Course level: Intermediate Duration: 3 days

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 system operations knowledge.

Prerequisites We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

•  Successfully completed the AWS Technical Essentials course
•  Background in either 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 (TCPIP, HTTP)

Course outline

Day 1 Module 1: Introduction to System Operations on AWS

•  Systems operations
•  AWS Well-Architected Framework
•  AWS Well-Architected Tool

Module 2a: Access Management

•  Access management
•  Resources, accounts, and AWS Organizations

Module 2b: System Discovery

•  Methods to interact with AWS services
•  Introduction to monitoring services
•  Tools for automating resource discovery
•  Inventory with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config
•  Troubleshooting scenario
•  Hands-On Lab: Auditing AWS Resources with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config

Module 3: Deploy and Update Resources

•  Systems operations in deployments
•  Tagging strategies
•  Deployment using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
•  Deployment using AWS Control Tower
•  Troubleshooting scenario

Module 4: Automate Resource Deployment

•  Deployment using AWS CloudFormation
•  Deployment using AWS Service Catalog
•  Troubleshooting scenario
•  Hands-On Lab: Infrastructure as Code

Day 2

Module 5: Manage Resources

•  AWS Systems Manager
•  Troubleshooting scenario
•  Hands-On Lab: Operations as Code

Module 6a: Configure Highly Available Systems

•  Distributing traffic with Elastic Load Balancing
•  Amazon Route 53

Module 6b: Automate Scaling

•  Scaling with AWS Auto Scaling
•  Scaling with Spot Instances
•  Managing licenses with AWS License Manager
•  Troubleshooting scenario

Module 7: Monitor and Maintain System Health

•  Monitoring and maintaining healthy workloads
•  Monitoring distributed applications
•  Monitoring AWS infrastructure
•  Monitoring your AWS account
•  Troubleshooting scenario
•  Hands-On Lab: Monitoring Applications and Infrastructure

Module 8: Data Security and System Auditing

•  Maintaining a strong identity and access foundation
•  Implementing detection mechanisms
•  Automating incident remediation
•  Troubleshooting scenario
•  Hands-On Lab: Implementing IAM permissions boundaries

Day 3

Module 9: Operate Secure and Resilient Networks

•  Building a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
•  Networking beyond the VPC
•  Troubleshooting scenario

Module 10a: Mountable Storage

•  Configuring Amazon Elastic Block Storage (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

Module 10b: Object Storage

•  Deploying Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Access Logs, Cross-Region Replication, and S3 Intelligent-Tiering
•  Hands-On Lab: Automating with AWS Backup for Archiving and Recovery

Module 11: 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 SysOps

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