Growing Up with AWS5 ways to ease the pain

Paul Wakeford

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◦ About 30 AWS accounts

◦ ~800 instances

◦ Still migrating services

◦ Seven digit yearly AWS bill

Tag everything1

Name consistently2

Account segregation3

Cost control4

Cost saving tools

● AWS tools - Trusted Advisor, Cost Analysis and Reports, standard & scheduled RIs, Autoscale scheduling, billing alerts

● Open source - such as CloudCycler/FlyWheel -http://j.mp/awscost

● Third party tools - Cloudability, CloudCheckr, ParkMyCloud etc

CloudCycler impact

Automate everything5

Automating AWS resource creation and management

● Use an AWS infrastructure automation creation tool - Cloudformation, Terraform, Rightscale..

● Use a configuration management tool -Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt..

● Use open source tools or write your own -manage snapshots & backups, manage tags, security alerting etc

Goal

DoIt

Once!

Questions??@paulwakeford

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