AWS Ramp-Up Guide: Operations

For Systems Administrators and Systems Operations Professionals Updated July 2020

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Learn the fundamentals of AWS Cloud

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Step 1: Dive deeper into AWS Cloud fundamentals, including AWS pricing and cost management

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Step 2: Learn cloud operations concepts and best practices

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Introduction to the AWS Well-Architected Framework 2 hours Whitepaper »

Build VPC, S3, EC2, and RDS Products with AWS Service Catalog* 1 hour Hands-on Lab »
AWS Well-Architected Framework 10 minutes Webpage »
Introduction to AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) 10 minutes Digital Training »
Introduction to AWS Auto Scaling 10 minutes Digital Training »
Introduction to Amazon EC2 Systems Manager 10 minutes Digital Training »
Deep Dive into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) 2.5 hours Digital Training »
Introduction to Amazon Route 53 10 minutes Digital Training »
Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 10 minutes Digital Training »
Monitoring Security Groups with Amazon CloudWatch Events* 1 hour Hands-on Lab »
Subnets, Gateways, and Route Tables Explained 10 minutes Digital Training »
Using AWS Lambda with Amazon CloudWatch and SNS to Implement a Slack Chat Bot* 1 hour Hands-on Lab »
Systems Operations on AWS 3 days Classroom Training »
AWS Security Best Practices 2 hours Whitepaper »
CloudWatch Tutorials 2 hours Tutorials »
Development and Test on AWS 30 minutes Whitepaper »
Migrating to AWS 2 days Classroom Training »
Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes 2 hours Whitepaper »
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Connectivity Options 45 minutes Whitepaper »

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Step 2: Learn cloud operations concepts and best practices

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SysOps Administrator - Associate quest 7 hours Hands-on Lab »

Enterprise Backup & Recovery On-Premises to AWS 4 hours Whitepaper »
Backup and Recovery Approaches using AWS 1 hour Whitepaper »
Managing your AWS Infrastructure at Scale 45 minutes Whitepaper »
AWS Inventory and Patch Management Well-Architected Lab 2 hours Workshop »
Serverless Architectures using Amazon CloudWatch Events and Scheduled Events with AWS Lambda* 1 hour Hands-on Lab »
Collecting and Analyzing Logs with Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights* 90 minutes Hands-on Lab »
Monitoring and Observability: One Observability Demo* 3 hours Workshop »
Infrastructure as Code 45 minutes Whitepaper »

Step 3: Prepare for and take the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator-Associate certification

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SysAdmin on AWS for Windows 5 hours Hands-on Lab »

Deploy a reliable multi-tier infrastructure using CloudFormation* 4 hours Workshop »
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Exam Readiness: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate 1.5 hours
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate 2 hours Exam »

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