AWS Automation and Optimization

2h 42mIntermediate2025-01-08

Authors

Shyam Raj

Technical Instructor, Network and Cloud Guru

Course details

Enhance system productivity, improve performance, and reduce costs by learning how to automate and optimize processes using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Instructor Shyam Raj covers different strategies for optimizing and automating processes as well as for autoscaling. This course shows you how to build highly available solutions while efficiently utilizing resources. Along the way, Shyam provides guidance around how to control costs and successfully manage cloud operations.

Learning objectives
Explain the benefits of leveraging automation in AWS.
Determine how to reduce compute, storage and data transfer costs.
Explore tools and designs to improve performance and availability of AWS workloads.
Secure your AWS resources and workloads.

Skills covered

IT AutomationDevOps FoundationsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AmazonDevOpsCloud ServicesCloud PlatformsNetwork and System AdministrationCloud ComputingDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - AWS automation optimization

1. Automation

02 - Introduction to automation
03 - Automate deployment with Auto Scaling
04 - Configure Auto Scaling
05 - Automate configuration with Systems Manager
06 - Automate workflows with EventBridge
07 - Automate deployment with Lambda

2. Optimize Cost

08 - Optimize EC2 costs with Spot Instances
09 - Optimize EC2 costs with Savings Plans and Reserved Instances
10 - Finding the right storage product
11 - Use S3 lifecycle policies to control costs
12 - Optimizing data transfer costs

3. Optimize Performance and Availability

13 - Choosing the right EC2 instance type
14 - Use serverless technologies
15 - Improve content delivery with CloudFront
16 - Use in-memory caching for databases
17 - Improve availability with Elastic Load Balancing
18 - Configure Elastic Load Balancing
19 - Backup everything

4. Optimize Security

20 - Optimize identity management with IAM
21 - Configuring temporary access with STS
22 - Configuring attribute-based access control and permissions boundary
23 - Data protection
24 - Infrastructure protection
25 - Improve security posture with Security Hub and GuardDuty

5. Additional Optimization Tools

26 - Optimize account management with AWS Organizations
27 - Monitor with CloudWatch
28 - Use Trusted Advisor recommendations

Conclusion

29 - Learning more about AWS automation and optimization