Purpose

Reusable lab template for AWS CloudOps practice: build, break, diagnose, document, and tear down.

Lab Template

• [ ] Architecture sketch or AWS icon diagram.
• [ ] Provisioning path: Terraform, CloudFormation, SAM, eksctl, or console steps.
• [ ] Day-1 setup checklist.
• [ ] Day-2 operations checklist.
• [ ] Failure drill and expected symptoms.
• [ ] Security review: IAM, logging, encryption, network exposure.
• [ ] Cost controls and teardown checklist.

Suggested Labs

• Private EC2 with SSM endpoints and no inbound SSH/RDP.
• RDS connectivity drill with security-group failure and recovery.
• Redshift COPY from S3 with SSE-KMS permission failure.
• EKS workload using Pod Identity.
• Network Firewall centralized inspection with TGW.

Cross-links

• EKS Operations
• Amazon RDS
• Redshift COPY from S3