The AWS Tech Stack - or the most important services ✨

1 – Compute
Run your apps on EC2 virtual machines, orchestrate containers with ECS and Fargate, or go serverless with Lambda. They provide flexible compute (based on your needs) for any application size & architecture. 2 – Security & Identity
Protect your environment with IAM for fine-grained access control, Organizations for multi-account management, IAM Identity Center for centralized user access & SSO, and Certificate Manager for SSL/TLS certificates.

I've worked on several projects where we've done everything in a single AWS account.

This works well at first but can echo for years as painful technical debt ⚡️

Learn about 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 so you can comfortably work with multiple accounts 🧵 ↓ 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 🧵

• Introduction
• Key Concepts
• Working with AWS Organizations
• Best Practices
• Conclusion

The compromise of an AWS account can have an immense impact on your financial resources 🔥 💸

That's why protecting your account and each IAM user is important 🔐

Enabling 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 is one crucial step 🧵 ↓ 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄

• What is MFA and why it's important?
• The Different Types of MFA at AWS
• Setting up MFA
• Using MFA
• Best Practices
• Troubleshooting

Learn how to 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆 & 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 your AWS Lambda functions from your local terminal via the AWS CLI 🧵 ↓ 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 🧵

• Installing & setting up the AWS CLI
• Setting up an Execution Role
• Packaging your Function's Code
• Creating a Function
• Invoking Functions
• Deploying Code Updates
• Monitoring Executions
• Updating Configurations
• Deleting Functions

AWS offers a wide range of 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 🤖

From well-known services like 𝗘𝗖𝟮 to rather exotic ones like 𝗪𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵 🧵 ↓ 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗖𝟮

One of the most mature services by AWS launched back in 2006.

With EC2 you can rent virtual machines to run basically any workload, as it offers a wide range of hardware, including memory and compute-optimized instances.

𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 & 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲

Reliable, Secure & Serverless Continuous Integration and Delivery 🏗

𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 about the Pros, Cons & everything you need to know 🧵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 👋

AWS CodeBuild & CodePipeline is a fully-managed service to build, package & deploy your apps and infrastructure.

Focus on developing your application & worry less about efforts & operations to ship it to your customers!

λ️ 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝟭𝘅𝟭 ⚡

It abstracts away all the tedious work you'd had with Terraform or CloudFormation when building Lambda-powered apps 🏗️

A not-that-small thread about 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 to get started 🧵↓ 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Creating the needed infrastructure for a simple Lambda-powered service exposed to the internet is not a trivial task, even though this is a widespread use case.

What if there’d be a framework that solely focuses on everything around Lambda?

In the past year, I did a lot of 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 🧵

I've revisited my timeline & cherry-picked the 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝟱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 that will help you to 𝗷𝘂𝗺𝗽-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 🌤

↓ 🙏 Free tutorials for AWS Core Services.

https://twitter.com/tpschmidt_/status/1556622972496056323

In every project I have worked on as a freelancer, AWS has been heavily used

So I can assure you: even small cloud expertise is a 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 ⚡️

If you're struggling with how to begin, read on to learn about the core services & free tutorials 🧵👇 1️⃣ AWS offers great free tutorials on its own training site, ranging from beginner to expert levels.

You only need an Amazon account to get yourself started.

aws.training/LearningLibrary

🕵 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 > 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 📚 ️

You can't know everything & most of your problems have been already solved by someone else.

A small set of 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 to help you find anything 🧵 ↓ 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀
=> Free Cloud Certifications -GCP

Removes search results that contain your excluded word(s).

You can 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 on AWS via...

• some 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 🔎
• basic 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 🧠
• and a few 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 🛠

𝟳 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀 to get you ahead 🧵↓ 1️⃣ 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗧𝗶𝗲𝗿

AWS offers a free tier for a lot of services, either for the first 12 months or forever.

Examples (per month):
• 𝟰𝟬𝟬𝗸 Lambda GB/seconds
• 𝟭𝗺 SQS requests
• 𝟳𝟱𝟬𝗵 of EC2 (t2.micro or t3.micro)

Make proper use of this.

aws.amazon.com/free/

"𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘈𝘞𝘚 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘦?"

Nobody ever includes 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗜𝗔𝗠 in their answer, even though it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 for 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘀 🔐

A collection of 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 🧵 ↓ 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿

Your root user has full access to your account (and organization) & controls billing.
Don't use it for daily tasks.

This means. your first tasks are:
• create a dedicated IAM user
• delete any credential pairs of the root user

📚 AWS 1x1 - 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵

Your fully-managed monitoring & observability solution for your AWS services, resources & applications.

Almost all you need to know ↓ 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 🧵

• Introduction
• Events
• Logs & Log Groups
• Log Streams
• Retention
• Metrics
• Alarms
• Insights
• Subscription Filters
• Anomaly Detection
• Free Tier
• Dashboards
• Recent new Features
• Limitations

𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭
• I did a lot of threads on AWS 🏗
• got awesome feedback 💛
• will do even more this year 🔥

In case you've missed some of them, here are my 𝟭𝟳 favorites! ↓ 📚 𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗪𝗦

https://twitter.com/tpschmidt_/status/1422907219612508163

📚 AWS 1x1 - 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹

Discover malicious behavior in your account by tracking all changes that are made to your infrastructure ↓ 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 🧵

• Importance of audit logging
• The Basics
• Structure of Audit Logs
• Trails
• Encryption & Compliance
• Event Types
• Filtering
• Identity Types

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𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝟭: AWS rocks 🔥
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝟮: there's probably nothing you can't build there 🏗
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝟯: it's likely that starting your cloud journey will pay off⚡

... but how to start looking at over 200 AWS services?

My 10 greatest 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 resources for learning 📚 ↓ 1️⃣ 𝗔𝗪𝗦.𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

The official training site by AWS, containing a lot of free resources that are covering not only foundations but also advanced and export levels for all kinds of services and concepts.

aws.training

There's basically nothing you can't build on AWS 🏗

But having a great set of 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 & 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 is a necessity 🛠

My personal top 7 ⭐ ️↓ 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲: 𝗣𝘂𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗶

Creating resources in the Console is great for testing things out, but shouldn't be done for serious projects. Picking & learning an IaC tool is a must.

📚 AWS 1x1 - 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆

Learn about its capabilities & why it's more than just a simple front door for your serverless application ↓ 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 🧵

• Introduction
• The Basics
• Authorizers
• Usage Plans
• Validation
• Proxy Resources, Proxy Integrations & Service Proxies
• Error Handling
• Handling Responses
• API Types
• Monitoring
• Pricing

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📚 AWS 1x1 - 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝟱𝟯

Amazon's highly available and scalable cloud DNS web service.

An introduction to one of the internet's core building blocks & all about Route53's feature set which greatly exceeds just simple routing ↓ 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 🧵

• DNS Fundamentals
• Service Basics
• Routing Types
• Simple Routing
• Weighted Routing
• Geo-Location Routing
• Latency-based Routing
• Health Checks & Failovers
• Pricing

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Building an event-driven, reliable serverless application is a difficult task 👨‍💻

What's also challenging: monitoring your ever-growing ecosystem of functions ƛ

My 𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘀
↓ 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 🧵

• Problem Statement
• What to Monitor?
• Performance Monitoring
• Costs & Usage
• Monitoring Tools
• Benefits of Serverless Monitoring

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📚AWS 1x1 - 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁

A low latency and high transfer speed content delivery network.

What does it offer? ↓ 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 🧵

• Introduction
• Distributions
• Origins
• Edge Behaviors
• Geo-Restrictions
• Edge Computing
• Pricing & Free Tier

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