Cloud Operations on AWS - 3 Days - AWS Authorised Instructor Led

In this comprehensive course, you'll gain the expertise to drive Operational Excellence—the backbone of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Learn to manage access and permissions using AWS IAM, automate deployments with AWS CloudFormation and Service Catalog, and maintain complete visibility with CloudTrail, Config, and CloudWatch. Design a highly available, secure, and scalable cloud environment using services like EC2 Auto Scaling, Route 53, ELB, and VPC connectivity. You'll also explore storage strategies with Amazon S3 and S3 Glacier, and harness tagging, AMIs, and AWS Control Tower to simplify governance and resource management. Whether you're deploying, patching, monitoring, or scaling, this course equips you with practical CloudOps skills to run reliable and efficient workloads on AWS. Enroll now and become the operations expert every cloud team needs!

This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, and group discussions.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• System administrators and operators who are operating in the AWS Cloud

• Informational technology workers who want to increase their cloud operations knowledge

Prerequisites

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 Linuxenvironments or cmd/PowerShell in Windows

• Basic knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)

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 Module 14: Cost Reporting, Alerts, and Optimization