Cloud Operations on AWS (formerly Systems Operations) with AWS Jam

Day 1

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Operations on AWS

• What is Cloud Operations
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• AWS Well-Architected Tool

Module 2: Access Management

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Resources, accounts, and AWS Organizations

Module 3: System Discovery

• Methods to interact with AWS services
• Tools for automating resource discovery
• Inventory with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config
• Hands-On Lab: Auditing AWS Resources with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config

Module 4: Deploy and Update Resources

• Cloud Operations in deployments
• Tagging strategies
• Deployment using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
• Deployment using AWS Control Tower

Module 5: Automate Resource Deployment

• Deployment using AWS CloudFormation
• Deployment using AWS Service Catalog
• Hands-On Lab: Infrastructure as Code

Day 2

Module 6: Manage Resources

• AWS Systems Manager
• Hands-On Lab: Operations as Code

Module 7: Configure Highly Available Systems

• Distributing traffic with Elastic Load Balancing
• Amazon Route 53

Module 8: Automate Scaling

• Scaling with AWS Auto Scaling
• Scaling with Spot Instances
• Managing licenses with AWS License Manager

Module 9: Monitor and Maintain System Health

• Monitoring and maintaining healthy workloads
• Monitoring AWS infrastructure
• Monitoring applications
• Hands-On Lab: Monitor Applications and Infrastructure

Module 10: Data Security and System Auditing

• Maintaining a strong identity and access foundation
• Implementing detection mechanisms
• Automating incident remediation

Day 3

Module 11: Operate Secure and Resilient Networks

• Building a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
• Networking beyond the VPC

Module 12: Mountable Storage

• Configuring Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)