System Operations on AWS
AWS Classroom Training
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.
Level Delivery method Duration
Intermediate Instructor-led training, hands-on labs, and group exercises 3 days
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
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)
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System Operations on AWS
AWS Classroom Training
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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
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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
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System Operations on AWS
AWS Classroom Training
Hands-on lab 8: Automating deployments with Cloud Formation
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