Overview
Complete the AWS Academy Cloud Foundations program and earn a microcredential
Upon successfully completing this program, you will receive a microcredential recognizing your learning achievement. Complete with details of the skills and specialized knowledge you have acquired, the microcredential is digitally shareable, making it easy to add to your resume, LinkedIn profile and to share with current or prospective employers.
Gain in-demand skills with our with our AWS Academy Cloud Foundations program
If you want to prepare for a professional future in the innovative world of IT, our AWS Academy Cloud Foundations program can help you with the in-demand AWS skills employers are seeking. Gain experience solving real-world, industry challenges and prepare for career success in a variety of cloud computer roles.
- As an AWS Academy member institution, our program is an AWS-authored course, available exclusively to members
- Gain experience solving real-world, industry challenges and prepare for success in a variety of cloud computing roles
- Prepares students for AWS certification
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Program highlights Learn More
- Now offered as a microcredential
- AWS-authored course
- Gain AWS cloud computing best practices
- Open enrolment program
AWS Academy Cloud Foundations program features:
- AWS-authored course, aligned with AWS Certifications, which means the course content is directly related to the industry’s recognized validation measure
- Gain real-world understanding of AWS Cloud practices, Amazon Web Services (AWS), security, architecture, pricing, and support through lectures, hands-on labs, group discussions, individual projects, and knowledge assessments
- Flexible online course taught by industry experts who have themselves earned AWS Certification and are accredited to teach AWS coursework
- Prepares you for AWS certification that Forbes magazine has ranked one of the top 15 most valuable IT certifications
- Earn a certificate of completion and receive one free practice exam and a 50% discount on your AWS Certification

What you'll learn Learn More
- AWS cloud computing
- Architectural principles of the AWS Cloud
- Knowledge required to be prepared for the AWS certification
Through our AWS Academy Cloud Foundations program, you’ll learn to:
- Define the AWS Cloud
- Explain the AWS pricing philosophy
- Identify the global infrastructure components of AWS
- Describe the security and compliance measures of the AWS Cloud, including AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Create a virtual private cloud (VPC) by using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- Demonstrate when to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Lambda, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Differentiate between Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier (Amazon S3 Glacier)
- Demonstrate when to use AWS database services, including Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Aurora
- Explain the architectural principles of the AWS Cloud
- Explore key concepts related to Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Learn more about the AWS Academy Cloud Foundations program
- Professionals and students with general IT technical knowledge
- Professionals and students with general IT business knowledge
- IT professionals who want to prepare for and earn their AWS certification
Earning a Certificate of Completion in AWS Academy Cloud Foundations opens doors to AWS certification and could lead you on highly rewarding career paths, including:
- Cloud Practitioner
- Developer Associate
- SYSOPS Administrator Associate
- Solutions Architect Associate
- DEVOPS Engineer Professional
- Solutions Architect Professional
Check out our latest Technology Program Preview webinar to learn more about our AWS Academy Cloud Foundations program
What our recent graduates say
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work.
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work. Our field in data is continuously changing. I found that sweet balance in terms of the focus of the course. It’s a life cycle of how the data is coming in all the way to make it a service or a product. The course gives you that 360 spectrum.
Zaki
Big Data graduate
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work.
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work. Our field in data is continuously changing. I found that sweet balance in terms of the focus of the course. It’s a life cycle of how the data is coming in all the way to make it a service or a product. The course gives you that 360 spectrum.
Zaki
Big Data graduate
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