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Foundations of Cloud Operations on AWS

  • Defining operational roles and responsibilities in the cloud.
  • Understanding AWS account structures, organizations, and multi-account strategies.
  • Exploring core operational services: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.

Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning

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

CI/CD and Deployment Strategies

  • Architecting CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications.
  • Implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment techniques.
  • Automating rollback procedures, health checks, and release validation.

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting

  • Handling metrics, logs, and traces: shipping, storing, and analyzing data.
  • Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability platforms.
  • Establishing SLOs/SLIs, alerting policies, and on-call practices.

Security Operations and Identity Management

  • IAM best practices, enforcing least privilege, and managing cross-account access.
  • Managing secrets, KMS, and secure parameter stores.
  • Operational security measures: patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and maintaining audit trails.

Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery

  • Designing systems for fault tolerance and high availability.
  • Defining backup strategies, automating snapshots, and executing restore procedures.
  • Planning for disaster recovery and creating effective runbooks.

Cost Optimization and Governance

  • Achieving cost visibility through billing, tagging, and cost allocation strategies.
  • Rightsizing resources, managing reserved instances/savings plans, and implementing budget controls.
  • Establishing governance: policies, guardrails, and automation for compliance.

Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations

  • Operational considerations for ECS, EKS, and Lambda.
  • Managing service discovery, autoscaling, and resource constraints.
  • Logging, tracing, and debugging containerized workloads.

Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering

  • Executing runbook-driven incident response and postmortem analysis.
  • 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 practicing runbook-based response procedures.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts and networking.
  • Proficiency with the Linux command line and scripting.
  • Experience with source control systems (Git) and foundational CI/CD principles.

Target Audience

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