AWS SysOps End Of Class Reference and Links

Resources for Module 1

ARTICLES/DOCS

• AWS Well-Architected Framework: https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS_Well-Architected_Framework.pdf
• Operational Excellence Pillar: AWS Well-Architected Framework: https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Operational-Excellence-Pillar.pdf
• AWS Well Architected Labs: https://www.wellarchitectedlabs.com/
•  New – SaaS Lens in AWS Well-Architected Tool: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-saas-lens-in-aws-well-architected-tool/

Resources for Module 2a

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VIDEOS

• “What is IAM” in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html
• “IAM groups” in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_groups.html
• “Policies and permissions in IAM” in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies.html
• “Granting a user permissions to pass a role to an AWS service” in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_use_passrole.html
• “Policy evaluation logic” in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_policies_evaluation-logic.html
• “Get started using permissions with AWS managed policies” in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies
• “Multi-factor authentication” : http://aws.amazon.com/iam/details/mfa/
• “Rotate credentials regularly” in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#rotate-credentials
• “Understanding the report format” in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide  : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_getting-report.html#id_credentials_understanding_the_report_format
• “Testing IAM policies with the IAM policy simulator” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_testing-policies.html
• “AWS global condition context keys “: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_policies_condition-keys.html
• “Controlling access to and for IAM users and roles using tags”: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_iam-tags.html

Resources for Module 2b

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• “Installing, updating, and uninstalling the AWS CLI” in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-install.html
• “AWS Systems Manager Session Manager” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager.html
• “AWS Config Managed Rules” in the AWS Config Developer Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/evaluate-config_use-managed-rules.html
• “Setting Up AWS Config with the Console” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/gs-console.html
• “Setting Up AWS Config Rules with the Console” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/setting-up-aws-config-rules-with-console.html
• “JMESPath Tutorial” : https://jmespath.org/tutorial.html
• “jq” :  https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Resources for Module 3

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VIDEOS

• “Tagging Best Practices” technical paper : https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-tagging-best-practices.pdf
• “What Is AWS Resource Groups” in the AWS Resource Groups User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ARG/latest/userguide/welcome.html
• “Tagging naming limits and requirements” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_tagging.html#tag-conventions
• “Tagging governance” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_tagging.html#tag-strategies-governance
• “Tag policies” in the AWS Organizations User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_tag-policies.html
• “Amazon Machine Images (AMI)” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html
• “Configuring a Windows instance using EC2Launch” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Windows Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/ec2launch.html
• “How can I utilize user data to automatically execute a script with every restart of my Amazon EC2 instance?” in the Knowledge Center : https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/execute-user-data-ec2
• “Creating an Amazon EBS-backed Linux AMI” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-an-ami-ebs.html
• “Copying an AMI” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/CopyingAMIs.html
• “EC2 Image Builder” : https://aws.amazon.com/image-builder/
• “What is AWS Control Tower?” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/controltower/latest/userguide/what-is-control-tower.html :
• “Retrieving instance metadata” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instancedata-data-retrieval.html
• “Instance metadata and user data” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html
• “Run commands on your Linux instance at launch” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html

Resources for Module 4

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• “What is AWS CloudFormation?” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html
• “Using the AWS CloudFormation Template Editor for Visual Studio” in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio User Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSToolkitVS/latest/UserGuide/tkv-cfn-editor.html
• “The AWS CloudFormation Template Editor” in the AWS Toolkit Editor for Eclipse User Guide :  http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSToolkitEclipse/latest/ug/tke-cfn-editor.html
• “Resources” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/resources-section-structure.html
• “Ref” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/intrinsic-function-reference-ref.html
• “Intrinsic function reference” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/intrinsic-function-reference.html
•  “Parameters” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/parameters-section-structure.html
• “Pseudo Parameters Reference” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/pseudo-parameter-reference.html
•  “Mappings” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/mappings-section-structure.html
• “cloudformation-stack-drift-detection-check” in the AWS Config Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/cloudformation-stack-drift-detection-check.html
• “CloudFormation helper scripts reference” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-helper-scripts-reference.html
• “cfn-init” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-init.html
• “Troubleshooting AWS CloudFormation” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/troubleshooting.html
•  “create-stack” in the AWS CLI Command Reference : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudformation/create-stack.html
• “continue-update-rollback” in the AWS CLI Command Reference : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/cloudformation/continue-update-rollback.html
•  “Continue Rolling Back an Update” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-cfn-updating-stacks-continueupdaterollback.html
• “AWS CloudFormation Best Practices” : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html
• “Working with AWS CloudFormation StackSets”
• : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/what-is-cfnstacksets.html
• “Walkthrough: Updating a stack” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/updating.stacks.walkthrough.html
• “Prevent updates to stack resources” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/protect-stack-resources.html
• “What Is AWS Service Catalog?” AWS Service Catalog Administrator Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/latest/adminguide/introduction.html
• “Troubleshooting AWS CloudFormation” in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/troubleshooting.html
• “AWS Quick Starts” : https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart
• “AWS CloudFormation Templates” : https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/resources/templates/
• “AWS Serverless Application Model ” : https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/sam/
• “AWS Cloud Development Kit” : https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/
• “AWS CloudFormation API Reference ” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
• “Best Practices for Deploying Applications on AWS CloudFormation Stacks ” : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/best-practices-for-deploying-applications-on-aws-cloudformation-stacks/
• QuickStarts. https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

Resources for Module 5

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• •“Systems Manager prerequisites” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/systems-manager-prereqs.html
• “Create an IAM instance profile for Systems Manager” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/setup-instance-profile.html
• “Create an IAM service role for a hybrid environment” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-service-role.html
• “Create a Virtual Private Cloud endpoint” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/setup-create-vpc.html
• “AWS Systems Manager Explorer” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/Explorer.html
• “AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/OpsCenter.html
• “Working with AWS AppConfig” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/appconfig-working.html
• “How AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store uses AWS KMS” in the AWS KMS Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/developerguide/services-parameter-store.html
• “Organizing parameters into hierarchies” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-paramstore-su-organize.html
• “Public parameters” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/parameter-store-public-parameters.html
• “AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/systems-manager-patch.html
• “About patch groups” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-patch-patchgroups.html
• “AWS Systems Manager Maintenance Windows” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/systems-manager-maintenance.html
• “AWS Systems Manager documents” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-ssm-docs.html
• “Systems Manager Automation actions reference” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/automation-actions.html
• “AWS Systems Manager State Manager” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/systems-manager-state.html#systems-manager-state
• “Troubleshooting Systems Manager Automation” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/automation-troubleshooting.html
• “Quick Setup Host Management” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/quick-setup-host-management.html
• “Working with runbooks” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/automation-documents.html

Resources for Module 6a

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• “Elastic Load Balancing features” on the AWS products website : https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/details/#compare
• “Elastic Load Balancing features” on the Elastic Load Balancing product website : https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/features/?nc=sn&loc=2
• “What is an Application Load Balancer?” in the Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancers : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/introduction.html
• Network Load Balancers health checks : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/target-group-health-checks.html
• Application Load Balancers health checks : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/target-group-health-checks.html
• Classic Load Balancers  health checks : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-healthchecks.html
• “CloudWatch metrics for your Application Load Balancer” in the Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancers : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-cloudwatch-metrics.html
• “CloudWatch metrics for your Network Load Balancer” in Elastic Load Balancing Network Load Balancers : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/load-balancer-cloudwatch-metrics.html
• “Access logs for your Application Load Balancer” in the Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancers : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-access-logs.html
• “Routing traffic to an ELB load balancer” in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/routing-to-elb-load-balancer.html
• “Values that you specify when you create or update health checks” in the Amazon 53 Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/health-checks-creating-values.html
• “The load balancer generates an HTTP error” in the Elastic Load Balancing, Application Load Balancers Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-troubleshooting.html#load-balancer-http-error-codes
• “Creating Amazon Route 53 health checks and configuring DNS failover” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-failover.html 
• “Monitoring health checks using CloudWatch” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/monitoring-health-checks.html
• “Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer – Easy Deployment, Scalability, and High Availability for Partner Appliances” : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-gateway-load-balancer-easy-deployment-scalability-and-high-availability-for-partner-appliances/

Resources for Module 6b

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VIDEOS

• “What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?” in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/what-is-amazon-ec2-auto-scaling.html
• “Step 4: Next steps” in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/GettingStartedTutorial.html#gs-tutorial-next-steps
• “Launch templates” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/LaunchTemplates.html
• “Launch configurations” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/LaunchConfiguration.html
• “Launch an instance from a launch template” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-launch-templates.html
• “Auto Scaling groups” in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/AutoScalingGroup.html
• “Elastic Load Balancing and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling” in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/autoscaling-load-balancer.html
• “Status checks for your instances” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : http://docs.aws.amazon.com\AWSEC2\latest\UserGuide\monitoring-system-instance-status-check.html
• “Step and simple scaling policies for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling” in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scaling-simple-step.html
• “Target tracking scaling policies for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling” in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scaling-target-tracking.html
• “Controlling which Auto Scaling instances terminate during scale in” in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/latest/userguide/as-instance-termination.html
• “Instance warm-up” in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-scaling-simple-step.html#as-step-scaling-warmup
• “Spot Instances” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-instances.html
• “How Spot Fleet works” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-fleet.html
• “Requesting Spot Instances for fault-tolerant and flexible applications” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/asg-launch-spot-instances.html
• “Auto Scaling groups with multiple instance types and purchase options” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/asg-purchase-options.html
• “License configurations in License Manager” in the AWS License Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/latest/userguide/license-configurations.html
• “Build License Manager rules from vendor licenses” in the AWS License Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/latest/userguide/licenses-to-rules.html
• “AMI <AMI ID> is pending, and cannot be run. Launching EC2 instance failed.” in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/ts-as-ami.html#ts-as-ami-2
• “The requested configuration is currently not supported.” in the Amazon EC Auto Scaling User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/ts-as-instancelaunchfailure.html#ts-as-instancelaunchfailure-3
• “Why didn’t Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling terminate an unhealthy instance?” : https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/auto-scaling-terminate-instance/
• “Best practices for AWS Auto Scaling scaling plans” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/plans/userguide/gs-best-practices.html
• “What is AWS Auto Scaling?” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/plans/userguide/what-is-aws-auto-scaling.html

Resources for Module 7

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• “What Is Amazon CloudWatch?” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/WhatIsCloudWatch.html
• “What Is Amazon CloudWatch Logs?” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/WhatIsCloudWatchLogs.html
• “What Is Amazon CloudWatch Events?” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/WhatIsCloudWatchEvents.html
• “Collecting Metrics and Logs from Amazon EC2 Instances and On-Premises Servers with the CloudWatch Agent” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Install-CloudWatch-Agent.html
• “Amazon CloudWatch Concepts” in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch_concepts.html
• “AWS Services That Publish CloudWatch Metrics” in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/aws-services-cloudwatch-metrics.html
• “Enable or turn off detailed monitoring for your instances” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-cloudwatch-new.html
• “Amazon CloudWatch pricing” : http://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/
• “PutMetricData” in the Amazon CloudWatch API Reference : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_PutMetricData.html
• “Publishing Custom Metrics” in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/publishingMetrics.html
• “High-Resolution Metrics” in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/publishingMetrics.html#high-resolution-metrics
• “Using Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards” in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html
• “Using Amazon CloudWatch Alarms” in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AlarmThatSendsEmail.html
• “Creating Metrics From Log Events Using Filters” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/MonitoringLogData.html
• “Working with Log Groups and Log Streams” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/Working-with-log-groups-and-streams.html
• “Collecting Metrics and Logs from Amazon EC2 Instances and On-Premises Servers with the CloudWatch Agent” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Install-CloudWatch-Agent.html
• “Analyzing Log Data with CloudWatch Logs Insights” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/AnalyzingLogData.html
• “CloudWatch Logs Insights Query Syntax” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/CWL_QuerySyntax.html
• Amazon EventBridge website : https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/
• “Getting started with the AWS Personal Health Dashboard” in the AWS Health User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/ug/getting-started-phd.html
• “Event log” in the AWS Health User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/ug/getting-started-phd.html#event-log
• “Monitor for AWS Health events with Amazon CloudWatch Events” in the AWS Health User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/ug/cloudwatch-events-health.html
• “Visualize and Monitor Highly Distributed Applications with Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens” in the AWS News blog : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/visualize-and-monitor-highly-distributed-applications-with-amazon-cloudwatch-servicelens/
• “AWS X-Ray concepts” in the AWS X-Ray Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-concepts.html
• “Using ServiceLens to Monitor the Health of Your Applications” in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/ServiceLens.html
• “AWS Trusted Advisor best practice checklist” : https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-advisor/best-practice-checklist
• “AWS Limit Monitor” in the AWS Solutions Implementation Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/limit-monitor/welcome.html
• “Why is my CloudWatch alarm in INSUFFICIENT_DATA state?” in the AWS Knowledge Center : https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloudwatch-alarm-insufficient-data-state/
• “Verify That the CloudWatch Agent Is Running” in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/troubleshooting-CloudWatch-Agent.html#CloudWatch-Agent-troubleshooting-verify-running
• “Filter and Pattern Syntax” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/FilterAndPatternSyntax.html
• “Monitoring CloudTrail Log Files with Amazon CloudWatch Logs” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/monitor-cloudtrail-log-files-with-cloudwatch-logs.html
• “Getting started with Java on Elastic Beanstalk” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/java-getstarted.html

Resources for Module 8

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• “Using AWS IAM Access Analyzer ” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/what-is-access-analyzer.html
• “Access Analyzer findings” in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access-analyzer-findings.html
• “What Is AWS CloudTrail?” in the AWS CloudTrail User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-user-guide.html
• “Analyzing Data in S3 using Amazon Athena” on the AWS Big Data Blog : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/analyzing-data-in-s3-using-amazon-athena
• “Supported SerDes and Data Formats” in the Amazon Athena User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/supported-serdes.html
• “Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/aggregate-data.html
• “Supported Resource Types” : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/resource-config-reference.html
• “AWS Config Managed Rules” in the AWS Config Developer Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/evaluate-config_use-managed-rules.html
• “Remediating security issues discovered by GuardDuty” in the Amazon GuardDuty User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_remediate.html
• “Incident Response” in the AWS Well-Architected Framework : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/security-pillar/incident-response.html
• “Remediating Noncompliant AWS Resources by AWS Config Rules” in the AWS Config Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/remediation.html
• “Method 2: Use IAM to configure roles for Automation” in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/automation-permissions.html
• “How can I troubleshoot failed remediation executions in AWS Config?” on AWS Knowledge Center : https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/config-remediation-executions/
• “How can I troubleshoot AWS Config console error messages?” : https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/config-console-error/
• “Amazon Inspector rules packages and rules” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/inspector/latest/userguide/inspector_rule-packages.html
• “Querying AWS CloudTrail Logs” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/cloudtrail-logs.html
• “Inclusive content” : https://alpha-docs-aws.amazon.com/awsstyleguide/latest/styleguide/inclusive.html

Resources for Module 9

ARTICLES/DOCS

• VPC and subnets limits : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/amazon-vpc-limits.html#vpc-limits-vpcs-subnets
• “Network ACL rules” in the Amazon VPC User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-network-acls.html#nacl-rules
• “Security groups” in the Amazon VPC User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/amazon-vpc-limits.html#vpc-limits-security-groups
• “Security” in the Amazon VPC User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Scenario3.html#VPC_Scenario3_Security
• “Security group rules for different use cases” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/security-group-rules-reference.html
• “What is VPC peering” in the Amazon VPC User Guide : https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/announcing-support-for-inter-region-vpc-peering/
• “What is AWS Site-to-Site VPN?” in the AWS VPN User Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/NetworkAdminGuide/Welcome.html
• “AWS Transit Gateway” on AWS : https://aws.amazon.com/transit-gateway/
• “VPC endpoints” in the Amazon VPC User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpc-endpoints.html
• “Resolving DNS queries between VPCs and your network” in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/resolver.html
• “VPC Flow Logs” in the Amazon VPC User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html
• “What is Amazon CloudFront?” in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Introduction.html
• “How CloudFront delivers content” in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/HowCloudFrontWorks.html
• “Origin Settings” in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-web-values-specify.html#DownloadDistValuesOrigin
• “Distribution Settings” in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-web-values-specify.html#DownloadDistValuesGeneral
• “Cache Behavior Settings” in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-web-values-specify.html#DownloadDistValuesCacheBehavior
• “Managing how long content stays in the cache (expiration)” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Expiration.html
• “AWS Managed Rules rule groups list” in the AWS WAF Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/aws-managed-rule-groups-list.html
• ” AWS WAF rules” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-rules.html
• “Planning Your ACM Private CA Deployment” in the AWS Private Certificate Authority User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm-pca/latest/userguide/PcaPlanning.html
• “Resilience in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/disaster-recovery-resiliency.html
• “Global Infrastructure” : https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
• “Working with distributions” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/distribution-working-with.html

Resources for Module 10a

ARTICLES/DOCS

• “Amazon EC2 instance store” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html
• “Storage-optimized instances” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/storage-optimized-instances.html
• “What’s the difference between instance store and EBS?” on AWS Knowledge Center : https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/instance-store-vs-ebs/
• “Amazon EBS volume types” in the Amazon EC User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSVolumeTypes.html
• “General Purpose SSD volumes (gp2)” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volume-types.html#EBSVolumeTypes_gp2
• “Hard disk drives (HDD)” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volume-types.html#hard-disk-drives
• “Create an Amazon EBS volume” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-volume.html
• “Make an Amazon EBS volume available for use on Linux” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-using-volumes.html
• “Request modifications to your EBS volumes” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/requesting-ebs-volume-modifications.html
• “Requirements when modifying volumes” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/modify-volume-requirements.html
• Extend a Linux file system after resizing a volume” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/recognize-expanded-volume-linux.html
• “Amazon Elastic Block Store endpoints and quotas” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ebs-service.html
• “RAID configuration on Linux” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/raid-config.html
• “RAID configuration on Windows” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Windows Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/raid-config.html
• “Attach a volume to multiple instances with Amazon EBS Multi-Attach” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volumes-multi.html
• “Considerations and limitations” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volumes-multi.html#considerations
• “EBS volume status checks” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitoring-volume-status.html#monitoring-volume-checks
• “Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EBS” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using_cloudwatch_ebs.html
• “Copy an Amazon EBS snapshot” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-copy-snapshot.html
• “Create a VSS application-consistent snapshot” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Windows Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/application-consistent-snapshots.html
• “Amazon EBS fast snapshot restore” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-fast-snapshot-restore.html
• “Create a volume from a snapshot” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-creating-volume.html#ebs-create-volume-from-snapshot
• “Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager” in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/snapshot-lifecycle.html
• “Creating a Backup Plan” in the AWS Backup Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-backup/latest/devguide/creating-a-backup-plan.html
• “NFS Support” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/mounting-fs-old.html#mounting-fs-nfs-info
• “Installing the NFS Client” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/mounting-fs-old.html#mounting-fs-install-nfsclient
• “Amazon EFS performance” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/performance.html
• “Using Microsoft Windows File Shares” in the Amazon FSx Windows User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/WindowsGuide/using-file-shares.html
• “Mounting from an Amazon EC2 Instance” in the Amazon FSx Lustre User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/LustreGuide/mounting-ec2-instance.html

Resources for Module 10b

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• “When to use Cross-Region Replication” in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/replication.html#crr-scenario
• Using Amazon S3 block public access” in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/access-control-block-public-access.html
• “Using Access Analyzer for S3” in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Console User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/access-analyzer.html
• “Amazon S3 Server Access Log Format” in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/LogFormat.html
• “Configuring Amazon S3 event notifications” in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/NotificationHowTo.html
• “Amazon S3 storage classes” in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide : https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/
• “Performance across the S3 Storage Classes” on the AWS website : https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/#Performance_across_the_S3_Storage_Classes
• “Transitioning objects using Amazon S3 Lifecycle” in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/lifecycle-transition-general-considerations.html
• “How do I create a lifecycle rule for an S3 bucket?” in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Console User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/create-lifecycle.html
• “What Is Amazon S3 Glacier?” in the Amazon S3 Glacier Developer Guide : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/introduction.html
• “Retrieving S3 Glacier Archives” in the Amazon S3 Glacier Developer Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/downloading-an-archive-two-steps.html
• “Working with Vaults in Amazon S3 Glacier” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/working-with-vaults.html

Resources for Module 11

ARTICLES/DOCS

VIDEOS

• “Cost Optimization Pillar – AWS Well-Architected Framework” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/cost-optimization-pillar/welcome.html
• “Laying the Foundation: Setting Up Your Environment for Cost Optimization” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/cost-optimization-laying-the-foundation/introduction.html
• “Viewing your bill” in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/getting-viewing-bill.html
• “Analyzing your costs with Cost Explorer” in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ce-what-is.html
• “Modifying your chart” in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ce-modify.html
• “Forecasting with Cost Explorer” in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ce-forecast.html
• “Creating Cost and Usage Reports” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/creating-cur.html
• “Querying Cost and Usage Reports using Amazon Athena” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cur/latest/userguide/cur-query-athena.html
• “Level 300: Automated Athena CUR Query and E-mail Delivery” on the AWS Well-Architected Labs, Cost Optimization website : https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/cost/300_labs/300_automated_cur_query_and_email_delivery
• “Creating a cost budget” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/budgets-create.html#create-cost-budget
• “Creating a reservation budget” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/budgets-create.html#create-reservation-budget
• “Creating a Savings Plans budget” : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/budgets-create.html#create-savingsplans-budget
• “Available budget filters” in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/budgets-create-filters.html
• “Receiving budget alerts in Amazon Chime and Slack” in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/sns-alert-chime.html
• “Creating a Billing Alarm to Monitor Your Estimated AWS Charges” in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.html
• “Optimizing your cost with Rightsizing Recommendations” in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ce-rightsizing.html
• “Understanding your Savings Plans recommendations” in the Savings Plan User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/latest/userguide/sp-recommendations.html
• “Accessing Reserved Instance Recommendations” in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ri-recommendations.html
• “AWS Trusted Advisor best practice checklist” on the AWS website : https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-advisor/best-practice-checklist/
• “AWS Compute Optimizer” on the AWS website : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/latest/ug/what-is-compute-optimizer.html
• “Viewing the AWS Compute Optimizer dashboard” in the AWS Compute Optimizer User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/latest/ug/viewing-dashboard.html
• “Optimizing your cost with Rightsizing Recommendations” in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ce-rightsizing.html
• “It just got easier to discover and compare EC2 instance types” in the AWS Compute Blog : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/it-just-got-easier-to-discover-and-compare-ec2-instance-types/

Resources for Module 12

ARTICLES/DOCS

• “AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate” : https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-sysops-admin-associate/