Introductory session to Amazon Web Services given to the Central Pennsylvania Linux Users Group in July 2016.

1. Introduction to
Amazon Web Services
James Armes, Cloud Software Engineer, Acquia

2. Cloud Computing
– The cloud is the Internet.
– Rather than a local or collocated
server, your servers are located
“somewhere” on the Internet.
– Pay for only the resources you use.
– Elastic capacity.

3. Who's Using AWS?

4. Services

5. EC2
– Instance = Virtual Machine
– Supports multiple operating
systems:
– Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.
– Launch new instances from an AMI.
– EBS for persistent storage.
– CloudWatch for monitoring.
– Auto Scaling Groups and ELBs.

6. S3
– Object store.
– Organized in to buckets.
– Multiple levels of redundancy.
– Objects can be up to 5TB.
– Server-side encryption available.
– Object level permissions.

7. VPC
– Isolated network within AWS.
– Create multiple subnets.
– Define custom security groups and
route tables.
– Peering allows communication with
other subnets.
– ClassicLink allows communication
with classic EC2 instances.
– New regions are VPC only.

8. RDS
– Automates administrative tasks of
cloud based relational databases.
– Several database engines:
– MySQL, Postgres, Maria, Oracle,
Microsoft SQL Server
– Amazon Aurora

9. IAM
– Create multiple users under the
same account.
– Create roles and groups to configure
permissions.
– Require TFA for users.

10. Security
– Security groups allow/deny access
to instances.
– VPC insulates resources from the
public Internet.
– IAM permissions restrict access to
only necessary resources.
– IAM roles can provide permissions
to instances.
– Certifications:
– ISO 27001, PCI DSS, Fisma Low,
Sas 70 Type II

11. Demo

12. Questions?