AWS Beginner Skills Online Training

Organizations adopting AWS need shared baseline skills before teams make decisions about compute, storage, networking, databases, migration, and cost controls. This beginner-level course is a fit for IT Directors, Training Managers, and Team Leads onboarding cloud administrators or validating foundational AWS knowledge across a mixed-experience team.

The course is a realistic 10 hours, 39 minutes per learner, making it suitable for a short onboarding sprint or as prerequisite training before AWS projects. It helps reduce operational risk by giving IT Practitioners common terminology and decision frameworks for EC2-based workloads, S3 storage, AWS networking, database options, migration planning, support options, cloud economics, and cost management. For change management, assign it before teams begin hands-on AWS work so discussions about architecture, support, and spend start from the same baseline.

CBT Nuggets Playlists can sequence this course into onboarding paths, and Team Reporting helps IT leaders track completion across assigned learners.

IT teams complete this training to move from “AWS awareness” to practical readiness for early cloud administration tasks. The course supports teams that need to evaluate AWS services, launch initial workloads, and discuss cloud costs with clearer shared expectations.

• Faster AWS onboarding: New cloud administrators build baseline understanding of AWS services, terminology, and the AWS Management Console before joining production conversations.
• Better workload planning: Teams learn the role of EC2 compute, S3 storage, AWS networking, and database options when planning cloud-based services.
• More cost-aware decisions: Cloud economics and AWS cost management topics help teams recognize how service choices affect spend.
• Smoother migration discussions: Coverage of AWS migration and support options gives IT Practitioners a common foundation for planning next steps and escalation paths.

Knowledge

• Core AWS terminology and entry-level cloud service concepts
• How AWS compute, storage, networking, and database services fit into cloud environments
• Foundational concepts behind EC2-based workloads and S3 virtual storage
• Cloud economics principles that influence AWS planning and service selection
• AWS migration considerations and available support options
• Cost management concepts for monitoring and controlling AWS usage

Ability

• Navigate early AWS planning conversations with consistent terminology
• Identify basic AWS service categories for compute, storage, networking, and databases
• Plan for simple EC2-based workloads at a foundational level
• Recognize when S3 is an appropriate storage option
• Discuss AWS migration and support paths with stakeholders
• Apply basic cost-awareness when evaluating AWS service choices