Course Outline
Foundations of Cloud Operations on AWS for Government
- Operational roles and responsibilities in the cloud environment
- AWS account structure, organizations, and multi-account strategies for government
- Core operational services: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config
Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning
- Principles of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and immutable infrastructure for government operations
- Provisioning with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation in a secure, compliant manner
- Managing state, modules, and environment promotion to ensure consistency and reliability
CI/CD and Deployment Strategies
- Designing CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications in a government context
- Implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments to minimize downtime
- Automating rollback, health checks, and release validation to ensure service stability
Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting
- Metrics, logs, and traces: shipping, storing, and analyzing data for government compliance
- Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability tools to enhance visibility
- Defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs)/Service Level Indicators (SLIs), alerting policies, and on-call practices for government operations
Security Operations and Identity Management
- IAM best practices, least privilege access, and cross-account access management for government
- Secrets management, Key Management Service (KMS), and secure parameter stores to protect sensitive information
- Operational security: patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit trails for government compliance
Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery
- Designing systems for fault tolerance and high availability in a government context
- Developing backup strategies, automating snapshot creation, and establishing restore procedures
- Planning for disaster recovery and creating runbooks to ensure continuity of operations
Cost Optimization and Governance
- Achieving cost visibility through billing, tagging, and cost allocation strategies
- Implementing rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, and budgeting controls to optimize costs
- Establishing governance policies, guardrails, and automation for compliance in government operations
Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations
- Operational considerations for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Lambda in a government setting
- Service discovery, autoscaling, and resource limits to ensure efficient performance
- Logging, tracing, and debugging containerized workloads to maintain operational integrity
Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering
- Implementing runbook-driven incident response and postmortem practices for government operations
- Automating remediation and self-healing patterns to enhance resilience
- Introducing chaos experiments to validate system resilience in a controlled environment
Hands-on Workshop: Operate a Sample Workload for Government
- Deploying a sample application using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and a CI/CD pipeline for government use
- Implementing monitoring, alerts, and an automated remediation script to ensure operational readiness
- Simulating incidents and practicing runbook-based response to improve incident management capabilities
Summary and Next Steps for Government
Requirements
- A foundational understanding of cloud concepts and networking
- Proficiency with Linux command line operations and scripting
- Experience in source control management (Git) and basic CI/CD principles
Audience for Government
- Cloud Operations Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Platform Engineers
- DevOps Engineers and Technical Team Leads
Testimonials (5)
Trainer had good grasp of concepts
Josheel - Verizon Connect
Course - Amazon Redshift
The practice part.
Radu - Ness Digital Engineering
Course - AWS: A Hands-on Introduction to Cloud Computing
The training was more practical
Siphokazi Biyana - Vodacom SA
Course - Kubernetes on AWS
The trainer knew exactly what they were speaking about.
Madumetsa Msomi - BMW
Course - AWS DevOps Engineers
All good, nothing to improve
