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 Cloud Computing

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

New Account Demo

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

Lambda

Avoid servers all together
Micro-services

Storage!

Hardware - SD's/discs/Snowball

Virtual - EFS/S3

S3 Bucket Storage

Deploy an App to AWS

Codestar

Unified user interface
All the CI/CD and PM tools

Lightsail

AWS' "Heroku"-ish

Elastic Beanstalk

Ready to go environments

Marketplace

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

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/

Where to Study

Get your hands dirty

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