30-Day Cloud Engineer Master Plan

 

🚀 30-Day Cloud Engineer Master Plan

👉 Only Cloud. Nothing else.

Each week = Main Topic
Inside = subtopics you MUST master (no skipping)

📅 Week 1 – Linux + Networking Foundations (Base of Cloud)


🎯 Main Topic: System + Network Basics

🔹 Linux (deep)

  • File system

  • Permissions (chmod/chown)

  • Processes (ps/top/kill)

  • systemctl/services

  • logs (/var/log)

  • disk (df/du)

  • memory (free)

  • package managers

  • bash scripting basics

🔹 Networking (VERY IMPORTANT)

  • IP, DNS, DHCP

  • TCP vs UDP

  • HTTP/HTTPS

  • Ports

  • SSH

  • curl, ping, traceroute, netstat

  • OSI model

  • Load balancing basics

👉 Goal:
You should troubleshoot a server without Google

📅 Week 2 – AWS Networking Core (Most asked in interviews)

🎯 Main Topic: VPC + Security + IAM

🔹 VPC

  • What is VPC

  • CIDR blocks

  • Public vs Private subnet

  • Route tables

🔹 Gateways

  • Internet Gateway

  • NAT Gateway

  • Bastion host

🔹 Security

  • Security Groups

  • NACL

  • Difference between both ⭐

🔹 IAM (CRITICAL)

  • Users

  • Roles

  • Policies

  • Assume Role

  • Least privilege

  • MFA

👉 Goal:
Design architecture on whiteboard

📅 Week 3 – Compute + Storage + Scaling



🎯 Main Topic: Running Apps on AWS

🔹 EC2

  • Instance types

  • AMI

  • Key pairs

  • User data

  • Launch templates

🔹 Scaling

  • Auto Scaling Groups

  • Health checks

🔹 Load Balancer

  • ALB vs NLB

  • Target groups

🔹 Storage

  • EBS

  • EFS

  • S3

  • Snapshots

  • Lifecycle rules

🔹 Monitoring

  • CloudWatch

  • Logs

  • Alarms

👉 Goal:
Deploy scalable web app

📅 Week 4 – Advanced Cloud + Real World


🎯 Main Topic: Production & Architect Thinking

🔹 DNS

  • Route53

  • Records

  • Failover routing

🔹 High Availability

  • Multi-AZ design

  • Multi-region basics

  • Backup strategy

🔹 Security Advanced

  • KMS

  • Encryption

  • Secrets Manager

  • Parameter Store

🔹 Cost Optimization

  • Right sizing

  • Spot instances

  • S3 lifecycle

🔹 Intro to IaC

  • Terraform basics ⭐

👉 Goal:
Build production-ready infra

🎯 End of Month – You MUST be able to:

Without help:

✅ Create VPC
✅ Create EC2
✅ Attach ALB
✅ Configure ASG
✅ Setup S3
✅ Setup IAM roles
✅ Setup CloudWatch alarms
✅ Design HA architecture
✅ Explain everything confidently

If yes → You’re officially Cloud Engineer ready 🔥

💪 My suggestion for YOU specifically

Since you already know Docker/K8s/DevOps tools:

After this month:
👉 next month Kubernetes + CI/CD
👉 third month DevSecOps + Monitoring

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