I'm not sure there is a huge amount to learn. You can do a lot through the AWS console. The S3 portion of the AWS console is just like any web storage service I

I'm not sure there is a huge amount to learn. You can do a lot through the AWS console. The S3 portion of the AWS console is just like any web storage service I have used. The EC2 portion allows you to start up instances with just point and click. Much more difficult to pick up is the Linux administration side of things for EC2. If you already know Linux admin, then you are golden. If not, then that's where you would need to spend your time learning. Since EC2 (and the rest of the suite) is all about using the API to automate things, you might want to add something like Ansible to your list of things to learn. Ansible has modules for starting EC2 instances, moving things back and forth from S3 and for other AWS services as well. This is probably how you would be using AWS in the real world.