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FinOps Essentials

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in tecRacer Trainings, Training.

FinOps Essentials

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course Description

“FinOps Essentials” explains the benefits of a FinOps concept in an AWS environment and provides participants with practical examples in the field of cost optimization and monitoring. In this course, we teach the advantages of AWS billing models and optimizing the utilization of running systems. Through exercises, practical experience is quickly gained, and participants learn how to implement effective cost management in AWS.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn:

  • What FinOps mean

  • Pros of a FinOps concept for cost-management in AWS

  • Vorteile eines FinOps Konzeptes für das Kostenmanagement in AWS

  • Identify cost driver

  • Reducing cost through optimizing your billing models and system right-sizing

  • Options for cost reporting in AWS

  • Cost control through AWS Budgets

Course Duration / Price

  • 1 Day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course should have:

  • Basic understanding of general billing models in AWS.

Target Audience Description

  • Product Owner CCoE

  • Financial Cloud Operator

  • Cloud Engineers

Course Outline

  • Introductions and Overview

  • Introduction FinOps

  • Billing / Controlling (INFORM)

    • Know your AWS invoice

    • Identify cost driver

  • Cost Optimization (OPTIMIZE)

    • Methods to optimize; impact vs. complexity

    • Different billing models

    • Where to start?

  • FinOps in Operation (OPERATE)

    • Importance of automation

    • Link to Business

 

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us beforehand.

The course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The course language is German, on request also in English.

CloudFormation Essentials

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in tecRacer Trainings, Training.

CloudFormation Essentials

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn:

  • Fundamentals of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • Advantages of CloudFormation for creating cloud resources

  • CloudFormation basic commands and functionality

  • Hands-on experience working with CloudFormation

Course Duration / Price

  • 1 Day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course should have:

  • Basic understanding of general networking concepts and multi-layer architectures.

  • Understanding of cloud computing concepts

  • Basic knowledge of basic AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3)

  • Basic knowledge of software development and system administration (git, Bash, advanced editor)

Course Outline

  • Introduction

  • Automation – Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • AWS CloudFormation Basics

    • Template Structure

    • Elements of template anatomy

    • Hands-on Labs

  • AWS CloudFormation Advanced

    • Working with Templates

    • Overview on

      • SAM (Serverless Application Model)

      • CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

      • cfn-tools for testing

 

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us beforehand.

The course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The course language is German, on request also in English.

DevOps Engineering on AWS with AWS Jam

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in AWS Training, Training.

  • Aws Advanced Training Partner

  • Aws Premium Consuting Partner

DevOps Engineering on AWS with AWS Jam

Please find our upcoming course dates at the end of this page!

Course description

DevOps Engineering on AWS teaches you how to use the combination of DevOps cultural philosophies, practices, and tools to increase your organization’s ability to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AWS. This course covers Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), infrastructure as code, microservices, monitoring and logging, and communication and collaboration. Hands-on labs give you experience building and deploying AWS CloudFormation templates and CI/CD pipelines that build and deploy applications on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), serverless applications, and container-based applications. Labs for multi-pipeline workflows and pipelines that deploy to multiple environments are also included.

The final day is an AWS Jam, a gamified event, with teams competing to score points by completing a series of challenges according to established best practices based on concepts covered in the course. You get to experience a wide range of AWS services in a series of real-world scenarios that represent common operational and troubleshooting tasks. The end result is developing, enhancing, and validating your skillsets in the AWS Cloud through real-world problem solving, exploring new services, features, and understanding how they interoperate.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Use DevOps best practices to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AW
  • List the advantages, roles and responsibilities of small autonomous DevOps teams
  • Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports DevOps development projects
  • Leverage AWS Cloud9 to write, run and debug your code
  • Deploy various environments with AWS CloudFormation
  • Host secure, highly scalable, and private Git repositories with AWS CodeCommit
  • Integrate Git repositories into CI/CD pipelines
  • Automate build, test, and packaging code with AWS CodeBuild
  • Securely store and leverage Docker images and integrate them into your CI/CD pipelines
  • Build CI/CD pipelines to deploy applications on Amazon EC2, serverless applications, and container-based applications
  • Implement common deployment strategies such as “all at once,” “rolling,” and “blue/green”
  • Integrate testing and security into CI/CD pipelines
  • Monitor applications and environments using AWS tools and technologies
  • Work in a team environment to solve real AWS use-case challenges in an AWS Jam

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for:

  • DevOps engineers
  • DevOps architects
  • Operations engineers
  • System administrators
  • Developers

PREREQUISITES

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

  • Previous attendance at the Systems Operations on AWS or Developing on AWS courses
  • Working knowledge of one or more high-level programing languages, such as C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python
  • Intermediate knowledge of administering Linux or Windows systems at the command-line level
  • Two or more years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments

ACTIVITIES

This course includes:

  • presentations
  • group exercises
  • hands-on labs
  • team-based gamified challenge

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

  • 4 days
  • € 2,485.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

  • Day 1

    • Module 1: Introduction to DevOps
      • What is DevOps?
      • The Amazon journey to DevOps
      • Foundations for DevOps
    • Module 2: Infrastructure Automation
      • Introduction to Infrastructure Automation
      • Diving into the AWS CloudFormation template
      • Modifying an AWS CloudFormation template
      • Demonstration: AWS CloudFormation template structure, parameters, stacks, updates, importing resources, and drift detection
    • Module 3: AWS Toolkits
      • Configuring the AWS CLI
      • AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs)
      • AWS SAM CLI
      • AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
      • AWS Cloud9
      • Demonstration: AWS CLI and AWS CDK
      • Hands-on lab: Using AWS CloudFormation to provision and manage a basic infrastructure
    • Module 4: Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with development tools
      • CI/CD Pipeline and Dev Tools
      • Demonstration: CI/CD pipeline displaying some actions from AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline
      • Hands-on lab: Deploying an application to an EC2 fleet using AWS CodeDeploy

  • Day 2

    • Module 4: Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with development tools
      • AWS CodePipeline
      • Demonstration: AWS integration with Jenkins
      • Hands-on lab: Automating code deployments using AWS CodePipeline
    • Module 5: Introduction to Microservices
      • Introduction to Microservices
    • Module 6: DevOps and containers
      • Deploying applications with Docker
      • Amazon Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate
      • Amazon Elastic Container Registry and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service
      • Demonstration: CI/CD pipeline deployment in a containerized application
    • Module 7: DevOps and serverless computing
      • AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate
      • AWS Serverless Application Repository and AWS SAM
      • AWS Step Functions
      • Demonstration: AWS Lambda and characteristics
      • Demonstration: AWS SAM quick start in AWS Cloud9
      • Hands-on lab: Deploying a serverless application using AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and a CI/CD Pipeline
    • Module 8: Deployment strategies
      • Continuous Deployment
      • Deployments with AWS Services
    • Module 9: Automated testing
      • Introduction to testing
      • Tests: Unit, integration, fault tolerance, load, and synthetic
      • Product and service integrations

  • Day 3

    • Module 10: Security automation
      • Introduction to DevSecOps
      • Security of the Pipeline
      • Security in the Pipeline
      • Threat Detection Tools
      • Demonstration: AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, and Amazon Inspector
    • Module 11: Configuration management
      • Introduction to the configuration management process
      • AWS services and tooling for configuration management
      • Hands-on lab: Performing blue/green deployments with CI/CD pipelines and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS
    • Module 12: Observability
      • Introduction to observability
      • AWS tools to assist with observability
      • Hands-on lab: Using AWS DevOps tools for CI/CD pipeline automation
    • Module 13: Reference architecture (Optional module)
      • Reference architectures
    • Module 14: Course summary
      • Components of DevOps practice
      • CI/CD pipeline review
      • AWS Certification

  • Day 4

    • AWS Jam
      • Participate in team-based challenges in a real AWS environment
      • Compete with your colleagues in a gamified, hands-on learning experience
      • Apply your learning from the course on various AWS services

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The Course language is German, on request also in English.

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Architecting on AWS with AWS Jam

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in AWS Training, Training.

  • Aws Advanced Training Partner

  • Aws Premium Consuting Partner

Architecting on AWS with AWS Jam

Please find our upcoming course dates at the end of this page!

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Architecting on AWS is for solutions architects, solution-design engineers, and developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting. In this course, you will learn to identify services and features to build resilient, secure and highly available IT solutions on the AWS Cloud.

Architectural solutions differ depending on the industry, types of applications, and business size. AWS Authorized Instructors emphasize best practices using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and guide you through the process of designing optimal IT solutions, based on real-life scenarios. The modules focus on account security, networking, compute, storage, databases, monitoring, automation, containers, serverless architecture, edge services, and backup and recovery. At the end of the course, you will practice building a solution and apply what you have learned with confidence.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Identify AWS architecting basic practices.
  • Explore using the AWS management tools: The AWS Console, Command Line Interface (CLI), and CloudFormation in a lab environment.
  • Examine the enforcement of accounts security using policies.
  • Identify the elements that build an elastic, secure, virtual network that includes private and public subnets.
  • Practice building an AWS core networking infrastructure.
  • Determine strategies for a layered security approach to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnets.
  • Identify strategies to select the appropriate compute resources based on business use-cases.
  • Practice building a VPC and adding an Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instance in a lab environment.
  • Practice installing an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instance and an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in the VPC you created.
  • Compare and contrast AWS storage products and services, based on business scenarios.
  • Compare and contrast the different types of AWS database services based on business needs.
  • Practice building a highly available, auto-scaling database layer in a lab.
  • Explore the business value of AWS monitoring solutions.
  • Identify and discuss AWS automation tools that will help you build, maintain and evolve your infrastructure.
  • Discuss network peering, VPC endpoints, gateway and routing solutions based on use-cases.
  • Discuss hybrid networking configurations to extend and secure your infrastructure.
  • Discuss the benefits of microservices as an effective decoupling strategy to power highly available applications at scale.
  • Explore AWS container services for the rapid implementation of an infrastructure-agnostic, portable application environment.
  • Identify the business and security benefits of AWS serverless services based on business examples.
  • Practice building a serverless infrastructure in a lab environment.
  • Discuss how AWS edge services address latency and security.
  • Practice building a CloudFront deployment with an S3 backend in a lab environment.
  • Explore AWS backup, recovery solutions, and best practices to ensure resiliency and business continuity.
  • Build a highly available and secure cloud architecture based on a business problem, in a project-based facilitator-guided lab.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for:

  • solutions architects
  • solution-design engineers
  • developers seeking an understanding of AWS architecting
  • individuals seeking the AWS Solutions Architect-Associate certification

PREREQUISITES

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials, or
    • Working knowledge of distributed systems
    • Familiarity with general networking concepts
    • Familiarity with IP addressing
    • Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
    • Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

ACTIVITIES

This course includes:

  • presentations based on use cases
  • group discussions
  • demonstrations
  • assessments
  • hands-on labs

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

  • 4 days
  • € 2,285.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

  • Day 1

    • Module 1: Architecting Fundamentals Review
      • AWS Services and Infrastructure
      • Infrastructure Models
      • AWS API Tools
      • Securing your infrastructure
      • The Well-Architected Framework
      • Hands-on lab: Explore Using the AWS API Tools to Deploy an EC2 Instance
    • Module 2: Account Security
      • Security Principals
      • Identity and Resource-Based Policies
      • Account Federation
      • Introduction to Managing Multiple Accounts
    • Module 3: Networking, Part 1
      • IP Addressing
      • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Patterns and Quotas
      • Routing
      • Internet Access
      • Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)
      • Security Groups
    • Module 4: Compute
      • Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
      • EC2 Instances and Instance Selection
      • High Performance Computing on AWS
      • Lambda and EC2, When to Use Which
      • Hands-On Lab: Build Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure

  • Day 2

    • Module 5: Storage
      • Shared File Systems
      • Shared EBS Volumes
      • Amazon S3, Security, Versioning and Storage Classes
      • Data Migration Tools
    • Module 6: Database Services
      • AWS Database Solutions
      • Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)
      • DynamoDB, Features and Use Cases
      • Redshift, Features, Use Cases and Comparison with RDS
      • Scaling
      • Caching and Migrating Data
      • Hands-on Lab: Create a Database Layer in Your Amazon VPC Infrastructure
    • Module 7: Monitoring and Scaling
      • Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs
      • Invoking Events
      • Elastic Load Balancing
      • Auto Scaling Options and Monitoring Cost
      • Hands-on Lab: Configure High Availability in Your Amazon VPC
    • Module 8: Automation
      • CloudFormation
      • AWS Systems Manager
    • Module 9: Containers
      • Microservices
      • Monitoring Microservices with X-Ray
      • Containers

  • Day 3

    • Module 10: Networking Part 2
      • VPC Peering & Endpoints
      • Transit Gateway
      • Hybrid Networking
      • Route 53
    • Module 11: Serverless Architecture
      • Amazon API Gateway
      • Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS
      • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Kinesis Firehose
      • Step Functions
      • Compare Amazon SQS to Amazon MQ
      • Hands-on Lab: Build a Serverless Architecture
    • Module 12: Edge Services
      • Amazon CloudFront
      • AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS and Firewall Manager
      • Compare AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon CloudFront
      • AWS Outposts
      • Hands-On Lab: Configure an Amazon CloudFront Distribution with an Amazon S3 Origin
    • Module 13: Backup and Recovery
      • Planning for Disaster Recovery
      • AWS Backup
      • Recovery Strategies
    • Capstone Lab: Build an AWS Multi-Tier Architecture

  • Day 4

    • AWS Jam
      • Participate in team-based challenges in a real AWS environment
      • Compete with your colleagues in a gamified, hands-on learning experience
      • Apply your learning from the course on various AWS services

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

The Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The Course language is German, on request also in English.

Neue Termine in Planung!

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Advanced Developing on AWS with AWS Jam

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in AWS Training, Training.

  • Aws Advanced Training Partner

  • Aws Premium Consuting Partner

Advanced Developing on AWS with AWS Jam

Please find our upcoming course dates at the end of this page!

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Advanced Developing on AWS course uses the real-world scenario of taking a legacy, on-premises monolithic application and refactoring it into a serverless microservices architecture. This four-day advanced course covers advanced development topics such as architecting for a cloud-native environment; deconstructing on-premises, legacy applications and repackaging them into cloud-based, cloud native architectures; and applying the tenets of the Twelve-Factor Application methodology.

The final day is an AWS Jam, a gamified event, with teams competing to score points by completing a series of challenges according to established best practices based on concepts covered in the course. You get to experience a wide range of AWS services in a series of real-world scenarios that represent common operational and troubleshooting tasks. The end result is developing, enhancing, and validating your skillsets in the AWS Cloud through real-world problem solving, exploring new services, features, and understanding how they interoperate.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Analyze a monolithic application architecture to determine logical or programmatic break points where the application can be broken up across different AWS services
  • Apply Twelve-Factor Application manifesto concepts and steps while migrating from a monolithic architecture
  • Recommend the appropriate AWS services to develop a microservices based cloud-native application
  • Use the AWS API, CLI, and SDKs to monitor and manage AWS services
  • Migrate a monolithic application to a microservices application using the 6 Rs of migration
  • Explain the SysOps and DevOps interdependencies necessary to deploy a microservices application in AWS
  • Work in a team environment to solve real AWS use-case challenges in an AWS Jam

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for:

  • experienced software developers who are already familiar with AWS services

PREREQUISITES

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

  • In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
  • Working knowledge of core AWS services and public cloud implementation
  • Completion of the Developing on AWS classroom training, and then a minimum of 6 months of application of those concepts in a real-world environment

ACTIVITIES

This course includes:

  • presentations
  • group exercises
  • hands-on labs
  • team-based gamified challenge

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

  • 4 days
  • € 2,485.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

  • Day 1

    • Module 1: The cloud journey
      • Common off-cloud architecture
      • Introduction to Cloud Air
      • Monolithic architecture
      • Migration to the cloud
      • Guardrails
      • The six R’s of migration
      • The Twelve-Factor Application Methodology
      • Architectural styles and patterns
      • Overview of AWS Services
      • Interfacing with AWS Services
      • Authentication
      • Infrastructure as code and Elastic Beanstalk
      • Demonstration: Walk through creating base infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation in the AWS console
      • Hands-on lab 1: Deploy your monolith application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    • Module 2: Gaining Agility
      • DevOps
      • CI/CD
      • Application configuration
      • Secrets management
      • CI/CD Services in AWS
      • Demonstration: Demo AWS Secrets Manager

  • Day 2

    • Module 3: Monolith to MicroServices
      • Microservices
      • Serverless
      • A look at Cloud Air
      • Microservices using Lambda and API Gateway
      • SAM
      • Strangling the Monolith
      • Hands-on lab: Using AWS Lambda to develop microservices
    • Module 4: Polyglot Persistence & Distributed Complexity
      • Polyglot persistence
      • DynamoDB best practices
      • Distributed complexity
      • Step functions

  • Day 3

    • Module 5: Resilience and Scale
      • Decentralized data stores
      • Amazon SQS
      • Amazon SNS
      • Amazon Kinesis Streams
      • AWS IoT Message Broker
      • Serverless event bus
      • Event sourcing and CQRS
      • Designing for resilience in the cloud
      • Hands-on lab: Exploring the AWS messaging options
    • Module 6: Security and Observability
      • Serverless Compute with AWS Lambda
      • Authentication with Amazon Cognito
      • Debugging and traceability
      • Hands-on lab: Developing microservices on AWS
      • Hands-on lab 8: Automating deployments with Cloud Formation

  • Day 4

    • AWS Jam
      • Participate in team-based challenges in a real AWS environment
      • Compete with your colleagues in a gamified, hands-on learning experience
      • Apply your learning from the course on various AWS services

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The course language is German, on request also in English.

Neue Termine in Planung!

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