AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate (SOA-C03) Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization


Course outline

Section 1: Implement Metrics, Alarms, and Filters by Using AWS Monitoring and Logging Services

  1. Introduction to AWS CloudWatch

  2. Lab: Creating AWS CloudWatch Dashboards

  3. Exploring AWS CloudWatch Logs

  4. Lab: Collecting Metrics and Logs Using the AWS CloudWatch Agent

  5. Lab: Creating CloudWatch Metric Filters

  6. Lab: Exploring CloudWatch Logs Insights

  7. Receiving Notifications with AWS CloudWatch

  8. Lab: Creating AWS CloudWatch Alarms

  9. Lab: Configuring Composite Alarms

  10. Introduction to AWS CloudTrail

  11. Lab: Working with AWS CloudTrail

  12. What Is Amazon Eventbridge?

  13. Lab: Using Amazon EventBridge

  14. AWS Container Orchestration Services

  15. What Is Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus?

Section 2: Identify and Remediate Issues by Using Monitoring and Availability Metrics

  1. Automated Remediation Strategies

  2. Introducing AWS Auto Scaling

  3. Lab: Creating AWS Auto Scaling Plans

  4. What Are AWS User Notifications?

  5. Lab: Configuring AWS User Notifications

  6. Automating Processes Using AWS Systems Manager (SSM)

  7. Lab: Automated Patching Using AWS Systems Manager

  8. Lab: Automation Using AWS Systems Manager EC2 Run Command

  9. Lab: Working with Amazon EventBridge Rules

Section 3: Implement Performance Optimization Strategies for Compute, Storage, and Database Resources

  1. Performance Optimization Strategies

  2. Understanding EBS Volumes and IOPS

  3. Amazon EBS Performance Metrics

  4. Lab: Monitoring Amazon EBS Volumes in CloudWatch

  5. Introduction to S3

  6. Lab: Creating an S3 Bucket

  7. Increasing Amazon S3 Transfer Speeds with Transfer Acceleration

  8. Enhancing Amazon S3 Performance with Multipart Uploads

  9. Working with Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policies

  10. Enhanced Data Transfer with AWS DataSync

  11. Introducing Amazon EFS

  12. Lab: Working with Amazon EFS

  13. Optimizing Amazon EFS

  14. Amazon EFS Lifecycle Policies

  15. What Is AmazonFSx?

  16. Lab: Monitoring Amazon RDS in CloudWatch

  17. Increasing Scalability with RDS Proxy

  18. Using Placement Groups to Optimize Amazon EC2 Performance