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[Amazon Web Services In Plain English](https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/).
[Mistakes I've Made in AWS](https://laravel-news.com/aws-mistakes).
Can use [[Terraform]], [[Pulumi]] or [[AWS CloudFormation]] to manage [[Infrastructure as code]].
## Learning resources
- [AWS Whitepapers & Guides](https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers).
- [Aidan Steele’s blog (usually about AWS)](https://awsteele.com/)
## Administration
- [[AWS Identity and Access Management]] ([[AWS Identity and Access Management|IAM]])
- [trackiam](https://github.com/glassechidna/trackiam)
- [[AWS Organizations]]
- [[Service control policies]]
- Organization [[AWS CloudTrail]] for all accounts
## Networking
- [[Amazon Virtual Private Cloud]] ([[Amazon Virtual Private Cloud|VPC]])
- Emits flow _logs_
- [[Amazon Route 53]]
- Emits DNS _logs_
- [[AWS Certificate Manager]] ([[AWS Certificate Manager|ACM]])
## Run and compute
- [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]] ([[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud|EC2]])
- [[Amazon Elastic Container Service]] ([[Amazon Elastic Container Service|ECS]])
- [[Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service]] ([[Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service|EKS]])
- [[AWS Fargate]]
## Monitoring
Monitoring is a part of the [[#Operational Excellence Pillar]] of [[AWS Well-Architected]].
[[Grafana]] can run as a container with [[Amazon Elastic Container Service]]. There is also [[Amazon Managed Grafana]] ([launched 31. august 2021](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-managed-grafana-is-now-generally-available-with-many-new-features/))
- [[Amazon CloudWatch]] ([[Grafana]] _[[AWS Identity and Access Management#Principal|principal]]_ needs `CloudWatchReadyOnlyAccess`)
- CloudWatch logs
- CloudWatch _events_ ([[Amazon CloudWatch Events]])
- [[AWS CloudTrail]]
- Emits _logs_
- [[Amazon GuardDuty]] is a threat detection service
- Emits _events_
- [[Amazon Managed Grafana]] for [[Grafana]]
- [[Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus]] for [[Prometheus]]
- [[Amazon Timestream]] is a [[Time series database]]
- [[AWS X-Ray]] for [[Tracing]]
- [[AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry]] which I have no idea about
## Data things
- [[Amazon Simple Storage Service]]
- [[Amazon Simple Notification Service]]
- [[Amazon Simple Queue Service]]
- [[Amazon Kinesis Data Streams]]
- [[Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose]]
## [[AWS Well-Architected]] and the Five Pillars
### Operational Excellence Pillar
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/operational-excellence-pillar/welcome.html
> The operational excellence pillar focuses on running and [[Monitoring]] systems to deliver business value, and continually improving processes and procedures. Key topics include automating changes, responding to events, and defining standards to manage daily operations.
### Reliability Pillar
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliability-pillar/welcome.html