AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Essentials Course 2026

Learn from Cloud and security instructor about the AWS Platform, global infrastructure, security, and the core services.

This course introduces you to AWS products, services, and common solutions. It provides IT technical end users with the cloud fundamentals to become more proficient in identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements.

Whether you are just starting out, building on existing IT skills, or advancing your Cloud knowledge, this course is a great way to expand your journey in the Cloud.

Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet. A Cloud services platform such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), owns and maintains the network-connected hardware required for these application services, while you provision and use what you need via a web application.

AWS began offering its technology infrastructure platform in 2006. At this point, AWS has over a million active customers using AWS in every imaginable way.

This course is approximately 8 hours long in total, and will be delivered through a mix of:

1. Instructor lectures

2. Video demonstrations through Hands on Labs

The course curriculum is designed as follows :

1. Introduction to Cloud computing

2. First Steps into Amazon Web Services

3. Identity and Access Management

4. Virtual Private Cloud

5. All you need to know about EC2

6. Simple Storage Services

7. Autoscaling , Elasticity and ELB

8. CloudFront

9. Route 53

10. Monitoring with Cloud Watch

11. Logging with SNS

12. Auditing with Cloud Trail

13. AWS Config

14. RDS

15. DynamoDB

16. Elasticache

17. Redshift

18. Serverless computing with Lambda

19. AWS Shared Reponsibility Model

20. Security and Compliance on AWS

21. AWS Key Management Service

22. AWS Organizations and Pricing Model

23. AWS Billing and Cost tools

24. AWS Support Plans and Trusted Advisor

25. Reference Documentation with AWS Whitepapers