Systems Operations on AWS – 3 day – ILT

Day 1

• AWS Components
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• Compute (Virtualization, AZs, EC2 Instance Capacity Types, Elastic Load Balancing)
• Storage (Ephemeral, EBS, S3, Glacier)
• Network (RDS, Elasticache)
• Hands-on Labs: Run Instances, VPC

Day 2

• Static web content hosting (S3, CloudFront)
• Log Delivery
• Monitoring ( SNS, SES, CloudWatch)
• Cloudwatch Console/CLI
• Custom Metrics
• Auto Scaling
• Elastic Beanstalk
• Hands-On Labs: S3 and CloudFront, CloudFormation PHP w/Elastic Beanstalk, Alarm in CloudWatch

Day 3

• API Pages and Operations
• AWS Access Control: IAM
• Management (OpsWorks, CloudFormation)
• Backup (AWS and On Premises, S3/Glacier)
• Logging and Billing
• Hands-On Labs: Log Pushing to S3, IAM, Backup/Restore using CloudFormation

• Run, stop, and terminate instances .
• Determine and deploy appropriate Storage services.
• Create EC2 -VPC subnets.
• Monitor and inspect CloudWatch metrics related to your AWS resources.
• Use AWS CloudFormation to automate builds and deployment.
• Configure network Access Control Lists and network Security Groups.
• Use tagging to group costs
• Set up web delivery logging for analysis

Prerequisites for this class:

• Working knowledge of systems administration
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
• Command line experience