AWS Foundations
AWS Networking & VPC Labs
This track keeps you inside the console for most of the week. You rebuild a three-tier pattern twice—once manually, once with reusable templates—so you can explain trade-offs to infrastructure peers in plain language.
Inside the syllabus
- Private subnet traffic inspection lab with session notes
- Peering vs. PrivateLink decision worksheet
- IPv6 rollout checklist used with Singapore enterprise teams
- Mentor review of your network diagram before final lab
- Recorded walk-through of a failed change and rollback
- Troubleshooting packet captures with guided interpretation
- Bonus reading list for Direct Connect follow-up study
Outcomes you can evidence
- Document a VPC design that satisfies audit-style questions
- Compare three connectivity models with latency and cost notes
- Present a rollback narrative referencing CloudTrail evidence
Lead mentor
Priya Menon
Former NOC lead who now coaches cohorts through AWS networking interviews.
FAQ
We issue sandbox credits for the duration of the lab window. Credits cannot be transferred to personal production accounts.
No. This module focuses on networking scenarios; you still need broader revision and official practice exams.
Exam vouchers, employer compliance paperwork, and weekend office hours beyond the published calendar.
Recent participant notes
The Transit Gateway lab finally made private DNS stick—I annotated the mentor diagram and still keep it pinned.
Clear pacing, though I wanted one more hour on PrivateLink edge cases. Still worth the evening format.