A fun learning game covering the basics of some common AWS services such as EC2, Cloudwatch, and Amazon S3. Inspired by the popular TV gameshow Catchphrase. Michael Pearce, DevOps Engineer @ Peak AI. Disclaimer: Due to the fast moving nature of AWS, this may be out of date!

1. C L O U D P H R A S E
A N I N T R O D U C T I O N I N A W S S E R V I C E S

4. E L A S T I C C O M P U T E C L O U D
( E C 2 )
• Secure and resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
Launch applications when needed without upfront
commitments
• Virtual Servers in the cloud
• EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure
resilient applications and isolate them from common
failure scenarios

7. C L O U D W A T C H
• Monitor Resources and Applications
• Collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files,
set alarms, and automatically react to changes in your
AWS resources
• CloudWatch can gain system-wide visibility into
resource utilisation, application performance, and
operational health. You can use these insights to react
and keep your application running smoothly.

10. S I M P L E N O T I F I C A T I O N S E R V I C E
( S N S )
• Pub/Sub messaging and notifications
• Coordinates the delivery of messages to subscribing
endpoints and clients - i.e. SMS, email, HTTP etc.
• You can fan-out messages to a large number of
subscribers

13. C L O U D F O R M A T I O N
• Create and Manage Resources with Templates
• Provision all the infrastructure resources
• Automate deployments - safe and repeatable
• Automatic Roll back on error

16. S I M P L E S T O R A G E S E R V I C E ( S 3 )
• Scalable Storage in the Cloud
• Object storage
• 11x9s of Durability
• Backups / Archiving / DataLake / Disaster Recovery

19. E L A S T I C B E A N S T A L K
• Run and Manage Web Apps
• Deploy and scale web applications and services
developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python,
Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as
Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
• Handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning,
load balancing, auto-scaling to application health
monitoring

22. A U T O S C A L I N G
• Add or remove compute capacity to meet changes in
demand
• Self healing & Fault tolerant
• Cost saving

25. L A M B D A
• Run your code without thinking about servers
• Continuous scaling
• Sub second Metering (charged for every 100ms)

28. C O D E P I P E L I N E
• Release Software using Continuous Delivery
• Build, Test and Deploy your code on every commit (if
you want)

29. T H A N K S F O R L I S T E N I N G
Kilimanjaro!