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Course Overview

What You Will Learn

Extending DevOps practices into the cloud, this class focuses on designing, deploying, and monitoring resilient infrastructure at scale. Students will master cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) , covering core services such as virtual networks, compute instances, storage solutions, load balancers, and auto-scaling groups. The observability pillar emphasizes metrics, logs, and distributed tracing—using tools like CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, and Jaeger to gain deep visibility into system health and performance. Topics include infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), serverless architectures, cost optimization, security best practices, and incident response. By the end, learners will be able to architect cloud-native systems and proactively detect, diagnose, and resolve issues, preparing them for cloud engineer, DevOps, or SRE roles.

Program Curriculum

Course Content

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What is Cloud Computing?
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Why Organizations Use the Cloud
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On-Premises vs Cloud Infrastructure
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Shared Responsibility Model
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IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Explained
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Choosing Between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
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Managed Services vs Self-Managed Services
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EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud
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S3 – Object Storage Fundamentals
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RDS – Managed Relational Databases
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VPC – Virtual Private Cloud
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IAM – Identity and Access Management
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CloudFront – Content Delivery at the Edge
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Lambda – Serverless Compute Fundamentals
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Why Cross-Cloud Awareness Matters
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Azure Core Service Equivalents
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Google Cloud Platform Core Equivalents
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Conceptual Portability Across Cloud Providers
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IAM Roles, Users, and Policies
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Least Privilege Principle
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Access Boundaries and Secure Cloud Usage
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Secrets, Credentials, and Operational Security
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VPC, Subnets, and Network Segmentation
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Gateways, NAT, and Internet Access Paths
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Load Balancers: ALB and NLB
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Route53 and DNS Management
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Networking and Peering Concepts
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Traffic Paths from User to Cloud Service
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Auto Scaling Groups
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Elasticity in Cloud Systems
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Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda
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Elastic Beanstalk Overview
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ECS and Container-Based Cloud Workloads
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EKS and Managed Kubernetes in the Cloud
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Choosing Between VM, Container, and Serverless Models
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Why Cloud Cost Management Matters
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Common Sources of Cloud Waste
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Right-Sizing and Resource Planning
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Reserved Capacity, Spot Models, and Cost Trade-Offs
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Architecture Decisions that Affect Cost
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Why Observability Matters in Cloud Systems
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CloudWatch Fundamentals
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Prometheus and Metrics Collection
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Grafana Dashboards and Visualization
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Centralized Log Management with the ELK Stack
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Designing for Searchable and Useful Logs
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What is Distributed Tracing?
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Jaeger Overview
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OpenTelemetry Fundamentals
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Alerting Concepts and Signal Quality
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PagerDuty and Opsgenie Overview
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From Monitoring to Incident Response
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Backup Strategies in the Cloud
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Disaster Recovery Planning
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Recovery Objectives: RPO and RTO
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Multi-Region Redundancy
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Choosing the Right Resilience Strategy
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Cloud Infrastructure & Observability Wrap-Up
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Cloud Infrastructure & Observability

Cloud Infrastructure & Observability

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Instructor Filimon Shferaw
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Instructors

Meet the Instructor

  • Filimon Shferaw
    Senior Software Engineer