Systems Operations on AWS

Target Audience and Prerequisites

This course is intended for:

• Systems administrators
• Software developers, especially those in DevOps roles

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Courses taken: AWS Cloud Practitioner (or equivalent experience with AWS)
• Background in either software development or systems administration
• Proficiency in maintaining operating systems at the command line, such as shell scripting in Linux environments or cmd/PowerShell in Windows
• Basic knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Understand the AWS infrastructures as it related to system operations such as the global infrastructure, core services and account security
• Use the AWS Command Line Interface, and understand additional administration and development tools
• Manage, secure, and scale compute instances on AWS
• Identify container services and services available for serverless computing
• Build virtual private networks with Amazon VPC
• Configure and manage storage options utilizing the storage services offered with AWS
• Monitor the health of your infrastructure with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
• Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using tags, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Trusted Advisor
• Create and configure automated and repeatable deployments with tools such as AMIs and AWS CloudFormation