Resources to go from Zero to Hero in Cloud in 2025 (AWS Edition)

Sep 02, 2025

I often get asked a lot about resources to learn cloud and prepare for certifications. So this week I have decided to write about it and compile list of resources to master cloud in 2025. This may include YouTube channels, blog posts, podcasts, courses and social media and communities.

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🧑‍🎓 Self-paced Resources

Here are some of the courses I took in past. These are mostly free and self-paced courses.

AWS Skill Builder (Official AWS)
Over 600+ free digital courses by AWS experts covering everything from cloud essentials to advanced topics with labs.
Link: https://skillbuilder.aws/
AWS Educate (Official AWS)
A free learning platform offering cloud skills training and career pathways for students and educators with hands-on labs in storage, compute, networking, databases, and operations.
Link: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/
Free AWS Cloud Practitioner Course by Andrew Brown (YouTube)
Comprehensive 14-hour beginner course on AWS Cloud concepts, demos, and diagrams, great for learning fundamentals.
Link:

AWS Full Course 2025 | AWS Cloud Computing Tutorial for Beginners (YouTube)
Description: Beginner-friendly full AWS course covering cloud basics, compute, storage, and more.
Link:

Some other useful Self-paced courses. These are some of the best courses I took earlier in my career. They are such a great value and free of charge.

🎤 Best event talks

Or look out for great talks at the AWS Event Channel and GOTO Conference.

👨🏽‍🎓 Courses I have taken for Certifications

🎙️ Podcasts

Serverless Chat — Everything Cloud, serverless, news and updates around it.
AWS FM — AWS, Community, and fun.
Software Huddle — Software engineering, databases, cloud, and more.
Ready, Set, Cloud — Serverless, cloud, news, updates, and more.

▶ YouTube Channels

Tech World with Nana— Mostly talks about DevOps, Cloud, K8s.
Be a Better Dev — AWS tutorials, best practices, and hands-on projects.
FooBar Serverless — Serverless queen. Talks mostly about everything AWS serverless.
Yan Cui TheBurningMonk — Podcasts, interviews, anything aws serverless.
Tech with Lucy — Cloud career guide, journeys, share her experiences.

🚀 Newsletters

AWS Fundamentals—All things AWS.
Serverless Advocate—All things Serverless on AWS
Cyber Notes — All things security.
Of by None — All things Cloud, Serverless and community

🏅 Certification Success Stories

Here are some of the stories we published at Towards AWS about builders who successfully cracked various AWS exams.

Social Threads

This twitter post share best youtube channels to learn AWS and stay up to date.

And this next post share hands-on works to get your hands dirty.

🦹🏻 Cloud Community Heroes

Some of the Cloud community heroes you should be following to stay updated in Cloud field.

Andrew Brown: Andrew Brown is an AWS Hero and makes courses around cloud technology. He also publishes free AWS certification courses on the FreeCodecamp YouTube channel.

Yan Cui—Independent consultant, Yan is a Serverless Hero and advocate in the serverless community. He is the author of multiple books, workshops, and speakers.

Sandro Volpicella—Author of AWS Fundamentals book. He writes, posts, and blogs about AWS technologies regularly on various social platforms.

Alex Debrie—Independent consultant, DynamoDB expert, AWS Serverless Hero, speaker, and podcast host. Talks everything around data, serverless, and AWS.

Tobias Schmidt—I follow him for everything about AWS and beautiful infographics

Lucy Wang — Ex-AWS Solution architect sharing her experiences through youtube videos, and newsletters.

Jeremy Daly — Serverless Hero, blogger, and founder of Ampt.

Jones Zachariah Noel— Advocates for Freshwork, talks about AWS, and writes The Serverless Terminal newsletter.

Lee James Gilmore — Serverless Advocate, Blogger, Speaker, Architect.

Marcia Villalba — Advocate for AWS, makes videos on her YouTube channel about everything about AWS.

…and others few.

Hope you enjoy learning. Keep learning and building.