Cloud Operations on AWS (formerly Systems Operations)

In this course, you will learn to:

• Identify the AWS services that support the different phases of Operational Excellence, an AWS Well-Architected Framework pillar
• monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon EventBridge, and the AWS DevOps Agent to proactively identify and remediate operational issues
• Design and implement highly available, scalable, and resilient architectures using Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Multi-AZ deployments, and disaster recovery strategies
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks using AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and AWS Systems Manager to reduce manual effort and ensure consistency
• Apply security best practices and compliance controls, including IAM policies, encryption, secrets management, and continuous monitoring using AWS security services
• Configure, optimize, and troubleshoot VPC networking, DNS, and content delivery to ensure reliable connectivity and optimal performance for AWS workloads
• State the purpose, benefits, and appropriate use cases for mountable storage in your AWS Cloud environment
• Explain the operational characteristics of object storage in the AWS Cloud, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon S3 Glacier

This course is intended for:

• System administrators and operators who are operating in the AWS Cloud
• Informational technology workers who want to increase their systems operations knowledge

We recommend that attendees of this course have:
• Successfully completed the AWS Technical Essentials course
• A background in software development or systems administration
• Proficiency in maintaining operating systems at the command line, such as shell scripting in Linux environments or cmd/PowerShell in Windows
• Basic knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)

Module 0: Course Introduction Module 1: Intro to Cloud Operations

• Well-Architected Framework

Module 2: Access Management

• Access management
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Best practices for IAM
• Resources, accounts, and AWS Organizations
• Using AWS Control Tower for multi-account management

Module 3: System Discovery

• Methods for interacting with AWS services
• Developing a tagging strategy
• Tools for automating resource management
• Tracking resource configuration
• Lab 1: Auditing AWS Resources with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config

Module 4: Monitor and Maintain System Health

• Monitoring and maintaining healthy workloads
• Metrics
• CloudWatch dashboards
• CloudWatch Logs
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Specialized monitoring lenses

Module 5: Alerts, Events, and Responses

• CloudWatch alarms
• Events and event-driven responses
• Monitoring AWS infrastructure
• Cost and usage awareness
• Lab 2: Monitor applications and infrastructure

Module 6: Operating Secure and Resilient Networks

• Amazon VPC
• Connecting your VPC to other networks
• Monitoring with Amazon VPC Flow Logs
• Networking beyond the VPC
• Operating a secure network

Module 7: Configure Highly Available Systems

• Elastic Load Balancing
• Amazon Route 53
• Disaster recovery
• Lab 3: Networking

Module 8: Deploying and Scaling Compute Resources

• Using AMIs for deployment
• Scaling highly available systems
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
• Auto Scaling groups
• Scaling policies
• Scaling containerized workloads

Module 9: Optimizing Compute for Performance and Cost

• Optimizing Compute for Performance and Cost