In this 3-day instructor-led course, you will learn how to create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS platform. We will explore the AWS features and tools related to configuration and deployment and best practices for configuring and deploying systems.

This course is intended for:

• Systems administrators
• Software developers, especially those in a DevOps role

It is recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Attended the AWS Technical Essentials course
• Background in either software development or systems administration
• Some experience with maintaining operating systems at the command
  line (shell scripting in Linux environments, cmd or PowerShell in
  Windows)
• Basic knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)

On completion of this course, you should be able to:-

• Use standard AWS infrastructure features such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon Elastic.
• Use AWS CloudFormation and other automation technologies to produce stacks of AWS resources
• Build virtual private networks with Amazon VPC
• Deploy Amazon EC2 instances using command line calls and troubleshoot common problems with instances
• Monitor the health of Amazon EC2 instances and other AWS services
• Manage identity, AWS permissions and security in the AWS Cloud
• Manage resource consumption in an ASW account using tags, Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor
• Determine the best strategy for creating reuseable Amazon EC2 instances
• Configure a set of Amazon EC2 instances that launch behind a load balancer
• Troublseshoot a basic AWS CloudFormation stack definition
• Computer Cloud (Amazon EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and AWS Auto Scaling from the command line

Day 1

• System Operations on AWS Overview
• Networking in the Cloud
• Computing in the Cloud

Day 2

• Storage and Archiving in the Cloud
• Monitoring in the Cloud
• Managing Resource Consumption in the Cloud

Day 3

• Configuration Management in the Cloud
• Creating Scalable Deployments in the Cloud
• Creating Automated and Repeatable Deployments