Advanced AWS talk given to the Central Pennsylvania Linux Users Group in August 2016.

1. Launching Services in
Amazon Web Services
James Armes, Cloud Software Engineer, Acquia

2. Code Deploy
– Automated code deployments.
– Agent is available for Linux or
Windows.
– Can be used for instances in AWS or
on-premises.
– Repeatable deployments.
– Rolling updates with rollback.

3. SWF
– State tracker & task coordinator.
– Promotes separation of control-flow
and business logic.
– Tasks can be run in parallel or
sequentially.
– Jobs can be picked by in instances
in AWS or on-premises.

4. CloudFormation
– Create/manage a collection of
resources.
– Create reusable templates.
– Avoids collisions.

5. Moonshot
– CLI Ruby gem.
– Pluggable.
– Currently requires ruby application
configuration.
https://github.com/acquia/moonshot

6. Cloud Database Service
– Allow internal users to create
databases on-demand.
– Provide various service levels.
– Abstracts hardware and
implementation.
– Maintenance is largely automated.
– Resources are isolated in separate
VPCs.

7. Cloud Database Service (cont.)
– Custom API and worker AMIs.
– Bugsnag for reporting application
errors.
– Logs sent to Sumo Logic.
– StatsD/Graphite for performance
metrics.
– Deployments managed through
moonshot.

8. Cloud Database Service: API
– HTTP API built with grape.
– Public and internal endpoints with
access controls.
– HMAC authentication.

9. Cloud Database Service: Worker
– Picks up workflows and activities
from SWF.
– Built with aws-flow gem.
– Workflows utilize atomic activities.
– Activities are idempotent.

10. Demo

11. Questions?