Below is a week-by-week summary of activities and links to the detailed worklog pages.
Week 1: Getting familiar with AWS, account setup, CLI and EC2 hands‑on
Week 2: Explored EC2, storage options (EBS, S3, EFS), CloudWatch and Transit Gateway
Week 3: Deep dive into storage services (S3, Storage Gateway, FSx) and strengthened IAM knowledge
Week 4: Identity & Security — Cognito, KMS, Security Hub, IAM best practices
Week 5: Databases on AWS — RDS, Redshift, ElastiCache and advanced SQL practice
Week 6: Architecture design and project planning; Amazon Q CLI and draft architecture
Week 7: Midterm review — Security fundamentals, resiliency, HA/DR patterns
Week 8: Consolidation and midterm exam preparation; cost and performance optimizations
Week 9: Recommendation system experiments and iterative model training (AWS Personalize use cases)
Week 10: Solution architecture, IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and VPC/network foundations
Week 11: Operational readiness — RDS multi‑AZ, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments
Week 12: Project finalization — monitoring, security hardening, cost optimization and handover