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Foundations of Cloud Operations on AWS

  • Defining operational roles and responsibilities in a cloud environment.
  • Understanding AWS account structures, organizations, and multi-account strategies.
  • Overview of core operational services, including CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.

Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning

  • Core principles of IaC and the benefits of immutable infrastructure.
  • Practical provisioning techniques using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
  • Managing state, modules, and strategies for environment promotion.

CI/CD and Deployment Strategies

  • Designing efficient CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications.
  • Exploring blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment models.
  • Automating rollback procedures, health checks, and release validation.

Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting

  • Handling metrics, logs, and traces: collection, storage, and analysis.
  • Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability tools effectively.
  • Defining SLOs/SLIs, establishing alerting policies, and implementing on-call best practices.

Security Operations and Identity Management

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

Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery

  • Architecting for fault tolerance and high availability.
  • Developing backup strategies, automating snapshots, and defining restore procedures.
  • Creating disaster recovery plans and actionable runbooks.

Cost Optimization and Governance

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

Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations

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

Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering

  • Implementing runbook-driven incident response and structured postmortem practices.
  • Automating remediation processes and self-healing patterns.
  • Introduction to chaos experiments for validating system resilience.

Hands-on Workshop: Operate 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-based response procedures.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of cloud concepts and networking principles.
  • Proficiency with the Linux command line and basic scripting.
  • Practical experience with source control systems (Git) and a solid grasp of basic CI/CD concepts.

Target Audience

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