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Dave Rocamora, Solutions Architect

November 2016

Getting Started with AWS

What we’ll cover today

Creating an AWS account Creating an IAM user and enabling MFA Launching and connecting to EC2 instances Backing up and restoring EC2 instances Using S3 to store and serve files Visualizing AWS costs and setting billing alerts

The AWS Free Tier

Includes most AWS services Available for all new accounts Good for one year from the day the account is created Everything we show today can be done within the free tier For more details: http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Signing up for an AWS account

Sign up through https://aws.amazon.com You will need a credit card There will be a telephone verification

Demo: Signing up for AWS

First Steps: Creating IAM Users

Using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), you can create and manage AWS users and groups.

You can control what resources each user has access to within an AWS account.

First Steps: Enabling MFA

AWS allows you to require multi-factor authentication for your users through physical or software-based single use login tokens. This protects against stolen passwords and key loggers.

Enable this on IAM users and the root account

Demo: Creating an IAM user and enabling MFA

Amazon EC2 – Creating an SSH key pair

SSH stands for Secure Shell SSH keys are used for secured access to EC2 instances SSH keys avoid password weaknesses You can import your own key or have AWS generate a key pair for you. AWS does not store the private part of the key pair

Demo: Creating an SSH key pair for Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 – Creating a Security Group

Security Groups are firewalls for your instances By default, they block all traffic You can choose what protocols and ports to open

You can use port ranges (e.g. 22-24)

You can choose who the ports are open to Create rules with CIDR notation for groups of IP addresses (/32 is a single IP)

Create rules that specify Security Groups for other EC2 Instances

Demo: Creating a Security Group in Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 – Launching an Instance

Instances are virtual machines running in the cloud You have full control of the instance and can install any

software that you choose You can choose the instance type and size to get different

amounts of memory, CPU, disk, etc. You will need your Key Pair and a Security Group to launch

the instance into

Demo: Launching and connecting to EC2 Instances

Amazon EBS – Storage for EC2 Instances

Amazon Elastic Block Store is persistent block storage for EC2 instances As small as 1GB and as large as 16TB Available in several different types Create snapshots of EBS volumes in S3 to create backups

Amazon EBS – Volume Types

General Purpose SSD (gp2)

Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)

Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)

Cold HDD (sc1)

Amazon EBS – Volume Types

General Purpose SSD (gp2)

Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1)

Cold HDD (sc1)Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)

Demo: Creating EBS Volumes, Snapshots, and AMIs

Amazon S3

S3 is Amazon’s Simple Storage Service Store and retrieve almost any amount of data: 1 byte to 5

terabytes per object Highly scalable and durable Encryption available Objects exist in the AWS region you choose Object level permissions Easily accessible

Demo: Storing and Serving Objects with S3

Billing and Cost Management

There are several features to help you monitor costs and visualize your AWS spend:

Cost Explorer Alerts on Spending Limits Detailed Billing Reports Consolidated Billing

Demo: Exploring Billing and Cost Management

What we covered

Creating an AWS account Creating an IAM user and enabling MFA Launching and connecting to EC2 instances Backing up and restoring EC2 instances Using S3 to store and serve files Visualizing AWS costs and setting billing alerts

Thank you!