Introduction to AWS
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This document provides an introduction and overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It discusses what the cloud is and how AWS infrastructure works with regions and availability zones. It then focuses on explaining Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), describing what EC2 is, the terminology used, how resources are shared, and the differences between local disks vs Elastic Block Store storage. The document concludes with a thank you and mentions future sessions will provide more in-depth coverage of specific AWS services.
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Introduction to AWS
- 2. AWS Roadmap • Introduction to AWS • Storage Options - 1st part (17 March) • Virtual Private Cloud (14 April) • ELB, Route 53, CloudFront (28 April) • Workshop: Highly available Wordpress site (12 May) • (and many to follow)
- 3. Introduction to AWS • What is The Cloud :) • AWS Global Infrastructure • Amazon EC2
- 5. Amazon? • Bookstore company • ... in 1994 .. • Excellent performance, reliability and security • Why not sell the architectural templates? • AWS kicked off in 2002 as it's own business
- 6. IAAS Internet Connectivity Cabling Power Servers Racks Security Cooling IT Expertise Network Equipment Storage
- 7. Free Tier for the first year.
- 8. No reason to do it by yourself.
- 9. Yourself ... vs ... AWS Massive up front costs Technical expertise always available Build it, see it, touch it factor Scaling in "big steps" No upfront costs, pay as you go Technical expertise focused on apps Limited knowledge of infrastructure location Elastic scaling
- 19. There has to be a better way
- 23. Regions and AZs • Regions • Availability Zones (Data Centers) • (...)
- 25. Regions and AZs • Regions • Availability Zones • Edge locations
- 26. Amazon EC2
- 27. What is EC2 • Elastic Compute Cloud • Launch virtual servers • Pay per use • Linux / Windows
- 28. EC2 Terminology • Virtual Server = Instance • Amazon Machine Image = AMI (OS disk image) • Elastic Block Store = Instance Hard Disk • Elastic Compute Unit = Measure of EC2 processor
- 29. Shared Performance • CPU • Memory • Disk & Network I/O
- 30. Local Disks • temporary workloads • how do you scale automatically • what happens if it's broken
- 31. Demo • AWS Console • Launch EC2 instance • Instance types • Local disks vs EBS