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AWS DevOps Training Program Overview

Our AWS training program is a comprehensive six-month course designed to equip IT career aspirants with the skills needed for four key roles within the cloud space: Solutions Architect, Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Security Architect/Engineer. Whether you have little or no prior IT experience, this program will guide you from the basics of using your laptop to becoming a highly skilled Cloud professional.

In addition to technical training, we offer interview preparation and resume-building support, ensuring you can showcase the skills acquired during the program. This training also prepares you for the following certification exams:


Certification Preparation

By the end of the course, you will be fully prepared to sit for the following AWS certification exams:

  1. AWS Solutions Architect Associate
  2. AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  3. AWS DevOps Engineer

Our all-inclusive training is available at a discounted rate of $1000, with flexible payment options. You can start with a $400 deposit and pay the remaining balance in monthly installments of $200.


For a detailed curriculum and schedule, please refer to our latest technology stack.

Course Prerequisites

 No prior IT background is required to enroll in this course. You will be guided step by step, from the basics to advanced concepts, with all the necessary information provided throughout the program. All you need is the drive and determination to succeed

What You’ll Need

  • Laptop
  • Notebook/Desktop
  • Passion

Curriculum

AWS DevOps Training Program

Core AWS Services and Fundamentals

Compute

  • Introduction to AWS Compute Services
  • Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
  • Amazon EC2 Families
  • Amazon EC2 Pricing Options
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
  • AWS EC2 Lifecycle Manager
  • Global Infrastructure and Reliability

Storage

  • Benefits of Using AWS Storage
  • AWS Storage Advantages
  • Challenges of Cloud Storage
  • Optimizing Storage Costs
  • Comparing On-Premises vs. Cloud Storage
  • AWS Cloud Data Storage Solutions
  • Hybrid Cloud Storage Options
  • Types of AWS Storage Services:
    • Block Storage (AWS Block Storage Services)
    • File Storage (AWS File Storage Services)
    • Object Storage (AWS Object Storage Services)
    • Hybrid Storage (AWS Storage Gateway)
  • Choosing an AWS Storage Service
    • Data Storage Considerations
    • Amazon Backup Services
  • AWS Data Transfer Options:
    • Overview of AWS Migration and Data Transfer Services
    • Data Transfer from On-Premises to AWS Cloud
    • Connection Options: Internet, AWS VPN, AWS Direct Connect
    • Automating Data Transfers using AWS CLI and SDKs

Networking

  • Introduction to AWS Networking
  • Deploying a Basic VPC with One Subnet and Internet Gateway
    • VPC Design and Components Overview
    • Deployment via AWS Management Console or AWS CLI
  • Securing VPCs:
    • VPC Access Management with AWS IAM
    • Network ACLs vs. Security Groups
    • VPC Security Best Practices
  • High Availability VPC Setup:
    • Adding a Second Availability Zone for High Availability
    • Configuring an Application Load Balancer for Traffic Distribution
  • Production-Ready VPC (Three-Tier Architecture):
    • Best Practices: Limiting Resource Exposure
    • Three-Tier VPC Architecture Design
    • When to Use a Single-Tier vs. Multi-Tier VPC
    • Hands-On Lab: Build a Three-Tier VPC
  • VPC Strategy:
    • Corporate Data Center Connectivity with Amazon VPC
    • VPNs using IPSec
    • AWS Direct Connect and Direct Connect Gateway
    • AWS PrivateLink for Secure Connections
    • Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI)
    • Benefits of Hybrid Deployments

Databases

  • Introduction to Databases on AWS
  • AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)
  • Backup and Monitoring for AWS Databases
  • Security and Compliance for Databases

Security

  • Introduction to AWS Security
  • Security Overview: On-Premises vs. AWS Cloud
  • Security in the AWS Cloud:
    • AWS Well-Architected Framework
    • Identity and Access Management (IAM):
      • Authentication vs. Authorization
      • AWS IAM for Access Management
      • Amazon Cognito for Mobile Authentication
      • AWS Directory Service for User Federation
    • Detective Controls:
      • Monitoring Overview
      • Amazon GuardDuty for Threat Detection
      • AWS Security Hub for Prioritizing Security Findings
      • Amazon Macie for Data Monitoring
    • Infrastructure Protection:
      • Securing Compute Resources
      • AWS WAF for Traffic Filtering
      • AWS Shield for DDoS Protection
    • Data Protection:
      • Encryption on AWS
      • AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for Key Management
      • AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Securing Communications
      • AWS Secrets Manager for Managing Credentials
    • Incident Response:
      • Rethinking Incident Response Strategies
      • Using AWS Config for Responding to Incidents

AWS CloudFormation

  • Introduction to CloudFormation
  • Parameters and Intrinsic Functions Overview
  • Bootstrapping with User Data and cfn-init
  • CloudFormation Outputs and Cross-Stack Access
  • CloudFormation Conditions
  • Updating Stacks using Change Sets
  • Layering with Nested Stacks
  • Handling Dependencies: DependsOn
  • WaitConditions and WaitConditionHandles
  • Using CreationPolicy for Stack Creation
  • Stack Policies for Protection
  • Custom Resource Workflow
  • Working with StackSets
  • CloudFormation Helper Scripts (cfn-init, cfn-hup, cfn-signal, etc.)

AWS Lambda

  • Introduction to AWS Lambda
  • Automating Administrative Tasks at Scale with AWS Systems Manager
  • Why Automate?
  • Collecting Metrics for Visibility
  • Automating System Healing and Ensuring Compliance
  • Storing Secrets and Configuration Data Securely
  • Managing Configuration Drift
  • Interactive Access with Session Manager
  • Distributing Software Packages
  • Centralizing Operational Insights

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

  • Environment Setup
  • Version Management
  • Customization and Configuration

AWS OpsWorks

  • Introduction to AWS OpsWorks
  • OpsWorks Stack & Chef Integration
  • Chef Recipes for Automation

Architecting Serverless Solutions

  • Event-Driven Architectures Overview
  • Serverless Mindset: Thinking Serverless
  • Patterns for Event Submission and Data Processing
  • Managing Failures in Event-Driven Architectures
  • Lab: Building Event-Driven Serverless Applications
  • Serverless Application Architectures
  • Migrating to Serverless Architectures
  • Choosing Compute Services and Data Stores
  • Application Architecture Patterns for Serverless
  • Scaling Serverless Architectures
  • Lab Demo: AWS Lambda Power Tuning
  • Scaling Considerations: Databases, Orchestration, and Streaming
  • Testing for Peak Load
  • Securing and Monitoring Serverless Applications
    • AWS X-Ray Demo
    • Lab: Troubleshooting Serverless Applications
  • Serverless Deployment Strategies
    • Sharing Configuration Data
    • Automating the Deployment Pipeline
    • API Gateway for Serverless Applications
    • AWS Lambda Security & Defense in Depth

Ansible

  • Introduction to Ansible
  • Installing Ansible
  • Working with Ansible Inventory
  • Understanding YAML in Ansible
  • Ansible Playbooks and Modules
  • Variables, Conditionals, and Loops
  • Working with Ansible Roles

Docker, ECS, and EKS

  • Introduction to Microservices and Application Modernization
  • Container Concepts and Constructs
  • Container Benefits and Use Cases
  • Container Services on AWS
  • End-to-End Container Workloads on AWS
  • Scaling Challenges for Microservices in Enterprises
  • Key Terminology: Pod, Service, Deployment, Cluster
  • Configuring EKS for Kubernetes Management
  • Differentiating Between AWS Fargate and EKS Managed Node Groups
  • Scheduling Options in EKS
  • Kubernetes Pod Communication and Host Interaction in EKS
  • Accessing Kubernetes Clusters for Monitoring and Management
  • Security Considerations in EKS
  • Managing Upgrades in EKS

Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment (CI/CD)

  • Best Practices for Docker Images
  • Using AWS CodeBuild for CI
  • Best Practices for Delivery and Deployment Pipelines
  • Automating Deployments with AWS CodeDeploy and CodePipeline

Security Governance at Scale

Governance at Scale

  • Understanding the challenges customers face during their cloud journeys
  • Key focal points for governance at scale
  • Addressing security governance challenges

AWS Control Tower Setup

  • Lab 0: AWS Control Tower Setup Instructions
    • Setting up a landing zone
    • Exploring the AWS Cost Explorer dashboard

Governance Automation

  • Multi-account strategies, architecture, and guidance
  • Balancing agility with governance at scale
  • Governance with AWS Control Tower for both new and existing customers

Lab 1: AWS Control Tower Basic Tasks

  • Creating an organizational unit (OU) and enabling a guardrail
  • Enrolling new AWS accounts using Account Factory
  • Enrolling existing accounts

Preventive Controls

  • Addressing enterprise environment challenges for developers
  • Using AWS Service Catalog for resource creation
  • Workflows for provisioning accounts
  • Implementing preventive cost and security governance
  • Enabling self-service with IT service management (ITSM) tools

Lab 2: AWS Service Catalog Portfolios

  • Sharing an administrator portfolio across all accounts in an organization
  • Sharing an AWS Service Catalog portfolio from the management account
  • Granting catalog access permissions to AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) users

Detective Controls

  • Governance operations at scale
  • Resource monitoring and configuration auditing rules
  • Gaining operational insights and performing remediation

AWS Control Tower Customizations

  • Setting up Customizations for Control Tower (CfCT) solution
  • Deploying custom guardrails and roles

Lab 4: AWS Control Tower Customization and Decommission Instructions

  • Decommissioning resources and cleaning up accounts

Bringing It All Together

  • Using engagement frameworks and evaluating requirements
  • Case study: Governance at scale in action

Security, Identity, and Compliance

Introduction

  • Overview of security, identity, and compliance on AWS
  • Comparing security in On-Premises environments vs. AWS Cloud
  • Security in the AWS Cloud: How AWS implements security at scale
  • Aligning with the AWS Well-Architected Framework for best practices

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • Understanding Authentication vs. Authorization
  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for access control
  • Amazon Cognito for secure mobile authentication
  • AWS Directory Service for federating users and simplifying identity management

Detective Controls

  • Monitoring Overview: Setting up effective monitoring systems
  • Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection and alerting
  • AWS Security Hub for aggregating and prioritizing security findings
  • Amazon Macie for monitoring data and detecting sensitive information

Infrastructure Protection

  • Securing compute resources within the cloud
  • AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) for filtering traffic
  • AWS Shield for protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

Data Protection

  • Encryption on AWS: Securing data in transit and at rest
  • AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for managing encryption keys
  • AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for securing communications with SSL/TLS certificates
  • AWS Secrets Manager for securely managing and rotating credentials

Incident Response

  • Rethinking Incident Response: Approaches to managing security incidents in the cloud
  • Using AWS Config for tracking changes and responding to security incidents

Migrating to AWS

Assess

  • Applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework for migration planning
  • Tools and resources for evaluating existing infrastructure
  • Overview of the AWS Migration Methodology
  • Building a strong business case for migration

Mobilize

  • Using AWS Application Discovery Service for gathering data on existing applications
  • Overview of key migration strategies
  • Leveraging AWS Control Tower for managing multi-account environments
  • AWS Management and Governance services to streamline migration

Migrate

  • Migrating servers using AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
  • Migrating with CloudEndure, an AWS company for continuous replication
  • AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for migrating databases
  • Utilizing the AWS Schema Conversion Tool for database schema migration
  • VMware workloads migration with VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Data transfer services for moving large datasets to AWS

Operations

  • Key operational services for post-migration management
  • Utilizing AWS Service Catalog to manage and deploy resources
  • Integrations with AWS Service Catalog to streamline operations after migration

AWS Cost Management Tools and Features

Cost Analysis and Reporting

  • AWS Cost Explorer: Visualize and analyze your AWS costs and usage.
  • AWS Cost & Usage Report: Detailed billing reports for in-depth cost tracking.
  • Consolidated Billing for AWS: Centralize billing across multiple accounts within an organization.

Account Management

  • AWS Organizations: Manage multiple AWS accounts with consolidated billing and governance.
  • AWS Purchase Order Management: Streamline and manage purchase orders directly within AWS.

Cost Monitoring and Control

  • AWS Cost Anomaly Detection: Automatically detect unexpected spending patterns.
  • AWS Budgets: Set custom cost and usage budgets with alerts for threshold breaches.
  • Reserved Instances: Save on long-term workloads by committing to reserved capacity.
  • Savings Plans: Flexible pricing plans for significant cost savings across AWS services.

Pricing Options

  • Amazon EC2 Spot Instances: Utilize unused EC2 capacity at reduced costs.
  • Amazon DynamoDB Pricing: Flexible pricing models for provisioned and on-demand capacity.

Optimization Tools

  • AWS Instance Scheduler: Automate start/stop schedules for EC2 instances to optimize costs.
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: Automatically scale EC2 instances based on demand to reduce waste.
  • AWS Trusted Advisor: Get recommendations on cost optimization, performance, and security.
  • Right Sizing: Identify and adjust underutilized or overprovisioned resources.
  • AWS Compute Optimizer: Receive data-driven recommendations for optimizing EC2 instances and other resources.

Storage Optimization

  • Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering: Automatically move data between storage tiers to optimize costs.

Introduction to AWS Core Technologies

  • AWS Cloud Fundamentals: Understanding the basics of cloud computing and the benefits of using AWS.
  • Why AWS: Exploring why AWS products and services are the right choice for customers.
  • Core Services: Highlighting the value of AWS core services in delivering solutions to customers.

From Services to Solutions

  • Architectural Best Practices: Implementing best practices for designing reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
  • Migration Strategies: Effective strategies for migrating workloads to AWS.
  • Use Cases and Well-Architected Framework: Understanding common use cases and applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework for solution design.

Presenting AWS Solutions to Customers

  • Discovery Questioning: Developing questioning techniques to understand customer needs.
  • Whiteboarding Skills: Using whiteboarding effectively in mock presentations.
  • Proof of Concepts (PoC): Creating successful PoCs to demonstrate AWS solutions.
  • Customer Meetings: Best practices for running productive and engaging customer meetings.

Looking Ahead

  • Implementation and Modernization: Planning and implementing modern solutions on AWS.
  • Cost Considerations: Assessing the cost of AWS solutions and making optimizations to ensure cost-efficiency for customers.

Understanding CI & CD

  • Continuous Integration (CI) Goals: Automating code integration to improve collaboration and reduce integration issues.
  • Continuous Delivery (CD): Ensuring that code changes are always in a deployable state.
  • Continuous Deployment Goals: Automating the release of code to production environments without manual intervention.
  • Immutable Infrastructure: Leveraging infrastructure that cannot be changed after it is deployed, ensuring consistency across environments.

AWS Code Services

  • Source Code Management Options: Tools and strategies for managing code repositories.
  • Branching Strategies: Best practices for branching off the master branch.
  • AWS CodeBuild: Introduction to AWS CodeBuild for automating build processes.
    • Creating a Build Spec YAML File: Defining build configurations for AWS CodeBuild.
  • Jenkins as a CI Server: Utilizing Jenkins as an alternative CI server.

AWS CodeDeploy

  • AppSpec File: Understanding the structure and use of the AppSpec file in AWS CodeDeploy.
  • Revisions: Managing application revisions for deployments.

AWS CodePipeline

  • Introduction to AWS CodePipeline: Orchestrating CI/CD workflows using AWS CodePipeline.
  • Pipeline Actions: Different actions available within AWS CodePipeline.
  • Using AWS Lambda in a Pipeline: Integrating AWS Lambda functions in CI/CD pipelines.

Testing in CI/CD Pipelines

  • Testing Pyramid: Structuring tests for different stages of the pipeline.
  • Continuous Testing with Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automating testing in infrastructure deployments.
  • Testing Scenarios: Key testing scenarios to implement in a CI/CD pipeline.
    • Best Practices for Unit Testing: Ensuring code correctness with unit tests.
    • Integration and Unit Tests: Differentiating between and implementing integration and unit tests.
    • Fault Tolerance Testing: Ensuring system resilience during testing.

Deployment Strategies

  • In-Place Deployments: Deploying updates in the same environment without creating new infrastructure.
  • Rolling Updates: Deploying updates incrementally across instances.
    • Canary Releases: Testing updates with a small subset of instances before full deployment.
  • Blue/Green Deployments: Running two environments (production and new version) and switching traffic between them.
  • Red-Black Deployments: Another strategy for deploying updates without downtime.
  • Immutable or Disposable Updates: Using immutable infrastructure for safer deployments.

Application Deployment Strategies

  • Overview of deployment strategies for ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and reduced downtime during application delivery.

Linux Essentials

Introduction to the Command Line

  • Understanding and navigating the Linux command line interface (CLI)

Managing Physical Storage

  • Configuring and managing physical storage devices on Linux systems

Installing and Configuring Software

  • Installing, configuring, and managing software components and services

Monitoring and Managing Processes

  • Monitoring system performance and managing running processes

File and File System Management

  • Managing, securing, and organizing files and file systems

User and Group Administration

  • Creating, managing, and securing users and groups on Linux systems

System Logs and Issue Review

  • Reviewing system logs and journal entries to identify and troubleshoot issues

System Troubleshooting with Red Hat Insights

  • Analyzing system performance and troubleshooting issues using Red Hat Insights

Remote System Management with SSH

  • Securely managing Linux systems remotely using SSH

Course Duration and Enrollment Details

Upcoming Batch Details:

🔷 Training Start Date: November 23, 2024
🔷 Enrollment Deadline: November 15, 2024

🔷 Duration: 6 Months


Pricing Options

🔷 Discounted Rate: $1000 USD
🔷 Payment Plan:

  • Initial Deposit: $400 USD
  • Monthly Payment: $200 USD

🔷 One-Time Payment Option: $800 USD


Please note: All sales and payments are final – NO REFUNDS.

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