Enabling hybrid operations on AWS

The operations phase, a phase in our IT resource lifecycle where said resource spend most of their time - be that in patching, maintaining, running ad-hoc scripts, configuring. It is hard enough to do that at scale sometimes, but doing it across a hybrid infrastructure can be even more daunting. How can we make that better? Let's have a look at some best practices, tools, and resources to make your day to day operations, that much easier!

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1. Enabling hybrid operations on
   AWS
   Darko Meszaros
   Developer Advocate - AWS
   @darkosubotica
   ln/darko-mesaros
   twitch.tv/ruptwelve
   youtu.be/ruptwelve
   

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2. What will we talk about today?
   • What is Hybrid?
   • What are Operations?
   • Operations in a Hybrid Cloud
   • Best Practices
   

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3. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
   

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4. Agility
   Complexity
   and risk
   Benefits of cloud
   Accelerate time to market
   Innovation
   Scale seamlessly
   Optimize costs
   Minimize security vulnerabilities
   Reduce management complexity
   

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5. Why do customers need hybrid cloud?
   Run workloads
   on-premises
   Run workloads
   in the cloud
   Provide tight
   integration
   Leverage skills
   and resources
   

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6. Hybrid cloud stats
   $96B
   Source: IDC, Rightscale, Forrester, Markets & Markets
   71%
   75%
   On-premises Cloud
   Hybrid cloud
   Size of hybrid
   market by 2023
   Organizations with
   hybrid deployments
   Enterprise applications
   that are still on-premises
   

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7. Hybrid architecture goals
   Operational
   consistency
   Existing skillsets
   and tools
   Simple to
   control,
   manage, secure
   Enterprise-class
   app SLA
   Build once,
   deploy anywhere
   

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8. Data center extension
   Cloud
   bursting
   Backup and disaster
   recovery to the cloud
   Application
   migration
   Geographic
   expansion
   

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9. $(whoami) Darko Mesaroš / Darko Meszaros /
   Дарко Месарош
   @darkosubotica
   ln/darko-mesaros
   twitch.tv/ruptwelve
   youtu.be/ruptwelve
   

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10. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
    

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11. So, what do you think are operations?
    
    

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12. Operations with agility
    Optimize
    Analyze and reduce cost,
    improve efficiency and security
    posture
    Act
    Take operational
    action on resources
    Audit
    Audit resource configurations,
    user access, and policy
    enforcement
    Monitor
    Monitor resources
    and applications
    

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13. Operations with agility
    Monitor resources and applications
    Optimize to reduce cost and improve security posture
    Manage resources and take operational action
    Audit user activity and resource configurations
    Amazon CloudWatch
    AWS Trusted Advisor
    AWS Cost and Usage Report
    AWS Cost Explorer
    AWS Systems Manager
    AWS CloudTrail
    AWS Config
    

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14. Observability is key to success
    

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15. Amazon CloudWatch
    Complete observability of cloud resources and applications
    Monitor
    Visualize applications
    and infrastructure,
    correlate logs and
    metrics, set alerts
    Act
    Automate responses
    to operational
    changes
    Collect
    Metrics and logs
    form resources,
    applications, and
    services on AWS and
    on premises
    Analyze
    Real-time analysis
    with CloudWatch
    Metric Math and
    CloudWatch Logs
    Insights
    

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16. A central point from which to
    manage operations
    

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17. Any environment
    Operate any
    AWS or external
    resource centrally
    Open
    Agent is
    open-sourced
    on GitHub
    Multi-platform
    Windows and
    Linux support
    Automated
    Multi-account,
    multi-Region
    automation
    AWS Systems Manager
    Centrally manage hybrid cloud resources at any scale
    

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18. Enough talk – I want action!
    

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19. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
    

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20. Perform operations as code
    • Apply the same engineering discipline that you use for application code to your
    entire environment.
    • Define your entire workload (applications, infrastructure, etc.) as code.
    • Make updates through code
    

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21. Make frequent, small, reversible changes
    • Design workloads to allow components to be updated regularly
    • Make changes in small increments that can be reversed.
    • These changes – if they fail – should not affect your customers.
    

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22. Refine operations procedures frequently
    • Look for opportunities to improve operational procedures as you do them
    • Evolve your workload -> evolve your operations.
    • Playbooks vs Runbooks
    • Game Days are fun!
    

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23. Anticipate failure
    • Pre-Mortem excercises
    • Test your failure scenarios.
    • Test your response procedures!
    • Game Days are still fun!
    

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24. Pagers and Notifications
    • Have an action per notification!
    • Do not page/notify someone unless there is something to do.
    • Notify the right person
    

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25. Things to note:
    • Well-Architected framework
    • DevOps Hanbook - book
    • https://aws.amazon.com/hybrid/
    

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26. Thank you!
    © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
    Darko Meszaros
    Developer Advocate - AWS
    @darkosubotica
    ln/darko-mesaros
    twitch.tv/ruptwelve
    youtu.be/ruptwelve
    

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