AWS

InfraSec / AWS

AWS is the most popular cloud provider, accounting for about ⅓ of all cloud spend. Almost all our infrastructure client discoveries find they are already using or want to use AWS.

There is a dizzying array of services AWS provides. Many with unhelpful or even misleading names. Here's a short list of essential services we use when deploying container backed web services (a common pattern):

• IAM

• S3

• ALB

• ECS

• Route53

• ACM

• Lambda

• Parameter Store

We encapsulate a lot of the complexity of configuring services (with good defaults) via our Terraform modules.

There's also this 2 minute video which sings through the names of 168 services. Watch at your own peril. 😱

Organizations & accounts

• AWS Organizations

• Bootstrapping an AWS Organization

• GuardDuty in Organizations

• Working in GovCloud

Other topics

• Resource Naming