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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Foundations of AWS Cloud Operations

  • Defining operational roles and responsibilities in the cloud.
  • AWS account structure, organization, and multi-account strategies.
  • Key operational services: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.

Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning

  • Core principles of IaC and immutable infrastructure.
  • Provisioning resources with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Handling state, modules, and environment promotion.

CI/CD and Deployment Strategies

  • Designing CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications.
  • Implementing Blue/Green, canary, and rolling deployment methods.
  • Automating rollbacks, health checks, and release validation.

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting

  • Managing metrics, logs, and traces: shipping, storing, and analysis.
  • Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability tools.
  • Setting SLOs/SLIs, alerting policies, and on-call workflows.

Security Operations and Identity Management

  • IAM best practices, least privilege principles, and cross-account access.
  • Secrets management, KMS, and secure parameter stores.
  • Operational security: patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit trails.

Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery

  • Designing systems for fault tolerance and high availability.
  • Backup strategies, snapshot automation, and restoration procedures.
  • Disaster recovery planning and developing runbooks.

Cost Optimization and Governance

  • Gaining cost visibility through billing, tagging, and allocation strategies.
  • Rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, and budget controls.
  • Governance: implementing policies, guardrails, and compliance automation.

Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations

  • Operational aspects of ECS, EKS, and Lambda.
  • Service discovery, autoscaling, and resource limits.
  • Logging, tracing, and debugging containerized workloads.

Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering

  • Runbook-driven incident response and postmortem analysis.
  • Automating remediation and self-healing patterns.
  • Introduction to chaos experiments for resilience validation.

Hands-on Workshop: Operating a Sample Workload

  • Deploying a sample application using IaC and a CI/CD pipeline.
  • Implementing monitoring, alerts, and automated remediation scripts.
  • Simulating incidents and practicing runbook-based responses.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts and networking.
  • Proficiency with the Linux command line and scripting.
  • Familiarity with source control (Git) and core CI/CD principles.

Target Audience

  • Cloud operations engineers.
  • SREs and platform engineers.
  • DevOps engineers and technical team leads.

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