The Cloud Operations on AWS course teaches systems operators, and anyone performing cloud operations functions how to manage and operate automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on AWS. You will learn about cloud operations functions, such as installing, configuring, automating, monitoring, securing, maintaining, and troubleshooting these services, networks, and systems. The course also covers specific AWS features, tools, and best practices related to these functions.
Course Content
1 - Introduction to Cloud Operations on AWS
- What is Cloud Operations
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS Well-Architected Tool
2 - Access Management
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Resources, accounts, and AWS Organizations
3 - System Discovery
- Methods to interact with AWS services
- Tools for automating resource discovery
- Inventory with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config
- Hands-On Lab: Auditing AWS Resources with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config
4 - Deploy and Update Resources
- Cloud Operations in deployments
- Tagging strategies
- Deployment using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
- Deployment using AWS Control Tower
5 - Automate Resource Deployment
- Deployment using AWS CloudFormation
- Deployment using AWS Service Catalog
- Hands-On Lab: Infrastructure as Code
6 - Manage Resources
- AWS Systems Manager
- Hands-On Lab: Operations as Code
7 - Configure Highly Available Systems
- Distributing traffic with Elastic Load Balancing
- Amazon Route 53
8 - Automate Scaling
- Scaling with AWS Auto Scaling
- Scaling with Spot Instances
- Managing licenses with AWS License Manager
9 - Monitor and Maintain System Health
- Monitoring and maintaining healthy workloads
- Monitoring AWS infrastructure
- Monitoring applications
- Hands-On Lab: Monitor Applications and Infrastructure
10 - Data Security and System Auditing
- Maintaining a strong identity and access foundation
- Implementing detection mechanisms
- Automating incident remediation
11 - Operate Secure and Resilient Networks
- Building a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- Networking beyond the VPC
12 - Mountable Storage
- Configuring Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
- Sizing Amazon EBS volumes for performance
- Using Amazon EBS snapshots
- Using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to manage your AWS resources
- Creating backup and data recovery plans
- Configuring shared file system storage
- Hands-On Lab: Automating with AWS Backup for Archiving and Recovery
13 - Object Storage
- Deploying Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
- Managing storage lifecycles on Amazon S3
14 - Cost Reporting, Alerts, and Optimization
- Gaining AWS cost awareness
- Using control mechanisms for cost management
- Optimizing your AWS spend and usage
- Hands-On Lab: Capstone lab for CloudOps