Cloud Engineering Foundations
Learn how real cloud platforms work: regions and availability, compute and storage choices, networking, containers, infrastructure as code, deployment strategies, scaling, cost control, observability and incident response.
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About this course
A practical, engineer-level tour of cloud computing. You will learn what "the cloud" actually is under the hood, how to choose between VMs, containers and serverless, how cloud storage and databases differ, how VPCs/subnets/load balancers/DNS fit together, how containers and images work, how infrastructure as code replaces manual clicking, how teams roll out changes safely, how autoscaling and cost control work together, and how observability and incident response keep systems reliable.
Syllabus
Cloud Foundations
What the cloud is, compute choices, storage/databases, and networking.
- What the Cloud Actually IsLevel 1 · Complete beginner · Pass the quick check to continue12m
- Regions, Availability, and Shared ResponsibilityFinish the lesson and pass the quick check in "What the Cloud Actually Is" to unlock this lesson.14m
- Compute Options: VMs, Containers, and ServerlessFinish the lesson and pass the quick check in "Regions, Availability, and Shared Responsibility" to unlock this lesson.14m
- Cloud Storage and DatabasesFinish the lesson, Pass the quick check and pass the coding challenge in "Compute Options: VMs, Containers, and Serverless" to unlock this lesson.14m
- Networking: VPCs, Subnets, Load Balancers, and DNSFinish the lesson and pass the quick check in "Regions, Availability, and Shared Responsibility" to unlock this lesson.16m
Packaging and Delivering Cloud Systems
Containers, infrastructure as code, and deployment strategies.
- Containers and ImagesUnlimitedFinish the lesson, Pass the quick check and pass the coding challenge in "Compute Options: VMs, Containers, and Serverless" to unlock this lesson.15m
- Infrastructure as CodeUnlimitedFinish the lesson, Pass the quick check and pass the coding challenge in "Networking: VPCs, Subnets, Load Balancers, and DNS" to unlock this lesson.15m
- Deployment Strategies and EnvironmentsUnlimitedFinish the lesson and pass the quick check in "Containers and Images" to unlock this lesson.16m
Operating Cloud Systems Reliably
Scaling, cost control, observability, and incident response.
- Observability: Logs, Metrics, and AlertsUnlimitedFinish the lesson, Pass the quick check and pass the coding challenge in "Deployment Strategies and Environments" to unlock this lesson.14m
- Reliability and Incident ResponseUnlimitedFinish the lesson, Pass the quick check and pass the coding challenge in "Observability: Logs, Metrics, and Alerts" to unlock this lesson.14m
- Cloud Operations CapstoneUnlimitedComplete "Reliability and Incident Response" to unlock this project.~4h