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TAEveryone asks me what to learn to become an AWS Cloud Engineer.
Here's the complete tech stack. Not theory. The actual skills companies are hiring for right now.
Start with the foundation.
AWS Cloud Platform. This is home base. Learn the core services. EC2. S3. IAM. VPC. Lambda. Get comfortable navigating the console and understanding how everything connects.
But before you go deep on cloud, make sure your fundamentals are solid. Computer hardware basics. Networking. How data actually moves. Linux and Windows server administration. This is the stuff that makes everything else make sense.
Then add the programming layer.
Python. You don't need to be a developer. You need to automate tasks and write scripts. That's what cloud engineers do.
SQL for databases. Every company has data. You need to know how to query it.
Bash and PowerShell for scripting. Command line fluency is non negotiable.
Now the automation stack.
Terraform for Infrastructure as Code. This is what separates cloud engineers from people who just click around the console. You write code that builds infrastructure.
Ansible for configuration management. CloudFormation if you want to stay AWS native.
The containerization suite.
Docker first. Understand how containers work. Then Kubernetes for orchestration. Then ECS and EKS for the AWS specific implementations.
The CI/CD pipeline.
Jenkins. GitHub Actions. AWS CodePipeline. This is how code gets from development to production. Understand the flow.
The monitoring stack.
Grafana for visualization. Prometheus for metrics. CloudWatch for AWS native monitoring. Someone has to make sure the systems stay up. That someone gets paid well.
That's the full stack. Nineteen technologies across six categories.
You don't need to master all of them before you start applying. But you need to understand how they fit together.
Pro tip: Use ChatGPT to help you build real projects with each tool. Then put those projects on your resume and talk about them in interviews. That's what gets you hired.
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