What you'll learn

Manually running admin tasks on every EC2 instance and reacting to performance issues only after users complain does not scale, and it burns out your team. In this course, Automation and Performance Tuning on Amazon Linux, you'll gain the ability to automate routine administration and proactively tune performance on Amazon Linux 2023. First, you'll explore how to build reliable Bash scripts and schedule them with cron and systemd timer units. Next, you'll discover how to operate at fleet scale with AWS Systems Manager using Run Command and Automation documents. Finally, you'll learn how to monitor, diagnose, and tune CPU, memory, and disk I/O performance using native Linux tools and the CloudWatch Agent. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of automation and performance tuning on Amazon Linux needed to keep EC2 fleets running efficiently and predictably.