Systems Operations on AWS

This course is for:

Developers, system administrators, and others responsible for managing operations on the AWS platform.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Monitor, measure, and improve the performance of your application and infrastructure running on AWS.
• Use Amazon CloudFormation and a variety of 3rd party tools to help automate builds and deployment.
• Create, graph, and analyze log files and metrics using Amazon CloudWatch from live AWS resources to monitor application health.
• Collect and analyze application and system log files at a large scale and make decisions to improve application performance.
• Respond to and take action on common scaling, fail-over, and migration tasks in a running stack.

Day 1

• Identity and Access Management fundamentals
• Bootstrapping EC2 with CloudFormation
• EC2, EBS, and AMI Fundamentals and Hands-On

Day 2

• Continuous Integration and Deployment
• Automated AMI construction with Simple WorkFlow
• RDS Management with CLI and CloudFormation

Day 3

• ELB, Auto Scaling, and CloudWatch fundamentals
• Monitoring and Alarms with CloudWatch
• Auto Scaling with CLI and CloudFormation

Day 4

• Logging with DynamoDB and SQS
• EMR and Hive for log processing
• Programmatic billing and cost allocation reporting

• Existing experience with EC2, EBS, and S3
• Linux command line and Bash experience
• Basic familiarity with Ruby or Python scripting