AWS Essentials: Amazon EC2 & VPC Networking for Beginners

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. AI tools were used only in a few quiz questions, Role Play scenarios, and images. All were reviewed and edited by the instructor.Build the AWS compute and networking foundation you need before moving into certification, DevOps, architecture, or advanced AWS courses.Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC are two of the most important services to understand if you want to build a strong foundation in AWS.In this hands-on AWS Essentials course, you will learn How EC2 instances work How networking works inside a VPCHow storage services like Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS work with your EC2 instancesHow Elastic Load Balancing and EC2 Auto Scaling help your applications become more reliable and scalableThis course is the second part of my AWS Essentials series. The first course, AWS Essentials: Cloud, AWS IAM, & Amazon S3 for Beginners, covers cloud computing and AWS foundations, AWS IAM, and Amazon S3 essentials. This course continues the learning path by covering compute, networking, storage, load balancing, and scaling concepts essential to understanding AWS.Both courses are designed around the foundations required for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, but the goal is not only memorization. It is to help you understand AWS step by step through clear explanations, visual learning, and hands-on practice.You will start with Amazon EC2 basics, launch and connect to EC2 instances, work with key pairs, instance details, IAM roles, User Data, AMIs, Elastic IP addresses, instance types, pricing models, tenancy, and capacity reservations.Then, you will learn AWS storage concepts with Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS. Y