We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Attended the AWS Technical Essentials course

• Background in either software development or systems administration

• Some experience with maintaining operating systems at the command line (shell scripting in Linux environments, cmd or PowerShell in Windows)

• Basic knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)

This course will be delivered through a mix of:

• Instructor-Led Training (ILT)

• Hands-on Labs

This programme is intended

• System Administrators

• Software Developers, especially those in a Developer Operations (DevOps) role

This course teaches you how to:

• Use standard AWS infrastructure features such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling from the command line

• Use AWS CloudFormation and other automation technologies to produce stacks of AWS resources that can be deployed in an automated, repeatable fashion

• Build functioning virtual private networks with Amazon VPC from the ground up using the AWS Management Console

• Deploy Amazon EC2 instances using command line calls and troubleshoot the most common problems with instances

• Monitor the health of Amazon EC2 instances and other AWS services

• Manage user identity, AWS permissions, and security in the cloud

• Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, tagging, and Trusted Advisor

• Select and implement the best strategy for creating reusable Amazon EC2 instances

• Configure a set of Amazon EC2 instances that launch behind a load balancer, with the system scaling up and down in response to demand

• Edit and troubleshoot a basic AWS CloudFormation stack definition

• Storage and Archiving in the Cloud

• Monitoring in the Cloud

• Managing Resource Consumption in the Cloud

• Configuration Management in the Cloud

• Creating Scalable Deployments in the Cloud

• Creating Automated and Repeatable Deployments