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Cloud & AWS
Design production infrastructure on AWS with cost and observability criteria.
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- 01
A mental model for the cloud
PendingRegions, AZs and the shared responsibility model. Why "the cloud" is not just someone else's computer.
- 02
Emulate the cloud on your machine
PendingExercise S3, Lambda or SQS with no account, no cost and no fear of breaking something real.
- 03
IAM and least privilege
PendingUsers, roles, policies. The security mistake everyone makes on day one.
- 04
Compute: EC2, ECS, Lambda
PendingWhen a server, when a container, when a function. The real decision, without dogma.
- 05
Networking: VPC, subnets, security groups
PendingDesigning a VPC that won't betray you in production.
- 06
Data: RDS, DynamoDB, S3
PendingChoosing the right storage for each shape of data.
- 07
Observability and costs
PendingCloudWatch, alerts, and how to sleep through the invoice.