Amazon AWS

Started by AnthonyC, October 08, 2015, 04:41:34 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

AnthonyC

October 08, 2015, 04:41:34 PM
Is anyone here using AWS?  I have been playing around with their CloudFormation service and using ec2.py to automate Ansible playbook.  It is pretty awesome.
"It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system."

routerdork

#1
October 08, 2015, 04:49:03 PM
I purchased a couple different certification courses from that $10 Udemy sale but have yet to use them or AWS. It's on my list of things to at least play with and understand.
"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity." -Abraham Lincoln

deanwebb

#2
October 08, 2015, 05:36:27 PM
Nice idea, but would you want sensitive documents there?
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

routerdork

#3
October 09, 2015, 09:18:11 AM
I'm torn on the idea of some of these cloud places. But having been through several interviews lately, it's on the radars of a lot of companies. My current companies CTO mentioned recently that we were already using it.  :wtf: We're so big I had no idea.
"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity." -Abraham Lincoln

zarawatsonn

#4
April 28, 2016, 12:58:53 AM
Yes, I am using amazon aws EC2 service, it is totally free for one year.
It's totally amazing!!!

High Internet Speed!!!

Dieselboy

#5
May 05, 2016, 12:42:40 AM
We're using it.

I'll be honest and say I don't know enough about it that I'd like to. When we get issues I've relied on my knowledge as a network engineer (such as how VRF works, how load balencers work and simple routing) but it's more too it than that.

I have a CBT nuggets subscription and will be picking up AWS vids there. My Sys. Admin just completed the solutions architect associate level. I'm going to be pursuing this at some stage.

routerdork

#6
May 05, 2016, 09:35:26 AM
I started using Glacier last week for my Synology backups. A little overwhelming at first but thanks to blogs I got it all going.
"The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot confirm their validity." -Abraham Lincoln

AnthonyC

#7
May 05, 2016, 12:52:17 PM
Quote from: zarawatsonn on April 28, 2016, 12:58:53 AM
Yes, I am using amazon aws EC2 service, it is totally free for one year.
It's totally amazing!!!

Do you mean the free tier service?  It is very easy to go over the free tier usage limit.
"It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system."

wintermute000

#8
May 21, 2016, 04:23:35 AM
Just had some deep dive sessions with some of our colleagues who've been struggling with NFV and third party appliances (FWs, LBs etc.) in AWS.

Suffice to say there's enough caveats to make your head spin - you just cannot do anything about the standard AWS networking paradigms e.g. how all subnets are automatically attached to the default gateway on the VPC router, how you cannot put a host (i.e. your virtual FW or LB) in line between the IGW and the VPC router, etc. The takeaway is that its way too hard, not scalable (any working solution invariably involves injection of static and/or host routes and bidir NAT, or running routing protocols within AWS itself between hosts directly, or tunnels), most solutions break integration into AWS services like S3 since those services rely on default routing behaviour - if your requirements at a networking level cannot be accomodated by standard AWS networking components (security groups, the standard VPG, the standard IGW, the standard WAF etc.) then just do not deploy in AWS - don't think that you can put in your own NFV appliances like in a vmware or kvm environment.  In fact is far more restrictive than say Openstack.
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions