AWS Classroom Series – 15/Sept/2020

John an AWS System Operator

• Lets try to understand the profile of John who is working as AWS SysOps Engineer in Learning Thoughts
• Learning Thoughts uses aws cloud to deploy applications
• What will be John’s roles & responsibilities.
• John is expected
  • To Keep application environments running at max performance at all the times.
  • Deploy systems:
    • Installing common packages on instances
    • Embracing fully automation ci/cd
    • Understand container services, micro services& serverless architectures as John has to maintain them
  • Monitoring:
    • Rendering all the real-time data of the environments
    • Implementing alerting functionality
    • Responding to alerts and fixing them
    • Search through log files generated by systems to troubleshoot failures.
  • Optimizing:
    • Expected to optimize the systems for Optimal Cost & Performance
  • Implementing Highly Available & Fault tolerant systems
  • Implement a Backup & Disaster Recovery Plan

Story of Keshav in TaxKhan

• Tax Khan is an Organization which runs
  • Payrolls
  • Security Audits
  • GST filing
  • Income tax
• Now Taxkhan wants to move to AWS rather than hosting physical infrastructure.
• To do the migration Taxkhan hired an aws cloud migration specialist Keshav
• Lets look at expectations of TaxKhan from Keshav
  1. Evaluate the Current Systems & Create a Migration Plan
  2. Try to use in-house tools of Amazon to Perform Migration
  3. Migration should not impact business day works
• Tax Khan uses
  • Virtual Machines for hosting applications
    • Hyper-V
    • Vmware ESXI
  • Databases (mySQL, Postgres, DB2)
  • Physical Servers

Lab Setup (John):

1. AWS Account Refer Here
2. Create EC2 instances Refer Here
3. Set of Softwares: Refer Here

Monitoring and Alerting (John)

• EC2 – Instance: Exploring the monitoring
• Cloudwatch:
• CloudTrail:
• Simple Notification Service: