Aws Mastery Roadmap(2025 Edition)
Phase 0: Foundation
Beginner Level
Lock the basics before diving into AWS.
🐧 Linux & System Basics
- 1. Linux shell commands (SSH, user management, systemd)
- 2. File permissions and process management
- 3. Basic scripting and automation
- 4. System monitoring and troubleshooting
🌐 Networking Fundamentals
- 1. IP addressing and subnetting
- 2. DNS, ports, and protocols
- 3. TCP/IP model and OSI layers
- 4. Basic security concepts
💻 Developer Essentials
- 1. Git + GitHub version control
- 2. Python programming basics
- 3. Basic CI/CD concepts
- 4. Understanding cloud terminology
Phase 0
Phase 1
Phase 1: Core AWS Services
Intermediate Level
Essential building blocks every employer expects.
⚡ Compute
- 1. EC2 (instances, AMI, autoscaling, load balancers)
- 2. Lambda (serverless basics, triggers)
- 3. Elastic Beanstalk basics
- 4. Instance types and pricing models
🌐 Networking
- 1. VPC (subnets, route tables, NAT, peering, Transit Gateway)
- 2. Security Groups & NACLs
- 3. VPN connectivity & Direct Connect basics
- 4. DNS with Route 53
💾 Storage & Databases
- 1. S3 (storage classes, lifecycle rules, versioning)
- 2. EBS vs EFS
- 3. RDS & Aurora
- 4. Backup and disaster recovery strategies
🔒 IAM & Security
- 1. IAM Users/Roles/Policies/STS
- 2. AWS Organizations
- 3. Secrets Manager & KMS
- 4. MFA and access management best practices
🚀 Core AWS Projects
- 1. ✅ Deploy WordPress with EC2 + RDS + S3 backup
- 2. ✅ Host static website on S3 + CloudFront + Route53
- 3. Build production-ready 3-tier app architecture
- 4. Implement basic monitoring and alerts
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 2: Industry Ops Skills: DevOps + Automation
Advanced Level
Where 90% of demand is - become hireable.
🏗️ Infrastructure as Code
- 1. Terraform (MOST in demand) - modules, state management
- 2. CloudFormation (good to know)
- 3. IaC best practices and version control
- 4. Multi-environment deployment strategies
🔄 CI/CD
- 1. AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
- 2. GitHub Actions (bonus)
- 3. Blue-Green and Canary deployments
- 4. Automated testing in pipelines
🐳 Containers
- 1. Docker fundamentals and Dockerfile optimization
- 2. ECS Fargate architecture
- 3. EKS (Kubernetes on AWS)
- 4. Container orchestration patterns
📊 Monitoring
- 1. CloudWatch metrics, logs, and dashboards
- 2. CloudWatch Alarms and SNS notifications
- 3. X-Ray for distributed tracing
- 4. Log aggregation and analysis
🎯 DevOps Projects
- 1. ✅ Build microservices on ECS Fargate with CI/CD
- 2. ✅ Terraform workspace deploying VPC + EC2 + RDS end-to-end
- 3. Implement complete monitoring solution
- 4. Set up multi-stage deployment pipeline
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 3: Advanced & Production Architecture
Advanced Level
Design scalable and secure system diagrams.
🏢 Enterprise Architecture
- 1. AWS Well-Architected Framework (5 pillars)
- 2. High Availability vs Fault Tolerance
- 3. Scalability patterns and auto-scaling strategies
- 4. Cost optimization and FinOps practices
🌐 Advanced Networking
- 1. VPC Endpoint, PrivateLink
- 2. NLB, ALB advanced configurations
- 3. Multi-account architecture and AWS Control Tower
- 4. Hybrid cloud networking patterns
🔐 Security Deep Dive
- 1. Zero Trust security model
- 2. AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF, Shield
- 3. Compliance frameworks (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS)
- 4. Incident response and forensics
⚡ Serverless Mastery
- 1. EventBridge event-driven patterns
- 2. API Gateway advanced features
- 3. DynamoDB single table design
- 4. Lambda optimization and best practices
🚀 Advanced Projects
- 1. ✅ Event-driven Serverless App: Lambda + S3 + DynamoDB + API Gateway + Cognito
- 2. Multi-region disaster recovery system
- 3. Complete security audit and remediation
- 4. Cost optimization case study
Phase 3
Phase 4
Phase 4: Specialization Track
Expert Level
Pick your path - this gets you the high salary.
☁️ Cloud / DevOps Engineer
- 1. EKS advanced deployments
- 2. GitOps with ArgoCD
- 3. Advanced CI/CD automation
- 4. Blue-Green and Canary deployment strategies
🔒 Security Engineer
- 1. IAM advanced policies and SCPs
- 2. KMS encryption and key management
- 3. CloudTrail, GuardDuty, SOAR
- 4. Security automation and compliance
📊 Data Engineer
- 1. AWS Glue ETL pipelines
- 2. Redshift data warehousing
- 3. EMR big data processing
- 4. Kinesis real-time streaming, Athena queries
🤖 Machine Learning Engineer
- 1. SageMaker model training and deployment
- 2. Feature Store and ML pipelines
- 3. MLOps best practices
- 4. Model monitoring and optimization
🏗️ Solutions Architect
- 1. Multi-cloud architecture design
- 2. Hybrid networking solutions
- 3. Disaster recovery planning
- 4. Enterprise migration strategies