Lunch && Learn DevHub - 6 Things to Learn to become an AWS Genius

Andrew Brown
Nov 27 2018
andrew@exampro.co
CEO of ExamPro
12 Year Full Stack Developer
4/9 AWS Certifications
Loves StarTrek DS9
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6 Things to Learn to
become an AWS Genius
Full-Stack Powerleveling

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Résumé
1. If our web-app goes down our website will
remain running
2. If our web-app goes down, our contact form still
works
3. If our datacenter or entire region fails or we get
lots of traffic our web-app will remain running
4. Keep our authentication separated so we can
build and connect multiple web-apps
5. Encrypt, Failover, Backup, Monitor or Easily
Connect to our Database
6. Create Rich Metrics Dashboards, Keep a audit
trail of resource usages. and prevent Major
Changes to our resources
The Available, Scalable, and Durable Way
Provisioning
Authentication
Databases
Monitoring
Static Website Hosting
Serverless

Highly Available
Be able to fail over at a moments notice
Highly Scalable
Be able to scale at a moment to meet the needs of service (elastic)
Highly Durable
Preventing Rott, Degradation or Corruption. Self-healing
A web-app should be….

Résumé
1. If our web-app goes down our website will
remain running
2. If our web-app goes down, our contact form still
works
3. If our datacenter or entire region fails or we get
lots of traffic our web-app will remain running
4. Keep our authentication separated so we can
build and connect multiple web-apps
5. Encrypt, Failover, Backup, Monitor or Easily
Connect to our Database
6. Create Rich Metrics Dashboards, Keep a audit
trail of resource usages. and prevent Major
Changes to our resources

Static Web Hosting
*
S3 - Simple Storage Service
CloudFront - Content
Distribution Network
Route53 - DNS Hosting
Certification Manager
Manages our Domain eg. masterscript.co
SSL Certificate eg. https://masterscript.co
Distribute your website to multiple edge
locations around the world
eg. Really Fast and Available Website
Super Cheap Storage that can be used to store files
High Amounts of Traffic at the Cost of Pennies
2.
3.
4.
1.

S3

Certification Manager

CloudFront

Route53

If our web-app goes down our
website will remain running
Our website loads instantly
wherever you are in the world
We don’t have to rely on
front-end and full stack
developers. As long as you know
html and css you can update the
website
99.999999999% durability
99.99% availability

Serverless Contact Form
*
API Gateway Connect AWS Services via URL Endpoints eg. POST /api/contact
AWS Lambda Functions that only run when needed an perform one task
eg. send an email and store record in database
DynamoDB NoSQL Database to store non-transactional data that cost
pennies and scales to millions of requests
SNS Simple Notification Service that can send notifications eg. send a
plain text email, text message when triggered
1.
2.
3.
4.
1

API Gateway

Lambda

DynamoDB

SNS

If our web-app goes down our
contact form will remain working
Our web-app has less
responsibilities with fewer things
getting in the way of our primary
development
Our contact form is built using
simple javascript making it easy
for anyone come in an update it.

Provisioning
*
CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code eg write a script that at a press of button
create or destroy all the resources we need to run our service
ELB Elastic Load Balancing distribute incoming traffic across multiple
availability zones or based on a set of rules
AutoScaling Groups Create or Destroy servers to meet the current traffic demand.
EC2 Elastic Cloud Computing servers where we can choose our OS,
Memory, Storage and configure it for our web-application
3

*Region and scenarios are fake to make a point
Planning for Doomsday
Our DataCenter was Flooded.
Always run your web-app in two data centers (Availability Zone)
eg. Toronto West, Toronto East

All data centers destroyed in Toronto due to a Nuke
Always run your web-app in two different locations (Regions)
eg. Vancouver, Toronto

The Dragon’s want to invest and we have insane amount of traffic!
Our service should automatically create new servers to meet the demand
Auto Scaling Groups
Auto Scaling Group

Elastic Beanstalk Opsworks Cloudformation DIY eg. EC2
Infrastructure
As Code

If a datacenter fails, our web-app
will failover to another
datacenter
If all datacenters in a region fail
our web-app will failover to
another set of data centers in
another region
If we have an unexpected
amount of traffic our web-app
will scale to meet this demand.

Authentication
*
AWS Cognito
Sign-up, sign-in, and access control
Both mobile and web
scales to millions of users
4

Databases
*
RDS Amazon Relational Database Service
Managed SQL database with lots of rich features
to make it easy to scale your database
5

RDS is Easy to Encrypt, Backup, Failover, Increase Reads

Monitoring
*
AWS CloudWatch
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Config
Set Alarms, Create Data Dashboards, Trigger Events
See what services are being used and by who
See what resources are being changed
6

CloudWatch
CloudWatch Lets You Set Billing
Alarms So You Don’t Go Over Budget

CloudWatch Dashboard To Visualize Your Metrics
Import Metrics from AWS or Anywhere
CloudWatch

CloudTrail Tracks Who is Using What in AWS
CloudTrail

Config

● 6 Hour Workshop at DevHub lead by 2 AWS Certified Professionals
● With 1 Hour Dedicated to each of the 6 Things from this Lunch&&Learn
*
AWS Workshop
● Step by Step Video Instructions in-case you forget
● Ask Questions in our Private Forum if you get stuck on your own
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