This course is designed to teach you how to:

• Understand the AWS infrastructures as it relates to system operations such as the global infrastructure, core services and account security
• Use the AWS Command Line Interface, and understand additional administration and development tools
• Manage, secure, and scale compute instances on AWS
• Identify container services and services available for serverless computing
• Build virtual private networks with Amazon VPC
• Configure and manage storage options utilizing the storage services offered with AWS
• Monitor the health of your infrastructure with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
• Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using tags, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Trusted Advisor
• Create and configure automated and repeatable deployments with tools such as AMIs and AWS CloudFormation

Day One

• Module 1: Understanding systems operations on AWS
  • Systems operations in the Cloud
  • AWS Global Infrastructure
  • Introduction to core services
  • AWS Account Security
  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Demonstration: Deploying a website
• Module 2: Tooling and Automation
  • AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • AWS System Manager
  • Additional administration and development tools
  • AWS Software Development Kit (SDK)
  • AWS Cloud Formation
  • AWS OpsWorks
  • Hands-on lab 1: Using AWS System Manager
• Module 3: Computing (Servers)
  • Computing on AWS
  • Managing your AWS instances
  • Securing your AWS instances
  • AWS EC2 instance pricing
  • Hands-on lab 2: Creating Amazon EC2 instances
• Module 4: Computing (scaling and name resolution)
  • Elastic load balancing
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
  • Amazon Route 53
  • Hands-on lab 3: Using Auto Scaling in AWS

Day Two

• Module 5: Computing (Containers and Serverless)
  • Containers on AWS
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon API Gateway
  • AWS Batch
• Module 6: Computing (Database Services)
  • Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • AWS Database Migration Services
• Module 7: Networking
  • Networking and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Securing your network
  • Troubleshooting networks in AWS
  • Hands-on lab 4: Configuring a Virtual Private Cloud (Windows & Linux)
• Module 8: Storage and archiving
  • Amazon Elastic Block Store ( Amazon EBS)
  • Amazon Store
  • Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
  • Amazon Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3)
  • Amazon S3 Glacier
  • AWS Snowball
  • Hands-on lab 5: Managing Storage in AWS (Windows & Linux)

Day Three

• Module 9: Monitoring and security
  • Amazon CloudWatch-Monitoring, Events, Logging
  • AWS Cloud Trail
  • AWS Configuration
  • Amazon GuardDuty
  • Hands-on lab 6: Monitoring your application and infrastructure with CloudWatch
• Module 10: Managing resource consumption
  • Tagging
  • Cost reduction opportunities in the cloud
  • Cost monitoring and billing alarms
  • AWS Trusted Advisor
  • Hands-on lab 7: Managing resources with tagging
• Module 11: Creating automated and repeatable deployments
  • Configuration management in the cloud
  • Creating AMIs and building strategies
  • Using configuration software
  • AWS Cloud Formation
  • Troubleshooting AWS Cloud Formation templates
  • Hands-on lab 8: Automating deployments with Cloud Formation

Instructor-led live training with exercises

Delivered as a live, interactive training: available in-person or online, or in a hybrid format

We recommend that attendees of this course have attended the AWS technical essentials course.
Moreover they should have:

• A 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)

Systems Administrators and Software Developers, especially those in DevOps roles