Course Outline
Foundations of Cloud Operations on AWS
- Operational roles and responsibilities within the cloud
- AWS account structures, organizations, and multi-account strategies
- Core operational services: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config
Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning
- Principles of IaC and immutable infrastructure
- Provisioning using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
- Managing state, modules, and environment promotion
CI/CD and Deployment Strategies
- Designing CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications
- Blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment methods
- Automating rollbacks, health checks, and release validation
Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting
- Handling metrics, logs, and traces: shipping, storing, and analyzing
- Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability tools
- Defining SLOs/SLIs, alerting policies, and on-call practices
Security Operations and Identity Management
- IAM best practices, least privilege principles, and cross-account access
- Secrets management, KMS, and secure parameter stores
- Operational security: patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit trails
Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery
- Designing for fault tolerance and high availability
- Backup strategies, snapshot automation, and restore procedures
- Disaster recovery planning and runbook development
Cost Optimization and Governance
- Cost visibility: billing, tagging, and cost allocation strategies
- Rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, and budgeting controls
- Governance: policies, guardrails, and compliance automation
Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations
- Operational considerations for ECS, EKS, and Lambda
- Service discovery, autoscaling, and resource limits
- Logging, tracing, and debugging containerized workloads
Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering
- Runbook-driven incident response and postmortem practices
- Automating remediation and implementing self-healing patterns
- Introduction to chaos experiments for resilience validation
Hands-on Workshop: Operating a Sample Workload
- Deploying a sample application using IaC and a CI/CD pipeline
- Implementing monitoring, alerts, and an automated remediation script
- Simulating incidents and practicing runbook-based response
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- A foundational understanding of cloud concepts and networking
- Familiarity with the Linux command line and scripting
- Experience with source control (Git) and basic CI/CD concepts
Target Audience
- Cloud operations engineers
- SREs and platform engineers
- DevOps engineers and technical team leads
Custom Corporate Training
Training solutions designed exclusively for businesses.
- Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
Price per private group, online live training, starting from 4800 € + VAT*
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I've find out new interesting things about Lambda and Serverless
Oleg Buldumac - PUBLIC COURSE
Course - AWS Lambda for Developers
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