System Operations on AWS

Course code

SO-AWS

Duration

3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours

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Course Overview

Objectives

Prerequisites

Course Outline

Course Overview

Course description

This course is designed to teach those in a Systems Administrator or Development Operations (DevOps) role how to create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS Cloud. The course covers the specific AWS features and tools related to configuration and deployment, in addition to best practices for configuring and deploying systems.

Objectives

Course objectives

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

Prerequisites

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

Systems Administrators and Software Developers, especially those in DevOps roles

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Successfully completed the AWS Technical Essentials classroom training
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)

Course Outline

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

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System Operations on AWS

Course code:

SO-AWS

Duration:

3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours

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