Course Description
This course teaches systems operators & anyone performing system operations functions how to automate, install, configure, monitor, secure, maintain & troubleshoot the services, networks, & systems on AWS necessary to assist business applications. The course also covers particular AWS features, tools, & best practices related to these functions.
Prerequisites
We recommend that participants of this course have the following prerequisites-
- Successfully finished the AWS Technical Essentials course
- Background in software development or systems administration
- Excellence in maintaining operating systems at the command line, like shell scripting in Linux environments or cmd/PowerShell in Windows
- Fundamental knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)
Target Audience
This course is intended for-
- System administrators & operators who are operating in the AWS Cloud
- Informational technology staff who want to enhance their system operations knowledge.
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn to-
- Identify the AWS services that support the various phases of Operational Excellence, Well-Architected Framework pillar.
- Control access to AWS resources using AWS Accounts & Organizations & AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM).
- Maintain an inventory of in-use AWS resources utilizing AWS services such as AWS CloudTrail, AWS Systems Manager, & AWS Config.
- Build a resource deployment strategy utilizing metadata tags, Amazon Machine Images, & Control tower to deploy & maintain an AWS cloud environment.
- Automate resource deployment utilizing AWS services such as AWS CloudFormation & AWS Service Catalog.
- Use AWS services to control AWS resources through SysOps lifecycle processes such as deployments & patches.
- Configure an extremely available cloud environment that leverages AWS services such as Amazon Route 53 & Elastic Load Balancing to route traffic for optimal dormancy & performance.
- Configure AWS Auto Scaling & Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud auto-scaling to scale your cloud environment based on demand.
- Use Amazon CloudWatch & associated features such as alarms, dashboards, & widgets to monitor your cloud environment.
- Manage permissions & track activity in your cloud environment using AWS services such as AWS CloudTrail & AWS Config.
- Organize your resources to an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), inaugurate necessary connectivity to your Amazon VPC, & protect your resources from disruptions of service.
- State the purpose, benefits, & appropriate use cases for mountable storage in your AWS cloud environment.
- Describe the operational components of object storage in the AWS cloud, together with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) & Amazon S3 Glacier.
- Develop a comprehensive costing model to help gather, optimize, & predict your cloud costs using services such as AWS Cost Explorer & the AWS Cost & Usage Report.
Content Outline
- Systems operations
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Access management
- Resources, accounts, & AWS Organizations
- Methods to interact with AWS services
- Introduction to monitoring services
- Tools for automating resource discovery
- Inventory with AWS Systems Manager & AWS Config
- Troubleshooting scenario
- Hands-On Lab- Auditing AWS Resources with AWS Systems Manager & AWS Config
- Systems operations in deployments
- Tagging strategies
- Deployment using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
- Deployment using AWS Control Tower
- Troubleshooting scenario
- Deployment using AWS CloudFormation
- Deployment using AWS Service Catalog
- Troubleshooting scenario
- Hands-On Lab- Infrastructure as Code
- AWS Systems Manager
- Troubleshooting scenario
- Hands-On Lab- Operations as Code
- Distributing traffic with Elastic Load Balancing
- Amazon Route 53
- Scaling with AWS Auto Scaling
- Scaling with Spot Instances
- Managing licenses with AWS License Manager
- Troubleshooting scenario
- Monitoring & maintaining healthy workloads
- Monitoring distributed applications
- Monitoring AWS infrastructure
- Monitoring your AWS account
- Troubleshooting scenario
- Hands-On Lab- Monitoring Applications & Infrastructure
- Maintaining a strong identity & access foundation
- Implementing detection mechanisms
- Automating incident remediation
- Troubleshooting scenario
- Hands-On Lab- Implementing IAM permissions boundaries
- Developing a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
- Networking beyond the VPC
- Troubleshooting scenario
- Configuring Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS)
- Sizing Amazon EBS volumes for performance
- Utilizing Amazon EBS snapshots
- Utilizing Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to manage your AWS resources
- Creating backup & data recovery plans
- Configuring shared file system storage
- Organizing Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Cross-Region Replication, Access Logs, & S3 Intelligent-Tiering
- Hands-On Lab- Automating with AWS Backup for Archiving & Recovery
- Gaining AWS cost awareness
- Using control mechanisms for cost management
- Optimizing your AWS spend & usage
- Hands-On Lab- Capstone lab for SysOps
FAQs
AWS fully managed database services provide continuous monitoring, self-healing storage, & automated Scaling to help you focus on application development. Achieve performance at scale.
A data lake is a centralized & secured repository that collects all your data, both in its original form & prepared for analysis.
There are three methods of data storage, namely –
- Object storage
- File storage
- Block storage
EC2 is a service that enables business clients to run application programs in the computing environment.
AWS security provides opportunities to protect the data, check out security-related activity & receive automated responses.
Radiant believes in a practical & creative approach to training & development, which distinguishes it from other training & developmental platforms. Moreover, training courses are undertaken by some of the experts who have a vast range of experience in their domain.
Radiant team of experts will be available at e-mail support@radianttechlearning.com to answer your technical queries even after the training program.
Yes, Radiant will provide you most updated, high, value & relevant real-time projects & case studies in each training program.
Technical issues are unpredictable & might occur with us as well. Participants have to ensure that they have access to the required configuration with good internet speed.
Radiant Techlearning offers training programs on weekdays, weekends & combination of weekdays & weekends. We provide you with complete liberty to choose the schedule that suits your need.