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Course Outline
Foundations of Cloud Operations on AWS
- Defining operational roles and responsibilities within the cloud
- AWS account structures, organisations, and multi-account strategies
- Essential operational services: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config
Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning
- Core principles of IaC and immutable infrastructure
- Provisioning workflows using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
- Managing state, modules, and environment promotion processes
CI/CD and Deployment Strategies
- Architecting CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications
- Blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment methodologies
- Automating rollback mechanisms, health checks, and release validation
Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting
- Handling metrics, logs, and traces: shipping, storage, and analysis
- Utilising CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability tools
- Establishing SLOs/SLIs, alerting policies, and on-call procedures
Security Operations and Identity Management
- IAM best practices, least privilege models, and cross-account access
- Managing secrets, KMS, and secure parameter stores
- Operational security measures: patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit trails
Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery
- Designing for fault tolerance and high availability
- Backup strategies, snapshot automation, and restoration procedures
- Disaster recovery planning and the creation of operational runbooks
Cost Optimization and Governance
- Enhancing cost visibility through billing, tagging, and cost allocation strategies
- Rightsizing workloads, reserved instances/savings plans, and budgeting controls
- Governance frameworks: policies, guardrails, and compliance automation
Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations
- Operational considerations for ECS, EKS, and Lambda
- Service discovery, autoscaling, and setting resource limits
- Logging, tracing, and debugging containerised workloads
Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering
- Runbook-driven incident response and post-mortem practices
- Automating remediation and implementing self-healing patterns
- Introduction to chaos experiments for validating system resilience
Hands-on Workshop: Operating a Sample Workload
- Deploying a sample application using IaC and a CI/CD pipeline
- Implementing monitoring, alerts, and automated remediation scripts
- Simulating incidents and practising runbook-based response procedures
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of cloud concepts and networking
- Proficiency with the Linux command line and scripting
- Experience with source control (Git) and fundamental CI/CD principles
Target Audience
- Cloud operations engineers
- SREs and platform engineers
- DevOps engineers and technical team leads
21 Hours
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