AWS Cloud Core Concepts: Regions, Availability Zones & Core Services

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About Course

A plain-English introduction to Amazon Web Services. Learn how AWS Regions and Availability Zones work, what the core services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC and IAM do, how to protect an AWS account from day one, and how the Well-Architected Framework and cost controls help you build sensibly.

Tutwoo is an independent learning provider. This course is general awareness training written from published official guidance. It does not replace training required for your specific job, and it is not an accredited qualification.

© 2026 Tutwoo UK Limited. This course was created in-house by Tutwoo and is our original work. It is for your own learning only: please do not copy, share, record or resell it.

What Will You Learn?

  • Explain AWS Regions and Availability Zones and why they matter for resilience
  • Describe what core services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC and IAM are for
  • Secure a new AWS account, starting with the root user
  • Use the Well-Architected pillars and cost controls to plan workloads

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • Regions and Availability Zones
  • Core services in plain English
  • Securing your AWS account from day one
  • Designing well and controlling cost

Sources & Further Reading
The official guidance this course is based on.

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