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Foundations of Cloud Operations on AWS

  • Defining operational roles and responsibilities within the cloud landscape
  • Understanding AWS account structures, organizations, and multi-account strategies
  • Exploring core operational services including CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config

Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning

  • Core principles of IaC and the benefits of immutable infrastructure
  • Executing provisioning tasks with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
  • Managing state files, modules, and environment promotion workflows

CI/CD and Deployment Strategies

  • Implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment models
  • Automating rollback procedures, health checks, and release validation

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting

  • Handling metrics, logs, and traces: shipping, storage, and analysis techniques
  • Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability tools effectively
  • Establishing SLOs/SLIs, alerting policies, and on-call operational practices

Security Operations and Identity Management

  • Applying IAM best practices, enforcing least privilege, and managing cross-account access
  • Implementing secrets management, KMS, and secure parameter stores
  • Enhancing operational security through patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit trail maintenance

Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery

  • Designing systems for fault tolerance and high availability
  • Developing backup strategies, automating snapshots, and defining restore procedures
  • Formulating disaster recovery plans and creating comprehensive runbooks

Cost Optimization and Governance

  • Achieving cost efficiency through rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, and budgeting controls
  • Enforcing governance via policies, guardrails, and compliance automation

Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations

  • Addressing operational considerations for ECS, EKS, and Lambda
  • Managing service discovery, autoscaling, and resource limits
  • Logging, tracing, and debugging techniques for containerized workloads

Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering

  • Executing runbook-driven incident response and conducting postmortem analyses
  • Automating remediation processes and implementing self-healing patterns
  • Introduction to chaos experiments for validating system resilience

Hands-on Workshop: Operate a Sample Workload

  • Deploying a sample application using IaC and a CI/CD pipeline
  • Setting up monitoring, alerts, and automated remediation scripts
  • Simulating incidents to practice runbook-based response strategies

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of cloud computing concepts and networking principles
  • Proficiency with the Linux command line and basic scripting capabilities
  • Practical experience with source control systems (Git) and an understanding of basic CI/CD workflows

Target Audience

  • Cloud operations engineers
  • Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and platform engineers
  • DevOps engineers and technical team leads
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