Cloud Operations on AWS

Empower your AWS Cloud proficiency with our comprehensive Cloud Operations on AWS course, tailored for system administrators and DevOps professionals to master scalable, automated deployments.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Recognize AWS services supporting Operational Excellence.

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Manage access and resource inventory using IAM, Systems Manager, and AWS Config.

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Automate deployments with AWS CloudFormation and Service Catalog.

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Deploy highly available systems with Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancing.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • System administrators and operators using AWS Cloud
  • IT professionals seeking to enhance their AWS operations skills
  • DevOps practitioners aiming for automated cloud deployments

Description

This course is designed to teach those in a systems administrator or Development Operations (DevOps) role how to create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS platform. The course covers the specific AWS features and tools related to configuration and deployment, in addition to best practices for configuring and deploying systems.

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Upcoming Course Dates

September 2-4, 2025

6:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

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$2025

November 4-6, 2025

6:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

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December 29-31, 2025

6:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

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$2025

Course Outline

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Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Operations on AWS

  1. What is Cloud Operations

  2. AWS Well-Architected Framework

  3. AWS Well-Architected Tool

Module 2: Access Management

  1. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  2. Resources, accounts, and AWS Organizations

Module 3: System Discovery

  1. Methods to interact with AWS services

  2. Tools for automating resource discovery

  3. Inventory with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config

Module 11: Operate Secure and Resilient Networks

  1. Building a secure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

  2. Networking beyond the VPC

Module 12: Mountable Storage

  1. Configuring Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

  2. Sizing Amazon EBS volumes for performance

  3. Using Amazon EBS snapshots

  4. Using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to manage your AWS resources

  5. Creating backup and data recovery plans

  6. Configuring shared file system storage

Module 13: Object Storage

  1. Deploying Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

  2. Managing storage lifecycles on Amazon S3

Module 14: Cost Reporting, Alerts, and Optimization

  1. Gaining AWS cost awareness

  2. Using control mechanisms for cost management

  3. Optimizing your AWS spend and usage

Labs

  1. Auditing AWS Resources with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Config

  2. Automating with AWS Backup for Archiving and Recovery

  3. Capstone lab for CloudOps

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