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Establishing Foundations for Cloud Operations on AWS

  • Defining operational roles and responsibilities in cloud environments
  • Structuring AWS accounts, organizations, and multi-account strategies
  • Utilizing core operational services such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config

Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning Methods

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

CI/CD and Deployment Strategy Design

  • Building CI/CD pipelines optimized for cloud-native applications
  • Implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment models
  • Automating rollback processes, health checks, and release validation

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting Mechanisms

  • Handling metrics, logs, and traces: shipping, storing, and analysis
  • Leveraging CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability solutions
  • Setting SLOs/SLIs, defining alerting policies, and establishing on-call routines

Security Operations and Identity Management Protocols

  • Applying IAM best practices, least privilege principles, and cross-account access controls
  • Managing secrets, KMS, and secure parameter stores
  • Maintaining operational security through patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit trails

Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery Planning

  • Designing systems for fault tolerance and high availability
  • Formulating backup strategies, snapshot automation, and restore procedures
  • Creating disaster recovery plans and comprehensive runbooks

Cost Optimization and Governance Frameworks

  • Achieving cost visibility through billing, tagging, and allocation strategies
  • Implementing rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, and budgeting controls
  • Enforcing governance via policies, guardrails, and compliance automation

Container, Serverless, and Runtime Operations Management

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

Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering Practices

  • Conducting runbook-driven incident response and postmortem reviews
  • Automating remediation and self-healing patterns
  • Introducing chaos experiments to validate system resilience

Practical Workshop: Operating a Sample Workload

  • Deploying a sample application utilizing IaC and a CI/CD pipeline
  • Implementing monitoring, alerts, and automated remediation scripts
  • Simulating incidents and practicing runbook-based response actions

Course Summary and Future Recommendations

Requirements

  • A foundational grasp of cloud concepts and networking principles
  • Proficiency with the Linux command line and scripting environments
  • Experience working with source control (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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