Learn to run cloud workloads reliably and affordably by wiring up CloudWatch metrics, logs and alarms, choosing between vertical and horizontal scaling, automating capacity with auto scaling groups, and locking down security and spend. You finish able to take a running service and make it observable, elastic, recoverable, secure and cost-efficient — a genuine production-readiness capability.
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What you'll learn
- Run cloud workloads reliably and affordably across monitoring, scaling, resilience, security and cost
- Instrument a service with CloudWatch metrics, logs and actionable alarms
- Choose between vertical and horizontal scaling and automate capacity with auto scaling groups
- Design backups and a disaster-recovery plan that meets a stated RPO and RTO
- Right-size instances and lock down security groups and secrets to control risk and spend
Syllabus
Observability with CloudWatch
Metrics and logs — seeing what your workload is doingFree preview
Alarms and actionable alerting
Scaling Cloud Workloads
Vertical vs horizontal scaling
Auto Scaling Groups
Resilience — Backups and Disaster Recovery
Backups, snapshots, RPO and RTO
Disaster recovery strategies
Security and Cost
Security groups and secrets
Right-sizing and cost optimisation
Lab — 10 Exercises & Solutions
Exercises 1–5
Exercises 6–10