Management and Operations Days at the AWS Loft is an opportunity to learn about Amazon’s broad and deep family of managed tools and services. These services provide easy, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective ways to manage your resources and applications in the cloud.
We explain the fundamentals and take a technical deep dive into AWS Service Catalog, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Config, AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudFormation and ITSM integrations. You will learn how to get started, how to support applications, and how to scale.
Attend if you’re managing a cloud strategy and are looking to evolve your skills to deploy and manage a cloud operations team. You will learn how to build a strong technical and business process driven foundation on how to manage and govern AWS services.
This event is free to attendees. Please register to secure your seat.
Level 200
Developers, architects, systems administrators, cloud management teams and security professionals who are interested in learning about cloud governance.
To participate in workshops, please prepare the following in advance:
-A valid, usable AWS account with admin privileges. This should not be an AWS account from the company you work for. This should be a personal account (if you don’t have one, please create one before attending the Loft). AWS credits will be provided to cover the cost of the labs.
-Have a laptop which will allow you to access AWS SDKs, AWS
Console and the AWS CLI – this means that you have no restrictions on the machine that would prevent you from making a connection to the AWS environment.
-Have installed the AWS CLI
-Have installed the AWS Python SDK (Boto3)
-Have become familiar with the AWS console
As customers migrate to the cloud, IT needs to maintain structured compliance and governance while providing developers with the flexibility to manage cloud resources at scale. AWS provides a set of management and governance services that allows you to programmatically provision, monitor, and automate the components of your cloud environment. In this session, learn how you can use these tools to maintain consistent controls without restricting development velocity.
Level: 200
Log data is needed to properly secure any environment. However, one of the challenges is reacting to events in Log data. In this session we will introduce Amazon CloudWatch and discuss various logs that can be captured in AWS and how to automate responses to them. We will also discuss how to monitor your AWS Environment using CloudWatch insights.
Level: 200
Enjoy lunch courtesy of Amazon. In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to utilize Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and automated responses to system events. We will demonstrate the capabilities of CloudWatch to recover from a failure of a system. We will explore integrations with additional AWS services for monitoring.
Level: 200
An introduction to how AWS does Operations Integration and what are the various use cases and tools that you can leverage to enable end-to-end IT life cycle management. You will see a demo of the AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow working with AWS Config, Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon SNS to create an end-to-end solution on the ServiceNow platform.
Level: 200
For many customers, a central group like the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) is responsible for maintaining the company’s AWS environment especially from a security standpoint. Typically, the CCOE owns the whitelisting process that approves the use of AWS services. This team gathers requirements from different functional areas of the business. Security, governance and operational requirements are common areas of focus. Their goal is to define how the business can leverage the AWS service at scale while managing risk. The output of this whitelisting process is a directive control—namely, the configuration standards and guidelines that development teams must follow when they use the AWS service. Standards and guidelines are a great start, but ultimately the business needs to ensure that directive controls are followed by creating preventative, detective, and reactive controls. The most important of these controls are preventative controls. From our session attendees learn how to use AWS Service Catalog, to help implement preventative controls, enforce security and encryption policy and still provide self-service usage of AWS services to developers.
Level: 200
Customer migrations to AMS often follow a compelling event. Deadlines are often tight, resources limited, and so on. In this talk we'll be discussing a recent success story ProServe and AMS worked on - delivering a fully production-ready AMS infrastructure stack prepared for application migration including Operational Integration and ITSM interface - in 8 weeks. This is an extreme example of an accelerated adoption using AMS and ProServe and a testament to what is possible. The session will cover the challenges, approaches and a demo of the integration which was implemented.
Level: 200
In this session we will cover how to utilize Systems Manager to patch operating systems in AWS instances as well as on-premise servers. We will cover how to perform a complete patch/upgrade or how one can be selective with OS patches. We will also touch on using System Manager inventory to view the current patch level.
Level: 200
Enjoy lunch courtesy of Amazon. In this hands-on lab, we will create Systems Manager Automation Documents for AWS EC2 and RDS. We will then link the Automation Documents to AWS Service Catalog to create self service management capabilities called Service Actions. We will also set up estate (inventory) and patch management on your AWS resources. We will also demonstrate the importance of tagging and how it can support you operations activities.
Level: 200
In this session, we will introduce AWS License Manager service that helps you stay compliant with your software licensing terms, avoid expensive over-provisioning, and make licensing true-ups and audits easier. We will demonstrate how to configure licensing rules, how to monitor license usage in AWS as well as on-premises environments, how to enforce licensing rules to prevent overages, how to manage licenses across multiple AWS accounts.
Level: 200
In this session, we will provide guidance for using AWS Systems Manager to automate the upgrade of your Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 end of support instances on AWS. The guidance will help with moving these resources to newer supported versions using a low-risk approach. We will also discuss ways in which you can modernize SQL Server by migrating platforms from Windows Server to Linux.
Level: 200
In this session, we will introduce Amazon CloudWatch's latest capability that enables you to set up and analyze important monitors for your .NET and SQL Server applications, and helps you detect and diagnose problems impacting your application health. We will demonstrate how you can reduce your Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) and keep your critical applications healthy and performant.
Level: 200