AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Hands-On + Exam

Explore cloud computing basics, benefits, and service models: public, private, and hybrid, alongside AWS global infrastructure, regions and availability zones, edge network, security, and compliance.

Explore the AWS global infrastructure, including regions, availability zones, regional edge caches, local zones, and wavelength zones, to deliver ultra low latency and reliable, scalable services.

Explore a high-level overview of AWS services across compute, storage, database, networking, analytics, containers, and ML and AI, with service names and their core roles.

Discover AWS services across blockchain, business apps, developer tools, front-end, IoT, end-user computing, game tech, and governance, with practical guidance for sysops success.

Explore AWS services overview part 3, covering media services, migration, security and compliance, firewall, IAM, KMS, network firewall, and Secrets Manager.

Explore the zonal, regional, and global AWS services, including EC2, EBS, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, and Route 53, and how fault isolation, control planes, and multi-region design boost availability.

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene for real-time log analytics, full-text search, and observability.

Create an Amazon OpenSearch service domain and configure access. Ingest sample log data, build index patterns, create visualizations and dashboards, run searches, and clean up resources.

Master Amazon EventBridge's event-driven architecture with event buses, rules, targets, pipes, and the scheduler. Explore delivery guarantees, dead-letter queues, and schema registry to enable reliable cross-service event flows.

Explore Amazon EventBridge part two: configure event sources and SaaS integrations, and compare EventBridge with SNS, SQS, and Step Functions, including content filtering and archiving.

See a hands-on demo of Amazon EventBridge triggering an SNS email when an EC2 instance stops, via an EventBridge rule and an SNS topic.

Learn Amazon Simple Notification Service basics, including pub-sub topics, standard versus FIFO topics, message filtering, and dead-letter queues, plus SNS-SQS fan-out and integration patterns.

Explore Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) as a fully managed messaging backbone for decoupled components, covering visibility timeout, dead-letter queues, standard and FIFO queues, and integration patterns.

Explore Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) hands-on by creating standard and fifo queues, sending and receiving messages, and applying deduplication and message group concepts, then clean up resources.

Discover how the AWS cost and usage report provides granular cost data with hourly to monthly breakdowns, S3 delivery of CSV files, queryable via Amazon Athena, and Billing Conductor integration.

This hands-on demo shows creating a cost and usage report in an S3 bucket, enabling Athena integration via Glue, and running sample queries to analyze costs.

Learn how AWS Cost Explorer visualizes and forecasts your cost and usage, including unblended, net, and amortized costs, 13 months of history with forecasts, and anomaly detection and access controls.

Create and analyze AWS Cost Explorer reports for the last three months, grouped by service, EC2 instance type, and usage type, using amortized cost and a custom report library.

Explore AWS savings plans to cut compute costs up to 72% with flexible plan types including compute, EC2 instance, and SageMaker plans, and optimize usage with AWS Cost Explorer.

Explore how AWS auto scaling uses scaling plans to manage scalable resources with tags and CloudFormation, and apply dynamic and predictive scaling strategies for EC2, Aurora, DynamoDB, and ECS.

explore amazon ec2 fundamentals, including instance types, amis, regions and zones, security groups, ebs, key pairs, and lifecycle, plus on-demand, reserved, savings plans, spot, and dedicated options for cost optimization.

Launch an Amazon Linux 2023 T2 micro EC2 instance, create a key pair, configure SSH via security group, connect using SSH and EC2 Instance Connect, then clean up.

Learn how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling maintains desired capacity with auto scaling groups, launch templates, health checks, and EventBridge driven scaling across multiple availability zones.

Demonstrates configuring Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling with a launch template and auto scaling group, applying a target-tracking policy, stressing CPU to trigger scale-out, then cleanup.

Explore the AWS EC2 image builder to automate creation, testing, pipelines, and distribution of secure, up-to-date AMI and container images.

Explore AWS Lambda as a serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and scales automatically, covering integration architecture, invocation types, retries, function anatomy, and concurrency.

Demonstrate a hands-on workflow that uses api gateway to trigger a lambda function, which publishes a notification to an sns topic that emails a recipient.

Explore Amazon Aurora, a managed, MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database service with high performance storage up to 128 tebibytes, multi-AZ clusters, automatic failover, and blue-green deployment options.

Explore a hands-on Amazon Aurora MySQL demo: launch an EC2 instance, deploy a PHP app, connect to Amazon Aurora, test high availability, explore features, and clean up resources.

Explore Amazon DynamoDB, a serverless NoSQL database delivering single-digit millisecond performance, covering data models, partition keys, secondary indexes, capacity modes, streams, transactions, and global tables.

Explore hands-on DynamoDB in the AWS console: create tables with partition and sort keys, add and query items, and build a global secondary index to optimize searches.

Explore Amazon Elastic Cache, its serverless and custom cluster deployments, and how Redis and memcached engines power use cases from database query caching to real-time analytics and API response caching.

Join a hands-on Amazon ElastiCache serverless demo with an Aurora serverless MySQL backend, IAM authentication, VPC networking and security groups, and a cache-aside pattern via Lambda and Glide.

Explore how Amazon RDS provides a managed relational database service with automated backups, patching, and failover. Learn about DB instances, storage types, Multi-AZ, read replicas, security, and AWS integrations.

Launch an EC2 instance, connect to an RDS PostgreSQL database, configure security groups, SSH in, install the PostgreSQL client, create a database and table, insert a record, and clean up.

Explore aws tools and sdk options, including cli, boto3, and language sdks, and configure shared config, credentials, and profiles for local and aws environment access.

Master the AWS CLI to configure credentials, install on Windows or macOS, navigate the command structure, output formats, pagination, and service interactions via helpful commands and wait options.

Practice hands-on with the AWS command line interface by installing AWS CLI on Windows, Linux, and Mac, verifying installation, configuring with access keys, managing S3 buckets, and securely deleting keys.

Learn AWS CloudFormation, the declarative infrastructure as code for automated resource provisioning. Explore templates, dependency management, intrinsic functions, stack sets, and integration with CDK, SAM, and CodePipeline.

Perform a hands-on AWS CloudFormation demo to create a stack from a YAML template, launch an EC2 with a security group, test web server, update the stack, and clean up.

Explore how AWS CloudTrail records API activity across accounts, delivering management, data, and insights events through trails, event history, and CloudTrail Lake for governance and auditing.

Explore CloudTrail advanced features, including lake dashboards, organization trails, log integrity validation, and integrations with CloudWatch Logs, EventBridge, and Athena, plus exam defaults and scenarios.

Lead a hands-on AWS CloudTrail demo by creating an S3 bucket for logs, configuring a CloudTrail trail with CloudWatch, generating sample activity, analyzing events, and cleaning up resources.

Learn Amazon CloudWatch monitoring and observability: ingest metrics, logs, and events, configure alarms and dashboards, use EventBridge and the Unified CloudWatch Agent, and apply retention, resolution, and logs insights.

Set up Amazon CloudWatch to monitor an EC2 instance, trigger an SNS email alert when CPU utilization exceeds 70% average over five minutes, and verify with a stress test.

AWS compute optimizer analyzes resource configuration and utilization metrics to generate recommendations that optimize performance and reduce costs, with utilization graphs and projected data for price-performance comparisons.

Explore AWS config, a fully managed service that inventories resources, records configuration history, and enforces security through rules, conformance packs, and automated remediation across accounts.

Demonstrates a hands-on setup and evaluation of AWS config rules for S3 bucket versioning enabled, encrypted volumes, and restricted SSH, reviewing non-compliant resources in the config dashboard.

Delete AWS Config rules and the AWS Config S3 bucket that contains reports and configuration data, including emptying the bucket and permanently deleting it to complete the cleanup.

Discover how AWS Control Tower sets up a multi-account landing zone with guardrails, central governance, and StackSets, aided by IAM Identity Center and Account Factory.

Explore how AWS Health provides near-instant visibility of resource health and service status via the AWS Health Dashboard, health events, programmatic access with the health API, and automation with EventBridge.

Manage and track software licenses from multiple vendors across AWS and on premises. Enforce usage limits, prevent non-compliance, and enable entitlements, audits, and secure distribution with AWS License Manager.

Explore the AWS management console's centralized access to services, customizable widgets, region and language settings, security with iam, and the browser-based cloud shell for cli tasks.

Master centralized multi-account governance with AWS Organizations, including hierarchical units, consolidated billing, SCP-based controls, and policy-driven management across management and member accounts.

Create an AWS organization with production and development OUs, apply service control and tag policies, enforce mandatory tags, and test policy compliance across accounts.

Learn how AWS service catalog centralizes IT service provisioning with products, portfolios, and constraints, enabling self-service deployment, governance, and versioned updates across accounts.

Demonstrates end-to-end setup of AWS Service Catalog with IAM roles, a portfolio, a CloudFormation product, launch constraints, end-user provisioning, testing, and cleanup.

Learn how AWS Systems Manager unifies operations to view, manage, and automate actions across EC2 instances, on-premises servers, and multi-cloud VMs, using patching, configuration, remote access, inventory, and automation.

Perform provisioning of an EC2 instance with an SSM role and explore AWS Systems Manager, using Run Command, Parameter Store, Inventory, and State Manager to manage configurations and patches.

Discover how AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your environment across cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits, delivering real-time guidance and organization-wide insights.

This hands-on AWS Trusted Advisor demo guides you through the dashboard, creating security group, S3 bucket permission, and EBS snapshot violations, then remediating and rechecking them.

Explore AWS DataSync, an online data movement and discovery service that accelerates migration between on-premises, edge locations, other clouds, and AWS storage services, with transfer tasks and modes.

Learn how AWS Transfer Family provides a fully managed, secure file transfer service into and out of AWS storage, with S3 and EFS integration, protocol support, and serverless MFT workflows.