Detailed Course Outline
Cloud Services Lifecycle and Management
Planning and Design Considerations
- Define goals and scope
 - Perform assessment
 - Design cloud services
 - Communicate
 - Deliverables
 
Lifecycle and Management Considerations
- Service Lifecycle Overview
 - Waterfall and Agile Methodologies
 - Cloud Services Lifecycle Phases
 
Financial Planning
Workforce Transformation for Cloud Services
Modern cloud approaches
- Traditional cloud approach
 - Modern cloud approach
 
Cultural transformation
- Mindset and Leadership
 - Align IT with Business Objectives
 - Cross-functional and collaborative teams
 - Flexible workstyles and modern tools
 - New cloud roles and responsibilities
 - How to develop new cloud roles
 
Governance planning
- The need for governance
 - Goals of governance
 - Cloud governance
 - Impact of service and deployment models
 
Risk management for cloud services
- Risk management framework
 - Choosing a cloud service provider
 - Cloud compliance standards
 
Security for cloud services
Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Services
Introduction to multi-cloud strategy
- Hybrid cloud vs. multi-cloud
 - Benefits of multi-cloud
 - Multi-cloud use cases
 
Multi-cloud considerations and best practices
- Integration
 - Workload mobility
 - Interoperability
 - Portability
 - Selecting a service provider
 - Service brokerages
 - Security
 - Multi-cloud management
 - Cloud Services Operating Model
 
Traditional IT versus Digital IT
- Public cloud provider experience
 - Build like a public cloud provider
 - Define goals and scope
 
Agile
DevOps
CI/CD
Product Development
Infrastructure as Code
Value Stream Mapping
- Benefits
 - Process Overview
 
Cloud-Native Application Development
Identifying applications for modernization
Application modernization options
- Rehost
 - Refactor
 - Replatform
 
Cloud-native approach
- Monolithic architectures vs. microservices
 - DevOps
 - CI/CD
 - Version control system
 - DevSecOps
 - 12-factor app methodology
 - Microservices
 - Containers
 
Business Resiliency for Cloud Services
Business Resiliency Overview
- Why resiliency matters
 - Evolution of Business Resiliency
 - Resiliency maturity
 
Business Resiliency Capabilities and Considerations
- Resiliency maturity
 - Disaster Recovery
 - Cloud-based Backup
 - Data Security
 - Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps)