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AWS Production-Ready Engineer Program (Cloud Ops + Platform Engineering)
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Duration: 75 Hours (Core) | 90 Hours (With Optional AWS AI Module)
Trainer
Delivered by a Cloud Leader with 19+ years of industry experience, currently managing a large-scale cloud
platform portfolio in a leading MNC. The program is taught using real enterprise patterns, production scenarios,
and troubleshooting approaches used in high-stakes environments.
Program Objective
This program helps Engineers and IT Professionals move from console-only implementation to production-ready
troubleshooting and platform operations. You will learn fundamentals that matter during real incidents (P1/P0), how
AWS behaves in production, and how to debug issues with confidence.
Curriculum
Module 1: Linux Basics • Linux fundamentals: filesystem, permissions, users/groups,
(Commands Every Cloud Architect sudo
Must Know) • Processes & performance: ps, top/htop, uptime, kill
• Memory/disk checks: free, df, du, (intro) vmstat/iostat
• Logs: journalctl, /var/log, tail -f, less
• Networking commands: curl -I/-v, ping, traceroute/mtr,
ss/netstat, nc, dig/nslookup
• Text processing: grep, awk, sed, cut, sort, uniq
• Bash fundamentals (intro): variables, loops, reusable checks
Module 2: AWS Solution Architect • IAM deep dive + troubleshooting permission failures
(Fundamental + Advanced • VPC (basic + advanced): subnets, routing, SG vs NACL,
Services — Real World Mode) NAT/IGW, endpoints, Transit Gateway
• IaC fundamentals (CloudFormation/Terraform overview)
• Logging & observability: CloudWatch + CloudTrail basics
• API & API Gateway: REST vs HTTP API, auth overview,
throttling, caching, troubleshooting 4xx vs 5xx
• DNS & Route 53: TTL, caching, routing policies, split-horizon
concept
• Traffic & Load Balancing: ALB vs NLB, health checks,
headers, common 502/503/504 causes
• Data layer: RDS basics + NoSQL (DynamoDB mindset)
• Storage: S3 access patterns + common misconfigurations
• Serverless overview: Lambda and event-driven basics
Module 3: AWS Platform Ops • DevOps: Git workflow, CI/CD fundamentals, Jenkins/GitHub
(DevOps + FinOps + SecOps) — pipelines (overview), rollout & rollback strategies
Enterprise Production Scenarios • PaaS upgrades: Elastic Beanstalk production upgrade
scenarios and safe rollout mindset
• MySQL/RDS upgrade approaches: in-place upgrade vs
blue/green upgrade, validation & rollback planning
• SecOps: IAM hardening, CloudTrail logging, KMS overview,
security remediation mindset
• FinOps: 30–40% cost reduction approach, Cost Explorer,
Savings Plans, CUR, intelligent dashboards, tagging strategy
• All examples are based on real enterprise customer patterns
(large CSP clients).
Module 4: AWS Foundation / CCoE • Landing Zone concepts and why it matters
(Enterprise Governance) • AWS Organizations: multi-account structure + SCP basics
• AWS Control Tower: guardrails + account vending
fundamentals
• Advanced IAM patterns (enterprise overview) + cross-account
access (high-level)
Module 5: Kubernetes Basics + • Kubernetes architecture: control plane vs nodes
Amazon EKS (Ops Perspective) • Core objects: pods, deployments, services, ingress
• Requests/limits + common failures (CrashLoopBackOff,
ImagePullBackOff, Pending pods)
• EKS operational basics and troubleshooting mindset
Module 6: High Priority Incident • Incident workflow: triage → isolate → mitigate → resolve
Handling (P1/P0) + RCA • Hypothesis-driven troubleshooting + bridge call leadership
• First 10 minutes checklist: DNS, network, LB, API, compute,
database
• RCA writing + runbooks that reduce repeat incidents
Module 7: 3 AWS Projects • 3 end-to-end AWS projects covering architecture, security,
(Portfolio + Confidence) observability, and troubleshooting
• Real-world scenarios including deployment, failure simulation,
and recovery approach
Module 8 (Optional Add-on): AWS • GenAI fundamentals: LLMs, tokens, context window, latency,
AI Basics + GenAI for Cloud cost
Engineers • Embeddings + RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
• Prompting fundamentals, constraints, hallucination +
grounding mindset
• Build your first AWS AI agent using Amazon Bedrock Agents
+ tools/actions
• Option to club with this program OR take as a separate
dedicated AWS AI course
Who Should Join?
• Freshers / final-year students who want strong AWS fundamentals and practical skills
• Engineers working in legacy technologies who want to transition into AWS / Cloud roles
• Cloud / DevOps Engineers, AWS Administrators, SRE / Operations Engineers
• Architects who want real production depth and P1/P0 confidence
Career Outcomes
• Transition from legacy technologies to AWS/Cloud roles by gaining practical skills and clearing tough interviews
• Career advancement for existing AWS professionals through production troubleshooting, platform operations, and
enterprise governance knowledge