AWS Cloud Engineer Roadmap
From the AWS account structure through identity, networking, compute, storage, and monitoring, the core path for a working AWS engineer, linked into Cloud Tech by Victor topic references.
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AWS Organizations, organizational units, and the account itself are where governance and billing actually happen, everything else is deployed within that structure.
IAM governs every human sign-in and workload authentication, the security foundation everything else sits behind.
VPCs, subnets, security groups, and network ACLs determine what's reachable from where before any workload is deployed.
With identity and networking decisions made, pick the right compute model, EC2, Lambda, ECS, or EKS, for the actual workload.
S3, EBS, and EFS cover different access patterns compute workloads depend on, each with its own durability and availability trade-offs.
Once compute and storage are running, CloudWatch and CloudTrail are what let you understand and debug what's actually happening in your account.