Cloud Operations on AWS

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1 

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Operations on AWS 

• What is Cloud Operations  
• AWS Well-Architected Framework  
• AWS Well-Architected Tool 

Module 2: Access Management 

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) 
• Resources, accounts, and AWS Organizations 

Module 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 

Module 4: Deploy and Update Resources 

• Cloud Operations in deployments 
• Tagging strategies 
• Deployment using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) 
• Deployment using AWS Control Tower 

Module 5: Automate Resource Deployment 

• Deployment using AWS CloudFormation 
• Deployment using AWS Service Catalog 
• Hands-On Lab: Infrastructure as Code 

 

Day 2 

Module 6: Manage Resources 

• AWS Systems Manager  
• Hands-On Lab: Operations as Code 

Module 7: Configure Highly Available Systems 

• Distributing traffic with Elastic Load Balancing 
• Amazon Route 53 

Module 8: Automate Scaling 

• Scaling with AWS Auto Scaling 
• Scaling with Spot Instances 
• Managing licenses with AWS License Manager 

Module 9: Monitor and Maintain System Health 

• Monitoring and maintaining healthy workloads 
• Monitoring AWS infrastructure  
• Monitoring applications 
• Hands-On Lab: Monitor Applications and Infrastructure 

Module 10: Data Security and System Auditing 

• Maintaining a strong identity and access foundation 
• Implementing detection mechanisms 
• Automating incident remediation 

 

Day 3 

Module 11: Operate Secure and Resilient Networks 

• Building a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) 
• Networking beyond the VPC 

Module 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 

Module 13: Object Storage 

• Deploying Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 
• Managing storage lifecycles on Amazon S3 

Module 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