The book will help build foundational concepts about cloud computing and AWS. You will gain an excellent conceptual understanding of cloud computing, cloud services, cloud computing platforms, and cloud service providers, and other modern related cloud computing concepts along with AWS introduction.

You will understand different main cloud computing types such as infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, software-as-a-service. In addition, you will also get an overview of modern cloud computing types such as data-as-a-service, desktop-as-a-service, and function-as-a-service. The book also provides good detail about different cloud deployment models: public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, community cloud, multi-cloud, and multitenancy.

In addition, the book discusses the cloud applications deployment model, which is essential to know if you are involved in a cloud migration or modernization project. You will learn about virtualization, virtual machines, and hypervisors. You will also get a good understanding of serverless computing, which is getting popular nowadays. The book also talks about serverless stack, AWS serverless services, and other related serverless topics. In addition to serverless computing, you will learn about Docker. We will take a use case of running a web server using a docker container to understand Docker better. You will also learn many common docker commands from a DevOps perspective.

Once you have gained a solid understanding of cloud computing, you start learning AWS. We will begin with AWS, how it compares with its competitors, the types of services it provides, why AWS is so popular. Then you will learn how to sign up, AWS free tier, multi-factor authentication, and different ways to access AWS. You will also learn about AWS Global Infrastructure, AWS Regions, and AWS Availability Zones. Then, you will learn about EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), which is the AWS IaaS type of service to launch virtual servers on AWS. Next, you will learn how to launch an EC2 instance and set up a web server on EC2. Then you will learn about IAM (Identity and Access Management service). You will also understand S3 (Simple Storage Service). It is a very popular AWS service. You will learn how to create a bucket on S3 and store objects on S3.

We will also get a high-level understanding of how AWS approaches the security and compliance of deployed applications. And finally, we will get an overview of the AWS cloud computing platform covering many popular AWS services.