Cloud Operations on AWS (formerly Systems Operations) (AWSSYS) – Outline

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