AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 2021: AWS Incident and Event Response Competency (Intermediate Level)

Topics covered

• automate the rollback of a failed ECS deployment
• configure actions and events and describe the uses of automated actions
• configure a roll-out process that automatically responds to software updates
• configure automated restores from backup in the event of a failure
• configure OpsWorks Stacks auto healing notifications in CloudWatch Events
• configure route 53 for DNS and cross-region failover
• create a scalable, self healing architecture
• describe how to detect and respond to maintenance and spot termination events
• describe how to implement auto healing to replace failed instances
• describe the uses of automated actions and how to implement them
• describe the uses of AWS Systems Manager and configure automation with it
• identify the benefits of Kinesis and the four different capabilities it has
• identify the different incident domains and indicators of cloud security events
• investigate and associate logged events with application components
• monitor operations using metrics and alarms and identify types of metrics and alarms
• outline how to effectively optimize costs and manage expenditure and usage
• outline how to implement health checks and narrow down unhealthy components
• outline how to query log data, monitor events, and archive log data
• troubleshoot errors regarding automation within Systems Manager
• update limits proactively using the AWS solutions limit monitor
• use Amazon Lambda with Amazon Kinesis to consume events from a Kinesis stream