Intro to AWS!
(Amazon Web Services)
Women Who Code: DevOps
a.k.a Women Who [infrastructure as] Code
a.k.a Women Who Cloud
Glenna Gallagher
@glenna_opt
What will I learn today?
- Basics of Cloud Computing
- Overview of basic AWS services
- How to set account up in AWS
- How to deploy a basic site in AWS
- Overview of AWS Certifications
What is “cloud”?
Before Cloud
The Cloud
Aws.amazon.com – 1 Free Year
Cloud.google.com – Free trial
Azure.microsoft.com – $200 worth of resources to start
Heroku/Digita Ocean - Managed platform services (free and low cost hosting)
Where to get Clouds
Amazon Web Services:
The AWS menu of services can be overwhelming. So many services that it would be difficult to get through them all tonight!
Global Infrastructure
Region
#Availability Zones
Availability Zone A
Availability Zone B
Availability Zone C
Load Balancer
Region
AWS Account
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/
- Create a root account
- Create an admin account
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Generate Credentials
Users
Groups
Roles
Policies
Resources
[People]
IAM Users Groups Roles Policies
Watching videos and reading documentation on IAM & Security is highly encouraged
Security Groups/
Subnets/ ACLS/ WAF
Permissions can attach to Groups, Users, Roles, Resources
Compute!
Elastic Compute Generation 2 (EC2)
- Any Operating System (OS)
- Choose your size, change it whenever
- High Performance Computing
- High Performance Graphics
ECS (EC2 Container Services)
- Keep all your dependencies together
- Manage your containers
- Independent of servers
- Avoid servers all together
- Micro-services
Storage!
Hardware - SD's/discs/Snowball
Virtual - EFS/S3
S3 Bucket Storage
Deploy an App to AWS
- Unified user interface
- All the CI/CD and PM tools
- AWS' "Heroku"-ish
- Ready to go environments
- Anything you need!
CodeStar
Personal Cloud Computing Tips
- Implement Spending Caps/Keep an eye on your bill
- Delete everything you don't need
- Least Privilege!! Take care to fully understand permissions and access
- Watch videos, follow tutorials, reach out!
- Have fun
- This stuff is really hard
AWS Certifications
Where to Study
You have been a gorgeous audience, thank you so much for joining us!
ANY QUESTIONS?
IDEAS/QUESTIONS/CONCERNS/FEELINGS:
WWC DC SLACK: #devops channel, message me @ggallagher
ALSO MY TWITTER IS:
@glenna_opt
SPECIAL THANKS TO BLACKSTONE TECHNOLOGY GROUP AND WOMEN WHO CODE DC AND VICTORIA GUIDO AND PAM VONG AND SU KIM AND JESSICA DEMBE AND ELISE WALKER
Intro to AWS (WWCD)
By glenna
