AWS Governance, Compliance & Infrastructure Management

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The AWS Governance, Compliance & Infrastructure Management course provides a comprehensive introduction to AWS services that help organizations govern cloud environments, monitor resources, maintain compliance, automate infrastructure, and improve operational efficiency. You'll learn how to monitor AWS workloads, track configuration changes, audit user activity, automate deployments, and optimize cloud operations using AWS management services. Designed for cloud administrators, DevOps engineers, solutions architects, and IT professionals, this course combines expert-led video lessons with hands-on demonstrations to help you build reliable, compliant, and well-managed AWS environments. Why Learn This Course? Managing cloud infrastructure goes beyond deploying resources—it requires continuous monitoring, governance, compliance, and automation. AWS provides a rich set of services that simplify cloud operations while helping organizations maintain security, reliability, and operational excellence. Whether you're preparing for an AWS certification or looking to improve your cloud operations skills, this course provides practical knowledge of AWS governance and infrastructure management services. Course Modules Module 1: Governance & Monitoring Module 2: Automation & Operational Excellence

Syllabus

Governance & Monitoring

In this section, you'll build a strong foundation in AWS governance, monitoring, and compliance services, learning how to centrally manage AWS accounts, monitor resource health, and maintain compliance across AWS environments. You'll begin by exploring AWS Organizations and gain an understanding of how it simplifies multi-account management, governance, and policy enforcement across an organization. As you progress, you'll discover how Amazon CloudWatch enables real-time monitoring of AWS resources and applications through metrics, logs, and monitoring agents. Through practical demonstrations and hands-on exercises, you'll learn how to configure CloudWatch, collect and analyze logs using the CloudWatch Logs Agent and Unified Agent, and gain operational insights to proactively monitor application and infrastructure performance. The section further introduces AWS Config, which continuously assesses resource configurations and evaluates compliance against organizational policies. You'll gain hands-on experience creating AWS Config and Amazon SNS topics to monitor compliance status and receive notifications when configuration changes occur. You'll also explore AWS CloudTrail and learn how it records API activity and account events to support auditing, governance, troubleshooting, and security investigations. By the end of this section, you'll have a solid understanding of AWS governance, monitoring, and compliance services, including AWS Organizations, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, and AWS CloudTrail, enabling you to effectively manage AWS environments, monitor operational health, and maintain security and compliance.

Automation & Operational Excellence

In this section, you'll build a strong foundation in AWS infrastructure automation and operational management, learning how to automate resource provisioning, optimize cloud workloads, and improve operational efficiency using AWS management services. You'll begin by exploring AWS CloudFormation and gain an understanding of how Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enables consistent, repeatable, and automated deployment of AWS resources through templates. As you progress, you'll gain hands-on experience creating, updating, and managing CloudFormation stacks while learning best practices for infrastructure lifecycle management. You'll also explore AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS Health Dashboard to understand how these services provide recommendations for improving performance, cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, and operational health across AWS environments. The section further introduces AWS Systems Manager, enabling you to centrally manage, automate, and maintain AWS resources at scale. Through practical demonstrations, you'll also revisit AWS Config, AWS Config Rules, AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon Macie, and AWS Organizations to reinforce governance, compliance, security monitoring, and operational best practices within AWS environments. By the end of this section, you'll have a solid understanding of AWS infrastructure automation and operational management services, including AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Trusted Advisor, and AWS Health Dashboard, enabling you to automate deployments, optimize cloud resources, and efficiently manage AWS environments.