Cloud computing is a computing paradigm, where a large pool of systems are connected in private or public networks, to provide dynamically scalable infrastructure for application, data and file storage. With the advent of this technology, the cost of computation, application hosting, content storage and delivery is reduced significantly.

The idea of cloud computing is based on a very fundamental principal of reusability of IT capabilities. The difference that cloud computing brings compared to traditional concepts of grid computing, distributed computin,utility computing, or autonomic computing is to broaden horizons across organizational boundaries.

Forrester defines cloud computing as: A pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute infrastructure capable of hosting end customer applications and billed by consumption.

High Level Content - AWS

 Basic Systems Operations in AWS    

 Module 1: AWS Overview, Signup and Management console 

Module 2: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)  

Module 3: Tagging  

Module 4: Monitoring and alarms with Amazon Cloud Watch  

Module 5: Security  

Module 6: Logging  

Module 7: Cost Control  

Module 8: Programmatic AWS billing and cost allocation reporting     

Advanced Operations in AWS     

 Module 9: Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, and Amazon   Machine Images (AMI)

Module 10: Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Auto Scaling  

Module 11: Snapshots  

Module 12: Amazon VPC  

Module 13: Amazon RDS management and Amazon Dynamo DB

Module 15: Route53 

Module 16: Simple Storage Services (S3) 

Module 17: Bootstrapping Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Cloud Formation