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Fundamentals of Cloud Operations on AWS

  • Defining operational roles and responsibilities within cloud environments.
  • Structuring AWS accounts, organizations, and multi-account strategies.
  • Leveraging core operational services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.

Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning

  • Understanding IaC principles and the concept of immutable infrastructure.
  • Executing provisioning tasks with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Handling state management, modular components, and environment promotion workflows.

CI/CD and Deployment Strategies

  • Architecting CI/CD pipelines specifically for cloud-native applications.
  • Implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment methodologies.
  • Automating rollback procedures, health checks, and release validation processes.

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting

  • Managing metrics, logs, and traces: ingestion, storage, and analysis.
  • Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability solutions.
  • Establishing SLOs/SLIs, alerting policies, and on-call operational practices.

Security Operations and Identity Management

  • Applying IAM best practices, least privilege principles, and cross-account access controls.
  • Managing secrets, KMS integration, and secure parameter stores.
  • Ensuring operational security through patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and maintaining audit trails.

Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery

  • Designing systems for fault tolerance and high availability.
  • Developing backup strategies, snapshot automation, and restoration procedures.
  • Planning disaster recovery scenarios and creating comprehensive runbooks.

Cost Optimization and Governance

  • Enhancing cost visibility through billing analysis, tagging, and cost allocation strategies.
  • Optimizing resources via rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, and budget controls.
  • Enforcing governance through policies, guardrails, and compliance automation.

Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations

  • Addressing operational considerations for ECS, EKS, and Lambda.
  • Managing service discovery, autoscaling mechanisms, and resource limits.
  • Logging, tracing, and debugging containerized workloads effectively.

Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering

  • Implementing runbook-driven incident response and postmortem analysis practices.
  • Automating remediation actions and self-healing system patterns.
  • Introduction to chaos experiments for validating system resilience.

Practical Workshop: Operating a Sample Workload

  • Deploying a sample application utilizing IaC and a CI/CD pipeline.
  • Setting up monitoring, alerts, and automated remediation scripts.
  • Simulating incident scenarios and practicing runbook-based response techniques.

Conclusion and Future Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental knowledge of cloud computing concepts and network architecture.
  • Proficiency in using the Linux command line and scripting languages.
  • Practical experience with source control systems (Git) and foundational CI/CD principles.

Target Audience

  • Cloud Operations Engineers.
  • Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Platform Engineers.
  • DevOps Engineers and technical team leaders.
 21 Hours

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