AWS Module 1

The three ways to interact with AWS

1. AWS management console 2. command line interface (AWS CLI) 3. Software development kits (SDKs)

Advantages of Cloud Computing

1. Pay only for what you consume 2. massive economies of scale 3. stop guessing capacity and scale based on demand 4. increased speed and agility 5. stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers 6. going global in minutes

6 perspectives in AWS CAF

1. business 2. people 3. governance 4. platform 5. security 6. operations

Things to consider when selecting a region

1. data governance and legal requirements 2. proximity to customers 3. services available within the region 4. costs

AWS consists of

176 edge locations and 11 regional edge caches

AWS provides a global network of

187 point of presence locations

Basic support

24/7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers, and support -access to six core trusted advisor checks and personal health dashboard

You could save up to _____ a year by moving your infrastructure to AWS

96%

Tools of AWS billing and cost management

AWS budgets AWS cost and usage report AWS cost explorer

Accessing AWS organizations

AWS management console -AWS command line interface -Software development kits (SDKs) -HTTPS query application interfaces (APIs)

AWS Compute service category

Amazon EC2 -Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling -Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) -Amazon EC2 container registery -AWS Elastic beanstalk -AWS Lambda -Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service -AWS Fargate

AWS Storage category

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) -Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) -Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) -Amazon Simple Storage Glacier (S3 Glacier)

Examples of services with no charge

Amazon VPC Elastic Beanstalk Auto Scaling AWS Cloud Formation AWS identity and access management (IAM)

A region contains two or more

Availability zones -each region provides redundancy and connectivity to the network

4 types of support plans

Basic Developer Business Enterprise

Cloud Deployment Models

Cloud, Hybrid, on premise

AWS categories of service

Compute -Cost management -database -management and governance -networking and content delivery -security, identity, and compliance -storage

AWS pricing model: 3 fundamental drivers of cost with AWS

Compute - charged per hour/second, varies by instance Storage - charged typically by GB Data Transfer - outbound is aggregated and charged, inbound has no charge with some exceptions, charged by GB

Amazon CloudFront

Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is used to distribute content to end uses to reduce latency

AWS infrastructure features

Elasticity and Scalability -Fault tolerance -high availability

Limits of AWS organizations

Number of roots: 1 number of OUs: 1000 number of policies: 1000 Max size of service control policy document: 5120 bytes number of entities attached to a policy: unlimited

How do you pay for AWS

Pay for what you use, pay less when you reserve, and pay less when you use more and as AWS grows

TCO considerations

Server costs Storage Costs Network Costs IT labor costs

Cloud Service Models

Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Organization Setup

Step 1: create organization Step 2: create organizational units Step 3: create service control policies Step 4: test restrictions

AWS region

a geographical area Data replication across regions is controlled by you Communication between regions uses AWS backbone network infrastructure

Cost Explorer

allows you to view your AWS cost data as a graph -you can visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time

AWS Inspector

an automated security application that tests and detects for security tolerance in applications placed on the AWS cloud

AWS Foundational Services

compute - virtual automatic scaling and load balancing -Networking -Storage - object, block, and archive

Security with AWS organizations

controls access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) -enable you to allow or deny access to AWS services for users, groups, and roles -Service control policies (SCPs) enable you to allow or deny access to AWS services for individuals or group accounts in an organizational unit (OU)

AWS Data Centers

designed for security -where the data resides and processing occurs -each data center has redundant power, networking, and connectivity and is housed in a separate facility. -holds 50K-80K servers

Availability Zones consist of

discrete data centers -designed for fault isolation -interconnected with other Availability zones using high speed private networking - you can choose your zone -AWS recommends replicating data and resources across multiple zones for resiliency

AWS Free Tier

enables you to gain free hands on experience with the AWS platform, products and services. Free for 1 year to new customers

AWS cost and usage report tool

enables you to identify opportunities for optimization by understanding cost and usage data trends

AWS TCO calculator

estimate cost savings, use detailed reports, and modify assumptions

AWS simple monthly calculator

estimate monthly costs, identify opportunities to reduce monthly costs, use templates to compare services and deployment models

AWS Organizations

features: policy-based account management -group based account management -application programming interfaces (APIs) that automate account management -consolidated billing

Tiered pricing

for services like Amazon S3, EBS, EFS, etc.. the more you use, the less you pay for GB

Traditional computing model

infrastructure as hardware: long procurement cycles, requires space and security, and provision capacity for network

Cloud computing model

infrastructure as software: solutions are flexible, can change more quickly, easily, and cost effectively, eliminate heavy lifting tasks

Support concierge

is a billing and statement account expert who will provide quick and effective analysis on billing and account issues. Non technical questions

Amazon Route 53

is a domain name system (DNS) service

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global cloud based products

AWS cost and usage report

is a single location for accessing comprehensice information about your AWS costs and usage. This tool lists the usage for each service category that is used by an account

Web services

is any piece of software that makes itself available over the internet and uses a standardized format for the request of an application programming interface (API)

AWS Global Infrastructure

is designed and built to deliver a flexible, reliable, scalable, and secure cloud computing environment with high-quality global network performance

Total cost of ownership (TCO)

is the financial estimate to help identify direct and indirect costs of a system

Cloud Computing

is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database, storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing

Availability zones

isolated locations in each AWS Region. Each is a fully isolated partition of the AWS infrastructure

We use TCO because

it helps compare costs of running an entire infrastructure environment or specific work load on premise vs AWS. To budget and build the business case for moving to the cloud

AWS billing dashboard

lets you view the status of your month to date AWS expenditure, identify the services that account for the majority of your overall expenditure, and understand at high level how costs are trending

The AWS bills page

lists the costs that you incurred over the past month for each AWS service, with further breakdown by AWS region and linked account

Points of presence

located in most major cities across 30 countries continuously measuring internet connectivity, performance and computing to find the best way to route requests

Multiple storage services deliver

lower costs based on storage costs based on needs

Custom pricing

meets varying needs through custom pricing, available for higher volume projects with unique requirements

Enterprise Support

offers resources for customers that are running businesses and mission critical workloads on AWS, and any customer who wants to: focus on proactive management to increase efficiency and availability •Build and operate workloads that follow AWS best practices. •Use AWS expertise to support launches and migrations. Use a Technical Account Manager (TAM), who provides technical expertise for the full range of AWS services and obtains a detailed understanding of your use case and technology architecture. The Technical Account Manager is the primary point of contact for ongoing support needs.

Business support plan

offers resources for customers that are running production workloads on AWS and any customers who: run one or more applications in production environments -have multiple services activated or use key service extensively -depend on their business solutions to be scalable, available, and secure

Developer Support

offers resources for customers that are testing or doing early development on AWS and any customers who: -want access to guidance or tech support -are exploring how to put AWS to work -Use AWS for non production workloads or applications

AWS provides you with

on demand access to compute, storage, network, database, and other IT resources and management tools. It is also flexible, allows you to pay for only what you use, and works together like building blocks

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

provides guidance and best practices to help organizations build a comprehensive approach to cloud computing across the organization and throughout the lifecycle to accelerate successful cloud adoption -Organized into 6 perspectives with each containing a set of capabilities

AWS Support

provides unique combinations of tools and expertise -AWS support -AWS support plans Support is provided for: experimenting with AWS, production use of AWS, and business critical use of AWS

Reserved Instances (RIs):

save up to 75% Options: All upfront reserved instance (AURI) - largest discount Partial upfront reserved instance (PURI) - lower discount No upfront payments reserved instance (NURI) - smallest discount

When choosing a service

select the service depending on what your business goals and technology requires

Cloud computing enables you to

stop thinking of your infrastructure as hardware and instead think of and use it as software

AWS Trusted Advisor

the customized cloud expert. It is an online resource that checks for opportunities to reduce monthly expenditures and increase productivity

AWS Billing and Cost Management

the service that you use to pay your AWS bill, monitor usage, and budget costs

As AWS grows

they plan on lowering costs of doing business, lowered pricing 75 times, added future high performing resources at no extra cost

Technical Account Managers (TAMs)

those who are designated as that user's primary point of contact. The TAM can provide guidance, architectural review, and continuous ongoing communication to keep you informed and prepared as you plan, deploy, and optimize solutions

Regional Edge Caches

used by default with Amazon CloudFront -used when you have content that is not accessed frequently enough to remain in an edge location

AWS budget

uses the cost visualization that is provided by cost explorer to show you the status of your budgets and to provide forecasts of your estimated costs

operations perspective

we align with and support the operations of the business and define how day to day, quarter to quarter, and year to year business will be conducted.

Business perspective

we must ensure that IT is aligned with business needs and that IT investments can be traced to demonstrable business results

Governance perspective

we must ensure that skills and processes align IT strategy and goals with business strategy and goals

Security perspective

we must ensure that the organization meets its security objectives

People perspective

we must prioritize training, staffing, and organizational changes to build an agile organization

platform perspective

we must understand and communicate the nature of IT systems and their relationships. We must be able to describe the architecture of the target state environment in detail

Case severity and response times for support

•Critical - Your business is at risk. Critical functions of your application are unavailable. •Urgent - Your business is significantly impacted. Important functions of your application are unavailable. •High - Important functions of your application are impaired or degraded. •Normal - Non-critical functions of your application are behaving abnormally, or you have a time-sensitive development question. Low - You have a general development question, or you want to request a feature