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Course Outline

Core Foundations of AWS Cloud Operations

  • Defining operational roles and responsibilities within the cloud ecosystem
  • Structuring AWS accounts, organizations, and implementing multi-account strategies
  • Exploring key operational services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Provisioning

  • Understanding IaC principles and the concept of immutable infrastructure
  • Executing provisioning tasks using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
  • Managing state files, modules, and strategies for environment promotion

CI/CD Pipelines and Deployment Strategies

  • Designing robust CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications
  • Implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment methods
  • Automating rollback procedures, health checks, and release validation processes

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting Mechanisms

  • Handling metrics, logs, and traces: strategies for shipping, storing, and analysis
  • Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability tools
  • Defining SLOs/SLIs, establishing alerting policies, and managing on-call practices

Security Operations and Identity Management

  • Applying IAM best practices, enforcing least privilege, and managing cross-account access
  • Implementing secrets management, KMS, and secure parameter stores
  • Maintaining operational security through patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit trails

Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery Planning

  • Architecting systems for fault tolerance and high availability
  • Developing backup strategies, automating snapshots, and defining restore procedures
  • Formulating disaster recovery plans and creating detailed runbooks

Cost Optimization and Governance

  • Enhancing cost visibility through billing analysis, tagging, and cost allocation strategies
  • Optimizing resources via rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, and budget controls
  • Enforcing governance through policies, guardrails, and automated compliance checks

Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations

  • Addressing operational needs for ECS, EKS, and Lambda services
  • Managing service discovery, autoscaling, and resource limitations
  • Logging, tracing, and debugging techniques for containerized workloads

Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering

  • Executing runbook-driven incident response and postmortem analysis practices
  • Automating remediation processes and implementing self-healing patterns
  • Introduction to chaos engineering experiments for resilience validation

Practical Workshop: Operating a Sample Workload

  • Deploying a sample application utilizing IaC and a CI/CD pipeline
  • Setting up monitoring, alerts, and automated remediation scripts
  • Simulating incidents and practicing runbook-based response protocols

Conclusion and Recommended Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of cloud computing concepts and networking principles
  • Proficiency with the Linux command line and scripting languages
  • Practical experience with version control systems (Git) and fundamental CI/CD concepts

Target Audience

  • Cloud Operations Engineers
  • Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Platform Engineers
  • DevOps Engineers and Technical Team Leads
 21 Hours

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