System Operations on AWS: Part Two

1. The Cloud and the DevOps Revolution
· Thinking in terms of cloud and not infrastructure
· Adopting a DevOps culture
· Deploying in AWS

2. Deploying Your First Web Application
· Creating and configuring your account
· Creating our first web server

3. Treating Your Infrastructure As Code
· Managing your infrastructure with CloudFormation
· Adding a configuration management system

4. Adding Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
· Building a continuous integration pipeline
· Building a continuous deployment pipeline

5. Scaling Your Infrastructure
· Scaling a monolithic application
· Improving performance and cost saving
· Architecting your application to handle massive amounts of traffic

6. Running Containers in AWS
· Dockerizing our helloworld application
· Using the EC2 container service
· Creating a CI/CD pipeline to deploy to ECS

7. Monitoring and Alerting
· Instrumenting our application for monitoring
· Monitoring our infrastructure
· Creating alarms using CloudWatch and SNS

8. Hardening the Security of Your AWS Environment
· Understanding where to focus your effort
· Improving the security of the IAM layer
· Strengthening the security at the network level
· Protecting against targeted attacks