Detailed 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
Day 4
AWS Jam
- Participate in team-based challenges in a real AWS environment
- Compete with your colleagues in a gamified, hands-on learning experience
- Apply your learning from the course on various AWS services