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Location

1. 👨🏻‍💻 Microsoft Teams session link
2. 🔬 AWS Labs link
3. 🗒️ Miro Board

Feedback

We need to collect feedback from the training to AWS: You will recieve an email from AWS asking you to review the training experience, this is very important for me as it’s the main way AWS evaluates my performance, please take 5 minutes to answer this. Thanks.

Material

Day 1

Before first Lab.

1. Be aware of pop-up windows, example in Safari you need to click tiny icon in the right of the address bar to allow pop-ups.
2. Labs have High-Level Instructions, if you feel confident just try to do with them, if you need more help, you can follow the Detailed Instructions.
3. Labs have Choice A and Choice B as potential solutions, analise bouth and pick the one you think is correct. At the end of the lab you can check the Solution to see right solution.

The Frugal Architect:

• https://thefrugalarchitect.com
• Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTRBVPvzt9w

Latency tests on AWS:

• https://aws-latency-test.com
• https://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/en/accelerate-speed-comparsion.html

STS Error was actualy a DNS error

• https://tig.pt/terraform-aws-iam-role-errors-dns/

Pricing

All AWS pricing is public, you can check it on official AWS Documentation pages but also on AWS Calculator (an official service), as well as in some 3rd party providers that agregate and share that info in different formats to make easier to chose a service or region.

Some references:

• https://calculator.aws
• https://instances.vantage.sh
• https://karpenter.sh
• https://spot.io

AWS Well-Architected

AWS Well-architected Framework and Tool allow us guide us on how to make secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for a variety of applications and workloads.

• AWS Well-Architected website

CIDR

• https://cidr.xyz

Day 2

Day 3

Step function workshop:

• World is Asynchronous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfvL_423a-I
• Step Function Workshop: https://workshops.aws/card/The%20AWS%20Step%20Functions%20Workshop

🙋‍♀️ Parking Lot 🙋‍♂️ - Answers to your open questions

Questions will be answered here asynchronously.

• Q: Can we deploy multiple IGW on the same VPC?

• A: Each VPC can only have one IGW, each IGW can only be attached to one VPC. There are soft limits that can be raised by opening a ticket, of 5 IGW per account like 5 VPC per account. Source

• Q: Auto scaling group with spot instances automatic replace with on demand before be taken away or it waits for the group to shirnks to react?

• A: It depends on your option, please check documentation Source:

  • the default behavior (no Capacity Rebalancing): rebalancing_recommandation_evt -> interruption_notice -> interruption/termination -> failed_health_checks -> new_instances
  • with Capacity Rebalancing enabled: rebalancing_recommandation_evt -> ASG create_new_instances -> validate_health_checks -> terminate_instances_at_risk_of_interruption

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