Overview
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Learn strategies for optimizing, automating, and auto-scaling processes. Get some guidance around how to control costs while successfully managing cloud operations using AWS.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Automation and optimization in AWS
- What you should know
- On-Demand EC2 instances
- EC2 Spot Instances
- Request Spot Instances: Part 1
- Request Spot Instances: Part 2
- Spot Instance interruptions
- EC2 Reserved Instances
- Launch Reserved Instances
- Auto Scaling
- Set up a launch configuration/launch template
- Create an Auto Scaling group
- Verify the Auto Scaling group
- Manual scaling
- Scheduled scaling
- Target tracking
- Simple scaling
- Step scaling
- Lambda
- Create a Lambda function
- Invoke Lambda functions
- AWS Instance Scheduler
- Components of the Instance Scheduler
- Deploy an Instance Scheduler
- Instance Scheduler tags
- Cost allocation tags
- AWS-generated cost allocation tags
- User-defined cost allocation tags
- Monthly cost allocation report
- Trusted Advisor
- Trusted Advisor recommendations
- AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Organizations
- Create an AWS Organization
- Create an AWS Organization policy
- Next steps
