Competencies: Cloud > Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
Body of Knowledge
| Topic | Description | Relevance | Career Tracks |
|---|---|---|---|
AWS Fundamentals |
Core AWS services including VPC networking, EC2 compute, S3 storage, IAM identity management, and Route53 DNS. Foundation for all AWS-based architectures and a prerequisite for most cloud roles. |
Critical |
Cloud Engineer, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer |
EC2 & Compute |
Instance types, AMIs, placement groups, spot/reserved instances, auto-scaling groups |
Critical |
Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE |
VPC Networking |
Subnets, route tables, internet/NAT gateways, security groups, NACLs, VPC peering |
Critical |
Cloud Engineer, Network Engineer, Solutions Architect |
S3 & Storage |
Bucket policies, lifecycle rules, versioning, replication, storage classes, S3 Select |
Critical |
Cloud Engineer, Data Engineer, Solutions Architect |
IAM & Security |
Policies, roles, instance profiles, cross-account access, STS, permission boundaries |
Critical |
Cloud Security Engineer, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer |
RDS & Databases |
Multi-AZ, read replicas, Aurora, parameter groups, backup/restore, encryption |
High |
Cloud Engineer, DBA, Backend Developer |
Lambda & Serverless |
Function deployment, event sources, layers, cold starts, concurrency, Step Functions |
High |
Cloud Engineer, Backend Developer, DevOps Engineer |
EKS & Containers |
Managed Kubernetes, Fargate, node groups, IRSA, cluster autoscaler, ALB controller |
High |
DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE |
CloudFormation & IaC |
Stacks, nested stacks, change sets, drift detection, custom resources, CDK |
High |
DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer |
Monitoring & Logging |
CloudWatch metrics/logs/alarms, X-Ray tracing, CloudTrail audit, EventBridge |
High |
SRE, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer |
Networking Services |
Route 53, CloudFront CDN, API Gateway, ELB/ALB/NLB, Global Accelerator |
High |
Cloud Engineer, Solutions Architect, Network Engineer |
Personal Status
| Topic | Level | Evidence | Active Projects | Gaps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AWS Fundamentals |
Awareness |
Conceptual understanding of VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Route53 from certification study and industry exposure |
No AWS account, no hands-on experience; critical gap for most cloud roles |