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Cloud Fundamentals

What the cloud actually is and how it works: regions and availability zones, virtual machines, object and block storage, VPC networking, IAM permissions, scaling and load balancing, serverless functions, managed databases, CDNs, high availability, the shared responsibility model, pricing, and a capstone where you assemble a real web app architecture from scratch.

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What this course covers

  1. What Is the Cloud?
  2. Regions and Zones: Where the Cloud Lives
  3. Virtual Machines: Renting a Computer
  4. Storage: Object, Block and File
  5. Cloud Networking: Your Private Slice
  6. IAM: Who Can Do What
  7. Scaling: Up, Out and Automatic
  8. Load Balancers: Sharing the Work
  9. Serverless: Code Without Servers
  10. Managed Databases: Someone Else Patches It
  11. Containers in the Cloud
  12. CDNs and Edge Caching
  13. High Availability: Designing for Failure
  14. Shared Responsibility: Whose Job Is It?
  15. Cloud Pricing: Pay As You Go
  16. Capstone: Deploy a Web App

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