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AWS For Product Teams: Build, Ship & Scale On The Cloud Episodes

Most AWS tutorials teach services. This series teaches you how to build a real product.

Whether you're a Product Manager trying to understand the cloud infrastructure your team runs on — or a developer who wants to move beyond isolated service demos and ship something that actually works end to end — this course is built for both of you.

Every module follows the same format: a PM angle and a Dev angle, so each role gets exactly what they need without sitting through content that doesn't apply to them.

What you'll build:
A production-ready product on AWS — from account setup and architecture decisions through CI/CD pipelines, product analytics, AI-powered features, and full production ownership.
What's covered across 6 modules:
📦 Module 1 — Product Foundation on AWS
Team environment setup, IAM for product teams, cost allocation, and the architecture mindset shift every PM and dev needs.

🏗️ Module 2 — Architecting Your Product
Compute tradeoffs (EC2 vs Lambda vs containers), storage decisions (S3, RDS, DynamoDB), API design, and how PMs and devs align on architecture decisions together.

🚀 Module 3 — Building & Shipping: CI/CD on AWS
CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, environments (dev/staging/prod), feature flags, and how to ship fast without breaking production.

📊 Module 4 — Data, Analytics & Product Intelligence
Instrumentation, Athena, Redshift, QuickSight dashboards, and building the product feedback loop that drives evidence-based decisions.

🤖 Module 5 — AI & ML Features for Your Product
Amazon Bedrock, Rekognition, Comprehend, SageMaker, and how to know when to use pre-built APIs vs. building custom models.
🛡️ Module 6 — Ops, Security & Scaling in Production
CloudWatch, X-Ray, auto scaling, WAF, incident response, and what it actually means to own a product in production.

Who this is for:
✅ Product Managers who want to understand what their engineering team is building on
✅ Developers and engineers who want to build complete products, not just learn isolated services
✅ Startup and SMB teams bootstrapping a production-grade product on AWS

Prerequisites: Some AWS familiarity. No coding background required for the PM track.

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May 8, 2026

AWS Storage Explained for Product Teams: S3 vs RDS vs DynamoDB (How to Choose the Right One) M2E2

Most AWS tutorials explain what services do. This episode shows you how to make the right product decision. In Module 2, Episode 2 of AWS for Product Teams, we break down the three core storage archetypes every product team must understand: Amazon S3 → Object storage for files, media, and data lakes Amazon RDS → Relational databases for structured data and complex queries Amazon DynamoDB → Key-value storage for high-scale, low-latency applications But this isn’t just a technical comparison. ...
May 7, 2026

EC2 vs Lambda vs Containers — How to Choose the Right Compute on AWS (For Product Teams) M2E1

Most AWS tutorials teach services. This episode teaches you how to make a product decision that affects everything. In Module 2, Episode 1 of AWS for Product Teams, we break down the three core compute paradigms — EC2, Lambda, and Containers (ECS Fargate) — through both a Product Manager lens and a Developer lens. Because this isn’t just infrastructure. It’s cost, velocity, risk, and your team’s ability to ship. 🚀 What You’ll Learn 👤 For Product Managers: How compute choices impact cost at sc...
May 6, 2026

Your First AWS Product Repo: Infrastructure as Code from Day One | M1:E5 | AWS for Product Teams

If your infrastructure only exists in the AWS console… you don’t have a system. You have a fragile story waiting to be forgotten. This episode turns that story into something durable, reviewable, and rebuildable. In Module 1, Episode 5 of AWS for Product Teams: Build, Ship & Scale on the Cloud, we lay down the blueprint for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — where your cloud environment becomes versioned, testable, and as reliable as your application code. Picture your infrastructure as a living ...
May 5, 2026

The Architecture Mindset Shift: Thinking in Systems, Not Features | M1:E4 | AWS for Product Teams

Features ship fast. Systems last. Most teams obsess over what to build… but the real leverage comes from deciding what kind of system you’re building on. In Module 1, Episode 4 of AWS for Product Teams: Build, Ship & Scale on the Cloud, we make the shift from feature-first thinking to architecture-first product strategy using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This is where product and engineering stop speaking different languages… and start designing the same machine. 🧠 What You’ll Learn 🔷...
May 4, 2026

Own Your AWS Spend: Cost Explorer, Budgets & Tagging Strategy | M1:E3 | AWS for Product Teams

Cloud bills don’t explode overnight. They drift… quietly… until finance asks a very loud question. This episode turns your AWS costs from a mystery into a dashboard you can actually steer. In Module 1, Episode 3 of AWS for Product Teams: Build, Ship & Scale on the Cloud, we break down how to understand, control, and attribute cloud spend from day one using Cost Explorer, Budgets, and a disciplined tagging strategy. Think of your cloud like a city at night 🌆 Without street signs, every light l...
May 3, 2026

IAM for Product Teams: Roles, Not Root | M1:E2 | AWS for Product Teams

Permissions in AWS can either be your quiet superpower… or your loudest liability. Most teams start fast and “figure out access later.” That’s how root credentials get shared, permissions sprawl, and security becomes a ticking clock. This episode shuts that door early. In Module 1, Episode 2 of AWS for Product Teams: Build, Ship & Scale on the Cloud, we break down how to design secure, scalable access control from day one using IAM roles, not users. Think of IAM like backstage access at a world-...
May 2, 2026

Setting Up Your Team Environment on AWS | M1:E1 | AWS for Product Teams

Most teams get AWS wrong before they even write a single line of code. They start with one shared account… permissions get messy… costs become unclear… and security turns into a guessing game. This episode fixes that — permanently. In Module 1, Episode 1 of AWS for Product Teams: Build, Ship & Scale on the Cloud, we lay the foundation that separates scalable, production-ready organizations from chaotic cloud experiments. This is not just infrastructure. This is a product decision. 🧠 What Yo...