AWS Cloud Operations 1 - Additional Links

Week 1:

• What are Log Files?: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/log-files/
• AWS services that publish CloudWatch metrics: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/aws-services-cloudwatch-metrics.html
• Working with log groups and log streams: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/Working-with-log-groups-and-streams.html
• Configuring the CloudWatch agent for EC2 instances and on-premises servers: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/implementing-logging-monitoring-cloudwatch/configure-cloudwatch-ec2-on-premises.html
• Lambda Insights: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Lambda-Insights.html
• Container Insights: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/ContainerInsights.html
• Use Contributor Insights to analyze high-cardinality data: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/ContributorInsights.html
• Intro to CloudWatch Synthetics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MItluIsvfTo
• Real-User Monitoring for Amazon CloudWatch: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/cloudwatch-rum/
• Using Amazon CloudWatch alarms: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AlarmThatSendsEmail.html

Week 2:

• Automatically scale your Amazon ECS service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/service-auto-scaling.html
• Using Amazon Aurora Auto Scaling with Aurora Replicas: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.Integrating.AutoScaling.html#Aurora.Integrating.AutoScaling.Add
• DynamoDB Read/write capacity mode: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/HowItWorks.ReadWriteCapacityMode.html
• Spot Fleet: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-fleet.html
• What is an Application Load Balancer? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/introduction.html
• How lifecycle hooks work: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/lifecycle-hooks-overview.html
• What is a Gateway Load Balancer? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/gateway/introduction.html

Week 3:

• Automatically scale your Amazon ECS service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/service-auto-scaling.html
• CloudTrail concepts: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-concepts.html
• Using CloudWatch anomaly detection: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Anomaly_Detection.html
• Understanding CloudTrail events: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-events.html
• Security in Amazon CloudWatch: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/security.html
• Control traffic to your AWS resources using security groups: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-security-groups.html

Week 4:

• What Is Amazon EventBridge?: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-what-is.html
• List of AWS Config Managed Rules: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/managed-rules-by-aws-config.html
• Create a Jira issue using an AWS Config remediation action: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/create-jira-issue-using-aws-config-remediation-action/
• AWS Config Rules supported by AWS Audit Manager: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/audit-manager/latest/userguide/control-data-sources-config.html
• Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/aggregate-data.html
• Monitoring AWS Audit Manager with Amazon EventBridge: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/audit-manager/latest/userguide/automating-with-eventbridge.html
• Deploying a Conformance Pack Using the AWS Config Console: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/conformance-pack-console.html
• Remediating compliance issues using EventBridge: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-compliance-fixing.html