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🗓️ Study plan — 🪪 AWS — IAM & EC2
20 lessons in 6 weeks (read ~15 min + lab ~25 min per lesson).
Tick lessons off — progress saved in this browser.
WEEK 1 🪪 Identity first
🏁 Checkpoint: MFA everywhere; simulate a least-privilege policy with the simulator.
WEEK 2 🎩 Hats & robots
🏁 Checkpoint: assume a role and read its expiry; credential report comes back clean.
WEEK 3 🖥️ Rent a desk
🏁 Checkpoint: terraform up the desk, SSM into it, and always destroy before dinner.
WEEK 4 🚪 Doors, drawers, fleets
🏁 Checkpoint: test the guest list with nc; snapshot the drawer; curl the metadata badge.
WEEK 5 🏫 The campus & its doors
🏁 Checkpoint: apply vpc.tf and read the corridor signs; run the presign lab; watch curl alternate behind an ALB — then destroy it all.
WEEK 6 🗃️ State, eyes, errands — and the meter
🏁 Checkpoint: force an RDS failover and watch the NAME flip; receive the alarm email; spot a cold start in the diary; set the $5 tripwire and read tomorrow's Cost Explorer. 🎓
🎓 20 / 20 — school complete!
Next stop: the grand path — tick this school off there too.