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Build Cloud Operations skills using the new AWS Observability Training

Full-stack observability at AWS includes AWS-native, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and open-source solutions, giving you the ability to understand what is happening across your technology stack at any time. AWS Observability lets you collect, correlate, aggregate, and analyze telemetry in your network, infrastructure, and applications in the cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments so you can gain insights into the behavior, performance, and health of your system. These insights help you detect, investigate, and remediate problems faster; and coupled with artificial intelligence and machine learning, proactively react, predict, and prevent problems.

In this course, you will learn the three pillars of observability: Tracing, monitoring and logging. You will also discover a wide range of services that can help elevate your cloud operations practices, transforming them from a tactical day-to-day routine into a strategy that delivers business outcomes for your organization.

Figure 1. AWS Observability free course enrollment icon.

Figure 1. AWS Observability free course enrollment icon

Getting started

Enroll in our new AWS Observability digital training course to build your skills and expertise pertaining to tracing, monitoring and logging to help you observe and monitor resources and applications on AWS.

About the course

AWS Observability is a four-part course that helps technical AWS cloud operations and DevOps teams understand the core fundamentals of AWS Observability using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud operations services. This course is aimed at DevOps teams, site reliability engineers, cloud architects and cloud operations teams that would like to understand what’s happening to applications and resources.

Over the duration of this course, you’ll learn about the setup, configuration, benefits, typical use cases, and technical concepts of AWS Observability. This course also contains information about the individual features available in Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray and how to set up and configure AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry,  Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and Amazon Managed Grafana.

This digital training course contains presentations, architecture diagrams, service demonstrations, and additional resources links to expand your knowledge base.

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

Improve your Cloud Operations skills on AWS

This course can help you build the necessary skills to be successful in observing your applications and AWS resources. Observability is a foundational element of establishing effective Cloud Operations on AWS, thereby putting your organization well on its way to operating effectively in the cloud at scale.

Take the AWS Observability course. You can also find further training to help improve your AWS skills in the AWS Skill Builder course catalog.

Introduction to AWS Observability Webinar

Join this virtual webinar on March 28, from 12-1 pm ET, to learn about the three pillars of observability: Tracing, monitoring, and logging; and discover the range of services that can help elevate your cloud operations practices, transforming them from a tactical day-to-day routine into a strategy that delivers business outcomes for your organization.

About the author:

Alex Livingstone

Alex is a Principal Solution Architect focused on AWS Observability tools including Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, and AWS Distro for Open Telemetry. He loves helping customers to operate in the cloud and gain insights into their applications. Find him on LinkedIn: /aelivingstone.