DOP-C02 Introduction
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config
AWS CloudFormation
Advanced CloudFormation Skills
AWS OpsWorks
AWS Logging
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Secrets Manager
Parameter Store vs. Secrets Manager
AWS Service Catalog
AWS Organizations
AWS Control Tower
Trusted Advisor
Managing Product Licenses
Amazon Managed Grafana
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
AWS Health
AWS Proton
AWS Resilience Hub
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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
Introduction to AWS Systems Manager. Welcome to this introduction to AWS Systems Manager to gain operational insights. In this segment, you will get an overview of AWS Systems Manager, including features and use cases. Systems Manager is a set of fully managed AWS services that enable automated configuration and ongoing management of systems at scale in a secure and reliable way across all your Linux and Windows instances running on Amazon EC2, your own data center or other cloud platforms. Its focus on automation enables configuration and management of systems where you can select the instances you want to manage and define the tasks you want to perform.
You can also define when modifications are to be applied by configuring a maintenance window. You can create and update system images, collect software inventory, apply system or application patches and configure Linux and Windows operating systems, also manage the state of your instances, all from the same console or the command line interface.
You don't have to be concerned about setting up and managing different tools for different platforms. You also don't need to configure secure shell keys, or secure shell or remote desktop ports or bastion hosts in order to establish connectivity to your instances. Systems Manager is built for cloud-type scalability, which uses agility and elasticity, allowing you to manage one or thousands of instances, no matter if they have long running or temporary workloads.
You also get AWS optimized native integration with the rest of AWS management tools, such as Identity and Access Management for access control, CloudTrail for Auditing, CloudWatch events for event driven automation, and many other AWS configuration and management tools.
There are no complex licensing models. Most of Systems Manager's functionality is available at no charge. Systems Manager provides extensive building blocks and services where you can choose to build value of your own on top of these existing services.
In short, with Systems Manager, you can use automation to manage traditional and cloud workloads by performing essential setup, maintenance and management tasks, while maintaining complete visibility and control over your entire machine farm independent of operating system, location and number of instances.
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