UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning
UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning · AWS

Systems Operations on AWS Training

LevelIntermediate
Duration3 Days
Experience1 year - AWS Technical Essentials
Average Salary$131,000
LabsYes

Offered to the Jacksonville and Northeast Florida community through UNF Professional and Lifelong Learning in partnership with Applied Technology Academy — live online or in person, taught by ATA's practitioner instructors.

Course Overview

In this course, you will learn how to:

Understand the AWS infrastructures as it related to system operations such as the global infrastructure, core services and account security

  • Use the AWS Command Line Interface, and understand additional administration and development tools
  • Manage, secure, and scale compute instances on AWS
  • Identify container services and services available for serverless computing
  • Build virtual private networks with Amazon VPC
  • Configure and manage storage options utilizing the storage services offered with AWS
  • Monitor the health of your infrastructure with services such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config
  • Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using tags, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Trusted Advisor
  • Create and configure automated and repeatable deployments with tools such as AMIs and AWS CloudFormation
Course Outline
  • Day 1
    • Understanding Systems Operations on AWS
    • Tooling and Automation
    • Computing (Servers)
    • Computing (Scaling and Name Resolution)
  • Day 2
    • Computing (Serverless and Containers)
    • Computing (Database Services)
    • Networking
    • Storing and Archiving
  • Day 3
    • Monitoring and Security
    • Managing Resource Consumption
    • Creating Automated and Repeatable Deployments
Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

  • Systems administrators
  • Software developers, especially those in DevOps roles
Prerequisites

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

  • Successfully completed the AWS Technical Essentials course
  • Background in either software development or systems administration

Proficiency in maintaining operating systems at the command line, such as shell scripting in Linux environments or cmd/PowerShell in Windows

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