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Cloud Engineering

Architecture, automation and operations on a major public cloud platform, taught through building and running real workloads.

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Length
12 weeks
Level
Intermediate
Format
Instructor-led, live online or on-site, with hands-on labs in a dedicated cloud environment
Certification
Aligned to the objectives of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.

Who it is for

  • System administrators moving into cloud roles
  • Developers who deploy and operate their own services
  • Infrastructure teams preparing for a migration

Prerequisites

  • Working knowledge of Linux or Windows server administration
  • Basic networking: IP addressing, DNS and routing concepts
  • Comfort using a command line

You will be able to

  • Design secure, highly available architectures for common workloads
  • Define and deploy infrastructure as code
  • Build CI/CD pipelines that deploy safely and roll back
  • Operate workloads with monitoring, alerting and defined recovery objectives
  • Control and report cloud spend

Syllabus

Module by module.

  1. Module 01

    Cloud foundations

    • Shared responsibility model
    • Regions, availability zones and service models
    • Account structure and organisation design
    • Billing fundamentals
  2. Module 02

    Identity and access

    • Users, roles and federation
    • Least-privilege policy design
    • Multi-factor authentication and access keys
    • Auditing access
  3. Module 03

    Networking

    • Virtual networks and subnets
    • Routing, gateways and private connectivity
    • Security groups and network controls
    • DNS and load balancing
  4. Module 04

    Compute and storage

    • Virtual machines and auto scaling
    • Containers and managed container services
    • Object, block and file storage
    • Managed databases
  5. Module 05

    Infrastructure as code

    • Declarative infrastructure principles
    • Modules and environments
    • State management
    • Reviewing infrastructure changes
  6. Module 06

    Delivery pipelines

    • Build, test and deploy stages
    • Deployment strategies and rollback
    • Secrets management
    • Security scanning in the pipeline
  7. Module 07

    Operations and reliability

    • Metrics, logs and traces
    • Service level objectives and alerting
    • Backup, restore and disaster recovery
    • Incident response basics
  8. Module 08

    Cost and governance

    • Tagging and cost allocation
    • Rightsizing and commitments
    • Guardrails and policy as code

Hands-on labs

Learning by operating real systems.

  • Lab 01

    Build a multi-tier network with public and private subnets

  • Lab 02

    Deploy a highly available web application behind a load balancer

  • Lab 03

    Define the full environment in infrastructure as code and rebuild it from scratch

  • Lab 04

    Build a pipeline that deploys a container and rolls back on failed health checks

  • Lab 05

    Restore a database from backup and measure recovery time

  • Lab 06

    Produce a cost report and implement rightsizing changes

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