AWS / Basic: cloud scope and core boundaries

AWS β€” Basic: cloud scope and core boundaries

Understand responsibility, identity, VPC paths, EC2 lifecycles, S3 data, and cost controls before selecting resources.

6 lessons Β· No account required

What you will learn

  • Identify account, Region, resource, and failure scope.
  • Separate identity, network, compute, storage, and data guarantees.
  • Explain cost and quota boundaries without unsupported promises.

  1. Cloud boundaries, Regions, and accounts

    Identify resource scope, failure domains, and customer responsibilities before selecting an AWS service or drawing an architecture.

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  2. IAM roles and policy evaluation

    Trace principal, action, resource, and request context through applicable policy layers without confusing identity with effective permission.

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  3. VPC routing and network controls

    Trace addressing, routes, gateways, stateful security groups, and stateless subnet controls as separate connectivity decisions.

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  4. EC2 compute and storage lifecycle

    Separate instance identity, guest operation, attached data, scaling policy, and recovery evidence before managing virtual machines.

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  5. S3 objects, access, and recovery

    Reason about object identity, authorization, encryption, lifecycle, and recoverability rather than treating a bucket as an ordinary shared filesystem.

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  6. Cost, quotas, and account guardrails

    Define financial and capacity boundaries without treating a budget alert, quota, or promotional credit as an immediate spending guarantee.

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