Automating SRE and Operations on AWS

Reliability and efficiency are paramount in the ever-evolving cloud landscape. Whether you are an enterprise adopting cloud for the first time or have been operating in the cloud for a while, you want to ensure that you are taking advantage of automation options available to you in the cloud.

This book provides a systematic, chapter-by-chapter approach to automating every aspect of your operations on AWS. You will understand laC with AWS CloudFormation, automate continuous infrastructure maintenance, and streamline your release pipelines with a focus on DevSecOps. This book emphasizes building a culture of performing operations as code, and you will learn about the different facets of operations on AWS and the services and features available on AWS to automate many of these operational and SRE tasks. Finally, it demonstrates how to apply automation to cost management and auditing through FinOps.

By the end of this book, you will be able to apply the concepts and ideas presented in this book to your cloud operations on AWS. This will help enhance the productivity and efficiency of your organization by reducing the operational heavy lifting. You will learn to operate on AWS in the same manner as other successful cloud adopters around the world.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
● Introduction to SRE practices in the cloud.
● Distinction between the terms SRE and DevOps.
● Differentiating operational tasks on AWS from traditional approaches.
● Automation of common operational and SRE tasks on AWS using native services and options.
● Using CloudWatch and X-ray for monitoring and distributed tracing.
● Deploying IaC and performing operations as code.
● Continuous integration and deployment, observability, and incident response for your AWS environments.
● Auditing and cost management for your AWS environment.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is for technology professionals, particularly developers, system administrators, and operations engineers. It is for anyone who wants to leverage native AWS Tools to automate SRE and operational tasks, shifting focus from manual toil to high-value outcomes.

1. Site Reliability Engineering Responsibilities
2. SRE versus DevOps
3. SRE on AWS
4. Infrastructure as Code
5. Automating Infrastructure Maintenance
6. Release Automation
7. Observability for Reliable Operations
8. Automating Resilience
9. Incident Response Automation
10. Auditing, FinOps and Miscellaneous Automation

Sushanth Mangalore is a seasoned software architect and technology leader with close to 20 years of experience. Having witnessed the world of technology evolve firsthand, he specializes in helping businesses adopt the cloud, build robust cloud-native architectures, and strategically implement technologies like AI to meet their success objectives. From his real- world experience of working as an architect with customers of varying sizes across numerous industries, Sushanth advises technology executives and the tech community,providing clear guidance on effective strategies for cloud adoption and maximizing the value from technology investments. A prolific author of technical blogs and whitepapers, he is also a regular and highly rated speaker at technology and industry conferences. Sushanth has mentored dozens of early career technologists, continually paying it forward to the community. He presently resides in a suburb of Chicago,IL, USA with his wife and two children.