The cloud computing market is exploding and is generating a huge amount of high paying jobs for personnel that are trained on cloud-based systems. If you have not gotten started or wonder what the cloud is all about then this book and video course is for you. In the first section of the course we will look at an introduction to cloud computing and cloud computing concepts. In the next section of the course, we will examine the current state of the cloud computing market. Following this, we will look at Amazon AWS, who is the learning provider in the cloud computing market. I will show you how to sign up for an AWS trial account and how to perform basic navigation within the system. I will also show you how to use some of the core services, such as Amazon EC2 and S3. In the last part of the section, we will discuss serverless computing and the AWS Lambda service.