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Course Outline
Establishing Cloud Operational Frameworks on AWS
- Defining operational roles, accountability structures, and duties for government cloud environments
- Configuring AWS account hierarchies, organizational units, and multi-account strategies for secure governance
- Utilizing core operational services including CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config for compliance and oversight
Infrastructure as Code and Automated Provisioning
- Applying Infrastructure-as-Code principles and immutable infrastructure standards for consistent operations
- Implementing automated provisioning using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation to ensure repeatability
- Managing state files, modular configurations, and controlled environment promotion for government workloads
Continuous Integration and Delivery with Secure Deployment Strategies
- Architecting CI/CD pipelines optimized for cloud-native applications and public sector security requirements
- Employing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment methods to minimize operational risk
- Automating rollback mechanisms, health monitoring, and release validation to ensure service integrity
Comprehensive Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting Protocols
- Ingesting, storing, and analyzing metrics, logs, and distributed traces for operational visibility
- Integrating CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and third-party observability platforms for holistic monitoring
- Establishing Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and on-call escalation practices
Security Operations and Identity Governance
- Enforcing IAM best practices, strict least-privilege access controls, and secure cross-account policies for government systems
- Managing secrets, Key Management Service (KMS) integrations, and secure parameter storage
- Implementing operational security measures including patching cadences, vulnerability scanning, and audit trail maintenance
Resilience, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Designing systems for fault tolerance and high availability to ensure continuity of operations
- Defining backup strategies, automating snapshot creation, and establishing verified restore procedures
- Developing comprehensive disaster recovery plans and actionable runbooks for rapid response
Cost Optimization and Administrative Governance
- Achieving cost transparency through accurate billing, resource tagging, and allocation strategies
- Optimizing resource usage via rightsizing, reserved instances, savings plans, and budgetary controls
- Applying governance frameworks, policy guardrails, and automated compliance checks for government adherence
Containerization, Serverless Architectures, and Runtime Management
- Addressing operational considerations for ECS, EKS, and Lambda services in production environments
- Configuring service discovery, autoscaling policies, and resource allocation limits for efficiency
- Enhancing logging, tracing, and debugging capabilities for containerized and serverless workloads
Incident Response, Standardized Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering
- Executing runbook-driven incident response and conducting rigorous postmortem analyses
- Automating remediation processes and implementing self-healing patterns for system resilience
- Utilizing chaos engineering experiments to validate system reliability and failover mechanisms
Practical Workshop: Executing a Representative Workload
- Deploying a representative application using Infrastructure-as-Code and integrated CI/CD pipelines
- Implementing monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation scripts for proactive management
- Simulating operational incidents and executing runbook-based response procedures for training purposes
Conclusion and Strategic Next Steps
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of cloud computing concepts and network architecture
- Proficiency with the Linux command line and basic scripting languages
- Working experience with source control systems (Git) and basic CI/CD workflows
Target Audience
- Cloud operations engineers and technical specialists
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and platform engineers
- DevOps engineers and technical team leaders overseeing infrastructure governance
21 Hours
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