218 RR AWS Deployments with Alex Wood and Trevor Rowe

Check out RailsClips! 02:44 - Alex Wood Introduction

• Twitter 
• GitHub

03:09 - Trevor Rowe Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub

03:26 - What is offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

• Elastic Beanstalk
• OpsWorks
  • Alex's RailsConf 2015 Workshop

06:48 - Setup and Taking Incremental Steps (The Cloud as a Paradigm)

• Identity and Access Management
• “Make sure everything works”

12:19 - CloudFormation 

• Tooling
  • aws-sdk-ruby

15:19 - Data-Centric Services (Monitoring, Traceability, Visibility)

• CloudFormation
• S3
• CloudFront
• Simple Email Service (SES)
• Simple Queuing Service (SQS)
• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• DynamoDB
• AWS Lambda
  • Amazon EC2 Container Service
  • Logging
    • CloudTrail
    • CloudWatch
    • CloudWatch Logs

23:48 - When to Use What (Getting Started)

• Simplicity vs Control

26:07 - Making Apps Run Better, General Optimizations

• Route 53

33:43 - Implementing AWS

• “Eat the elephant one bite at a time”

37:15 - Security

• Creating Visibility Without Opening an SSH Port    
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudWatch Logs
• Running Inside a Virtual Private Cloud...