aws summit auckland - sponsor presentation - rackspace

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 Ⓡ !