AWS concepts, one topic at a time

Hand-drawn animated videos with voice and subtitles. Networking first.

TL;DR

Networking: 7 of 7 videos ready. Watch them in number order, because each one builds on the one before.
All other areas (41 topics): Coming soon.
Every fact comes from the official AWS documentation only. Each page lists its sources.

Topics

06Networking

Animated videos, in watching order 7 of 7 ready

Topic 19

VPC and subnets Ready: video

Your private network, and the smaller address blocks inside it

Topic 20

Route tables and internet gateway Ready: video

How traffic finds its way out of the VPC

Topic 21

NAT gateway Ready: video

Private servers reach the internet without being reachable

Topic 22

Network ACLs Ready: video

The guard at the subnet gate: allow and deny, no memory

Topic 23

VPC peering and Transit Gateway Ready: video

Joining VPCs together

Topic 24

VPC endpoints and PrivateLink Ready: video

Reach AWS services without the internet

Topic 25

Security groups Ready: video

The guard at your server door: allow only, remembers replies

—Coming soon

Other areas will come later planned

Area	Topics	Status
Basics	Regions, Availability Zones, edge locations, Shared responsibility model, Pricing options	Coming soon
IAM	Users, groups, root user, MFA, Policies, Roles and temporary credentials (STS)	Coming soon
Compute	EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, Load balancers (ALB / NLB), Lambda, Containers (ECS, Fargate, EKS, ECR)	Coming soon
Storage	S3 basics, S3 advanced, EBS vs EFS vs instance store	Coming soon
Databases	RDS and Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, SQL vs NoSQL	Coming soon
DNS and CDN	Route 53, CloudFront	Coming soon
Messaging	SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis, API Gateway, Step Functions	Coming soon
Security	KMS, Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store, Cognito, WAF and Shield	Coming soon
Monitoring	CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray	Coming soon
Deploying	Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, Deployment strategies	Coming soon
Architecture	High availability vs fault tolerance, Disaster recovery, RTO and RPO, Scaling and stateless design, Well-Architected Framework, Classic designs	Coming soon

Reference

—How these are made

Each video uses the same picture: the VPC is a gated society, a subnet is a building, your server is a flat, and the security group is the guard at the door. The narration uses only facts from docs.aws.amazon.com. The comparison to a housing society is mine, as a teaching aid.

Build kit: test_companion/code-files/aws-video-kit/