AWS Academy · Exam Prep

AWS Study Materials

Two documents for every module across 8 AWS Academy courses — a dense printable cheat sheet and a full-coverage study-notes companion, distilled from the course decks for fast review and exam readiness.

8 courses 86 modules 172 documents
Cheat Sheet — 2–3-page datasheet: must-know facts, key terms, comparison tables, exam traps, and a self-quiz. Study Notes — textbook-style, full section-by-section coverage with key concepts, worked examples, and review questions.
86 modules

Foundational

4 courses · 30 modules

AWS Academy Cloud Foundations

Modules 1–10 · Cloud Practitioner track

Foundational AWS concepts: the cloud, economics & billing, global infrastructure, security, networking, compute, storage, databases, architecture, and scaling.

AWS Academy Cloud Security Foundations

Modules 2–7 · Cloud security fundamentals

Core AWS security: the shared responsibility model, IAM & access control, infrastructure & network security, data protection & encryption, logging & monitoring, and incident response.

AWS Academy Machine Learning Foundations

Modules 2–7 · Machine learning fundamentals

Applied machine learning on AWS: ML concepts & workflow, the Amazon SageMaker ML pipeline, forecasting, computer vision, natural language processing, and generative AI.

AWS Academy Generative AI Foundations

Modules 2–9 · AI Practitioner track

Generative AI on AWS: foundational AI, generative models, prompt engineering, foundation models, responsible AI, security & governance, implementation, and certification.

Associate

3 courses · 38 modules

AWS Academy Cloud Architecting

Modules 2–16 · Solutions Architect associate track

Designing solutions on AWS: the Well-Architected Framework, IAM, S3 storage, EC2 compute, databases, VPC networking & connectivity, user/data security, monitoring & high availability, automation, caching, decoupling, serverless & microservices, data engineering, and disaster recovery.

AWS Academy Cloud Developing

Modules 2–13 · Developer associate track

Building applications on AWS with the SDKs: S3, IAM, DynamoDB, API Gateway REST APIs, Lambda & event-driven serverless, containers, caching, messaging (SQS/SNS), Step Functions, Cognito security, and CI/CD pipelines.

AWS Academy Cloud Operations

Modules 1–11 · Systems operations (SysOps) track

Operating workloads on AWS: tooling & automation, compute (servers, scaling, containers, databases), networking, storage & archiving, monitoring & security, cost management, and automated deployments.

Data Center

1 course · 18 modules

AWS Academy Engineering Operations Technician

Modules 1–18 · Data center facilities & operations

The physical data center end to end: electrical & power systems, batteries & generators, cooling & fire protection, racks & space, plus reliability, availability, efficiency, operations, safety, and regulations.