AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud-Native

Amazon Web Services directly offers this tutorial through Coursera. It covers the fundamentals of developing cloud-native applications. It teaches students familiar with application development how to specialize in cloud-native AWS functions and is the first of four series offered by AWS.

( 132 Reviews )

Created by: Allen Goldberg

Produced in 2018

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Overall Score : 92 / 100

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Course Description

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This course will introduce you to Amazon Web Services (AWS) core services and infrastructure. Through demonstrations you'll learn how to use and configure AWS services to deploy and host a cloud-native application. Early in the course, your AWS instructors will discuss how the AWS cloud infrastructure is built, walk you through Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Lightsail compute services. They'll also introduce you to networking on AWS, including how to set up Amazon Virtual Public Cloud (VPC) and different cloud storage options, including Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic File Service (EFS). Later in the course you'll learn about AWS Database services, such as Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon DynomoDB. Your instructors will also walk you through how to monitor and scale you application on AWS using Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Auto Scaling. Lastly, you'll learn about security on AWS, as well as how to manage costs when using the AWS cloud platform. In this course, you won't be required to complete hands-on exercises, but we strongly suggest you take advantage of the AWS Free Tier to follow along as the instructors demonstrate the AWS services. Class forums will also allow you to ask questions and interact with AWS training instructors. After completing this course, you'll have the basic fundamentals to get started on AWS. This course has been developed by AWS, and is delivered by AWS technical instructors who teach cloud computing courses around the globe.

Beginner Level

Time: 2h

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- Computer science tutorials straight from platform developers are rare and invaluable.
- Course stays focused on fundamentals and allows students a higher level of mastery in the topics covered.
- Courses this easy are rarely this informative.
- Ignores competitors to a fault.
- Course is insufficient on its own. It needs the rest of the series to really teach AWS development.
- Course is too short to be thorough.

Instructor Details

Allen Goldberg

4.6 Rating
132 Reviews

Allen Goldberg, leads the development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS). Previously he was a Technical Trainer with AWS, teaching classes worldwide on Architecting, Systems Operations, Data Warehousing, and Big Data and Analytics. Prior to joining AWS, Allen worked in academia and as a technologist and trainer. He has a broad background working with commercial clients and in manufacturing technology. Allen is a graduate of New York University.

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By Dan E on 3-Jan-19

Good content and good detail for an overview course. There is enough information in theory and in practical configuration examples to provide a user with a real starting point.

By sanket g b on 17-Apr-19

This course helped me to gain the core fundamentals of the aws and how the things work in cloud , apart from these the course was enriched with the ec2 , rds , s3 , autoscalling and much more , the content delivery was so good and nurishing,,,,,.once again thanks AWS and COURSERA..

By vikram p on 10-May-19

Good

By Andrii K on 3-Jul-19

Much more shallow than I expected, it's just scratching the surface. The entire 5-week course can be completed during your morning coffee time.

By Arvind on 28-Jun-19

This is a very good introduction to AWS. However, For a 5 week course, I feel the amount of content in this course is fairly light. More could have been covered.

By satwik d on 28-May-19

Short, not very to the point. This course has to be taken by someone who really wants to know and learn about AWS and this course is not very helpful for learning about Cloud computing.This just tells about benefits of AWS and the service it provides. Also, the content was less and very fundamental.

By Joe G on 5-Feb-19

This is not a "course" - it should be free content available to anyone interesting in AWS. It is really a length sales pitch about why one should use AWS. About the only thing you can actually learn is some basic AWS terminology if that would be new to you.

By Jarlath F on 14-Jun-19

Excellent introduction to AWS

By Raman G on 10-Jun-19

This was wonderful course, It has cleared my doubts about cloud infrastructure and computing. I am looking forward for more courses offered by AWS and Coursera . Thanks to Courera,AWS Team and Trainers.

By Akintayo O A on 16-May-19

Straight forward and lots of new things to learn. I love Blaine;s relaxed style of teaching. It eases my tension as I am new to IT and AWS. Blaine makes me feel relaxed and as such sustained my interests to the end.

By Amit P on 27-Jun-19

Very well explained lectures and live demo gives clear understanding of few of the services provided by AWS. Perfect course to get started with AWS.

By Amanda W on 24-Jun-19