Learn AWS — the services you actually use, before the certification.

Strive builds an AWS course around your reason: a job that needs cloud fluency, a side project to deploy, or a Cloud Practitioner / Solutions Architect Associate exam on the calendar. Lessons stream live, the console screenshots stay current enough, and a daily recall queue keeps the service map in your head.

What you’ll learn

• Reason about IAM — users, roles, policies, and the principle of least privilege.
• Store and serve files with S3 — buckets, lifecycle rules, and signed URLs.
• Run workloads on EC2, Lambda, or both — and know which fits which job.
• Stand up a managed database with RDS and connect to it from your app.
• Map the basic networking — VPC, subnets, security groups, and the public-private divide.
• Read a CloudWatch log and trace a failure across services.
• Pass the Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate exam if that's your goal.

A typical Strive course on AWS

1. How AWS thinks — accounts, regions, and the console3 lessons
2. IAM — the security model that runs everything4 lessons
3. Storage — S3, EBS, and when to use which4 lessons
4. Compute — EC2, Lambda, and the Fargate middle ground5 lessons
5. Databases — RDS, DynamoDB, and pick-the-right-tool4 lessons
6. Networking essentials — VPC without the panic4 lessons
7. Observability and the bill — CloudWatch, costs, alarms3 lessons

Demonstration outline — your course is generated around your answers, so module count, depth, and difficulty will differ from this. Across the 7 modules above there are 27 lessons.

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