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7
5
1
COURSE
Intermediate
15m 51s
An Overview of Amazon CloudWatch
This lesson takes a high-level look at Amazon CloudWatch and some of its features and components.
COURSE
Intermediate
12m 27s
Building CloudWatch Dashboards
This lesson is geared towards helping you understand the value of building your own dashboards within CloudWatch, to give you unparalleled visibility into your architecture and dedicated systems.
HANDS-ON LAB
Beginner
Up to 1h 30m
Introduction to CloudWatch
CloudWatch is a monitoring service that AWS provides. You can use it to monitor AWS resources or custom resources, inside or outside AWS.
COURSE
Advanced
2h 2m
Advanced Use of AWS CloudFormation
In this lesson, you'll learn advanced AWS CloudFormation skills, including nested stacks, custom resources, continuous integration, and event automation.
HANDS-ON LAB
Beginner
Up to 1h
Deploying Wordpress using AWS CloudFormation
CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code tool for AWS. In this lab, you will use CloudFormation to launch an EC2 with a full WordPress installation.
HANDS-ON LAB
Intermediate
Up to 2h
Hands-On CloudFormation for Deploy Scalability
Scalable DevOps: Using CloudFormation for Whole VPC Stacks.
COURSE
Intermediate
33m 45s
Managing your Trails within AWS CloudTrail
In this lesson, we shall be looking at how to manage your Trails when working with AWS CloudTrail.
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Overview

This course is designed to introduce you to the different AWS Cloud Management Tools available that can help you optimize, control and manage your AWS infrastructure. As your infrastructure grows within AWS and your environment scales over time, it's important to have an understanding of the different AWS Cloud management tools that AWS offers to help you operate your infrastructure efficiently and effectively.  

The different services covered within this course are as follows: 

  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS Config

Throughout the different courses, labs, and quizzes, you will understand:

  • What each service is designed to provide
  • How the service works
  • How to configure the service
  • How to implement the services within your own AWS environment

Amazon CloudWatch: CloudWatch is a monitoring service for cloud resources in the applications you run on Amazon Web Services. CloudWatch can collect metrics, set and manage alarms, and automatically react to changes in your AWS resources. 

AWS CloudFormation: AWS CloudFormation allows you to easily create sets of cloud resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, CloudFront distributions, RDS database instances, and other services by just writing a template file.

AWS CloudTrail: Whenever an API request is made within your environment AWS CloudTrail can track that request with a host of metadata and record it in a Log which is then sent to AWS S3 for storage allowing you to view historical data of your API calls.

AWS Config: AWS Config allows you to have visibility of your entire AWS infrastructure from a configuration perspective. It can act as a resource inventory, compliance checker and manage configuration changes of your resources.  

Instructors:

Michael Bryant:

  • Amazon Web Services CloudWatch

Antonio Angelino:

  • How to Use CloudFormation for AWS Automation

Andrew Templeton: 

  • Advanced Use of AWS CloudFormation

Stuart Scott:

  • AWS CloudTrail: An Introduction
  • AWS Config: An Introduction

 

Updates:

  • April 6, 2018 - Added Course Exam

 

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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.

To date, Stuart has created 250+ courses relating to cloud computing reaching over 1 million+ students.

Stuart is a member of the AWS Community Builders Program for his contributions towards AWS.

He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.

Stuart enjoys writing about cloud technologies and you will find many of his articles within our blog pages.

Covered Topics

Amazon Web Services
Security for AWS
Monitoring for AWS
DevOps for AWS
Management for AWS
AWS Config
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS CloudFormation
Continuous Deployment
Security
Monitoring
Management
DevOps
Configuration Management
High Availability