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Amazon Linux Foundations

Amazon Linux is a highly-performant Linux distribution designed for AWS environments. This course will teach you the core skills needed to work confidently with Amazon Linux 2023, from filesystem navigation to user and permission management.

Beginner
1h 29m

Created by Elle Krout

Last Updated Jun 24, 2026

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Amazon Linux Foundations

Amazon Linux is a highly-performant Linux distribution designed for AWS environments. This course will teach you the core skills needed to work confidently with Amazon Linux 2023, from filesystem navigation to user and permission management.

Beginner
1h 29m

Created by Elle Krout

Last Updated Jun 24, 2026

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What you'll learn

If you're new to Linux on AWS, knowing where to start can be overwhelming. In this course, Amazon Linux Foundations, you’ll gain the ability to to perform the core administrative tasks every AWS practitioner needs on Amazon Linux 2023. First, you’ll explore the architecture and support behind Amazon Linux. Next, you’ll discover how to navigate the file systems and manipulate files. Finally, you’ll learn how to manage users and permissions. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Amazon Linux core concepts needed to get started using Amazon Linux.

Amazon Linux Foundations
Beginner
1h 29m
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Elle Krout - Pluralsight course - Amazon Linux Foundations
Elle Krout
28 courses 4.2 author rating 54 ratings

With a background at a cloud hosting company, I started learning Linux and DevOps from the bottom up as a technical writer set out to document configuration management systems. Falling in love with Linux, DevOps and tech as a whole, I eventually took my ability to explain technical concepts to wide audiences to the training area, creating courses on Red Hat, SaltStack, HashiCorp, LXD, Docker, and more.

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