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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Core Principles of Cloud Operations on AWS

  • Defining operational roles and responsibilities within the cloud
  • Structuring AWS accounts, organizations, and multi-account strategies
  • Utilizing key operational services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config

Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning Techniques

  • Understanding IaC principles and the concept of immutable infrastructure
  • Implementing provisioning workflows using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
  • Managing state files, modular design, and environment promotion processes

CI/CD Pipelines and Deployment Methodologies

  • Constructing CI/CD pipelines optimized for cloud-native applications
  • Implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies
  • Automating rollback mechanisms, health checks, and release validation

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting Frameworks

  • Handling metrics, logs, and traces: ingestion, storage, and analysis
  • Leveraging CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability platforms
  • Establishing SLOs/SLIs, defining alerting policies, and managing on-call rotations

Security Operations and Identity Governance

  • Applying IAM best practices, enforcing least privilege, and managing cross-account access
  • Managing secrets, KMS, and secure parameter storage
  • Implementing operational security measures including patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit logging

Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery Planning

  • Designing systems for fault tolerance and high availability
  • Developing backup strategies, automating snapshots, and defining restore procedures
  • Planning for disaster recovery and creating comprehensive runbooks

Cost Optimization and Governance

  • Enhancing cost visibility through billing insights, tagging, and allocation strategies
  • Right-sizing resources, utilizing reserved instances/savings plans, and implementing budget controls
  • Enforcing governance through policies, guardrails, and compliance automation

Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Management

  • Addressing operational needs for ECS, EKS, and Lambda workloads
  • Managing service discovery, autoscaling, and resource constraints
  • Implementing logging, tracing, and debugging for containerized environments

Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering

  • Executing runbook-driven incident response and conducting postmortem reviews
  • Automating remediation efforts and self-healing system patterns
  • Introduction to chaos engineering experiments for resilience validation

Practical Workshop: Managing a Sample Workload

  • Deploying a sample application using IaC and a CI/CD pipeline
  • Setting up monitoring, alerts, and automated remediation scripts
  • Simulating incidents and practicing runbook-based response protocols

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Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of cloud computing concepts and networking principles
  • Proficiency with the Linux command line interface and basic scripting
  • Practical experience with source control systems (such as Git) and an understanding of basic CI/CD workflows

Target Audience

  • Cloud operations engineers
  • Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and platform engineers
  • DevOps engineers and technical leads

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