AWS Overview for UW Ruby Cert Program

1. Cloudy Days
Brief Overview of the Amazon Web Services

2. The Services
! EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud - Virtual
Servers and Networks for your web
servers to live in (IAAS)
! S3 - Simple Storage Service and
CloudFront - Globally available storage
to keep things like website images, or
files needed for configuration of servers
! Elastic Beanstalk - Somewhere
between EC2 and Heroku in terms of
configuration and management

3. The Services
! Route 53 - Managed DNS, point your
domain name at your AWS stacks
! SNS - Simple Notification Service - Make
API calls to send text messages, emails,
etc...
! RDS - Relational Database Service, your
ticket to MySql made easy, automated
backups etc…
! Elasticache - Managed cached service,
basically managed Redis or Memcache
[Key/Value quick access]

4. The Services
Lots more: Big data, machine
learning, transcoding videos

5. The Benefits
! API's drive infrastructure.
! Infrastructure as code.
! Everything in source
control.
! No more “artisan”
infrastructure.

6. The Benefits
! "Limitless” resources
! Scale your services as
demand grows, the
concept of "Elastic"
! No longer waiting
months, or weeks for
infrastructure

7. The Benefits
! Global presence anywhere in the world
! Redundancy and speed

8. Conclusion
! If you are going to be a Dev, learn
some Cloud-Ops