Post on 20-Jan-2017
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Supercharging AWS Environments for Greater Innovation and Scale…
THE RACKSPACE GUIDE TO:
M i t c h B e a u m o n t | Te c h n i c a l C o n s u l t a n t
m i t c h . b e a u m o n t @ r a c k s p a c e . c o m
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CUSTOMER VIDEO: LOUD & CLEAR
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Disclaimer
“The presentation you are about see is true. Only the names,
locations and actual events have been changed to protect
the innocent and not upset the copyright lawyers”
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Who am I?
Mitch BeaumontTechnical Consultant
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On the agenda for today …
• Who are Rackspace?
• I’d like to introduce you to Colin.
• Talk a little bit about “Well Architected”
• Top five SUPERCHARGING tips!
• Show and tell.
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500+ AWS
Accreditations and
Certifications
• 300+ AWS Associate
Certifications
• 15+ AWS Professional
Certifications
• 30+ DevOps Certifications
• Environment supported by
100% AWS Certified
Engineers and Architects
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205,000+
CUSTOMERS
6,000+ RACKERS
10 GLOBAL DCsINCL. 2 IN AUSTRALIA
GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
CUSTOMERS 120+ COUNTRIES
60%FORTUNE® 100
OFTHE
WE SERVE
Annualized
Revenue
OVER $2.0B
Listed
Who are Rackspace?
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What is Fanatical Support?
Fanatical SupportⓇ Happens anytime, anywhere,
and any way imaginable at Rackspace. It’s the no
excuse, no exceptions, can-do way of thinking that
Rackers (our employees) bring to work every day.
Your complete satisfaction is our sole ambition
Rackspace Hosting Fanatical Support Promisehttps://www.rackspace.com/dedicated-servers/promise
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Lets Meet Colin
• Colin is a robot.
• Colin has a brain the size of a galaxy.
• He is a solution architect who is new to the
Cloud and Amazon Web Services, but he has a
Credit Card.
• Colin is PANICKING
#DontPanicColin
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What is all the panic about?
? !#$
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SUPER CHARGING YOUR AWS FOR GREATER … BLAH BLAH
SECURITYRELIABILITY
PERFORMANCECOST
OPTIMISATION
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• Solid AWS account structure for effective cost and privilege management.
• Full visibility of access and activities across his AWS account(s).
• Effective event, problem and incident management.
• Understanding and tracking configuration drift.
• Secure access to AWS environment.
Helping Colin Build on Strong Foundations
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FIVE
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AWS Accounts
Do not be afraid to use
multiple AWS Accounts
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FOUR
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Identity Management
DO NOT use the Root account!
… EVER...
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Identity Management
… Seriously DON’T use it!
Enable
M.F.A
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THREE
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Identity Management
DO use IAM Roles for EC2 and
Temporary Credentials!
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TWO
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Visibil ity
ALWAYS Enable CloudTrail
&
AWS Config.
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ONE
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Access Control
AVOID Sharing EC2 Key Pairs!
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BLAST OFF!
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???
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We have an app for that …
Secure way of
accessing and
authenticating to
AWS instances.
Monitoring alerts
automatically
generate tickets
to which Rackspace
respond.
Centralised,
aggregated logging
of activities across
the AWS and
Rackspace
platforms.
AWS and Rackspace
best practice
recommendations
PASSPORT WATCHMAN LOGBOOK COMPASS
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Demo Time
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Always use
multiple
availability zones!
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THANK YOU
T h i s p r e s e n t a t i o n w a s b a c k e d b y F a n a t i c a l S u p p o r t Ⓡ !