Amazon Web Services (AWS)  is the largest cloud provider in the market. This course covers the core principles of the DevOps methodology and examines a number of use cases applicable to startup, small and medium-sized business, and enterprise development scenarios. AWS Certifications recognize IT professionals with the technical skills to design, deploy, and operate on AWS Systems.

• Familiarity with general networking concepts or 1 year experience as network or system administrator or CompTIA Network+ or CompTIA Cloud+ or Cloud Essentials (optional)
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate or AWS Certified Developer – Associate.

• AWS Knowledge:

  • AWS Services: Compute and Network, Storage and CDN, Database, Analytics, Application Services, Deployment, and Management
  • Minimum of two years hands-on experience with production AWS systems
  • Effective use of Auto Scaling
  • Monitoring and logging
  •  AWS security features and best practices
  •  Design of self-healing and fault-tolerant services
  •  Techniques and strategies for maintaining high availability

   

• General IT Knowledge:

  • Networking concepts
  • Strong system administration (Linux/Unix or Windows)
  • Strong scripting skillset
  • Multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking
  • Templates and other configurable items to enable automation
  • Deployment tools and techniques in a distributed environment
  • Basic monitoring techniques in a dynamic environment

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• Why Amazon (Link to job opportunities, news, articles, more)
• Significant global demand
• The high adoption rate of AWS cloud services by organizations
• The lack of cloud expertise is identified as the #1 challenge with cloud adoption by 25% of corporations. There’s clearly a shortage of certified AWS professionals available today
• Combining AWS certifications with other certifications to expand skill sets and increase salaries even more

• Cloud Administrator
• Cloud Engineer
• Solutions Architect
• Cloud Architect