Notes

Cloud Architecture

Study notes on cloud infrastructure and operations.

  1. Week 1 — Cloud Computing Fundamentals

    Essential cloud characteristics, service models, deployment models and shared responsibility.

  2. Week 2 — Virtualization & Virtual Machines

    Hypervisors, virtual compute, networking, storage and container fundamentals.

  3. Week 3 — Cloud Migration

    Migration assessment, planning, execution, validation and the six migration strategies.

  4. Week 4 — Cloud Agility & Application Lifecycle

    Agile cloud delivery, application lifecycle management, DevOps and release automation.

  5. Week 5 — Cloud Networking

    Software-defined networking, VPCs, IP addressing, subnetting, routing and load balancing.

  6. Week 6 — Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Networking

    Hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity through VPNs, direct links, peering, DNS and routing.

  7. Week 7 — Cloud Security Configurations

    Cloud threats, security scanning, DevSecOps, micro-segmentation and virtual network controls.

  8. Week 8 — Data & Protocol Security

    Compute hardening, application protection, data states, encryption and secure protocols.

  9. Week 10 — IAM & Authentication

    Identity lifecycle, privileged access, authentication factors, federation and authorization.

  10. Week 11 — Cloud Storage

    File, block and object storage, RAID, performance, availability and data protection.

  11. Week 12 — Monitoring, Events & Logs

    Cloud metrics, continuous monitoring, dashboards, event correlation and centralized logging.

  12. Week 13 — Automation & Cloud Operations

    Automation workflows, infrastructure as code, configuration management and operational tooling.