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?