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AWS Interview Preparation Learning Path

A complete ordered AWS interview preparation learning path covering AWS services overview, IAM, VPC, EC2, and S3 with direct links to each article.

AWS is one of the most important cloud platforms for backend developers, DevOps engineers, architects, and interview preparation.

This page is the home article for the AWS interview section. Use it as the ordered table of contents for all AWS articles available in this folder.

The order below also controls the left menu order and the Previous/Next navigation at the bottom of each AWS article.

Complete AWS Order

No Article What You Will Learn
01 AWS Services Overview Core AWS services, cloud building blocks, and how common AWS services fit together
02 AWS IAM Users, groups, roles, policies, permissions, access keys, and IAM interview concepts
03 AWS VPC Overview VPCs, subnets, route tables, internet gateways, NAT gateways, and networking basics
04 AWS EC2 EC2 instances, AMIs, instance types, key pairs, security groups, and compute fundamentals
05 AWS S3 Storage Service Buckets, objects, storage classes, versioning, lifecycle rules, and S3 security

Recommended Learning Flow

flowchart TD
    A["01 AWS Services Overview"] --> B["02 IAM"]
    B --> C["03 VPC"]
    C --> D["04 EC2"]
    D --> E["05 S3"]

How to Study This Series

Start with the services overview to understand the AWS landscape.

Then learn IAM before other services because security and permissions appear everywhere in AWS interviews.

After IAM, study VPC networking, then EC2 compute, and finally S3 storage.

For interview preparation, make sure you can explain:

  • What problem each service solves.
  • How the service is secured.
  • How it connects to other AWS services.
  • Common real-time use cases.
  • Common troubleshooting scenarios.