What is aws-devops-zero-to-hero?

iam-veeramalla/aws-devops-zero-to-hero — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-06-24

★ 10,907PythonAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5Setup · hard

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((AWS DevOps))
    Learning path
      Cloud basics
      IAM and networking
      CI/CD pipelines
    AWS Services
      EC2 and VPC
      Lambda and ECS
      CloudWatch
    Tools
      Terraform
      Docker
      CodePipeline
    Resources
      YouTube videos
      Project exercises
      Interview questions

mindmap root((AWS DevOps)) Learning path Cloud basics IAM and networking CI/CD pipelines AWS Services EC2 and VPC Lambda and ECS CloudWatch Tools Terraform Docker CodePipeline Resources YouTube videos Project exercises Interview questions

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Follow a day-by-day plan to go from zero AWS knowledge to building a full CI/CD pipeline

USE CASE 2

Study interview questions for AWS and DevOps roles alongside practical exercises

USE CASE 3

Learn Terraform to write infrastructure as code that recreates AWS environments consistently

USE CASE 4

Set up container orchestration with ECS or EKS as part of a structured learning path

What is it built with?

PythonAWSTerraformDocker

How does it compare?

	iam-veeramalla/aws-devops-zero-to-hero	magic-research/magic-animate	aboul3la/sublist3r
Stars	10,907	10,903	10,925
Language	Python	Python	Python
Setup difficulty	hard	hard	easy
Complexity	2/5	4/5	2/5
Audience	developer	researcher	researcher

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1day+

Requires an active AWS account, some daily exercises use paid AWS services that may incur costs.

So what is it?

This repository is a 30-day structured learning plan for people who want to get practical experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) from a DevOps perspective. DevOps is a way of working where the people who write software also take responsibility for running and maintaining it in production. AWS is Amazon's cloud platform, which lets you rent computing power, storage, and networking instead of buying physical servers. Each day covers a specific AWS service or concept, starting with the basics and building toward real project work. Day 1 covers cloud fundamentals and account setup. Day 2 introduces IAM, the system AWS uses to control who can access what. Days 3 through 7 cover virtual servers (EC2), networking (VPC), and security configurations. The early days give you the vocabulary and hands-on steps needed for the later, more complex days. Around the middle of the plan, the focus shifts to automated software delivery. Days 12 through 15 cover CodeCommit (a place to store code), CodePipeline (automated workflows for releasing software), CodeBuild (compiling and testing code automatically), and CodeDeploy (pushing code to servers without downtime). These four services together form what is called a CI/CD pipeline, which is the standard way teams ship software updates frequently and reliably. The later days cover monitoring (CloudWatch), serverless functions (Lambda), content delivery (CloudFront), container orchestration (ECS and EKS), and cost management tools. There is also material on Terraform, which is a tool for writing infrastructure configuration as code so you can recreate environments consistently. The repository includes YouTube video links for each day, project instructions, presentation slides, and interview questions for AWS and DevOps roles. It is aimed at people who have some programming familiarity but little or no prior AWS experience. The materials are free to use and follow a single playlist on the author's YouTube channel.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

I am on Day 12 of the aws-devops-zero-to-hero plan. Help me set up a CodePipeline that triggers on a GitHub commit, builds with CodeBuild, and deploys to EC2 with CodeDeploy

Prompt 2

Using the Day 2 IAM material from aws-devops-zero-to-hero, help me write an IAM policy that gives a Lambda function read-only access to a specific S3 bucket

Prompt 3

Guide me through the Terraform section of aws-devops-zero-to-hero to write a config that spins up a VPC, subnet, and EC2 instance on AWS

Prompt 4

Help me prepare for a DevOps interview using the question bank from aws-devops-zero-to-hero, focusing on EKS, ECS, and CI/CD pipeline concepts

Prompt 5

Explain the CloudWatch monitoring setup from Day 16 of aws-devops-zero-to-hero and help me create an alarm that triggers when CPU usage exceeds 80 percent

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