Cloud & DevOps
AWS, Azure, CI/CD, containers, and the ops instincts that keep a service up after you merge.
Mastery unlocks after a 90% Quiz score
Real-world analogy
Cloud is renting a factory instead of building one. DevOps is the shift schedule, the fire exits, and the alarm that rings before the floor floods.
◎ Why it matters in production
Job posts ask for AWS/Azure because every product team runs there. Curriculum still stops at 'it compiled'. This track starts at 'it is running on Monday'.
Fundamental concepts you will master
Regions, AZs, blast radius
Where your VM lives, and what happens when that building loses power.
IAM is the real product
Least privilege, roles, and the leaked key that billed someone ₹8 lakh overnight.
Containers
The environment travels with the code. That's the whole point.
Pipelines
A merge should be boring. Tests, image, deploy, rollback.
Step-by-step curriculum
Cloud mental model
Compute, storage, network, identity. Map every service back to these four.
AWS core
EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM — the five you will be asked about.
Azure core
The same ideas with different names, because half the job posts say Azure.
Docker & compose
Images, layers, volumes, and a local stack that matches prod-enough.
CI/CD
GitHub Actions to a running service, with a rollback you have actually rehearsed.
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