Intermediate

Cloud Operations: AWS & Azure

Operate production cloud estates with confidence across the two leading platforms.

Programme Overview

A hands-on programme for engineers and operations staff running workloads across AWS and Azure. Covers core services, identity and networking, observability, cost governance, and the operational practices that separate running cloud from running it well.

What You'll Learn

Navigate the AWS and Azure service catalogues fluently
Design secure identity and network boundaries
Implement observability and cost governance
Apply operational best practices for reliability
Compare and select services across both platforms

Who It's For

Systems and DevOps engineers
Cloud engineers transitioning between AWS and Azure
IT operations staff taking on cloud responsibility

Prerequisites

Foundational understanding of networking and Linux
Some prior exposure to at least one cloud platform

Curriculum

- AWS and Azure service anatomy
- Identity and access management (IAM, Entra ID)
- Resource organisation and accounts/subscriptions
- VPC/VNet design and peering
- Security groups, NSGs, and private endpoints
- Encryption, key management, and secrets
- Metrics, logs, and tracing across both clouds
- Incident response runbooks
- Backup, DR, and business continuity
- Tagging, budgets, and cost analysis
- FinOps fundamentals
- Policy as code (SCPs, Azure Policy)