Amazon Web Services (AWS) Operations: Amazon Web Services 2018 intermediate
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- 10 Courses | 8h 7m 16s
- 2 Books | 15h 42m
- 25 Courses | 36h 12m 21s
- 17 Courses | 22h 5m 29s
- 4 Books | 27h 27m
- Includes Lab
Everything systems administrator and devops engineers needs to know about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and large-scale deployments.
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: CodeCommit
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1m 59s
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7m 56s
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Management Tools
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COURSES INCLUDED
Introduction to AWS Services
Explore SysOps administration, core AWS services, and the three-tier architecture.
10 videos |
40m
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Preparing for Cloud Service Management
Explore the process of creating the first AWS account, as well as the various management fundamentals and service control activities.
7 videos |
26m
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Networking Services
Explore the various networking components and services that form a virtual private cloud (VPC) in AWS.
11 videos |
48m
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Security & IAM Services
Explore various security services in AWS including IAM, NACLs, security groups, WAF, and Shield.
13 videos |
1h 10m
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Compute Services
Explore the various compute services in AWS and the aspects that make them distinctive and powerful.
11 videos |
51m
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Storage Services
Explore the main components of storage services, including Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), and Amazon Glacier.
12 videos |
59m
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Database Services
Discover various AWS database services, including RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Redshift, and explore monitoring, maintenance, and security.
11 videos |
50m
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Application Infrastructure
Explore application deployment strategies and how to better deploy and manage AWS.
10 videos |
43m
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Monitoring the AWS Environment
Explore the collection of metrics in Amazon CloudWatch along with other services to monitor and report on management, deployment, and optimization of AWS cloud resources.
11 videos |
54m
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AWS High Availability
Explore highly available AWS architectures and services including Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), Scaling Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and business continuity planning (BCP).
8 videos |
42m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: CodeCommit
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) include automated and repeatable processes that streamline the software development life cycle (SDLC). In this course, you'll examine the AWS CodeCommit service that provides Git-based source code versioning infrastructure for CI/CD. You will begin by exploring the CI/CD pipeline concept, the DevOps model, the AWS CodeCommit service, and how to identify use cases for CodeCommit. Next, secure access to the AWS CodeCommit service, create a repository, and explore various operations using standard Git-based commands. Moving on, you will work with branches, merging, and pull requests and set Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies for fine-grained control of CodeCommit repositories. Finally, configure repository event notifications and AWS Lambda triggers for responding to CodeCommit events. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares you for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam, covering objectives from Domain 1 of the exam topics.
14 videos |
1h 37m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: CodeBuild
The integration phase of a software development lifecycle (SDLC) incorporating continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) principles includes the software build step where key build and test workflows occur. In this course, you'll explore the AWS CodeBuild service that provides fully managed software build services for a CI/CD workflow. Discover the AWS CodeBuild service and learn how to work with CodeBuild projects, including the function of the buildspec file and the specifics of build environments. Next, use AWS CodeBuild projects and manage build output artifacts. Move on to logging and monitoring the CodeBuild service and then configure and integrate CloudWatch alarms with CodeBuild. Focus on test reporting and consider how Jenkins may be integrated with CodeBuild. Finally, configure Jenkins Automation Server on AWS and explore code coverage reporting using CodeCov. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares you for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam.
14 videos |
1h 33m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: AWS CodeDeploy
The deployment phase is the final phase of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a CI/CD workflow. During deployment, code is moved from version control and automated to users. In this course, discover how the AWS CodeDeploy service provides fully-managed software deployment services to various cloud and hybrid compute platforms. Begin by exploring AWS CodeDeploy's main components and applications, investigate how deployments are performed, and learn about AWS CLI configurations. Next, practice EC2 instance configuration and work with deployment configurations and deployment groups. Finally, explore deployment logging and monitoring support and how to configure deployment for automatic rollback from a failed deployment. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares you for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam.
21 videos |
2h 32m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: CodePipeline
A continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is a software development lifecycle (SDLC) construct that models how software moves from version control to release in a sequence of well-defined steps that include commit, build, and deploy stages. In this course, you will explore AWS CodePipeline, associated terminology, actions, executions, and artifacts. Dive into CodePipeline by building a pipeline, integrating with other AWS services, and implementing approvals. Explore how monitoring is realized in CodePipeline and how CodePipeline works with CodeCommit source actions. Configure stage actions and discover how to integrate test actions in CodePipeline. Then, examine security considerations and examine use cases and best practice while using CodePipeline. Finally, integrate CodePipeline with CloudFormation and compose an application using AWS CodeStar. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares you for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam.
20 videos |
1h 47m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Logs & Metrics
In order to manage large, complex cloud systems, computer professionals need information from diverse sources. This information is typically collected in the form of logs and metrics. Today's IT professionals need to understand the tools available to collect and aggregate logs and metrics in the AWS cloud to get maximum benefit from their insight. Begin by exploring the fundamentals and challenges of logging in a distributed architecture. Discover the importance of structured logging and examine methods for collecting logs from various sources, as well as tools for aggregating those logs in a central location for analysis. Then, you will learn how to monitor custom metrics in AWS using CloudWatch, configure log subscription filters to filter logs in CloudWatch, and configure AWs Elastisearch to search for logs from CloudWatch. Finally, focus on the log storage lifecycle for managing logs and the popular Elastisearch, Logstash and, Kibana (ELK stack) for visualizing logs in the cloud. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares you for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam, covering objectives from Domain 3 of the exam topics.
11 videos |
1h 15m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Automated Monitoring
With huge amounts of log and metric data, today's distributed cloud environments are too complex to monitor manually, which is why AWS offers many tools for automating the process of monitoring the system. Discover why it is crucial to automate cloud logging and monitoring. Learn how to monitor your environment with AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs, user activity using AWS CloudTrail, and security threats using AWS Enterprise Security Manager (ESM). Explore the AWS tools available for automating all aspects of system monitoring. Use the AWS Personal Health Dashboard to get an overview of events in the system and enable data event logging in AWS S3. Finally, examine autoscaling groups in AWS and how they can improve failover and reliability. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam, covering objectives from Domain 3 of the exam topics.
11 videos |
55m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: System Monitoring in AWS
Cloud services contain many different technologies working together. These technologies need to be monitored effectively for the entire system to be healthy. Today's IT professional needs to know how to monitor a system in AWS using the correct approaches and tools. In this course, you will learn best practices for monitoring in AWS. Explore the importance of monitoring service metrics using AWS X-Ray and how to use the AWS Config service and config rules for configuration monitoring. Learn how AWS Inspector monitors the environment state to keep the environment healthy. See how to analyze system metrics with AWS Metric Explorer and test an API in AWS. Learn about container monitoring and some of the benefits and challenges of monitoring containers. Finally, discover how automated and manual monitoring can be used together to ensure the health of a system. This course is part of a collection of courses that prepares you for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam, covering objectives from Domain 3 of the exam topics.
11 videos |
1h 4m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Tagging & Metadata Strategies
To monitor a system effectively, you must keep track of every part. AWS cloud solutions rely on massive amounts of resources, information, and strategies for maintaining oversight. Tags and metadata aid in the ordering and oversight of the entire system. In this course, learn about tagging and metadata in AWS. Discover how to validate requests with global condition context keys and use metadata for automation. Next, explore CodeDeploy deployment groups and discover how to use tags to control resource deployment. Finally, learn how to use cost allocation tags for cost analysis. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares you for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam, covering objectives from Domain 3 of the exam topics.
10 videos |
51m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: CloudFormation
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is used to automate the provisioning and management of enterprise infrastructure. With the help of this course, explore AWS CloudFormation to provision and manage enterprise infrastructure using the IaC model. Get started by examining how the IaC model is used to provision infrastructure and learning more about the features of AWS CloudFormation, such as stacks, stack sets, templates, and template components. You will then discover how to incorporate public parameters from SSM, deploy Lambda functions, and custom resources. Once you've completed this course, you'll have a fundamental understanding of AWS CloudFormation, its features, and nuances. This course is part of a collection that prepares learners for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam.
14 videos |
1h 53m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Elastic Beanstalk
Developing on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be overwhelming due to the number of services it offers. As a result, many developers like to use AWS Elastic Beanstalk due to its automatic capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring capabilities. In this course, learn how to manage AWS applications and environments using Elastic Beanstalk. First, explore its features and supported platforms. Next, discover how it deploys applications and how to work with the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EB CLI). Last, practice creating, managing, and deploying various applications. Once you've completed this course, you'll be able to use and support AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This course is part of a collection that prepares learners for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam.
14 videos |
1h 38m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Serverless Architecture
Serverless architectures provide cloud-based server software and hardware management on a pay-per-use basis. Use this course to explore the serverless model in AWS. Begin by exploring use cases for AWS Lambda before examining how to work with Lambda functions, including versions, aliases, and advanced configuration settings. Next, investigate the SAM framework and how it integrates with AWS CodeDeploy before exploring AWS Step Functions. Finally, dive into the world of API Gateway and learn about stages, deployments, and Lambda integration. Upon course completion, you'll be able to use the SAM framework to achieve a serverless architecture. This course is part of a collection that prepares learners for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam.
14 videos |
1h 45m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Container Services
AWS offers various container services you can integrate to create a microservice architecture. Containers use fewer system resources than traditional virtual machines (VMs), and with containers, application deployment is quicker and more flexible. In this course, explore Docker and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). Discover how ECS clusters, task definitions, and services are used to deploy containerized solutions. Next, work with the Elastic Container Registry (ECR) service and ECS to deploy a web application. Finally, learn about the AWS Fargate service and explore the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Upon course completion, you'll be able to use AWS ECS and ECR to deploy containers. This course is part of a collection that prepares learners for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam.
15 videos |
1h 56m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Configuration Management
Configuration management is a process for keeping your computer systems consistent, both with running servers and servers yet to be built. Configuration management helps you centrally define the exact state of your infrastructure. AWS offers tools to aid you in the configuration management aspects of your AWS deployments. Explore the concept of configuration as code (CaC) and its key benefits. Investigate the features of the AWS OpsWorks and the AWS Config services. Discover AWS OpsWorks Stacks for managing applications and servers, OpsWorks for Chef Automate with powerful automation tools for security and compliance, and the infrastructure and application management tools of OpsWorks for Puppet. Examine the various OpsWorks lifecycle events and finish this course by using the AWS Config service to evaluate and monitor the configurations of your AWS resources. This course is part of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C01) certification exam.
14 videos |
1h 26m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Incident Logging & Response
Service downtime and security incidents may lead to lost revenue and negative customer experiences. Regular health checks and effective monitoring detects issues before they cause complete outages. DevOps engineers must know how to monitor resource health, performance, and security incidents across distributed applications and systems on the AWS platform. In this course, you'll learn how to detect and respond to security incidents. Discover how to leverage AWS CloudWatch for application and infrastructure monitoring. Explore how to use logging to monitor application, operating system, and infrastructure health and performance. Finally, learn about delivery models for logs and metrics. This course is part of a series that helps learners prepare for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam (DOP-C01), focusing on objectives from Domain 4 of the exam requirements.
12 videos |
1h 14m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Cost Management & Optimization
Cost management allows enterprises to monitor and manage costs associated with its cloud technology in an environment where costs can spiral out of control. DevOps engineers must know how to use automated tools to manage costs on the AWS platform effectively. Explore how to use cost management tools like AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets to track, budget, and optimize costs. Learn about AWS CloudFormation and Service Catalog and how to automate repeatable functions to save time and reduce cost. Finally, discover how to detect resource drift and automate cost optimization using Trusted Advisor. This course is part of a series that helps learners prepare for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam (DOP-C01), focusing on objectives from Domain 4 of the exam requirements.
12 videos |
1h 19m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Governance & Compliance
Cloud governance is a framework of policies and standards that help enterprises manage their cloud infrastructure operations and security. This ensures that as the enterprise cloud footprint grows, its objectives are met without breaching compliance obligations or exceeding risk tolerance. DevOps engineers must be prepared to effectively deploy and manage governance strategies across the AWS platform. Explore how to broadly apply governance standards across the CI/CD pipeline and measure compliance with these standards in real-time. Learn how to report on compliance with governance strategies. Finally, discover how to deploy governance policies to specific services. This course is part of a series that helps learners prepare for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam (DOP-C01), focusing on objectives from Domain 4 of the exam requirements.
12 videos |
1h 22m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Troubleshoot & Restore Operations
Troubleshooting issues and being able to restore operations is a critical part of AWS incident and event response. In this course, you will begin by learning how to narrow down unhealthy components, mitigate the impact of increased load, and respond to and understand the causes and impacts of failure. Learn how to investigate logged events to correlate them to application components and learn about incident domains and Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. Identify the best operational practices, rollback, and backup procedures. Finally, you will recognize the benefits of monitoring and observability and how to utilize and benefit from metrics and alarms. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for Domain 5: Incident and Event Response of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam.
12 videos |
1h 23m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Event Management & Alerting
Automation of event management and alerting is a crucial part of AWS incident and event response. In this course, learn how to create automated restores from backup, deliver alerts and notifications, assess alerts, and update limits proactively. Investigate code repository best practices, including when and how to implement them. Explore custom metrics and practice updating limits with an AWS limit monitor. Take a look at hybrid cloud deployments and cost optimization. Finally, focus on the benefits of the different types of Amazon Kinesis and how to use AWS Lambda to consume events from a Kinesis stream. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for Domain 5: Incident and Event Response of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam.
12 videos |
1h 20m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Automated Healing
Automated healing has a key role in AWS incident and event response. In this course, learn how to develop a scaling strategy to enable auto healing when a failure occurs and use rollback to avoid the impact of failed deployments. Next, discover how to configure Route 53, detect and respond to Spot termination or maintenance events, and configure auto healing notifications. Finally, examine the features and services of Elastic Beanstalk and learn how to create a scalable self-healing architecture. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for Domain 5: Incident and Event Response of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam.
12 videos |
1h 5m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Event-driven Automated Actions
Event-driven automated actions are an essential part of AWS incident and event response. In this course, learn how to set up event-driven automated actions, configure Lambda functions, and utilize CloudWatch. Next, work with AWS Systems Manager, configure a rollout process to respond automatically to software updates, and explore event-driven architecture and design patterns. Finally, work with AWS OpsWorks, examine pipeline processes, and discover how to utilize and benefit from actions, events, rules, and targets. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for Domain 5: Incident and Event Response of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam.
12 videos |
1h 6m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Multi-AZ & Multi-Region Architectures
Determining when to use Multi-AZ vs. Multi-Region architectures is a crucial part of AWS high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. In this course, learn how to determine deployment strategies based on high availability and disaster recovery requirements and determine a data replication strategy based on specific requirements like cost and durability. Next, discover how to determine which services are needed based on requirements. Finally, explore how to design high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery based on service availability. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam.
13 videos |
1h 4m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Deployment Strategies
Implementing deployment strategies is an important part of AWS high availability (HA), fault tolerance (FT), and disaster recovery (DR). In this course, learn how to design deployment strategies to help support your high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability needs. Next, discover how to assess the statefulness of various application infrastructure components and distribute traffic across multiple instance types using load balancing. Finally, practice using Amazon ElastiCache, CloudFront, and Route 53 to cache solutions and improve availability and performance. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam.
13 videos |
1h 41m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Services Based Needs
Determining which services are required based on business needs is integral for AWS High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance (FT), and Disaster Recovery (DR). In this course, examine various AWS services and learn how to use Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering, Amazon S3 Glacier storage, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Amazon OpenSearch to determine cost-effective storage for applications. Next, discover how to choose configuration and platform requirements for your database, which deployment service/model is ideal, and when to use a managed service over a self-managed service. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam.
13 videos |
1h 28m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Disaster Recovery Strategies
Determining how to design and automate disaster recovery strategies is paramount for properly utilizing AWS high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. In this course, learn how to design for and use AWS disaster recovery and examine some of the available disaster recovery options. Next, explore how to automate failure detection as well as component and environmental recovery. Finally, discover how to choose appropriate deployment strategies and design and support failover in hybrid environments. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam.
16 videos |
1h 43m
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AWS DevOps Engineer Professional 2021: Points of Failure Deployments
Evaluating deployments for points of failure is a key role in AWS high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. In this course, learn how to implement deployment-specific health checks, failure detection, and failure event handling and response. Next, discover how to ensure measures are put in place to react appropriately to failures during deployment and troubleshoot them. Next, explore how to identify exit codes on events and use AWS Cloud Map to map errors to various points of deployment. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for Domain 6: High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01) Exam.
11 videos |
1h 4m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Management Tools
The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides best practices for managing and using AWS services, including software developer solutions related to continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Use this course to explore the framework as well as various software developer solutions in the AWS Cloud. Start by learning how to manage AWS using the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, AWS Tools for PowerShell, and CloudFormation templates. You'll then work with resource groups and discover how to tag resources using the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, and AWS Tools for PowerShell. After completing this course, you'll have the skills to implement various AWS management tools and be a step closer to preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
19 videos |
2h 7m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Storage Management
Cloud storage provides virtually unlimited capacity for AWS customers. Through this course, learn more about the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket usage and configuration settings. Begin by examining how to deploy and manage S3 buckets using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS Tools for PowerShell. You'll then work with CloudFront and learn how to enable static website hosting for an S3 bucket. This course will also help you discover the steps involved in configuring a cloud-based file share using Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) and deploying AWS Storage Gateway to link on-premises storage to cloud storage. Upon completion of this course, you'll have the skills to implement AWS storage management solutions and be further in your journey of preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
16 videos |
1h 41m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Database & EBS Volume Management
Various applications depend on databases, which can be deployed with little effort in the AWS cloud. Begin by exploring the difference between SQL and NoSQL databases. You'll then learn about the supported database solutions in AWS. Next, you'll deploy SQL databases, DynamoDB, and MySQL and learn how ElastiCache can be used as an in-memory database cache to enhance database performance. Next, you'll deploy Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS Tools for PowerShell. Upon completion of this course, you'll have the skills to deploy databases and manage EBS volumes for EC2 instances and be further in your journey of preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
10 videos |
54m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Network Configuration
Networks in the cloud are configured through software-defined networking (SDN), which hides the underlying complexities of configuring devices such as network switches and routers. Use this course to gain a deeper understanding of how to manage the AWS network. You'll begin by examining IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, elastic IP (EIP) address resources, and virtual private clouds (VPCs). You will then work with DHCP settings, VPC peering and transit gateways, NAT and Internet gateways, and egress-only internet gateways. This course will also help you determine the use of AWS Direct Connect. After completing this course, you'll be able to provision and manage various AWS network components, further preparing you for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
19 videos |
1h 54m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Network Security
Network security is achieved through a number of solutions. Through this course, you'll examine various aspects of AWS network security. Begin by exploring how packet filtering firewalls allow or deny traffic based on the contents of packet headers (and not payload). You'll then recognize how forward proxies fetch internet content for users while reverse proxies hide the true identity of services accessed through the proxy device. Moving on, you'll also compare port and network address translation, manage security groups and network ACLs, and work with the AWS Network Firewall, AWS Firewall Manager, and the AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF). Once you have finished this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to manage network security within the AWS cloud by implementing the appropriate network security measure. You'll also be a step further in preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
16 videos |
1h 28m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: VPNs & Data Privacy
Providing confidentiality for sensitive data is crucial for data at rest, in use, and in transit. Use this course to learn more about the different ways in which data can be secured. Begin by examining how to deploy a client-to-site and site-to-site VPN configuration to the AWS cloud. Next, you'll work with AWS Secrets Manager, investigate the steps involved in creating an encryption key, and discover how to encrypt an S3 bucket using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS Tools for PowerShell. You'll also explore the constituents of PII and learn to classify data using Amazon Macie. Once you have finished this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of VPNs and data privacy in the AWS cloud. Moreover, you'll be a step further in preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
13 videos |
1h 15m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: DNS Name Resolution
Name resolution resolves fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) to IP addresses and is the most common use of the Domain Name System (DNS). Use this course to get familiar with DNS terminology and learn more about managing DNS name resolution using AWS Route 53. Start by examining DNS record types such as A, AAAA, PTR, and MX. You'll then discover the steps for deploying and managing public and private hosted DNZ zones using Route 53 with the help of the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS Tools for PowerShell. Next, you'll review various types of DNS routing policies and work with the Route 53 resolver. You'll wrap up by exploring how to configure custom DNS servers. Once you're done with this course, you'll have a solid grasp of DNS name resolution and be a step further in preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
11 videos |
1h 1m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: EC2 Instance Deployment & Sizing
Virtual machines are the workhorses that underlie cloud services and can be manually deployed, configured, and managed. Through this course, you'll explore EC2 instance settings related to Windows and Linux virtual machines. Begin by investigating how to deploy Linux instances using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS Tools for PowerShell, followed by remotely manage those instances using the Secure Shell Protocol (SSH). Moving on, you'll delve deeper into deploying Windows instances using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS Tools for PowerShell, followed by remotely managing those instances using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Finally, you'll examine how to resize EC2 instances. After completing this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to manage and deploy EC2 instance virtual machines in the AWS cloud. Further, you'll be closer to preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
17 videos |
1h 48m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: EC2 Instance Management
AWS offers many services for automating the deployment and management of various cloud resources, such as EC2 instance virtual machines and web applications. Use this course to learn more about instance management using the AWS Management Console, CLI, and PowerShell, as well as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Start by examining how CloudFormation templates can be used to deploy resources and explore ways to work with configuration and app management using OpsWorks, Elastic Beanstalk, and AWS Systems Manager. Finally, you'll investigate steps to create a simple Lambda function and schedule AWS management tasks. Once you have completed this course, you'll be able to automate cloud resource deployment and management and be closer to preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
16 videos |
1h 32m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Application Containers
Modern applications are broken into smaller components, or microservices, which collectively comprise a larger application. Many of these microservices come in the form of containerized applications. Through this course, you'll explore application containers and how they serve as a logical boundary for running applications or application components. Examine how containers store app binaries, libraries, and configuration files and do not contain operating systems. You'll then learn more about managing Docker containers on a Linux host and container images in an AWS container registry. You'll wrap up by discovering how to deploy containers in AWS using the Elastic Container Service (ECS). After you are done with this course, you'll be able to manage and deploy containers in the AWS cloud. Further, you'll be closer to preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
6 videos |
35m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Directory Services
A network directory service is a centralized or replicated database containing users, groups, computers, application configuration settings, and potentially much more. Many organizations use Microsoft Active Directory on-premises to store these types of network objects. Use this course to explore network directory services in the AWS cloud. Get started by investigating how to work with Active Directory (AD) and managing AD users and groups. You'll also learn about the steps involved in deploying simple AD and the AWS AD Connector to link an on-premises AD system to the AWS cloud. Having completed this course, you'll be able to manage directory services objects in the AWS cloud and be further in your journey of preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
9 videos |
45m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Cryptography
Cryptography is used to secure sensitive information through algorithms that can encrypt or scramble data to ensure data integrity and authentication (hashing algorithms). Delve deeper into cryptography and surrounding concepts through this course. Begin by learning more about symmetric and asymmetric encryption before moving on to Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). You'll then explore the PKI hierarchy and certificate contents along with the certificate lifecycle. Next, you'll discover how to work with AWS Certificate Manager to create a private CA and provision certificates. You'll wrap this course up by getting a closer look at the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Once you're done with this course, you'll be able to secure resources in the AWS cloud using cryptography and PKI. Moreover, you'll also be closer to preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
10 videos |
54m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Identity & Access Management
Identity and access management (IAM) refers to the creation and configuration of identities and limited access to resources. Through this course, examine how resource access is secured within the AWS cloud. Begin by exploring IAM and identity federation before delving deeper into the steps involved in managing IAM users and groups using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS Tools for PowerShell. Next, you'll work with IAM policies and roles using the GUI and command-line tools. Moving on, you'll learn how to grant permissions to AWS resources, enable multifactor authentication (MFA), and manage AWS organizations and AWS Control Tower. You'll wrap up by discovering how to configure AWS single sign-on (SSO). After completing this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of identity and access management in the AWS cloud and be a step closer to preparing for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
20 videos |
1h 49m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Managing AWS Costs
Cloud computing uses an ongoing operating expense (OPEX) model as opposed to the capital expenditure (CAPEX) model required to host IT equipment and services entirely on-premises. Use this course to learn how to set up various AWS cost management strategies. Begin by reviewing these strategies before practicing using tags for cost tracking. Next, analyze costs using the Cost Explorer tool and identify underutilized resources. Moving on, configure AWS budgets, EC2 spot instances, and EC2 as well as RDS reserved instances. Lastly, configure an AWS savings plan and work with consolidated billing. By the end of this course, you'll be able to set up cost-saving strategies for all your AWS services. Furthermore, this course will help you prepare for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
13 videos |
1h 11m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: AWS & Business Continuity
Business continuity ensures that business processes continue in the event of a disruption. This process includes disaster recovery planning, which strives to reduce downtime and data loss, and incident response plan implementation, which helps minimize impacts during an incident. In this course, you'll review both aforementioned methods before learning how to define AWS methods for achieving high availability, implementing load balancing, identifying horizontal and vertical scaling, and configuring AWS Auto Scaling. As you advance, you'll configure database replicas for high availability. At the end of the course, you'll be able to confidently use AWS features to ensure business continuity in the case of a disaster. You'll also be more prepared for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
12 videos |
1h 8m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Data Availability
Data availability ensures that the data essential to running a business is accessible even in times of disruption. Safeguarding the availability of data is as much a security concern as confidentiality and integrity are. Use this course to become acclimatized with the various backup and restore terminologies and strategies available through AWS. You'll start with a theoretical overview before moving on to the practical tasks of configuring AWS backups, creating various types of AWS resource snapshots, and implementing S3 bucket versioning. As you advance, you'll enable S3 bucket lifecycle rules and S3 cross-region replication. This course is part of a series that helps prepare learners for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
9 videos |
42m
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AWS SysOps Associate 2021: Monitoring AWS
Monitoring AWS resource usage and activity has the advantage of optimizing performance in addition to detecting potential security incidents. Use this course to get to grips with the logging and monitoring strategies available through AWS. Start with a theoretical overview before moving on to several practical tasks, such as setting up monitoring in CloudWatch and configuring alarms and notifications. Create a CloudWatch dashboard and learn how to detect security issues using Security Hub, GuardDuty, and other AWS tools. Moving on, practice using CloudTrail for auditing before working with other tools, such as the AWS Trusted Advisor, to assess security compliance. This course is part of a series that helps prepare learners for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam, SOA-C02.
13 videos |
1h 11m
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Official Study Guide: Associate ExamBridging the gap between exam preparation and real-world readiness, this comprehensive resource covers exam objectives while guiding you through hands-on exercises based on situations you'll likely encounter as an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
10h 28m
By Stephen Cole, et al.
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AWS for Admins for DummiesWritten in a language you can understand, this book provides simple procedures you can follow to set up and configure the right environment, and helps you assess your move to the cloud, explains any quirks in the software, and gets you up and running in no time.
5h 14m
By John Paul Mueller
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AWS for Admins for DummiesWritten in a language you can understand, this book provides simple procedures you can follow to set up and configure the right environment, and helps you assess your move to the cloud, explains any quirks in the software, and gets you up and running in no time.
5h 14m
By John Paul Mueller
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Amazon Web Services in Action, Second EditionA comprehensive introduction to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud, this book offers clear, relevant coverage of all the essential AWS services you need to know, emphasizing best practices for security, high availability and scalability.
7h 20m
By Andreas Wittig, Michael Wittig
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Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of LunchesThis book guides you through the process of building a robust and secure web application using the core AWS services you really need to know.
3h 50m
By David Clinton
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Practice Tests: Associate SOA-C01 ExamCovering 100% of exam objectives for Amazon's Associate SOA-C01 Exam, this must-read resource will help you test your knowledge and hone your skills with 1,000 practice questions.
11h 3m
By Ben Piper, Sara Perrott
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 2021: AWS Policies and Standards Automation Competency (Intermediate Level)
The AWS Policies and Standards Automation Competency benchmark measures your skills for setting up automatic monitoring and response to health and performance incidents. You will be evaluated on your skills to set up automatic cost management, budgeting, and optimization of resource costs. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates that they have the skills necessary to apply governance standards and monitor compliance with the governance strategy.
15m
| 15 questions
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 2021: AWS Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code Competency (Intermediate Level)
The AWS Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code Competency benchmark evaluates your knowledge of how AWS CloudFormation can be used to automatically provision and manage infrastructure, as well as how and why AWS Elastic Beanstalk is used. You will be evaluated on your implementation skills for AWS Lambda and API Gateway deployments, knowledge of differentiation between Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR), and your ECS and ECR container application skills. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates that they have the skills necessary to outline the importance of configuration management in an AWS environment and can use AWS tools for configuration management.
29m
| 29 questions
