AWS Cloud Mastery Series #2
DevOps on AWS
Date: Monday, November 17, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: AWS
Morning Session (8:30 AM – 12:00 PM)
8:30 – 9:00 AM | Welcome & DevOps Mindset
Recap of AI/ML session
DevOps culture and principles
Benefits and key metrics (DORA, MTTR, deployment frequency)
9:00 – 10:30 AM | AWS DevOps Services – CI/CD Pipeline
Source Control: AWS CodeCommit, Git strategies (GitFlow, Trunk-based)
Build & Test: CodeBuild configuration, testing pipelines
Deployment: CodeDeploy with Blue/Green, Canary, and Rolling updates
Orchestration: CodePipeline automation
Demo: Full CI/CD pipeline walkthrough
10:30 – 10:45 AM | Break
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
AWS CloudFormation: Templates, stacks, and drift detection
AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit): Constructs, reusable patterns, and language support
Demo: Deploying with CloudFormation and CDK
Discussion: Choosing between IaC tools
Lunch Break (12:00 – 1:00 PM) (Self-arranged)
Afternoon Session (1:00 – 5:00 PM)
1:00 – 2:30 PM | Container Services on AWS
Docker Fundamentals: Microservices and containerization
Amazon ECR: Image storage, scanning, lifecycle policies
Amazon ECS & EKS: Deployment strategies, scaling, and orchestration
AWS App Runner: Simplified container deployment
Demo & Case Study: Microservices deployment comparison
2:30 – 2:45 PM | Break
2:45 – 4:00 PM | Monitoring & Observability
CloudWatch: Metrics, logs, alarms, and dashboards
AWS X-Ray: Distributed tracing and performance insights
Demo: Full-stack observability setup
Best Practices: Alerting, dashboards, and on-call processes
4:00 – 4:45 PM | DevOps Best Practices & Case Studies
Deployment strategies: Feature flags, A/B testing
Automated testing and CI/CD integration
Incident management and postmortems
Case Studies: Startups and enterprise DevOps transformations
4:45 – 5:00 PM | Q&A & Wrap-up
DevOps career pathways
AWS certification roadmap