VPN Down? Fill your time (and brain) with free cloud training Part 1 of 2: Amazon Web Services

 In this difficult time, many of us are at home, teleworking, (and worrying about the world around us), waiting for someone else to get off the #*%#!$@# VPN so we can get on it, quickly read emails and copy files to work offline. But there is a limit in what you can do not connected to the Borg collective.

In order to fill the remaining hours of the day, I've collected free AWS and Azure training material that you can use to make productive use of the time when you are not able to have a full pipeline of tasks on your plate. And perhaps to distract a little from the events of the day. 

Part 1 AWS: About 75 hours of training material, ordered (oddly enough) by time length. Non-exhaustive, personally selected for my team and peer teams, but I hope useful for you too.  :-)

[Part 2 Azure: About 50 hours of training material. Sorry, less than AWS: I got tired of collecting it all!]

And full disclosure: I have no affiliation with either of these companies.
And please be safe and healthy.


  • 10 min: Differences Between Security Groups and NACLs
  • 10 min: Instance Isolation with Elastic Network Interfaces
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Auto Scaling
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Billing and Cost Management
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Certificate Manager
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS CloudFormation
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Config
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Data Pipeline
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Fargate
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Lambda
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS OpsWorks Stacks
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Organizations
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Security Hub
  • 10 min: Introduction to AWS Service Catalog
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon API Gateway
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Cloud Directory
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon CloudFront
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch Logs
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Direct Connect
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon EC2 Systems Manager
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Elastic Container Registry
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Elastic Container Service
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Glacier
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon GuardDuty
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Route 53 Resolver
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
  • 10 min: Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • 10 min: Introduction to EC2 Auto Scaling
  • 10 min: IoT Edge Computing: Introduction to Amazon FreeRTOS
  • 10 min: Machine Learning for Leaders
  • 15 min: Introduction to Containers
  • 15 min: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Block Public Access
  • 15 min: Authentication and Authorization with AWS Identity and Access Management
  • 15 min: Introduction to AWS Batch
  • 15 min: Introduction to AWS CodeCommit
  • 15 min: Introduction to AWS Secrets Manager
  • 15 min: Introduction to Amazon Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority
  • 15 min: Introduction to Amazon Elastic Load Balancer - Application
  • 15 min: Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
  • 15 min: Introduction to Amazon Inspector
  • 15 min: Introduction to Amazon S3
  • 15 min: Introduction to Dedicated Instances
  • 15 min: PostgreSQL Fundamentals: SQL Command Line
  • 17 min: Subnets, Gateways, and Route Tables Explained
  • 20 min: Amazon DynamoDB Service Primer
  • 20 min: Amazon ElastiCache Service Primer
  • 20 min: Amazon Neptune Service Primer
  • 20 min: Amazon RDS Service Primer
  • 20 min: Introduction to AWS Application Discovery Service
  • 20 min: Introduction to AWS Backup
  • 20 min: Introduction to AWS Elemental MediaStore
  • 20 min: Introduction to AWS Management Console
  • 20 min: Introduction to AWS Security Token Services (STS)
  • 20 min: Introduction to AWS Storage Gateway
  • 20 min: Introduction to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
  • 20 min: Introduction to Cloud Adoption Framework
  • 20 min: PostgreSQL Fundamentals
  • 20min: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): Introduction to the AWS Cloud
  • 25 min: Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Primer
  • 25 min: Conversation Primer: Machine Learning Terminology
  • 25 min: Introduction to AWS Snowball Edge
  • 30 min: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Primer
  • 30 min: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): AWS Architecture
  • 30 min: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): Pricing and Support
  • 30 min: Building Highly Connected Applications using Amazon Neptune:
  • 30 min: Getting into the Serverless Mindset:
  • 30 min: Introduction to AWS Media Services
  • 30 min: IoT First Class Cloud Citizen
  • 30 min: Job Roles in the Cloud
  • 30 min: PostgreSQL Fundamentals: Explain
  • 30 min: AWS Managed Services Provisioning Management Overview
  • 30min: Best Practices for Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift
  • 40 min: CloudEndure Migration Training - Business
  • 40 min: ML Building Blocks: Services and Terminology
  • 45 min: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): AWS Core Services
  • 45 min: Demystifying AI/ML/DL
  • 45 min: Introduction to Database Migration
  • 45 min: Build and Deploy APIs with a Serverless CI/CD
  • 45 min: Mapping a Few Core Oracle DB Concepts to Amazon RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL Concepts
  • 50 min: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): AWS Security
  • 1 hour: AWS Lambda Foundations
  • 1 hour: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Primer
  • 1 hour: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Primer
  • 1 hour: Machine Learning Data Readiness
  • 1 hour: Machine Learning for Business Challenges
  • 1 hour: PostgreSQL Fundamentals: Architecture
  • 1 hour 5 min: AWS Snowball Edge Getting Started
  • 1 hour 10 min: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): AWS Integrated Services
  • 1 hour 10 min: AWS Storage Offerings
  • 1 hour 15 min: Amazon API Gateway for Serverless Applications
  • 1.5 hours: AWS Hadoop Fundamentals
  • 1.5 hours: AWS Well-Architected
  • 1.5 hours: Big Data Technology Fundamentals Online
  • 2 hour: Transit Gateway Networking and Scaling
  • 2 hours: AWS Security Fundamentals (Second Edition)
  • 2 hours: Amazon DynamoDB for Serverless Architectures
  • 2 hours: CloudEndure Migration Training - Technical
  • 2 hours: Mobile Development in IoT
  • 2 hours: Transit Gateway Networking and Scaling
  • 3 hours: Architecting Serverless Solutions
  • 3.5 hours: Data Analytics Fundamentals
  • 3.5 hours: Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
  • 3.5 hours: Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Database - Specialty
  • 4 hours: AWS Security Fundamentals
  • 5 1/2 hours: AWS Database Offerings:
  • 6 hours: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition)

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