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AWS First StepsVladyslav Matus

23-Feb-2017

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1.What is AWS and what is a cloud (in general).2.How can AWS be useful for you.3.How to start using AWS?4.How to control your money with AWS?5.Security Basis in AWS (IAM, Security Groups, AWS CLI,

etc.)6.Most popular services of AWS (S3, CloudFront, EC2,

VPC, RDS, etc.)

Agenda

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AWS consist of different categories:

• IaaS (Ec2, OpsWorks…)

• PaaS (RDS)

• SaaS (Elastic Transcoder)

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https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/use-cases/https://aws.amazon.com/free

Free tier limits (part of services):

How to start using AWS (tutorials):

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AWS for everybody:

- For OPS - For DEV - For QA - For PM

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How to save money with AWS

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How to control budget and optimize costs

AWS Trusted Advisor

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Security1) Don’t use root console2) Use only 2 factor authentication 3) Don’t store aws keys on instances4) Don’t upload your keys into Git ;)5) Open only required ports and control source/destination (i.e. don’t make 22 port public accessible)6) Remember you are responsible for your instances security, not Amazon.

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Responsibility sharing in AWS

How to use AWS CLI in secure way

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Most popular AWS servicesS3 ~ DropBox

1.Redundant (99,999999999 %)2.Store objects (not data blocks)3.Quick access to files4.Supports version control5.Can be integrated with CDN (Content Delivery Network) – to minimize latency

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Most popular AWS services1.Designed to minimize latency for clients2.Can be writeable too (allows put commands too)3.Supports videos/flash 4.Free for distribution transfers5.Supports access restrictions for regions/countries (white or black list)

If you want to only upload data to s3 you should look on S3 Transfer Acceleration:http://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/en/accelerate-speed-comparsion.html?region=eu-central-1&origBucketName=vm-test1

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EC2 ~ VM

Most popular AWS services

AMI ~ template

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Most popular AWS services

VPC ~ Virtual DC

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Most popular AWS services

1.Provide service/software, not EC2 instance/VM2.Supported master-replica design3.Easy backup solution provided:

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Thank you!