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ZopNight Engineer

Operate the 450+ rule recommendations engine.

Tier
Engineer
Modules
11
Lessons
54
Time
~9 hours
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11 modules. 54 lessons.

M2.1

The 450+ rule library, explained

Navigate the 450+ recommendation rules.

5lessons ·~46 min
L1 The 8 categories L2 Severity ladder: critical to info L3 How the recommender thinks: Evaluate, MetricsAware, PricingAware L4 Pricing: TierRates vs SKURates L5 Reading a recommendation card Open module overview →
M2.2

Reading evidence

Read the Metrics drawer.

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 The Metrics drawer L2 The Recent Activity tab L3 The pricing-gap DLQ L4 When evidence disagrees with the bill Open module overview →
M2.3

Auto-remediation

Trace a recommendation through the 3-step remediation workflow.

6lessons ·~54 min
L1 The 3-step workflow (precondition → action → validate) L2 The auto-remediation allowlist: auto, guided, advisory L3 The approval gate L4 Three error classes: user_action, transient, system L5 Why ZopNight never auto-mutates customer databases L6 Notifications: when to enable terminal emails Open module overview →
M2.4

VM autoscaling

Configure VM autoscaling policies for AWS ASG, Azure VMSS, GCP MIG, and AWS ECS Application Auto Scaling.

6lessons ·~54 min
L1 What a scaling policy actually is L2 Smart defaults: Welford stats explained L3 Quick Setup: the one-screen flow L4 Three modes: monitor, recommend, autopilot L5 Apply, pause, resume, remove: the lifecycle L6 The event log Open module overview →
M2.5

Adopt-or-replace existing cloud scaling

Distinguish adopt from replace.

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 Why adopt-or-replace exists L2 The Adopt flow L3 The Replace flow L4 Three unreconstructible refusals Open module overview →
M2.6

K8s workload scheduling

Schedule individual K8s workloads across EKS/GKE/AKS without affecting the cluster itself.

6lessons ·~54 min
L1 Why K8s is hard to cost-optimize L2 Cluster → namespace → workload hierarchy L3 Scheduling a Deployment to zero replicas L4 Suspending CronJobs L5 Scheduling StatefulSets: careful with replicas L6 Cross-cluster orchestration with groups Open module overview →
M2.7

Databricks scheduling

Schedule Databricks Workspaces, Clusters, Instance Pools, and SQL Warehouses.

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 What's discoverable in Databricks L2 Scheduling clusters L3 SQL Warehouse scheduling L4 Databricks + dependent jobs Open module overview →
M2.8

Auto-tagging

Read auto-tag predictions, accept/reject them, and sync accepted tags back to the cloud provider.

4lessons ·~36 min
L1 Environment + noStop predictions L2 How predictions are inferred L3 Accept, reject, sync-back L4 Tag drift and reconciliation Open module overview →
M2.9

Event Readiness

Pre-scale infrastructure for known traffic events using the Event Readiness wizard.

5lessons ·~45 min
L1 What Event Readiness solves L2 Multiplier vs expected requests L3 Schedule-and-rollback contract L4 Databases as monitor-only L5 The cost-estimate badge Open module overview →
M2.10

Cost anomaly detection

Detect, root-cause, and act on cost anomalies across 7 dimensions.

5lessons ·~45 min
L1 The seven dimensions L2 Percent deviation vs z-score L3 Severity bands L4 Root cause analysis L5 Team redistribution suppression Open module overview →
M2.11

Bedrock + ML cost

Identify ML/Bedrock cost patterns.

5lessons ·~45 min
L1 The ML cost landscape L2 Bedrock rules RC-1601..1610 L3 Model selection trade-offs L4 Batch processing for cost reduction L5 Provisioned throughput optimization Open module overview →

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