- [Raf] Hello, and welcome to Cloud Operations on AWS. My name is Raf, a Senior Cloud Technologist working with AWS Training and Certification. In this video, I will briefly cover the structure you will find in this course. Seph, Russ, and I grouped this course content for 3 weeks. So that's why we use the week nomenclature for the content. But a great advantage of doing self-service learning is that you can consume the content the way you want, in your time. So it is fine if you prefer binge-watching at once. Some people prefer doing that, and some others prefer to follow the suggested timelines. It is up to you. That being said, let me talk about the first week of the course. In the first week, we're going to get you familiar with the AWS CLI, or the Command Line Interface. You will see topics like the value proposition of doing actions programmatically, and how the AWS CLI helps you achieve that. We will also cover how the CLI can be integrated with shell scripts, which is something very instrumental for automation. Next, we will cover infrastructure as code, or IaC, by talking about AWS CloudFormation and how it differs from the AWS CLI. CloudFormation is a managed service that creates infrastructure out of templates in a declarative way. Throughout the weeks, you will also see quizzes, readings, and hands-on exercises. We encourage you to do the exercises, which are designed to be performed on your own AWS account. But, if for any reason, you want to skip it, we will provide video walkthroughs after each exercise. These video walkthroughs will cover one out of the many possible solutions. We also encourage you to use the discussion groups if you have any questions, or want to post your solutions for other people, too. The discussion groups are a great way for you to interact with other students and increase your networking. Throughout the course, we also talk about designing for uptime. So, we will basically add high availability and improved resiliency for all the topics that we cover. All right, Week 2, we'll start by giving you a refresher on compute on AWS. We will talk about compute types, and do a quick comparison between EC2, Lambda, and containers. Since there are multiple ways of configuring your cloud resources, we will also talk about bootstrapping, fleet management, and AMI automations, with some exercises along the way. AMI stands for Amazon Machine Image. The second week also covers networking, an important topic for cloud operations. We will do an AWS networking review and talk about designing for uptime by covering load balancers, health checks, and some other topics. The third week of the course, we'll cover storage, databases, and monitoring-- also fundamental pillars for every cloud operator. We will cover storage and database options, and also give you a refresher on CloudWatch metrics, CloudWatch Logs, and CloudTrail, three of the many AWS managed components that can be used for logging and monitoring. And, as usual, there will be readings, quizzes, and exercises. That being said, let's start Week 1. I am ready. Are you ready, too?
