Intermediate
AWS for Backend Engineers
The services a Java backend actually runs on.
IAM as the thing you must get right, EC2 and networking, S3, RDS, ECS and EKS, load balancers, CloudWatch, and the cost model — with a working deployment of a Spring Boot service as the thread.
0 lessons written3 outlined1 modules~1h reading
After this course you can
- Write an IAM policy with least privilege and explain roles versus users
- Deploy a containerised service behind a load balancer with a managed database
- Set up logs, metrics and alarms in CloudWatch
Curriculum
3 lessons · outlined lessons show their plan01
IAM and networkingUsers, roles, policies, the instance role a service should use, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and what public actually means.outlinedCompute, storage and databasesEC2, ECS on Fargate, EKS, S3 with presigned URLs, and RDS with Multi-AZ, backups and parameter groups.outlinedLoad balancing and observability on AWSALB target groups and health checks, CloudWatch logs, metrics and alarms, and the cost line that surprises everyone.outlined