Gaining Operational Excellence within AWS
This course will teach you how to achieve and maintain operational excellence within your AWS accounts by utilizing AWS provided best practice recommendations.
What you'll learn
Operational Excellence can monitor systems to deliver business value. In this course, Gaining Operational Excellence within AWS, you’ll learn to optimize your AWS workloads using different key AWS services. First, you’ll explore leveraging CloudWatch for monitoring and logging your applications. Next, you’ll discover how to implement CloudTrail for security hardening. Finally, you’ll learn how to use AWS automation services like CloudFormation and Systems Manager to handle Ops heavy tasks . When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of how to leverage AWS provided services needed to gain operational excellence, one of the core pillars of the well architected framework.
Table of contents
- Module Overview 2m
- Cloudwatch Recap 2m
- Cloudwatch Key Concepts 2m
- CloudWatch Demo Overview 1m
- CloudWatch Metrics 7m
- Using CloudWatch Dashboards 3m
- Creating CloudWatch Alarms 8m
- CloudWatch Events Overview 2m
- Creating Scheduled Cloudwatch Events 5m
- Triggering Event-based CloudWatch Events 4m
- Using Custom Logging in CloudWatch Overview 2m
- Setting up Custom Logging in CloudWatch 9m
- Module Review 1m
- Module Overview 1m
- Intro to Systems Manager 2m
- SSM in Hybrid Environments 3m
- Creating Associations and Collecting Inventory 7m
- Automating Commands Using Run Command 6m
- Configuring and Implementing Patch Manager 7m
- Executing Automation Documents 4m
- Hybrid Environments and Managed Instances 6m
- Using Session Manager 2m
- Parameter Store Demo Using Lambda 5m
- Module Review 1m
- Module Overview 1m
- Looking at Infrastructure as Code 4m
- Learning CloudFormation Stacks, Templates, and Changes 4m
- Creating a Cloudformation Stack 9m
- Creating CloudFormation Changes - Change Sets and Direct Updates 5m
- Detecting and Managing Configuration Drift 3m
- Introducing Stacksets And Nested Stacks 1m
- Creating Cloudformation StackSets 6m
- What Is Opsworks? 2m
- High-level Opsworks Overview 3m
- Module Review 1m
- Course Review 2m
About the author
Andru is an experienced architect and engineer who has had many years of hands on experience with numerous cloud and virtualization technologies. Learning the newest technologies is what really drives him, and it is icing on the cake that he has the ability to teach others how to use what he has learned. Teaching the skill sets he has acquired can have lasting impacts on students, and that to him is amazing.