DevOps Institute partners with AWS to create AWS Marketplace DevOps Workshop series

By: Helen Beal, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute

I remember when Amazon was a laughing stock in the dot-com bubble back in 1999. They were consistently sneered at for being overvalued and just an online bookseller. People saw potential, but no one predicted that twenty-two years later it would be the 10th largest company in the world and be the leading public cloud provider through Amazon Web Services (AWS) – part of the business they originally built to help themselves scale and then made available to all. We hadn’t even conceived of a public cloud back then.

The DevOps community has always looked to Amazon as an example of how to do digital right, to the extent that some enterprise practitioners bewail them as an unachievable icon. They are at the pinnacle of their game and show exactly why practicing DevOps correlates with higher organizational performance.

DevOps leaders and evangelists should never be overwhelmed by what Amazon has achieved, they should always be seen as a source of inspiration and aspiration. It shouldn’t be forgotten either that while Amazon was ‘born on the web,’ they’ve had to work hard to fix their own problems along the way – learning to scale, changing ways of working, and tackling technical debt. As founder Jeff Bezos said:

“Amazon is what it is because of invention. We do crazy things together and then make them normal. We pioneered customer reviews, 1-Click, personalized recommendations, Prime’s insanely-fast shipping, Just Walk Out shopping, the Climate Pledge, Kindle, Alexa, marketplace, infrastructure cloud computing, Career Choice, and much more. If you do it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal. People yawn. That yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive. When you look at our financial results, what you’re actually seeing are the long-run cumulative results of invention.”

Here are some of Amazon’s most memorable DevOps moments:

• Reports of 23,000 deploys a day, every 11.7 seconds, astonish and galvanize observers
• Bezos’ 2002 API mandate was way ahead of its time, leading the charge for loosely coupled services and inner source.
• Also, related to tackling that monolithic technical debt, was the invention of the two pizza rule.
• Werner Vogel’s “you build it, you run it” statement made in 2006 continues to drive autonomous ways of working across teams.
• They get that the S in CALMS is for Sharing: check out this post from their blog explaining how they do continuous deployment to Kubernetes.
  

AWS Partners with DevOps Institute for a DevOps Workshop Series

At DevOps Institute, we love having the opportunity to work with our friends at AWS. That is why DevOps Institute is so excited to partner with AWS to bring you an eight-part, the AWS Marketplace DevOps Workshop series. This series is designed to help cloud builders gain the skills and knowledge required to effectively build, manage and own their own services in AWS using modern DevOps best practices.

Series participants travel through the application lifecycle end-to-end and receive free instructor-led training paired with tutorial-style labs to practice implementation using a selection of leading-edge DevOps tools from AWS Marketplace. Build knowledge and skills for effective end-to-end service ownership with cloud-focused DevOps techniques and tools.

AWS Marketplace DevOps Workshop Series Schedule

Each module starts with an instructor-led presentation from AWS and one of our DevOps Institute Ambassadors – myself, Leo Murillo, Mark Peters, or Steve Pereira. Following the presentation, participants can choose a hands-on lab to complete from a selection of some of the best tools in DevOps. This workshop series is designed to help cloud builders gain the skills and knowledge required to effectively build, manage and own their own services in AWS using modern DevOps best practices.

Participating the series will take participants through the application lifecycle end-to-end where they’ll receive free instructor-led training paired with tutorial-style labs to practice implementation using a selection of leading-edge DevOps tools from AWS Marketplace.

Module 1: Practicing DevOps (available on demand)

Module 2: CI/CD Pipelines (available on demand)

Module 3: Evolving to Continuous Deployment

Module 4: Infrastructure as Code

Module 5: Continuous Testing

Module 6: Observability and Monitoring

Module 7: SRE and Incident Management

Module 8: DevSecOps

This series has ended is now available on demand.

Helen Beal is a DevOps and Ways of Working coach, Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute and an ambassador for the Continuous Delivery Foundation. She provides strategic advisory services to DevOps industry leaders and is an analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group. She hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk, speaks regularly on DevOps topics, is a DevOps editor for InfoQ and also writes for a number of other online platforms. Outside of DevOps she is an ecologist and novelist. She once saw a flamingo lay an egg and has a particular fondness for llamas.