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AWS Training in Los Angeles
Live online batches timed for PT (UTC−8), or corporate onsite across Los Angeles — every session a live demo in a real lab, not slides.
★ 4.8 / 5 from 2,300+ ratings18,000+ engineers certifiedTrained teams at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, World Bank
Next batch—
TimezonePT (UTC−8)
Modules4
Hands-on labs4
Engineers we've trained work atJPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · Wells Fargo · Verizon · Nokia · World Bank · GE Healthcare · VMware · Oracle · Qualcomm · Mercedes-Benz · Airbus · Datadog · Splunk · Deloitte · Infosys · Wipro · Capgemini
# upcoming batches
When the next AWS batch runs in Los Angeles
Times shown in PT (UTC−8). New cohorts start on the 1st of every month.
| Starts | Days & time | Timezone | Mode | Duration | Seats | Enrol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| —Most popular | Weekend · Sat · Sun 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM | PT (UTC−8) | Live online · Corporate onsite | 5 weekends | — of 10 left | Reserve |
| — | Weekday · Mon · Wed · Fri 8:00 – 10:00 PM | PT (UTC−8) | Live online · Corporate onsite | 5 weeks | — of 10 left | Reserve |
Batches are capped at 10 learners by design. We do not run a classroom in Los Angeles — sessions here are live online, or onsite at your office for corporate batches.Need a date that isn't listed? Talk to us about a private batch →
# how you attend
Four ways to take this training — three of them available here
Live online
Individuals, anywhere
Scheduled instructor-led batch. Every session is a live demo in a real lab, and every session is recorded.
Reserve my seatCorporate onsite
Teams of 8–30
Custom agenda built from your stack, delivered at your office or online, in your timezone. NDA-friendly, invoiced against a PO.
Request a quoteSelf-paced video
Self-starters
The full recorded curriculum plus a year of the entire LMS — 20+ courses and 50+ tools, not just this one.
Enroll now# private batches
Private corporate batch for your team
We start with a discovery call, map your stack to the modules below, and drop anything your team already runs in production. Delivery is at your office, online, or hybrid — in your timezone, scheduled around your release calendar.
- Custom agenda built from your stack, not a fixed syllabus
- Teams of 8–30; larger cohorts split into parallel batches
- Recordings, lab repos and per-attendee certificates
- Attendance and assessment report for your L&D team
- PO, tax invoice and NDA handled before delivery
Already know what you need?
Send us the tools, the team size and a rough window. You'll get an agenda and a quote back, not a sales call.
# los angeles
AWS training in Los Angeles
AWS training in Los Angeles is taken mostly by software engineers moving into platform or infrastructure work and System administrators migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud. Sessions run live online in PT (UTC−8), or onsite at your office — there is no Los Angeles classroom. Teams here often pair it with our Agile and Agile training, and a corporate batch can cover more than one in a single engagement. Los Angeles has a technology profile shaped by media, entertainment and aerospace rather than by enterprise software, and the workloads reflect it. Large media pipelines, rendering and transcoding at scale, and content delivery dominate — which means cost profiles driven by storage and egress rather than compute, and performance problems that are about throughput rather than latency. The aerospace and defence presence adds the opposite constraint: long lifecycles, strict supply-chain requirements and environments that cannot simply be rebuilt from a public registry. We do not run a classroom in Los Angeles. Batches are live online, and the offset from IST is the largest we work with, so most learners here use recordings plus mentor hours in Pacific time. Corporate cohorts run inside your own hours and are invoiced in USD.
Teams we've trained here
How we deliver in Los Angeles
We do not run a classroom in Los Angeles. Batches here are live online, or onsite at your office for corporate cohorts.
Our two classrooms are in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
# the subject
What is AWS?
AWS is Amazon's cloud platform: a few hundred services layered over regions and availability zones, of which a working engineer touches perhaps twenty. The ones that matter are the primitives everything else is built on — IAM for identity and permission boundaries, VPC for network isolation and routing, EC2 and EBS for compute and block storage, S3 for object storage and lifecycle, RDS and DynamoDB for managed data, CloudWatch and CloudTrail for telemetry and audit, and CloudFormation or Terraform to declare all of it as code. The difficulty in AWS is rarely a single service. It is knowing which of four services solves your problem, what it costs at scale, and how to keep an account estate secure and auditable once more than one team is deploying into it.
Why it's in demand now
Cloud spend has moved from growth budgets to scrutinised budgets, and that changed what employers ask for. The demand is no longer for people who can launch resources but for people who can size them, tag them, put guardrails around them and explain the bill. Regulated industries that spent years on private infrastructure are migrating now, which puts a premium on engineers who can evidence encryption, least privilege and audit trails rather than just describe them.
# outcomes
What you'll be able to do
Design a multi-account estate with an account structure, SCPs and centralised logging
Write least-privilege IAM policies and explain why a permission boundary differs from a role
Build a VPC with public, private and isolated subnets without opening the data tier to the internet
Deploy a containerised workload from a pipeline rather than from a laptop
Diagnose an incident from CloudWatch and CloudTrail alone
Read a bill, attribute it to teams, and cut it without breaking anything
# curriculum
4 modules. Live demos in a real lab, not slides.
Every module follows the same shape: 5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone.
01Introduction of AWSLive & Interactive
Fundamental Cloud Computing Terminology and Concepts, Introduction of AWS, Understanding AWS infrastructure, Understanding AWS Free Tier, IAM: Understanding IAM Concepts, IAM: A Walkthrough IAM, IAM: Demo & Lab, Computing:EC2: Understanding EC2 Concepts
02Computing:EC2: Demo & LabLive & Interactive
Computing:EC2: A Walkthrough EC2, Computing:EC2: Demo & Lab, Storage:EBS: Understanding EBS Concepts, Storage:EBS: A Walkthrough EBS, Storage:EBS: Demo & Lab, Storage:S3: Understanding S3 Concepts, Storage:S3: A Walkthrough S3, Storage:S3: Demo & Lab
03Storage:EFS: Demo & LabLive & Interactive
Storage:EFS: Understanding EFS Concepts, Storage:EFS: A Walkthrough EFS, Storage:EFS: Demo & Lab, Database:RDS: Understanding RDS MySql Concepts, Database:RDS: A Walkthrough RDS MySql, Database:RDS: Demo & Lab, ELB: Elastic Load Balancer Concepts, ELB: Elastic Load Balancer Implementation
04ELB: Elastic Load Balancer: Demo & LabLive & Interactive
ELB: Elastic Load Balancer: Demo & Lab, Networking:VPC: Understanding VPC Concepts, Networking:VPC: Understanding VPC components, Networking:VPC: Demo & Lab
★Final certification examLive & Interactive
Open-book, scenario-based, taken in the LMS. Two free re-attempts and detailed feedback.
# hands-on
4 labs you build on your own cloud account
We don't hand out a sandbox that expires. You provision your own free-tier environment with our guidance, so the setup skill goes with you.
LAB · NETWORK
A VPC that never touches the public internet
Reach S3, ECR and Systems Manager from a fully private subnet using VPC endpoints, and prove it with a route table walkthrough.
LAB · RESILIENCE
Kill the instance, keep the service
Terminate a running instance under load and watch the Auto Scaling group replace it without a request being dropped.
LAB · COST
Find the money
Attribute a running estate's spend to teams and produce a rightsizing plan with a defensible number attached.
# toolchain
The tools you'll actually touch
IAMVPCEC2S3RDSEKSECSLambdaCloudFormationTerraformCloudWatchCloudTrailRoute 53Systems ManagerCost Explorer
Who this is for
- Software engineers moving into platform or infrastructure work
- System administrators migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud
- DevOps and SRE engineers inheriting an existing AWS estate
- Data and ML engineers who need to own their own infrastructure
- Technical leads sizing and costing a migration
Pre-requisites
- Comfortable on a Linux shell — files, processes, permissions, SSH
- Basic networking — IP addressing, subnets, DNS, TCP ports
- Any one scripting or programming language
- A personal AWS account on the free tier; we walk through the setup in week one
How you're assessed
- Two assignments per module, reviewed by the instructor
- One capstone per module, pushed to your own GitHub
- 3 hours · online · open-book · scenario-based
- Two free re-attempts, with feedback
# pricing
Pick the level of support that fits
Self-paced video
₹833/mo
billed yearly ₹9,996
All recorded sessions, labs and the full LMS — at your own pace.
- Full 100+ hour recorded curriculum
- Hands-on capstones on your own cloud lab
- 1-year access — recordings, labs and updates
- 3-hr online open-book exam
- Certificate on completion
- Lifetime forum support
- Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
MOST POPULAR
Live & Interactive
₹34,999₹49,999SAVE 30%
works out to ₹2,917/moIllustrative monthly equivalent. The full amount is charged once at enrolment; we do not offer instalments.
5-week live cohort plus the complete LMS bundle.
- Everything in Self-paced
- 5-week cohort · 60+ hrs live instructor classes
- Weekly mentor office hours
- Cohort community and alumni access
- Capstone code review by the instructor
- Exam preparation and mock papers
- Lifetime forum support
- Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
1-on-1 Mentorship
₹99,999
works out to ₹8,333/moIllustrative monthly equivalent. The full amount is charged once at enrolment; we do not offer instalments.
A dedicated senior practitioner. Pace, schedule and labs tailored to you.
- Everything in Live & Interactive
- Private 1-on-1 instructor on your schedule
- Custom curriculum and labs for your stack
- Résumé and LinkedIn review
- Mock interview and salary negotiation prep
- Priority response from the instructor
- Lifetime forum support
- Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
+ 18% tax / VAT as applicable · Prices are charged in INR.
Cohort-cancellation refund
If we cancel or postpone a cohort and you decline the rescheduled session, you get a 100% refund within 15 days. Refund policy →
Terms & course material
Recordings, slides and lab repos are licensed to you for your own learning. Terms →
Your data stays with us
We don't share your details with third parties. Privacy →
# who teaches it
Taught by practitioners who run this in production
Rajesh Kumar — Principal DevOps Engineer & Architect
Twenty years across DevOps, SRE and security, in principal and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow, Intuit, Adobe and IBM. Has personally trained more than 10,000 engineers at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, the World Bank and dozens more. He teaches what he runs, not what he reads.
The wider faculty
# the credential
What you walk away with
- An industry-recognised digital certificate, verifiable on our site
- One capstone per module, public on your own GitHub
- A hard copy on request
- Lifetime access to the DevOpsSchool forum
Certificate of Completion
Your Name
AWS Training in Los Angeles
DS-AWS-XXXX-XXXX
# reviews
What learners say
4.8 / 5 from 2,300+ ratings.
Reviews for this program are being collected from public sources. Every review shown here links to the original.
# alternatives
How this compares
| What matters | YouTube + blogs | Generic online course | Local training institute | DevOpsSchool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching method | Unstructured, no sequence | Pre-recorded slides | Slide-led classroom | Live demos in a real lab |
| Batch size | n/a | Unlimited | 30–60 | Capped at 10 |
| Lab environment | Yours to figure out | Shared sandbox that expires | Shared lab | You build your own — the skill goes with you |
| Per-tool structure | None | Video only | Varies | 5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone |
| Assessment | None | Quiz | Attendance | 3 hours · online · open-book · scenario-based |
| Certificate | None | Auto-issued | Attendance certificate | Industry-recognised, verifiable |
| Corporate invoicing | No | Card only | Sometimes | PO, tax invoice, NDA |
| Post-training support | None | Forum for 30 days | None | Lifetime forum support |
| Total cost | Free, and it costs you months | Low, low completion | High | One fee, LMS included |
# questions
Frequently asked questions
Do you run classroom batches in Los Angeles?
No. We do not have a training centre in Los Angeles, and we would rather say so than let you plan a commute. Batches here run live online, or onsite at your own office for corporate cohorts. Our two classrooms are in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
What time do the sessions run in Los Angeles?
Our instructors teach from India, so sessions are converted into PT (UTC−8) on the batch table above rather than quoted in IST. The weekday cohort lands more conveniently for Los Angeles than the weekend one, and every session is recorded the same day. For a corporate batch we schedule entirely inside PT (UTC−8) working hours instead.
Is the AWS content different for Los Angeles?
The curriculum is the same everywhere — it is the same course, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. What changes for Los Angeles is delivery: the batch times are set for PT (UTC−8), fees are shown in USD, and delivery is live online or onsite at your office rather than in a classroom. The examples our instructors reach for also tend to follow what Los Angeles teams actually run.
Do you provide a lab environment for AWS?
No, and that is deliberate. You build the labs on your own free-tier account, and we walk through the setup and the cost guardrails in week one. A sandbox that expires when the course ends teaches you nothing you keep; your own environment does.
What if I miss a session?
Every session is recorded and available in the LMS the same day, and you keep access for a year. You can also sit the missed session again with the next cohort at no extra cost.
What do I need to know before starting AWS?
Comfortable on a Linux shell — files, processes, permissions, SSH; Basic networking — IP addressing, subnets, DNS, TCP ports; Any one scripting or programming language. If you are unsure whether you are ready, tell us what you work on now and we will give you a straight answer rather than a sales one.
Is there a certificate, and is it worth anything?
You get an industry-recognised DevOpsSchool certificate after the three-hour open-book exam. Most people find the capstone repositories carry more weight in an interview than the certificate itself, which is why the labs are built to be shown.
Can you run AWS as a private batch for our team?
Yes. We build the agenda from your stack after a discovery call and drop anything your team already runs in production. Teams of 8 to 30 work best; larger groups split into parallel batches.
What is your refund policy?
If we cancel or postpone a cohort and you decline the rescheduled session, you get a full refund within 15 days. We do not offer a general money-back guarantee, and taxes and gateway fees are not refunded.
Do you offer instalments or EMI?
No. The fee is charged once at enrolment. Where we show a monthly figure it is arithmetic to help you size the cost against a budget, not a payment plan.
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