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    A Brief Background of AWS

    - In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS)


    began offering IT infrastructure services to
    businesses in the form of web services –
    now commonly known as cloud computing.
    - Today, Amazon Web Services provides a
    highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
    infrastructure platform in the cloud that
    powers hundreds of thousands of
    businesses in 190 countries around the
    world
    https://www.infrastructure.aws/
    - AWS now spans 77 Availability Zones within
    24 geographic regions around the world,
    with announced plans for more Availability
    Zones and Region
    AWS Architecture
    - Region
    - Virtual Private Cloud
    - DNS
    - Static and cached content
    - Elastic load balancing
    - Servers
    - Database
    AWS Architecture – cont’d
    - Region (and Availability Zones)
    - Amazon supports 10 regional centres around the globe,
    including two in Europe, that provide the resources for AWS.
    - Each region is completely independent and is designed to be
    isolated from the other regions to maximise fault tolerance and
    stability
    - Each region contains multiple isolated locations known as
    Availability Zones.
    - Each Availability zone is designed as an independent failure
    zone. i.e.
    Availability zones are:
    - physically separated within a typical metropolitan region
    - located in lower risk flood plains.
    - utilises discrete uninterruptable power supply (UPS) and
    onsite backup generators
    - each fed via different grids from independent utilities to
    further reduce single points of failure.
    - Distributing applications across multiple availability zones
    provides the ability to remain resilient in the face of most
    failure scenarios, including natural disasters or system failures
    AWS Architecture – cont’d
    - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    - The starting point to building an AWS solution is the creation
    of a virtual private cloud (VPC).
    - A VPC exists within the AWS public cloud space, but it has a
    single owner – the tenant – and is logically isolated from
    other VPCs
    - A VPC is created within a region and contains a single
    availability zone.
    - The example architecture has been split across two availability
    zones, labelled A and B, so that, should one fail, the
    application will continue to run:
    AWS Architecture – cont’d
    - DNS (Amazon-Route-53)
    - What is DNS and its purpose?
    - The main function of DNS or Domain Name System, is to translate
    human readable internet domain names (i.e. the names people use
    to locate websites - e.g., www.amazon.com) into their corresponding
    internet protocol (IP) addresses, which computers can understand
    and use to locate the respective websites.

    - Amazon-Route-53
    - Amazon provides its own ‘highly available and scalable’ domain
    name system (DNS) web service called ‘Amazon-Route-53’, to
    handle the registration of domains hosted on AWS and for directing
    internet traffic to the website.
    AWS Architecture – cont’d
    - Static and cached content (S3, CloudFront)
    - A new element for this solution is the option to store static content in
    Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), which is durable and scalable
    object storage. Content can be served directly from S3 because each
    object (e.g. a file or an image) has a unique HTTP URL.
    - The AWS CloudFront service provides edge caching for websites; content
    is delivered from the edge of the AWS network (rather than from the deep)
    with a single VPC. When new static content is requested from the S3
    store, it is moved out to the edge in order to reduce the response time to
    deliver future requests
    - The S3 service is part of the VPC so that it can be managed by the tenant.
    However, the service itself is located in the Region outside the VPC (as
    shown in the diagram), but a gateway can be configured inside the VPC
    (called a VPC endpoint) which allows you to connect the VPC privately to
    the AWS S3 service
    AWS Architecture – cont’d
    - Elastic load balancing (ELB)
    - The elastic load balancing (ELB) service is responsible for
    distributing requests within and across availability zones. As
    for a traditional network, it is the ELB that receives the internet
    traffic, which it then distributes
    - ELB monitors the health of the web servers and can dispose
    of underutilised servers, or create new servers as required. It
    also monitors its own usage so that the service can expand to
    meet demand
    AWS Architecture – cont’d
    - Servers (Hosted on EC2)
    - All servers in the example are hosted on Elastic Compute
    Cloud (EC2) instances, the equivalent of a virtual machine
    (VM). An EC2 instance is created within an availability zone
    and connected to the ELB service
    - AWS uses its own image format, Amazon Machine Image
    (AMI), and offers a wide choice of configured servers based
    on the Linux and Windows operating systems. Alternatively,
    the tenant can configure their own server and save that as an
    AMI
    - The example deployment uses an auto-scaling group to
    automatically scale out as demand increases and scale down
    when the demand falls
    AWS Architecture – cont’d
    - Database
    - The database for the website is provided by Amazon’s
    Relational Database Service (RDS), which consists of a
    database instance running one of several popular database
    engines (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle and MS
    SQL Server)
    - The configuration shown offers high availability through the
    use of multiple availability zones. Using this deployment
    Amazon automatically provisions and maintains a standby
    replica of the database instance in a different availability zone.
    The data from the master database is synchronously
    replicated to the secondary database
    AWS Security
    - Security
    - AWS offers a range of security tools to define, enforce and manage access policies for the VPC.
    - Identity and access management (IAM) is used to establish user accounts and set privileges to control
    access to the different parts of a VPC.
    - Console access to the VMs is managed with private / public keys and SSH

    - By default, EC2 instances are locked down and cannot be accessed from outside the VPC.
    - Software firewalls, in combination with routing tables, must be configured to enable data to flow across the
    subnets and to the internet.
    - A VPN option is available to connect a VPC to a corporate network

    - Data encryption services are available to cover data in transit and at rest.
    - Network traffic uses TLS and public / private key encryption for RDS and S3 data.

    TM352
    AWS Management
    - Management
    - AWS offers two modes of control:
    - a web-based interface and
    - a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for use with RESTful web services and
    program codes.
    - Using these tools, a tenant can launch new, and review existing, instances, build auto-scaling plans,
    manage all aspects of security, manage storage and monitor usage

    TM352
    AWS: Website
    https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/

    https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup?redir
    ect_url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fregis
    tration-confirmation#/start

    TM352 Sungmin Park & Howard Harris


    AWS: Creating an AWS Account

    https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup?nc2=h_ct&src=header_signup&redirect_url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.c
    om%2Fregistration-confirmation#/start

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