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Core Foundations of AWS Cloud Operations

  • Defining operational roles and responsibilities in cloud environments.
  • AWS account structures, organizational setup, and multi-account strategies.
  • Key operational services: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Provisioning

  • Principles of IaC and the concept of immutable infrastructure.
  • Provisioning resources using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Managing state, modules, and promoting configurations across environments.

CI/CD and Deployment Methodologies

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

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting

  • Handling metrics, logs, and traces: ingestion, storage, and analysis.
  • Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability solutions.
  • Establishing SLOs/SLIs, alerting policies, and on-call workflows.

Security Operations and Identity Governance

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

Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery

  • Designing for fault tolerance and high availability.
  • Backup strategies, automated snapshots, and restoration procedures.
  • Disaster recovery planning and the creation of operational runbooks.

Cost Optimization and Governance

  • Cost visibility through billing, tagging, and allocation strategies.
  • Rightsizing resources, reserved instances/savings plans, and budget controls.
  • Governance through policies, guardrails, and compliance automation.

Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Management

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

Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering

  • Runbook-based incident response and post-mortem analysis.
  • Automating remediation and self-healing mechanisms.
  • Introduction to chaos experiments for resilience validation.

Practical Workshop: Managing a Sample Workload

  • Deploying a sample application using IaC and a CI/CD pipeline.
  • Setting up monitoring, alerts, and automated remediation scripts.
  • Simulating incidents and practicing runbook-driven response.

Wrap-up and Future Pathways

Requirements

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

Target Audience

  • Cloud operations engineers.
  • SREs and platform engineers.
  • DevOps engineers and technical leaders.
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