Operational Excellence
100 Labs
100 - Inventory and Patch Management
1.
Intro
2.
Setup
3.
Deploy an Environment Using Infrastructure as Code
4.
Inventory Management using Operations as Code
5.
Patch Management
6.
Creating Maintenance Windows and Scheduling Automated Operations Activities
7.
Creating a Simple Notification Service Topic
8.
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Security
100 Labs
AWS Account and Root User
1.
Account Settings & Root User Security
2.
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Basic Identity and Access Management User, Group, Role
1.
AWS Identity & Access Management
2.
Assume Administrator Role from an IAM user
3.
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CloudFront with S3 Bucket Origin
1.
Create S3 bucket
2.
Upload example index.html file
3.
Configure Amazon CloudFront
4.
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Enable Security Hub
1.
Enable AWS Security Hub via AWS Console
Create a Data Bunker Account
1.
Creating data bunker account in console
200 Labs
Automated Deployment of Detective Controls
1.
Create Stack
3.
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Automated Deployment of EC2 Web Application
1.
Create Web Stack
2.
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Automated Deployment of IAM Groups and Roles
1.
AWS CloudFormation to Create Groups, Policies and Roles with MFA Enforced
2.
Assume Roles from an IAM user
3.
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Automated Deployment of VPC
1.
Create VPC Stack
2.
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Automated Deployment of Web Application Firewall
1.
Configure AWS WAF
2.
Configure Amazon CloudFront
3.
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Automated IAM User Cleanup
1.
Deploying IAM Lambda Cleanup with AWS SAM
Basic EC2 WAF Protection
1.
Launch Instance
2.
Create AWS WAF Rules
3.
Create Application Load Balancer with WAF integration
4.
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AWS Certificate Manager Request Public Certificate
1.
Requesting a public certificate using the console
2.
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CloudFront for Web Application
1.
Configure CloudFront - EC2 or Load Balancer
2.
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CloudFront with WAF Protection
1.
Launch Instance
2.
Configure AWS WAF
3.
Configure Amazon CloudFront
4.
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300 Labs
IAM Permission Boundaries Delegating Role Creation
1.
Create IAM policies
2.
Create and Test Developer Role
3.
Create and Test User Role
4.
Knowledge Check
5.
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IAM Tag Based Access Control for EC2
1.
Create IAM policies
2.
Create Role
3.
Test Role
4.
Knowledge Check
5.
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Incident Response Playbook with Jupyter - AWS IAM
1.
Install Python & AWS CLI
2.
Playbook Run
Incident Response with AWS Console and CLI
1.
Getting Started
2.
Identity & Access Management
3.
Amazon VPC
Lambda Cross Account Using Bucket Policy
1.
Identify (or create) S3 bucket in account 2
2.
Create role for Lambda in account 1
3.
Create bucket policy for the S3 bucket in account 2
4.
Create Lambda in account 1
5.
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Lambda Cross Account IAM Role Assumption
1.
Create role for Lambda in account 2
2.
Create role for Lambda in account 1
3.
Create Lambda in account 1
4.
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Quests
Introduction to Security
1.
New AWS Account Setup and Securing Root User
2.
Basic Identity and Access Management User, Group, Role
3.
CloudFront with WAF Protection
4.
Automated Deployment of Detective Controls
Quick Steps to Security Success
1.
Control Tower
2.
Centralize Identities
3.
Enable Additional Guardrails
4.
Monitoring and Alerting
5.
Operating
AWS Incident Response Day
AWS Security Best Practices Workshop
Security Best Practices Day
Managing Credentials & Authentication
Control Human Access
Control Programmatic Access
Detect & Investigate Events
Defend Against New Threats
Protect Networks
Protect Compute
Classify Data
Protect Data at Rest
Protect Data in Transit
Incident Response
Reliability
100 Labs
Deploy using CloudFormation
1.
Deploy Infrastructure
2.
Deploy Application
3.
Explore Web Application
4.
Explore CloudFormation
5.
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200 Labs
S3 Bi-Directional Replication
1.
Deploy Infrastructure
2.
Configure CRR
3.
Test CRR
4.
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5.
Resources
Update CloudFormation
1.
Deploy Infrastructure
2.
Explore Deployment
3.
Use Parameters
4.
Add S3 Bucket
5.
Add EC2 Instance
6.
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Testing Backup and Restore
1.
Deploy Infrastructure
2.
Create Backup Plan
3.
Enable Notifications
4.
Test Restore
5.
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Test Resiliency of EC2
1.
Deploy Application
2.
Execution Environment
3.
EC2 Failure Injection
4.
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300 Labs
Health Checks & Dependencies
1.
Deploy Application
2.
Dependency failure
3.
Deep health checks
4.
Fail open
5.
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Test Resiliency EC2, RDS, & AZ
1.
Deploy Application
2.
Execution Environment
3.
Failure Injection Prep
4.
EC2 Failure Injection
5.
RDS Failure Injection
6.
AZ Failure Injection
7.
Failure Injection - optional
8.
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Performance Efficiency
100 Labs
Monitoring with CloudWatch Dashboards
1.
View Amazon CloudWatch Automatic Dashboards
2.
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Calculating differences in clock source
1.
Deploy
2.
Test performance
3.
Change clock type
4.
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Cost Optimization
Fundamentals
Expenditure Awareness
Cost Effective Resources
100 Labs
Level 100: AWS Account Setup: Lab Guide
1.
Configure IAM access
2.
Create an account structure
3.
Enable Single Sign On (SSO)
4.
Configure account settings
5.
Configure Cost and Usage reports
6.
Setup Amazon QuickSight
7.
Enable AWS Cost Explorer
8.
Enable AWS-Generated Cost Allocation Tags
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Level 100: Cost and Usage Governance
1.
Create and implement an AWS Budget for monthly forecasted cost
2.
Create and implement an AWS Budget for EC2 actual cost
3.
Create and implement an AWS Budget for EC2 Savings Plan coverage
4.
Create and implement an AWS Budget Report
5.
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Level 100: Pricing Models
1.
View your Savings Plan recommendations
2.
Understand your usage trend
3.
Analyze your Savings Plan recommendations
4.
Visualize your Savings Plan recommendations
5.
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Level 100: Cost and Usage Analysis
1.
View your AWS Invoices
2.
View your cost and usage in detail
3.
Download your monthly cost and usage file
4.
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Level 100: Cost Visualization
1.
View your cost and usage by service
2.
View your cost and usage by account
3.
View your Savings Plan coverage
4.
View your Elasticity
5.
View your Reserved Instance coverage
6.
Create custom EC2 reports
7.
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Level 100: EC2 Right Sizing
1.
Getting to know Amazon Cloudwatch
2.
Using Amazon EC2 Resource Optimization Recommendations
3.
Download the Amazon EC2 Resource Optimization CSV File and sort it to find quick wins
4.
Action the recommendations
5.
Amazon EC2 Right Sizing Best Practices
6.
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200 Labs
Level 200: Cost and Usage Governance
1.
Create a group of users for testing
2.
Create an IAM Policy to restrict service usage by region
3.
Create an IAM Policy to restrict EC2 usage by family
4.
Extend an IAM Policy to restrict EC2 usage by instance size
5.
Create an IAM policy to restrict EBS Volume creation by volume type
6.
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Level 200: Pricing Models
1.
View an RI report
2.
Download and prepare the RI CSV files
3.
Sort and filter the RI CSV files
4.
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Level 200: Cost and Usage Analysis
1.
Verify your CUR files are being delivered
2.
Use AWS Glue to enable access to CUR files via Amazon Athena
3.
Cost and Usage analysis
4.
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Level 200: Cost Visualization
1.
Create a data set
2.
Create visualizations
3.
Share your Analysis and Dashboard
4.
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Level 200: EC2 Right Sizing
1.
Getting to know Amazon Cloudwatch
2.
Create an IAM Role to use with Amazon CloudWatch Agent
3.
Attach CloudWatch IAM role to selected EC2 Instances
4.
Cloudwatch Agent Manual Install
5.
Updated Amazon EC2 Resource Optimization recommendations
6.
Amazon EC2 Right Sizing Best Practices
7.
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Level 200: Pricing Model Analysis
1.
Create Pricing Data Sources
2.
Create the Usage Data Source
3.
Setup QuickSight Dashboard
4.
Create the Recommendation Dashboard
5.
Format the Recommendation Dashboard
6.
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Level 200: Workload Efficiency
1.
Create the Data Sources
2.
Create the efficiency data source
3.
Create the Visualizations
4.
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300 Labs
Level 300: Automated Athena CUR Query and E-mail Delivery
1.
Overview architecture
2.
Create S3 Bucket
3.
Create an IAM policy and role for Lambda function
4.
Configure parameters of function code and upload code to S3
5.
Create a Lambda function
6.
Customize query strings and create scheduled CloudWatch event
7.
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Level 300: Automated CUR Updates and Ingestion
1.
Create the CloudFormation Stack
2.
Multiple CURs
3.
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Level 300: Splitting the CUR and Sharing Access
1.
Setup Output S3 Bucket
2.
Perform one off Fill of Member/Linked Data
3.
Create Athena Saved Queries to Write new Data
4.
Create Lambda function to run the Saved Queries
5.
Trigger the Lambda When a CUR is Delivered
6.
Sub Account Crawler Setup
7.
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Well-Architected Tool
100 Labs
Level 100: Walkthrough of the Well-Architected Tool
1.
Navigating to the console
2.
Creating a workload
3.
Performing a review
4.
Saving a milestone
5.
Viewing and downloading the report
6.
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Level 300: IAM Permission Boundaries Delegating Role Creation
Level 300: IAM Tag Based Access Control for EC2
Level 300: Incident Response Playbook with Jupyter - AWS IAM
Level 300: Incident Response with AWS Console and CLI
Level 300: Lambda Cross Account Using Bucket Policy
Level 300: Lambda Cross Account IAM Role Assumption