Course-Readme.md

AWS DevOps Best Practices

Companion to my LinkedIn Learning Course with the same name

Foundations

• What is Cloud DevOps? - defined by AWS - link
• Core Cloud User IAM Security practices - link
• Core Cloud FinOps practices - link to my GitHub Repo on the aws-cost-control topic
• JIT DevOps / Admin Access Example - link
• Core Cloud Observability/Monitoring practices - link

Infra as Code

• AWS Cloud Scripting w/SDK
  • Simple AWS S3 Python list buckets - link
• AWS Dev Environments & Cloud9
  • AWS DevEnvs Best Practice Guidance (Dev/Test/Prod) - link
  • AWS Cloud9 IDE Best Practices - link
• AWS Cloud Formation Templates
  • Simple AWS S3 CF Template - link
• Cloud Templates (Terraform, Pulimi...)
  • Simple AWS S3 Terraform Example (from blog post) - link
  • Complete AWS S3 Terraform Example (from Terraform) - link

Blueprints

• Effective Cloud Formation
  • AWS Best Practices - link
• Effective Cloud Diagrams
  • My Keynote 'Viz Cloud Systems' - link
• Live Cloud Diagrams
  • AWS - AWS Workload Discovery
  • 3rd Party - Cloudcraft.co, Lucid Charts Live, Hava.io, Holori
• Using the AWS Well-architected Tools
  • 6-pillars of well-architected AWS cloud applications - link
  • Full AWS well-architected document (882 pages!) - link

Specialty DevOps

• AWS DataOps by (CF Template) example - link
• AWS ServerlessOps Review Tool on GitHub - link
• AWS MLOps for SageMaker
  • Architecture Explained - link
  • Demo Walkthrough w/Template - link
  • AWS ML + LLMOps Explained - link

CI/CD

• Cloud Infrastructe Testing Fundamentals
  • TDD for Cloud infrstructure guidance - link
  • General guidance and examples - link
• AWS Tools for CI/CD tools and architecture - link
• Demos: Create a CI/CD Pipeline
  • Simple Example (S3) w/code - link
  • Pipelines for S3 with CF templates - link
  • Four stage example w/code - link
• Explore CI/CD Best Practices - link