System Operations on AWS

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 Content

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