Your First Hour on AWS: Building the Foundation for Large Scale AWS Adoption
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This document provides an overview of foundational steps for setting up and using AWS, including: 1. Setting up an AWS account, enabling billing alerts and premium support. 2. Establishing basic security by adding multi-factor authentication to the root account and understanding IAM user types. 3. Getting started with core AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, and Direct Connect for networking and compute needs. 4. Recommendations for ongoing monitoring of costs, security best practices, and automation using services like CloudFormation.
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Your First Hour on AWS: Building the Foundation for Large Scale AWS Adoption
- 1. Your First Hour on AWS: Building the Foundation for Large Scale AWS Adoption Craig S. Dickson, Solutions Architect Amazon Web Services
- 2. Business 101 Technical 201 Technical 301 Technical 401 Technical Session Grading
- 3. Overview • Assumes (very) little AWS knowledge • Simple tips that can save time and avoid embarrassment later • Will focus on what and not so much on how • Five main areas – Set up an account – Monitor your spending – Basic security setup – Core AWS Services – Best Practice Architectures
- 4. Setting Up An Account
- 5. Understand Regions, AZs and Edges US-WEST (Oregon) EU-WEST (Ireland) ASIA PAC (Tokyo) ASIA PAC (Singapore) US-WEST (N. California) SOUTH AMERICA (Sao Paulo) US-EAST (Virginia) GOV CLOUD ASIA PAC (Sydney) CHINA EU-CENTRAL (Frankfurt)
- 6. Sign Up For An Account • Very simple, entire process takes less than 5 minutes – You will need a Credit Card – You will need access to a phone for automated ID verification • Pick a good email address – use a group email alias – don’t use your amazon.com credentials
- 7. Turn On Premium Support Developer Business Enterprise Access via Email Phone, Chat, Email Phone, Chat, Email Named Contacts 1 5 Unlimited Response Time < 12 hours < 1 hour < 15 minutes Trusted Advisor No Yes Yes Infrastructure Event Management Pay per event Included Technical Account Manager Included
- 8. Add MFA To Your Root Account
- 10. Turn On Billing Alerts Avoid any surprises at the end of your first month
- 11. Get Familiar with the Billing Console
- 13. Check Your Security Status
- 14. Understand the Different Account Types • Root Account – treat it like a root or Administrator account (i.e. don’t use it!) – put the credentials and MFA token somewhere safe • IAM Accounts – familiar users and groups model – apply policies to users or groups to grant privileges in your AWS environment
- 15. Create an IAM Group for Admins { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "*", "Resource": "*" } ] }
- 16. Create IAM User Accounts for Admins
- 17. Set Your IAM User Sign-In URL
- 18. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- 20. Setup a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- 21. VPCs can be simple … Region Availability Zone VPC Internet Gateway Internet Users Public Subnet Servers
- 22. … but VPCs can also be sophisticated NAT Instance Private Subnet 2 Private Subnet 3 Private Subnet 4 Availability Zone 1 VPC NAT Instance Internet Gateway Internet Users Private Subnet 1 Public Subnet 1 Availability Zone 2 Public Subnet 2 Region
- 23. Prioritize Connectivity – Site to Site VPN Virtual Private Cloud Availability ZoneAvailability Zone VPC Subnet VPC Subnet Customer Gateway Customer Network VPN Router Virtual Private Gateway
- 24. Connectivity – Hub & Spoke VPNs Virtual Private Cloud Availability ZoneAvailability Zone VPC Subnet VPC Subnet Customer Gateway Customer Network Auckland VPN Router Virtual Private Gateway Customer Gateway Customer Network Sydney VPN Customer Gateway Customer Network Brisbane VPN
- 25. Upgrade Connectivity to a Direct Connect Direct Connect Location IPVPN / MPLS Customer Data Center Customer Office Customer Office Customer Office Customer Data Center Direct Connect Location
- 26. VPC Peering Region Public-facing web app Internal company app #1 HA pair VPN endpointscompany data center Internal company app #2 Internal company app #3 Internal company app #4 Services VPC Internal company Dev Internal company QA AD, DNS Monitoring Logging
- 27. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- 28. Learn the EC2 Basics • Explore the different instance types – why not try them all? • Exploit the pay-by-the-hour model • There is a Free Tier – use it! • Use Tags
- 29. No really, Use Tags! • Can be used in your IAM Policies • Can be used for cost allocation • Can be used from the SDKs and the CLI • Can be used from 3rd party tools like Chef
- 30. Launch an EC2 Instance • From the console – baseline AMI from AWS – fully configured AMI from the AWS Marketplace – create your own AMIs • Using CloudFormation • From the Command Line Interface (CLI)
- 31. Internet Gateways Region Availability Zone VPC Internet Gateway Internet Users Public Subnet Servers
- 32. Elastic Load Balancing – Internal/External Availability Zone A Private Subnet(s) Private Subnet(s) AWS region Intranet App Intranet App Availability Zone B Internal customers Internal Load balancer Elastic Load Balancing Private Subnet Elastic Load Balancing Private Subnet Proxy Public Subnet Proxy Public Subnet Amazon S3 HTTP/S Multi AZ Auto Scaling group
- 33. Simple Storage Service (S3)
- 34. S3 Use Cases • Unlimited, durable, pay-as-you-go storage • Backup and archive • Disaster recovery • Large scale data storage – digital media, scientific, big data, hpc • Static website content hosting
- 35. Static Website Content Serving CloudFront User Web Route 53 http://www.example.com Internet Gateway S3 Bucket
- 36. Reference Architecture – Web App Hosting
- 38. 59:30 … 30 seconds to spare!
- 39. What about your 2nd hour?
- 40. Monitor Your Costs – Ninja Style • Programmatic Billing Access – you did start Tagging everything right? • Gamify your infrastructure spend • Plug in a 3rd party tool – Splunk – Netflix Ice – Cloudyn – Cloudability – many others • Cost Explorer
- 41. Use the Cost Explorer
- 42. Dial Up Your Security – Ninja Style • Start using Resource-level Permissions • Setup Identity Federation • Turn on CloudTrail • Use EC2 Roles to keep your AWS credentials out of GitHub
- 43. Check Trusted Advisor Regularly
- 44. Start Thinking About Automation • Get to know CloudFormation like your life depends on it • Consider higher-level services like Elastic Beanstalk and OpsWorks • Learn to use the CLI • Leverage EC2 User Data • Layer 3rd-party tools like Chef, Puppet etc. as necessary
- 45. Summary • Set up your account, the right way • Secure your root account and use IAM Accounts • Monitor costs from the start • Establish connectivity • Get familiar with core services – VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, DX • Leverage established best practices