Amazon Web Services


Timothy Lim

Brunei Geek Meet
6th December 2013

Lightning Talk

What is AWS?


Cloud computing platform 
with many different products

Build scalable architectures 

Great time saving features

'Cheap'


REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES

Web Application Hosting (source)

VPC - Virtual Private Cloud

Isolated segments of AWS services
Webservers: public subnet with Internet access
Databases: private subnet with no Internet access

VPC - SUBNETS


EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud

Your (virtual) machine in the cloud
Do/Install what you want
Spin up or spin down EC2 instance based on load 

EC2 - Launching an INSTANCE

AMI - image of drive with OS & a root volume
AWS Market has free and paid AMIs for turn key solutions

EC2 - Instance Types

Not all types available in all regions 
(contact Amazon to possibly get other types)

EC2 - Storage


BEWARE: Root volume are ephemeral (gone when instance shuts down/reboots) if not EBS based

EC2 - SecurITY GRoup


EC2

Different IPs on restart unless you use an Elastic IP

No internet?  
/etc/init.d/networking restart
(or restart instance. not too sure why)


EBS - Elastic Block STORE


Basically a hard disk

You will need to format it
C:
/dev/disk0s0 
/dev/sda1

Filesystem access

Snapshots

EBS

Mountable on instances in the same availability zone

Create new volume (in new AZ) from snapshot then mount

 Amazon S3 

Storing data accessible by multiple instances

Objects stored in buckets with 99.999999999% durability

REST/SOAP interface  
(no direct filesystem access without 3rd party tools)

File Versioning 

File Encryption

S3 - Bucket Configurations


S3 - Permissions & Versioning



S3 - File Encryption

Folder setting not bucket setting

RDS - Relational DB SErvice

A managed service - auto updated with security patches
MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle / MS SQL

RDS - Backup & Restore


Point in Time Restores!

SES - Simple Email Service


Amazon SES helps give emails a lower spam rating

Statistics of : (1) Successful delivery attempts  
(2) Rejected messages  (3) Bounces  (4) Complaints 

Initial 10,000 daily quota limit (rolling quota)
Limited maximum sending rate per second
(ask Amazon for more quota)

CLOUDWATCH

Monitoring - used for alerting / auto scaling

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

Regions & Availability Zones

SDK can help automate things 

Practically every little thing is chargeable

AWS Free Tier Usage for 1 year on signing up

AWSome day




THANKS and ENJOY 

THE REST OF THE NIGHT!

Amazon Web Services

By Timothy Lim

Amazon Web Services

Lightning talk for Brunei Geek Meet

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