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I would be focused on trying to simply run your workloads on your own.

It can be with EC2 or on your own physical/virtual Linux machine, but it should involve the required databases, the various components (e.g. your front & backends,) and some way of providing access (it could just be the option address and a port at the start.)

Lastly, figure out what it looks like to update code safely.

Afterwards, you should have a pretty good idea of how you can leverage cloud services to enhance or replace aspects of this, but will be dependent on none of them.

I can’t imagine that you’ll get this valuable perspective from any available course.