This course provides detail on the AWS Management & Governance services relevant to the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam.
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Learning Objectives
- Learn how AWS AppConfig can reduce errors in configuration changes and prevent application downtime
- Understand how the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) can be used to model and provision application resources using common programming languages
- Get a high-level understanding of Amazon CloudWatch
- Learn about the features and use cases of the service
- Create your own CloudWatch dashboard to monitor the items that are important to you
- Understand how CloudWatch dashboards can be shared across accounts
- Understand the cost structure of CloudWatch dashboards and the limitations of the service
- Review how monitored metrics go into an ALARM state
- Learn about the challenges of creating CloudWatch Alarms and the benefits of using machine learning in alarm management
- Know how to create a CloudWatch Alarm using Anomaly Detection
- Learn what types of metrics are suitable for use with Anomaly Detection
- Create your own CloudWatch log subscription
- Learn how AWS CloudTrail enables auditing and governance of your AWS account
- Understand how Amazon CloudWatch Logs enables you to monitor and store your system, application, and custom log files
- Explain what AWS CloudFormation is and what it’s used for
- Determine the benefits of AWS CloudFormation
- Understand what the core components are and what they are used for
- Create a CloudFormation Stack using an existing AWS template
- Learn what VPC flow logs are and what they are used for
- Determine options for operating programmatically with AWS, including the AWS CLI, APIs, and SDKs
- Learn about the capabilities of AWS Systems Manager for managing applications and infrastructure
- Understand how AWS Secrets Manager can be used to securely encrypt application secrets
Hello, and welcome to this quick lecture, where I will introduce you to AWS Proton. This service is newly in scope for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam, so I wanted to give you a quick overview of this service and what it does.
AWS Proton is a service that allows DevOps and platform engineers to create reusable self-service infrastructure templates. These templates may be environment templates, which represent infrastructure resources like VPCs that are shared between many different applications and services, or service templates, which represent services like a Lambda function or Fargate cluster that run within those environments. Each template bundle consists of manifest, schema, and CloudFormation YAML files that define a set of resources. Service templates can also define a deployment pipeline to support CI/CD.
In a typical scenario, platform engineers would use Proton to create both environment and service templates. They would use the environment templates they create to provision different environments such as development, test, and production. From there, developers would choose from the list of available service templates and deploy instances of these services into the environments that have been provisioned for them.
Proton also provides a collection of open-source templates you can leverage to help define your environment’s infrastructure.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this quick introduction to AWS Proton. Thanks for joining me, and best of luck on your certification journey!
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