This course teaches system administrators, operators, and anyone performing day-to-day operations in the AWS Cloud how to install, configure, automate, monitor, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot the services, networks, and systems on AWS necessary to support business applications.

Duration: 3 Days

What you'll learn:

• Recognise the AWS services that support the different phases of Operational Excellence, a Well Architected Framework pillar.
• Manage access to AWS resources using AWS Accounts and Organisations and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Maintain an inventory of in-use AWS resources using AWS services such as AWS Systems Manager, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config.
• Develop a resource deployment strategy utilising metadata tags, Amazon Machine Images, and Control tower to deploy and maintain an AWS cloud environment.
• Automate resource deployment using AWS services such as AWS CloudFormation and AWS Service Catalog.
• Use AWS services to manage AWS resources through SysOps lifecycle processes such as deployments and patches.
• Configure a highly available cloud environment that leverages AWS services such as Amazon Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancing to route traffic for optimal latency and performance.
• Configure AWS Auto Scaling and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud auto scaling to scale your cloud environment based on demand.
• Use Amazon CloudWatch and associated features such as alarms, dashboards, and widgets to monitor your cloud environment.
• Manage permissions and track activity in your cloud environment using AWS services such as AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config.
• Deploy your resources to an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), establish necessary connectivity to your Amazon VPC, and protect your resources from disruptions of service.
• State the purpose, benefits, and appropriate use cases for mountable storage in your AWS cloud environment.
• Explain the operational characteristics of object storage in the AWS cloud, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon S3 Glacier.
• Build a comprehensive costing model to help gather, optimise, and predict your cloud costs using services such as AWS Cost Explorer and the AWS Cost & Usage Report.

Course Subjects:

• Introduction to System Operations on AWS
• Access Management
• System Discovery
• Deploy and Update Resources
• Automate Resource Deployment
• Manage Resources
• Configure Highly Available Systems
• Automate Scaling
• Monitor and Maintain System Health
• Data Security and System Auditing
• Operate Secure and Resilient Networks
• Mountable Storage
• Object Storage
• Cost Reporting, Alerts, and Optimisation

Target Audience:

• System administrators and operators who are operating in the AWS Cloud
• Informational technology workers who want to increase the 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 (TCP/IP, HTTP)