Systems Operations on AWS (AWSSYS)

COURSE

This course is designed to train system administrators or individuals with DevOps roles to create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS platform. The course covers the specific AWS features and tools related to configuration and deployment, as well as industry-standard techniques for configuring and deploying systems.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Systems Administrators, Operations Managers, and individuals responsible for supporting operations on the AWS platform

PREREQUISITES

• Working knowledge of systems administration
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
• Linux or Windows command-line experience

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The Systems Operations on AWS course is designed to help individuals operate highly available and scalable infrastructure on the AWS platform. In this course, we demonstrate how to effectively manage and support AWS resources. We cover concepts such as provisioning infrastructure, deploying applications, tracking costs, monitoring utilization, and creating backups. This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Use Amazon EC2 features to provision, monitor, scale and distribute compute infrastructure
• Create Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources such as subnets, network access control lists, and security groups
• Backup AWS and on-premise resources using AWS services
• Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor the health and utilization of AWS resources
• Leverage resource tagging to allocate costs and optimize resource planning
• Create a gold image and employ auto scaling into the VPC

DURATION

3 Days

COURSE CONTENT

This course will cover the following concepts on each day:

Day 1

• AWS platform and access
• Amazon VPC
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Compute (Availability Zones, Amazon EC2 instance types, calling EC2 services, Elastic Block Store-backs AMIs)
• Hands-on Labs

Day 2

• Tagging
• Backup (AWS resources and on-premise resources with AWS services)
• Operations Security
• Logging
• Hands-On Labs

Day 3

• Cost Control
• Elastic Infrastructure (Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balance, Launch Configuration)
• Monitoring and Auto Scaling
• Application Deployment
• AWS CloudFormation, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks
• Hands-On Labs