Instructional Videos and Labs

New to AWS and looking to gain foundational knowledge about key AWS services? Our Introduction to AWS series includes on-demand instructional videos and labs that enable you to learn about AWS in minutes.

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Watch a Short Video

Instructional videos explain key concepts and terminology and present a step-by-step console demonstration of an AWS service.

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Get Hands-on Practice

Our Introduction to AWS self-paced labs help you turn what you learn in a video into hands-on practice with an AWS service.

Explore all of our Introduction to AWS videos and labs.

Compute | Storage & Content Delivery | Databases | Networking | Security & Identity | Analytics | Deployment & Management | Enterprise IT Applications

Compute

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6:23

Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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8:47

Introduction to Amazon EC2 Container Service

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6:13

Introduction to Elastic Load Balancing

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7:44

NEW - Introduction to AWS Lambda

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Storage & Content Delivery

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6:46

Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

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6:45

Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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11:14

Introduction to Amazon CloudFront

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Databases

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11:00

Introduction to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

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8:36

NEW! Introduction to Amazon Aurora

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9:26

NEW! Introduction to AWS Database Migration Service

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6:44

Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB

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12:22

Introduction to Amazon ElastiCache

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Networking

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8:58

NEW - Introduction to Amazon Route 53

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11:53

Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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Security & Identity

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8:59

Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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8:21

NEW - Introduction to Amazon Key Management Service

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Analytics

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10:27

Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

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9:14

NEW - Introduction to Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES)

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6:44

NEW - Introduction to Amazon Kinesis Firehose

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8:54

Introduction to Amazon Redshift

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Deployment & Management

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7:09

Introduction to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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13:12

Introduction to AWS OpsWorks

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9:52

Introduction to AWS CloudFormation

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10:20

Introduction to AWS CodeDeploy

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Enterprise IT Applications

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9:08

NEW - Introduction to Amazon WorkSpaces

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