Prominent corporations worldwide use Amazon Web Services (AWS) and job seekers should be interested in learning about this platform. At first, we explain the benefits of AWS, who uses it and the services offered, including computing and business productivity services. After this, you will learn how to install AWS on Windows or Linux/macOS platforms and how to configure the CLI environment before you can use it.

The following section goes over the various concepts critical to the proper management of AWS services. For example, the ‘autocomplete’ feature can make your life much easier as a developer. Then discover how filtering works, the ‘query’ option and the benefits and disadvantages of different filter options. Next, you will test if you have permission to perform various operations and study how to test functionality. Following that, we illustrate the EC2 service. By the end, you will understand the concept of an Elastic Compute (EC2) instance, components, Key Pair, Security Group, Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and elastic IP.

The final section will consider the S3 service. You start by looking at the various operations you can perform on S3 objects, including uploading, managing, moving and deleting them. Next, investigate AWS IAM, where you grasp how to list users and create groups. Master AWS ELB and SNS/SQS before studying ELB operations and concepts such as target groups, listeners and load balancers. We provide an overview of SNS and SQS ‘service’ commands. The final section looks at the ECS and SES services quickly and finds out about concepts such as clusters, containers and task definitions before considering SES and automation of your AWS CLI and creating VPC and subnets. Developer jobs using AWS services are in demand so take this opportunity to upskill and find a career that matters!