DevOps on AWS: Operate and Monitor (edX)

Monitoring and Operation are key aspects for both the release pipeline and production environments, because they provide instruments that help discover what's happening, as well as do modifications and enhancements on infrastructure that is currently running. This course teaches how to use Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring, as well as Amazon EventBridge and AWS Config for continuous compliance. It also covers Amazon CloudTrail and a little bit of Machine Learning for Monitoring operations!

What you'll learn

- How to use Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring

- Understanding Amazon EventBridge and AWS Config for compliance

- How to use Machine Learning for monitoring operations

- Describe the benefits of monitoring CI/CD pipelines

- Differentiate between environment, application, and network metrics

- Explore the benefits of Amazon CloudWatch

- Explore ways to monitor your application and network

- Describe the importance of operation in CI/CD pipelines

- Explain how you can mitigate risks in the DevOps journey

- Explore the benefits of AWS Systems Manager

- Explore common third-party services and tool for DevOps operations

This course is part of the DevOps on AWS XSeries

Syllabus

Week 1

This week, you will start by reviewing topics covered in the first and second courses of the DevOps on AWS series. You will then learn about the importance of monitoring and why instrumenting your environment is helpful. You will explore how Amazon CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. Lastly, you will get hands-on with other important AWS solutions to monitor pipeline changes.

Week 2

This week, you will start by learning about the importance of operation in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and discover how to detect unmanaged configuration changes to your cloud resources. Though this course focused on AWS solutions for DevOps operations and monitoring, you will also learn about third-party, open-source tooling that are well-known and widely used by the DevOps community. Lastly, you will get hands-on and run commands using AWS Systems Manager, and output logs to Amazon CloudWatch.