All Roadmaps

Cloud Architect

Design scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud architectures on AWS, GCP, and Azure — from microservices to global multi-region systems.

Cloud Fundamentals
Internal

Understand the shared responsibility model, core service categories, and how cloud billing works before architecting anything.

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AWS Well-Architected Framework

Five pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance, Cost Optimisation.

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Cloud Networking Basics

VPC, subnets (public/private), routing tables, NAT gateway, VPN, Direct Connect, peering.

Identity & Access Management

IAM roles, policies, RBAC, service accounts, cross-account access, least privilege principle.

AWS Architecture
Internal

The most widely used cloud platform. Master the services and architecture patterns that power global enterprises.

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Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS

Instance types, Auto Scaling, Fargate, Lambda concurrency and cold starts, ECS task definitions.

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Networking: VPC, ALB, CloudFront

VPC design, subnet tiers, security groups, NACLs, ALB vs NLB, CloudFront distributions.

Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB

Multi-AZ RDS, Aurora read replicas, DynamoDB Global Tables, DAX, partition key design.

Optional AWS Solutions Architect Exam

Associate or Professional certification — validates cloud architecture skills, highly valued.

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Architecture Patterns
Internal

The proven patterns that architects apply to build systems that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

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Microservices Architecture

Service decomposition, inter-service communication, saga pattern, service mesh.

Event-Driven Architecture

EventBridge, SNS/SQS, Kafka — async communication, fan-out, dead-letter queues.

Serverless Patterns

API Gateway + Lambda, event-driven Lambda, Step Functions state machines, SAM/CDK.

High Availability & Disaster Recovery
Internal

Design systems that survive failures — from individual instance failures to entire region outages.

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Multi-AZ & Multi-Region

Active-active vs active-passive, Route 53 failover, Aurora Global, S3 CRR.

Disaster Recovery Strategies

Backup/restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site. RTO/RPO trade-offs and costs.

Optional Chaos Engineering

AWS FIS, GameDays, proactively finding failure modes before they hit production.

Cost Optimisation

Cloud waste is real — architects are responsible for both performance AND cost efficiency.

Reserved Instances & Savings Plans

Commit to usage for 30-60% savings. RI vs Savings Plans — compute vs instance flexibility.

Right-Sizing & Spot Instances

Compute Optimiser recommendations, Spot for stateless workloads, Spot Fleet strategies.

AWS Cost Tools

Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimiser, S3 Storage Lens.

Infrastructure as Code

Automate and version-control cloud infrastructure — no more clicking in the console.

AWS CDK

Define cloud infrastructure with TypeScript, Python, or Java. Constructs, stacks, environments.

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Terraform

Multi-cloud IaC. Providers, modules, state management (S3 + DynamoDB lock), Atlantis.

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Optional CloudFormation

AWS-native IaC. YAML/JSON templates, nested stacks, StackSets for multi-account deployment.

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Multi-Cloud & GCP / Azure
Optional

Understand how other cloud providers compare and when multi-cloud makes sense.

Optional Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Spanner, Vertex AI — GCP excels in data/ML workloads.

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Optional Microsoft Azure

Azure AD, AKS, Cosmos DB, Azure Functions, DevOps, Arc — strong for Microsoft-heavy enterprises.

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Optional Multi-Cloud Strategy

When to use multi-cloud, avoiding vendor lock-in, Kubernetes as the portability layer.