So you’re an infrastructure guru but you don’t think you can code. And because of that, you think that AWS is not for you – it’s just for coders, right? Wrong! Let’s walk through some of the things you can do on AWS with just a basic knowledge of scripting and how powerful the platform is.

1. © 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Brett Looney
Global Solutions Architect, AWS
July 20, 2018
AWS for Infrastructure Peeps

2. What good is AWS to me?
It’s only for developers
I know infrastructure but I can’t code
So I might as well stay doing stuff on premise

3. Wrong!

4. Boring!

5. And career-limiting!

6. Embrace the future!

7. First: Experiment

8. Then: Learn the CLI
aws ec2 run-instances
--image-id ami-423bec20
--instance-type t2.nano
--key-name KeyPairName
Optional but highly recommended!

9. Why?

10. Automation is Key!
Automation gets rid of the boring jobs
• Delivers consistency
• And does stuff without making human mistakes
Leaves you free for more interesting things!
• As well as adding more value
• Remember the bit about career-limiting?
• This isn’t…

11. So what happens next?

12. Automatically Build Whole Environments
Let’s build a VPC
• VPC = Virtual Private Cloud
• It’s a software-defined data centre network
• CIDR range (IP address block)
• Subnet definitions
• Routes
• Internet connectivity

13. VPC Creation - CLI
aws ec2 create-vpc --cidr-block 172.16.0.0/16
aws ec2 create-subnet --vpc-id <VPCID> --cidr-block 172.16.0.0/24
--availability-zone ap-southeast-2a
aws ec2 create-internet-gateway
aws ec2 attach-internet-gateway --vpc-id <VPCID>
--internet-gateway-id <IGWID>
aws ec2 create-route --route-table-id <ROUTETABLEID>
--destination-cidr-block 0.0.0.0/0
--gateway-id <IGWID>

14. VPC Creation – CLI (VPC)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-vpc --cidr-block 172.16.0.0/16
{
"Vpc": {
"VpcId": "vpc-86891ae1",
"InstanceTenancy": "default",
"Tags": [],
"Ipv6CidrBlockAssociationSet": [],
"State": "pending",
"DhcpOptionsId": "dopt-3045aa55",
"CidrBlock": "172.16.0.0/16",
"IsDefault": false
}
}
brettski$

15. VPC Creation – CLI (Naming)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-tags --resources vpc-86891ae1
--tags "Key=Name,Value=Test VPC"
brettski$ aws ec2 describe-vpcs --vpc-ids vpc-86891ae1
--query "Vpcs[*].Tags"
[
[
{
"Value": "Test VPC",
"Key": "Name"
}
]
]
186590ceac33:~ brettski$

16. VPC Creation – CLI (Subnets)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-subnet --vpc-id vpc-86891ae1
--cidr-block 172.16.0.0/24
--availability-zone ap-southeast-2a
{
"Subnet": {
"AvailabilityZone": "ap-southeast-2a",
"AvailableIpAddressCount": 251,
"DefaultForAz": false,
"Ipv6CidrBlockAssociationSet": [],
"VpcId": "vpc-86891ae1",
"State": "pending",
"MapPublicIpOnLaunch": false,
"SubnetId": "subnet-5e420939",
"CidrBlock": "172.16.0.0/24",
"AssignIpv6AddressOnCreation": false
}
}
brettski$

17. VPC Creation – CLI (Subnet Naming)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-tags --resources subnet-5e420939
--tags "Key=Name,Value=Test VPC First Subnet"
brettski$

18. VPC Creation – CLI (Internet Gateway)
brettski$ aws ec2 create-internet-gateway
{
"InternetGateway": {
"Tags": [],
"Attachments": [],
"InternetGatewayId": "igw-dbd691bf"
}
}
brettski$ aws ec2 create-tags --resources igw-dbd691bf
--tags "Key=Name,Value=Test VPC IGW"
brettski$ aws ec2 attach-internet-gateway --vpc-id vpc-86891ae1
--internet-gateway-id igw-dbd691bf
brettski$

19. VPC Creation – CLI (Routing)
brettski$ aws ec2 describe-route-tables
--filter Name=vpc-id,Values=vpc-86891ae1
--query "RouteTables[*].RouteTableId"
[
"rtb-c6dfc2a1"
]
brettski$ aws ec2 create-route --route-table-id rtb-c6dfc2a1
--destination-cidr-block 0.0.0.0/0
--gateway-id igw-dbd691bf
{
"Return": true
}
brettski$ aws ec2 create-tags --resources rtb-c6dfc2a1
--tags "Key=Name,Value=Test VPC Main Route Table”

20. VPC Creation - Python

21. VPC Creation - CloudFormation

22. That seems easy – what now?

23. Serverless Applications
Why run infrastructure when you don’t have to?
• Let us do the work for you…
S3: Inexpensive, durable storage with a web front-end
API Gateway: Scalable, secure API service
Lambda: Event-drive code execution
DynamoDB: Scalable NoSQL data storage
SAM: Serverless Application Model

24. Serverless Application Architecture
Amazon
CloudFront
Amazon
S3
Amazon API
Gateway
AWS
Lambda
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
Cognito
Static content
CDN and SSL offload
Dynamic content generation
Authentication

25. Demo Time!

26. Want to try more?

27. Experiment! Learn! Fly! Be Free!
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/
https://acloud.guru/
https://www.aws.training/

28. Serverless Workshop
Self-paced – learn how to build serverless applications
• Or have us run it for you (just ask!)
https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-workshops

29. Thank you
brettski@amazon.com