An exploratory look into what’s required to build and launch an e-commerce site to provide context as you begin your journey to becoming a Amazon AWS SysOps Administrator.

Learning by seeing and exploring a fully functioning e-commerce application to gain full insight into the different AWS services involved in the provisioning, building, deploying, managing and monitoring an application running in the AWS cloud.

AWS Definition: The AWS Well-Architected Framework describes the key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud. By answering a set of foundational questions, you learn how well your architecture aligns with cloud best practices and are provided guidance for making improvements.

Provide students an understanding of

• The environment in which they will be working.

• The technical and professional skills required to be successful

How to implement a scalable AWS Identity and Access Management architecture and how to monitor, track and alert on user changes & events for compliance, change management and security governance.

Managing AWS environments manually is complex and fault-prone but describing an infrastructure in code helps improve quality and save costs. Students will learn how to use AWS CloudFormation to automate the Infrastructure provisioning and application deployments.

Students will learn how to design and implement two separate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline with AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins.

Leveraging AWS System Manager as the backdrop, students will learn how to safely manage and operate AWS resources at scale.

Prepare students for the day to day responsibility of managing and operating a platform built on AWS.

Students will learn how to implement Logging, Monitoring, Alert/Notification at scale utilizing native AWS services and tools and their integration with third-party solutions to facilitate security governance, compliance, change management, troubleshooting and responding to security incidents.

Students will learn how to effectively analyze log data to gain visibility Into the e-commerce application and AWS Infrastructure that includes networking services, load balancer, database, cache, Docker containers, Lambda functions, etc.

Students will learn how to implement backup processes that offer the appropriate level of granularity to meet the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). of a business. The focus will be on backup, recovery, and archive approaches for a cloud native infrastructure.

Students will be exposed to AWS security products and native security logging facilities via the e-commerce platform that includes networking services, load balancer, database, cache, Docker containers, monitoring, alerting, etc.