Worklog
Overview
12-week worklog (5 days/week) starting September 8, 2025, summarizing study topics for evaluation: AWS foundations, architecture, and recent GenAI/compute releases from re:Invent.
Weekly Theme Snapshot
- Week 1: Cloud fundamentals, global infra, Well-Architected
- Week 2: Networking (VPC, SG/NACL, load balancers, TGW/peering, VPN/DC)
- Week 3: Compute (EC2/AMI/EBS, scaling, pricing models, EFS/FSx)
- Week 4: Storage (S3 classes, Glacier, Snow, DR/Backup)
- Week 5: Security & Identity (IAM, Org, KMS, Security Hub, SSO)
- Week 6: Databases (RDS/Aurora/Redshift, ElastiCache, DMS)
- Week 7: Serverless & Containers (Lambda, ECS/EKS, ECR)
- Week 8: Monitoring & Ops (CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, cost/ops)
- Week 9: Transformer architecture & implementation (attention, encoder-decoder, GPT/BERT/T5 overview)
- Week 10: Transfer learning, QA modes, BERT & T5 fine-tuning fundamentals
- Week 11: Lambda Managed Instances (capacity providers, networking, scaling, cost controls)
- Week 12: AWS re:Invent 2025 launches (Nova models, Bedrock updates, S3 Vectors, SageMaker serverless/elastic training, Graviton5, Trainium3)