Cloud Engineer roadmap
Design, build and run workloads in the cloud: the operating system and network underneath, then accounts, compute, storage, data, security, infrastructure as code and cost. Taught on AWS; the ideas carry to other clouds.
14 topics · 60 nodes · 56 covered · 1 partly · 3 planned · updated 2026-10-17
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1. Core
Linux and the shell
Almost every cloud server runs Linux. Learn to move around it, manage access and run services before you rent machines.
4 / 4 covered
2. Core
Networking for the cloud
A cloud is a network you configure. Addresses, DNS, routing and TLS come up in every design.
6 / 6 covered
3. Core
Cloud foundations on AWS
Accounts, identity and the habits that keep a new account safe and affordable.
5 / 5 covered
4. Core
Compute and storage
Where code runs and where data sits.
5 / 5 covered
5. Core
Networking on AWS
VPCs, private subnets, DNS and content delivery.
4 / 4 covered
6. Recommended
Data and messaging
Managed databases, caches and the queues that decouple services.
3 / 4 covered
7. Recommended
Serverless
Run code without managing servers, and know where it stops being the right tool.
4 / 4 covered
8. Core
Infrastructure as code
Describe the cloud in files, review it like code and rebuild it on demand.
5 / 5 covered
9. Core
Security and identity
Least privilege, secrets, encryption and the services that watch for trouble.
4 / 4 covered
10. Recommended
Delivery and automation
Ship changes to the cloud through a pipeline, not by hand.
4 / 4 covered
11. Core
Monitoring and operations
Know when it is broken and why.
4 / 4 covered
12. Recommended
Reliability and recovery
Survive failure: backups, failover and designing for the outage you have not had yet.
4 / 4 covered
13. Core
Cost management
Cloud spend is an engineering concern: understand the bill, then shrink it.
4 / 4 covered
14. Optional
Other clouds
The concepts transfer; the names and defaults do not.
0 / 3 covered