Cloud Operations on AWS

1. Introduction to Cloud Operations on AWS

   – What is Cloud Operations?

   – Overview of AWS Well-Architected Framework

   – Introduction to AWS Well-Architected Tool

2. Access Management

   – Understanding AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

   – Managing resources, accounts, and AWS Organizations

3. System Discovery

   – Exploring methods to interact with AWS services

   – Tools for automating resource discovery

   – Inventory management with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config

4. Deploy and Update Resources

   – Cloud Operations in deployments

   – Implementing effective tagging strategies

   – Deployment using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

   – Deployment using AWS Control Tower

5. Automate Resource Deployment

   – Leveraging AWS CloudFormation for automated resource deployment

   – Utilizing AWS Service Catalog for resource provisioning

   – Hands-On Lab: Infrastructure as Code

6. Manage Resources

   – Overview of AWS Systems Manager

   – Hands-On Lab: Operations as Code

7. Configure Highly Available Systems

   – Distributing traffic with Elastic Load Balancing

   – Managing DNS with Amazon Route 53

8. Automate Scaling

   – Scaling resources with AWS Auto Scaling

   – Leveraging Spot Instances for cost-effective scaling

   – Managing licenses with AWS License Manager

9. Monitor and Maintain System Health

   – Monitoring and maintaining healthy workloads

   – Monitoring AWS infrastructure and applications

   – Hands-On Lab: Monitoring Applications and Infrastructure

10. Data Security and System Auditing

    – Establishing a strong identity and access foundation

    – Implementing detection mechanisms

    – Automating incident remediation

11. Operate Secure and Resilient Networks

    – Building a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

    – Networking beyond the VPC

12. Mountable Storage

    – Configuring Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

    – Sizing Amazon EBS volumes for performance

    – Leveraging Amazon EBS snapshots and Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

    – Creating backup and data recovery plans

    – Configuring shared file system storage

    – Hands-On Lab: Automating with AWS Backup for Archiving and Recovery

13. Object Storage

    – Deploying Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

    – Managing storage lifecycles on Amazon S3

14. Cost Reporting, Alerts, and Optimization

    – Gaining AWS cost awareness

    – Implementing control mechanisms for cost management

    – Optimizing AWS spend and usage

    – Hands-On Lab: Capstone lab for CloudOps