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Starting Your Career with AWS Cloud

Rafael Lopes, Oksana Hoeckele, and Alex G.

This three-course specialization provides an overview of cloud fundamentals, describes IT and cloud computing, introduces cloud computing roles, and helps to identify and assess skills necessary to perform tasks in cloud computing roles. Students will also get an opportunity to get hands-on and perform tasks that are common in the life of a cloud computing professional. If you’ve considered learning about an in-demand career in cloud computing, this is the place to start.

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Three courses

Introduction to AWS Cloud Careers

This course introduces technical roles in the AWS Cloud and explains why the Public Cloud Computing model is the new normal. It covers topics such as the difference between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, Cloud Computing models, APIs, elasticity, and scaling. It also defines the difference between relationship, availability, and milestone-oriented roles and interviews Amazon employees who provide their point of view on the day in the life of various roles.

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AWS Services Overview for IT Professionals

This foundational course strengthens your understanding of AWS Services. Instructors teach basic topics regarding computing, networking, storage, database, monitoring, security, serverless, containers, databases, and cost optimization. We map AWS Services and features to different technical roles in cloud computing.

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Hands-on with AWS for IT Professionals

This course gets hands-on by teaching how to create a new AWS Account, create an Administrative User, and explore the AWS Free Tier. Students can then follow demonstration and explainer videos containing on how AWS Services can combine to create solutions that can be useful in real-life scenarios.

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Learning objectives

Understand which cloud computing roles that are in demand.
Identify and assess the skills and knowledge necessary to tasks in cloud computing roles.

Describe how cloud expertise and knowledge of aws can help build solutions.

Understand which cloud computing roles that are in demand.
Identify and assess the skills and knowledge necessary to tasks in cloud computing roles.
Describe how cloud expertise and knowledge of aws can help build solutions.

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Amazon Web Services

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Rafael Lopes

Oksana Hoeckele

Alex G.

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Introductory

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