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AWS Core Compute

1 Lab

1 Hours

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"Build practical AWS compute fluency by learning how to configure, operate, troubleshoot, and evaluate EC2 instances, elastic EC2 workloads, Lambda functions, and ECS services on Fargate.

Choose this path if you already understand basic AWS concepts and need a clearer working model for when to use instance-based, serverless, or containerized compute in real operational scenarios."

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Troubleshooting AWS Lambda Function Behavior

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Jul 21, 2026

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What You'll Learn

1. Configure and validate EC2 workloads, including instance launch settings, access paths, lifecycle actions, reusable deployment patterns, and common recovery steps
2. Operate elastic and managed compute patterns using Auto Scaling, Application Load Balancers, Lambda invocation behavior, and ECS Fargate service health signals
3. Make practical compute selection decisions across EC2, Lambda, ECS on Fargate, and EKS-aware scenarios based on workload shape, scaling model, operational ownership, and deployment needs

Prerequisites

You should be comfortable navigating the AWS console and understand foundational AWS concepts such as regions, availability zones, IAM roles, VPCs, subnets, security groups, EBS volumes, and basic CloudWatch monitoring. This path assumes practitioner-level AWS fluency and is designed for learners moving toward cloud engineering, infrastructure operations, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or architecture roles that require a dependable working knowledge of AWS compute services.

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