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Aws Infrastructure As A Service

Aws Infrastructure As A Service

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This curriculum reflects the scope typically addressed across a full consulting engagement or multi-phase internal transformation initiative.

Module 1: Strategic Assessment of AWS IaaS Adoption

  • Evaluate total cost of ownership (TCO) trade-offs between on-premises, colocation, and AWS IaaS across multi-year horizons, factoring in refresh cycles and hidden operational costs.
  • Assess organizational readiness for IaaS migration, including skill gaps, change management capacity, and legacy system dependencies.
  • Define workload eligibility criteria for AWS based on compliance, data sovereignty, performance, and integration requirements.
  • Compare AWS IaaS against alternative cloud models (PaaS, SaaS, hybrid) for specific business units or applications.
  • Map business continuity requirements to AWS service capabilities, identifying gaps in RTO/RPO alignment.
  • Establish decision frameworks for workload placement: public cloud vs. on-premises based on data gravity, latency, and regulatory constraints.
  • Quantify risk exposure from vendor lock-in and design mitigation strategies including multi-cloud abstraction layers.
  • Develop governance thresholds for initiating IaaS pilots, including executive sponsorship, budget caps, and exit criteria.

Module 2: Account and Identity Governance at Scale

  • Design multi-account AWS Organizations structures aligned with business units, environments, and compliance domains using SCPs and OU hierarchies.
  • Implement least-privilege IAM policies with boundary conditions for roles, service-linked roles, and cross-account access.
  • Integrate AWS IAM with enterprise identity providers using SAML 2.0 or OpenID Connect, including federation failure fallbacks.
  • Enforce MFA and session duration policies across roles, considering usability trade-offs for developers and operators.
  • Establish audit trails for IAM changes using AWS CloudTrail with log integrity validation and external monitoring.
  • Define lifecycle policies for credential rotation, role deactivation, and access reviews across thousands of identities.
  • Implement just-in-time (JIT) access using AWS IAM Roles Anywhere or third-party PAM integrations for privileged operations.
  • Assess risks of wildcard permissions and service role proliferation using AWS Access Analyzer and automated remediation.

Module 3: Network Architecture and Connectivity Planning

  • Design VPC topologies with CIDR planning, subnets, and route tables to support multi-tier applications and segmentation.
  • Implement hybrid connectivity using AWS Direct Connect or Site-to-Site VPN with redundancy, failover, and bandwidth SLAs.
  • Configure DNS resolution between on-premises and AWS using Route 53 Resolver inbound/outbound endpoints.
  • Enforce network segmentation using security groups, NACLs, and AWS Network Firewall with performance impact analysis.
  • Deploy transit gateways for hub-and-spoke architectures, evaluating cost versus peering models at scale.
  • Optimize inter-region data transfer costs and latency using AWS Global Accelerator or CloudFront routing policies.
  • Plan for IPv6 adoption in VPCs, assessing application compatibility and dual-stack requirements.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot network paths using VPC Flow Logs, AWS CloudWatch, and AWS Network Manager.

Module 4: Compute Strategy and Instance Optimization

  • Select EC2 instance families based on workload characteristics: compute, memory, storage, or GPU-intensive demands.
  • Evaluate trade-offs between On-Demand, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances for cost and availability requirements.
  • Implement auto-scaling groups with predictive and dynamic scaling policies tied to business KPIs.
  • Design fault-tolerant workloads across Availability Zones, factoring in stateful versus stateless architecture patterns.
  • Integrate EC2 with Systems Manager for patch compliance, inventory tracking, and operational automation.
  • Assess containerization readiness and migration paths from EC2 to ECS or EKS for microservices.
  • Implement instance hibernation and lifecycle hooks for state preservation during scale-in events.
  • Monitor and remediate underutilized or orphaned instances using AWS Cost Explorer and Compute Optimizer.

Module 5: Storage Architecture and Data Management

  • Map data access patterns to AWS storage tiers: EBS, EFS, S3, or FSx based on throughput, latency, and durability needs.
  • Design EBS volume types (gp3, io2) with IOPS, throughput, and burst balance considerations for database workloads.
  • Implement S3 lifecycle policies to transition objects between storage classes and enforce deletion rules.
  • Configure cross-region replication and versioning for disaster recovery and ransomware protection.
  • Enforce encryption at rest using AWS KMS with customer-managed keys and audit key usage patterns.
  • Design backup strategies using AWS Backup with retention, compliance, and restore testing requirements.
  • Address data egress costs by caching strategies, data locality, and transfer acceleration decisions.
  • Implement data governance with S3 Object Lock, access points, and bucket policies aligned with regulatory frameworks.

Module 6: Security, Compliance, and Threat Mitigation

  • Deploy AWS WAF and Shield Advanced to protect internet-facing applications from DDoS and OWASP Top 10 threats.
  • Implement host-based security using Amazon GuardDuty, Inspector, and custom log analysis for anomaly detection.
  • Enforce encryption in transit using TLS 1.2+ and manage certificates via AWS Certificate Manager with renewal automation.
  • Configure Security Hub to aggregate findings and prioritize remediation based on business criticality.
  • Implement compliance-as-code using AWS Config rules and automated remediation via AWS Systems Manager.
  • Design secure API access patterns using API Gateway with throttling, authentication, and request validation.
  • Conduct red-team exercises using AWS services to validate detection and response capabilities.
  • Establish incident response workflows integrating AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and SIEM tools.

Module 7: Cost Management and Financial Governance

  • Implement cost allocation tags across resources and enforce tagging policies using AWS Service Control Policies.
  • Break down AWS spend by department, project, and application using Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) and custom dimensions.
  • Forecast monthly expenditures using historical trends and anomaly detection in Cost Explorer.
  • Negotiate pricing models with AWS (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances) based on utilization forecasts and commitment risk.
  • Identify and eliminate idle or underutilized resources using AWS Trusted Advisor and custom scripts.
  • Establish chargeback or showback models using AWS Organizations and third-party tools for internal accountability.
  • Monitor reserved instance utilization and coverage gaps to avoid over-procurement or under-reservation.
  • Integrate AWS cost data into enterprise financial systems for consolidated reporting and budget control.

Module 8: Operational Resilience and Disaster Recovery

  • Define recovery strategies (backup/restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-site active/active) based on RTO/RPO.
  • Test disaster recovery plans using AWS Fault Injection Simulator to validate failover and data consistency.
  • Implement automated failover for databases using Amazon RDS Multi-AZ or Aurora Global Database.
  • Design immutable backups with write-once-read-many (WORM) policies using S3 Object Lock or AWS Backup.
  • Validate data integrity across regions using checksums and automated reconciliation jobs.
  • Establish operational runbooks using AWS Systems Manager Automation for common failure scenarios.
  • Monitor health of critical workloads using CloudWatch synthetic canaries and custom metrics.
  • Conduct post-incident reviews using AWS incident management tools and update runbooks based on findings.

Module 9: Monitoring, Observability, and Performance Tuning

  • Design CloudWatch metric and log retention policies balancing cost, compliance, and troubleshooting needs.
  • Implement structured logging with ingestion filters and partitioning for high-volume applications.
  • Configure custom dashboards with business-relevant KPIs alongside technical metrics.
  • Set intelligent alarms using anomaly detection and composite metrics to reduce false positives.
  • Trace distributed workloads using AWS X-Ray, analyzing latency bottlenecks and service dependencies.
  • Correlate infrastructure metrics with application performance to isolate root causes.
  • Optimize log storage costs using S3 lifecycle policies and partitioning strategies.
  • Integrate AWS observability tools with third-party APM solutions for centralized visibility.

Module 10: Change Management and IaaS Lifecycle Governance

  • Establish change advisory boards (CAB) for high-impact AWS infrastructure modifications.
  • Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform with peer review and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Enforce configuration drift detection and remediation using AWS Config and automated compliance checks.
  • Define lifecycle stages for environments (dev, test, prod) with access, retention, and cost controls.
  • Manage technical debt in cloud infrastructure by scheduling refactoring and modernization cycles.
  • Conduct quarterly architecture reviews using AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars.
  • Retire legacy workloads with data migration, access revocation, and cost reallocation planning.
  • Document and socialize architectural decision records (ADRs) for key IaaS design choices.
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