience required. Basic computer literacy and fundamental logic are recommended. Linux and networking fundamentals are taught from ground zero as part of Stage 1-3.

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