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Nick Triantafillou introduces himself as the instructor for an introductory AWS course. He explains that AWS stands for Amazon Web Services and refers both to the cloud computing services Amazon offers and the company that manages them. The course will provide an overview of AWS, cover key areas like security, compute, storage and databases, and include hands-on labs and architecture examples. Nick has 20 years of IT experience including roles in system administration, cloud support and DevOps, and has been teaching for 5 years at A Cloud Guru.

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Course Introduction

Nick Triantafillou introduces himself as the instructor for an introductory AWS course. He explains that AWS stands for Amazon Web Services and refers both to the cloud computing services Amazon offers and the company that manages them. The course will provide an overview of AWS, cover key areas like security, compute, storage and databases, and include hands-on labs and architecture examples. Nick has 20 years of IT experience including roles in system administration, cloud support and DevOps, and has been teaching for 5 years at A Cloud Guru.

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Hello, Cloud Gurus and welcome to my Introduction to AWS Course.

My name is Nick Triantafillou, and I'll be teaching you this course.


Introductory courses can be scary. You're usually there in your seat,
ready to go with a keen interest in learning something,
and then a bunch of big words are thrown at you and you don't understand,
and then you give up. I'm going to do my best to avoid that here.
I'm going to break down AWS into simple to understand, everyday language,
in the hopes that you can begin your journey in the easiest and most comfortable
way possible. Let's begin with AWS.
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services,
and this actually refers to two different things, depending on the context.
Firstly, it's a collection of different computer programs,
or services that Amazon have on offer for you to use,
to build your own websites or applications in the cloud.
AWS.
Also refers to the IT services management company that create
and support these services for you. So if somebody is talking about AWS,
they could be talking about the IT services subsidiary of Amazon,
or the actual cloud service that they provide.
Now I've used the word cloud a few times and I'm going to assume you know what
that is. If not,
we have a great Introduction to Cloud course here at A Cloud Guru,
and I've provided a link to it in the resources for this lecture.
This course will of course focus on the cloud platform,
AWS and not the IT services company, AWS.
Let's take a quick look at the topics we're going to cover in this course.
We have our introduction, which you're watching right now.
Then we'll get a nice broad overview of AWS covering what it is,
and I'll give you a brief history of it as well.
Then we'll go a little further in-depth with the most important pillars of AWS
that you need to know about. These are security and identity,
compute, storage, databases, networking,
management and governance, and machine learning.
And then we'll round out the course with some architecture examples,
where I'll show you how people use AWS to build real-world
solutions. I've also included some simple labs along the way,
so you can follow along and get some hands-on experience while you learn.
A little bit about myself before we get started. As I mentioned,
my name is Nick and I'm a senior training architect here at A Cloud Guru.
I've worked in IT for around 20 years,
starting out as a Unix and Linux system administrator.
I've also worked in Cloud Support and DevOps Engineers roles as well.
I've been working as an instructor here for over five years now.
I also teach the AWS DevOps professional course,
some of our Linux certification courses,
and I also have a few series on DeepRacer and Alexa too.
Feel free to add me on LinkedIn or follow my Twitter.
I love hearing from my students. All right, that's all for the introduction.
Thank you for watching. If you have any questions throughout the course,
please feel free to post in our forums and let me know. Now when you're ready,
feel free to move on to the overview of AWS.

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