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1. EC2 for SysOps

  • About the EC2 Console Changes
  • Launching an EC2 Instance
  • Changing EC2 Instance Type
  • EC2 Placement Groups
  • EC2 Shutdown Behavior & Termination Protection
  • Troubleshooting EC2 Launch Issues
  • Troubleshooting EC2 SSH Issues
  • EC2 Instances Launch Types Deep Dive with Hands On
  • Spot Instances & Spot Fleet
  • EC2 AMIs with Hands On
  • Cross Account AMI Copy
  • Elastic IPs
  • CloudWatch Metrics for EC2
  • CloudWatch – Unified CloudWatch Agent

3. EC2 High Availability and Scalability

  • What is High Availability and Scalability ?
  • Load Balancer Overview with Hands On using SSM
  • Load Balancer Stickiness
  • ELBs for SysOps
  • Metrics, Logging and Tracing for ELBs
  • Auto Scaling Groups Overview with Hands On (with ELB Health Checks!)
  • ASG Scaling Processes Hands On
  • ASG for SysOps
  • CloudWatch for ASG

5. CloudFormation for SysOps

  • CloudFormation Overview
  • CloudFormation Create Stack Hands On
  • CloudFormation Update and Delete Stack
  • YAML Crash Course
  • CloudFormation Parameters
  • CloudFormation Resources
  • CloudFormation Mappings
  • CloudFormation Outputs
  • CloudFormation Conditions
  • CloudFormation Intrinsic Functions
  • CloudFormation User Data
  • CloudFormation cfn-init
  • CloudFormation cfn-signal and wait conditions
  • CloudFormation cfn-signal failures troubleshooting
  • CloudFormation Rollbacks
  • CloudFormation Nested Stacks
  • CloudFormation ChangeSets
  • CloudFormation DeletionPolicy
  • CloudFormation TerminationProtection
  • ASG – CloudFormation CreationPolicy
  • ASG – CloudFormation UpdatePolicy

7. S3 Fundamentals

  • S3 Fundamentals Section Introduction
  • S3 Buckets and Objects with Hands On
  • S3 Versioning – Basics with Hands On
  • S3 Encryption with Hands On
  • S3 Security & Bucket Policies with Hands On
  • S3 Websites
  • S3 CORS with Hands On
  • S3 Consistency Model

9. Databases for SysOps

  • RDS Overview with Hands On
  • RDS Multi AZ vs Read Replicas with Hands On
  • RDS Parameter Groups
  • RDS Backup vs Snapshots
  • RDS Security
  • RDS API & Hands On
  • RDS & CloudWatch
  • RDS Performance Insights
  • Aurora Overview with Hands On
  • ElastiCache with Hands On

11. AWS Account Management

  • AWS Health Dashboards
  • AWS Organizations Overview with Hands On
  • AWS Service Catalog Overview with Hands On
  • AWS Billing Alarms
  • AWS Cost Explorer
  • AWS Budgets
  • AWS Cost Allocation Tags

13. Networking – Route 53

  • Route 53 Overview with Hands On
  • Route 53 – EC2 Setup
  • Route 53 – TTL
  • CNAME vs Alias
  • Routing Policy – Simple, Weighted, Latency
  • Route 53 Health Checks
  • Routing Policy – Failover, Geolocation, Multi Value
  • 3rd Party Domains & Route 53

2. Managing EC2 at Scale – Systems Manager (SSM) & Opswork

  • Systems Manager Overview
  • Start EC2 Instances with SSM Agent
  • AWS Tags & SSM Resource Groups
  • SSM Documents & SSM Run Command
  • SSM Inventory & Patches
  • SSM Secure Shell
  • What if I lose my EC2 SSH key?
  • SSM Parameter Store with Hands On (CLI)
  • AWS Opsworks Overview
  • SSM Cleanup

4. Elastic Beanstalk for SysOps

  • Beanstalk Overview
  • Beanstalk First Environment
  • Beanstalk Second Environment
  • Beanstalk Deployment Modes with Hands-On
  • Beanstalk for SysOps

6. EC2 Storage and Data Management – EBS and EFS

  • EBS Volume Types Deep Dive
  • EBS Volume Burst
  • EBS Computing Throughput
  • EBS Operation: Volume Resizing
  • EBS Operation: Snapshots
  • EBS Operation: Volume Migration
  • EBS Operation: Volume Encryption
  • EBS vs Instance Store
  • EBS for SysOps
  • EBS RAID configurations
  • CloudWatch & EBS
  • EFS Overview with Hands On

8. S3 Storage and Data Management – For SysOps (incl Glacier, Athena & Snowball)

  • S3 Versioning Advanced – for SysOps
  • S3 MFA Delete with Hands On
  • S3 Default Encryption
  • S3 Access Logs with Hands On
  • S3 Replication (Cross Region and Same Region) with Hands On
  • S3 Policies Hands On
  • S3 Pre-signed URLs with Hands On
  • CloudFront Overview
  • CloudFront with S3 – Hands On
  • CloudFront Monitoring
  • S3 Inventory
  • S3 Storage Classes + Glacier with Hands On
  • S3 Lifecycle Rules with Hands On
  • S3 Performance
  • S3 & Glacier Select
  • S3 Event Notifications with Hands On
  • S3 Analytics
  • Glacier Overview
  • Snowball Overview with Hands On
  • Storage Gateway for S3 with Hands On
  • Athena Overview with Hands On

10. Monitoring, Auditing and Performance

  • CloudWatch Metrics
  • CloudWatch Dashboards
  • CloudWatch Logs
  • CloudWatch Alarms
  • CloudWatch Events
  • CloudTrail
  • Config Overview with Hands On
  • CloudWatch vs CloudTrail vs Config

12. Security and Compliance for SysOps

  • Shared Responsibility Model
  • DDoS, AWS Shield and AWS WAF
  • AWS Inspector
  • Logging in AWS
  • GuardDuty
  • Trusted Advisor
  • Encryption 101
  • KMS Overview + Encryption in Place
  • CloudHSM Overview
  • KMS + CloudHSM Hands On
  • MFA + IAM Credentials Report
  • IAM PassRole Action
  • STS & Cross Account Access
  • Identity Federation with SAML & Cognito
  • JSON Policies Lab
  • AWS Compliance Frameworks
  • AWS Artifact

14. Networking – VPC

  • CIDR, Private vs Public IP
  • Default VPC Overview
  • VPC Overview and Hands On
  • Subnet Overview and Hands On
  • Internet Gateways & Route Tables
  • NAT Instances
  • NAT Gateways
  • DNS Resolution Options & Route 53 Private Zones
  • NACL & Security Groups
  • VPC Peering
  • VPC Endpoints
  • VPC Flow Logs + Athena
  • VPC Flow Logs Troubleshooting for NACL and SG
  • Bastion Hosts
  • Site to Site VPN, Virtual Private Gateway & Customer Gateway
  • Direct Connect & Direct Connect Gateway
  • Egress Only Internet Gateway
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