Cloud Infrastructure Foundations

What you will learn

• Map application tiers onto network and compute building blocks
• Apply least-privilege identity patterns for services and humans
• Choose storage options based on durability and access patterns
• Explain cost and blast-radius implications of common designs
• Draft an environment diagram suitable for onboarding and incidents

About this course

Cloud platforms offer endless services; teams get lost when they adopt tools without a clear operating model. This course focuses on foundational choices: network boundaries, identity, compute placement, and storage durability. Each section connects architecture decisions to operational outcomes: blast radius, cost visibility, and deployability. You will sketch an environment for a typical web product and critique common anti-patterns. The goal is confidence in the basics so later reliability work has somewhere solid to stand.

Who it is for

• Engineers new to cloud platform work
• Application developers owning deploy targets
• Team leads standardizing environment shapes