What I'm majoring in here at Purdue, I have two AW
certifications. And through the internship, I'm working on a
third one for.
Specialty certification in security, so I figured I'd go
through something like this that I'm pretty knowledgeable in. I
currently work in the cloud as well for my regular full time
job.
So presentation topics are going to cover just a quick overview
on what AWS is. It makes the services.
Makes it easier for me to explain them a little better. A
huge who uses AWS so which companies use it and how they
use it and how they're using it to grow.
And then.
Final topic to go over is how you can individually use AWS
with different projects hosting different things and some of
those certifications that are available.
So what is the cloud and why is it useful?
The cloud is actually another person's computer in all
reality.
IT organizations own large server warehouses and that
server space is rented out. Server services are built into
those servers.
And you only pay for the time or the space that you're using.
The cloud has a global presence and a lot.
More companies are moving into the cloud as a way to optimize
their business. Moving into the cloud cuts a lot of overhead for
an organization like.
Building security every time they would want to expand, they
would have to buy their own servers, buy their own licensing
for like.
Microsoft.
OS like the operating services and just everything that they
would want to expand out that would have to be purchased, it
would have to be put in and then you have the building to cover
that in all the overhead.
It also makes disaster recovery a lot easier too, because let's
say your data warehouse gets smashed out by a hurricane or
something. You've lost everything. There's a lot of
versatility in it as well. You can use multi multi cloud
presence. You can do like Azure and AWS. Both have different
things that they offer in different ways that they're
good.
AWS also, uh, just security updates and patching for their
servers. So that's another thing that your company doesn't have
to exactly.
Worry about AWS just puts it in there so the people in the
organization can.
Really concentrate more on what they're doing in the cloud
versus trying to keep the cloud safe.
Still, the variety of AWS services.
It's seen here.
At the top we have analytics and that's the algorithms on the
data that's in the cloud and it's used to recognize patterns
of all different kinds, from purchasing to political
opinions, things like that, storage, that's kind of
self-explanatory. I keep files, transactions, any sort of data
in the cloud to keep it safe.
Machine learning is AI is like Alexa.
Networking. That's like virtual routers and switches, and that
helps connect everybody together. You have to have that
connect to the Internet developer tools. There's a suite
of products to help developers not only create software, but
deploy it in the cloud for their business to use.
Another aspect of the AWS is the security, so there's built-in
protections against distributed distributed denial of service
attacks. So it's like flooding peoples IP addresses to keep.
Their clients, from reaching their services.
There's also encryption. There's different kinds of encryption
that you can do to keep your files safe, so that when they're
going across the web.
Nobody is able to see what's in them. Database is pretty
self-explanatory, that's organized data tables like
Excel. There's all different sorts of ways you can put data
in there, but the databases are different from storage. Storage
are just like files, like a PDF or something. Databases are
actually like sells like Excel and then compute is the virtual
computers, but it's All in all in one. So you get your virtual
computer, it's.
Paired with storage that is like your.
Short term memory is just like an online computer, so IW is
there's.
A bunch of services that are built into these topics here
that the AWS covers.
There's three different Levels, 4 AWS still. The first one is.
Infrastructure as a service.
So that offers a lot of customizable.
Areas and it's a lot more for network architects and IT
administrators who really wanna get nitty gritty on all the
minute settings that are in the cloud.
The next one down is a popcorn as a service, so this is more
for software developers. They can create software, put it in
there, but they don't have they. Don't worry as much about the
fine-tuned pieces of it. And then the last one is software as
a service which most everybody uses.
That is, you upload your software to cloud and run it,
but AWS covers everything underneath from the.
Like all the settings, pretty much so you don't have to worry
about that. You don't have to be as tech savvy with the code to
do it. You don't actually really, you don't have to know
code to run anything in the SAS level. It's just you learn how
to use at AWS Office 365 and you see or some that run on the just
the software as a service platform.
So how the cloud works?
Is all these, uh, all these dots here? Those are the main regions
that AWS has, and each of these dots is a stance of.
Data warehouses. They're unmarked. No one knows where
they are, and nobody has any access to them except the
critical people that need to go in, do server maintenance,
retire servers.
And obviously the the building security that that keeps them
safe.
How that works is AWS has an internal private Internet
essentially that connects all of these.
Warehouse is too. Each other kind of like this, so you can do
things in Brazil, upload it. It gets copied here to the Ohio
region in the United States and then copied. Let's say you have
another business that's over in Ireland that gets transferred
there to those warehouses and then you can access the data
from anywhere in the world. The other part too is that the
United States is actually backwards.
Added to some of the ones over here as well. So anytime you
upload something in Brazil or the United States, as a matter
of seconds or merely minutes, to be able to see the exact same
thing in India, Australia, China, it doesn't matter. AWS
runs on their own private network in addition to running
on.
The the public.
Network.
So just a quick history. In 2003, AWS was pitched to Jeff
Bezos at his house. There was big conference, a lot of his
engineers were there. Maybe like, hey, we have some.
At services that we're using within Amazon, how can we?
There's a big need for this. How can we? How can we make this the
thing? So they wrote up the papers and in 2004 AWS is
created. So AWS is creative under the umbrella of Amazon and
they start making a few other services.
In 2006, they launched to the public and the public is able to
use those services. That has helped make Amazon so successful
by running all the online shopping in 2007. They go
intercontinental by putting an office in Europe.
In 2008, 2009, various different types of databases are offered
because a lot of data is different. So how you can
compute that and go through it is different based on what your
goals are. And 2010 IP routing was added so you can actually
buy IP addresses through Amazon and 2014 for all the services
that they already had. They offered encryption and 2015. One
of the coolest things that I've ever seen is.
The snowball was released, So what that is is a.
Sometimes military units or discovers up in Alaska that are
doing like tectonic plates.
Science experiments, things like that. They have all of this data
from all these different data points and it was taking forever
to upload that data like via regular Internet. So AWS ships
them a large briefcase looking box and they upload all of this
data to it with the snowball can hold a maximum of 50 terabytes
of data and ship it to an Amazon retrieval location where a will
upload it for them.
For free.
That wasn't enough, so next year they made the snowmobile, which
was over 100 petabytes of data, and that's when they also added
in AI learning. So before Alexa, there was lexbot and that's.
What makes all the Alexis kind of run today was the the AI
learning that they came out with in 2016. So in 2017 they used AI
to create some translation and transcribing services. So
translation is from like one language to another.
Transcribing is taking a video and.
Writing down what is said, so an AI was able to do that.
In 2018, they made a data lake improvement to be able to give
companies a bigger.
Chunk of data to.
Sort through do different things. A lot of marketing
tactics come out of that as well. It's all again, it's super
complicated about the algorithms that go into the data lake.
And then between 2018 and 2022, they've been really just
improving on all the services they've got lowering the cost
for using them, acquiring more offices around the world. And
today they are valued at over $1.3 trillion and they offer
over 200 different services that you can put together like puzzle
pieces online that give you a way to pick and choose what you
use and how you use it together to make your projects.
Reality.
So AWS is pretty successful. Obviously they're really easy to
use. There's for every service that they offer. They have
tutorials on their own website that they wrote. It's flexible
and cost effective. You only pay for what you've used, that
they're reliable, they have 99.11 nines in. It's like
99.9999. Whatever percent secure that whatever you put into their
network is going to end up wherever you're sending it to.
That was the scalable. You have an increase for a workload. A
lot of people are coming to your website. You can set it up to
where.
There is a way for your services to expand and you can pay for
that and then whenever it comes down it automatically you
figures out that you don't need as much resources and it.
Skills are back down, so again, you're only paying for what
you're using. Super secure. They have all sorts of encryption
and.
Services again to make sure that what you're putting in the cloud
is that you.
In the early days of AWS, and I think it was up until maybe 2008
roughly, they reinvested like 100% of their revenue back into
the company. So reinvesting in their talent, giving bonuses for
employees who would create new services and it just it was
really cool to see during that time frame them grow just from
hood it just pumping the money back in to make it so
successful. We also have super easy.
Accessibility to training. There's training all over the
place on how to learn how to do their services.
I'll get more into that later.
They have a global presence, so pretty much everything that you
touch has something to do with AWS. They also have a free tier
option where if you're learning how to use AWS, you can go in
and there's all sorts of the 200 services. Not all of them are
free, but the majority of them are free up to a certain extent
or certain.
Sorry, certain period of time so that you can learn how to how to
use it. So some companies to run on AWS. Netflix is a huge one.
So anytime you turn on Netflix, those movies go from those
different regions, wherever they're being housed to.
Come to you.
General Electric is is a huge one on there, storing all sorts
of data. They really use those data lakes.
Trying to see here I listed it.
So one of the ones that I didn't.
List was GE Healthcare. I have a friend who works for AWS as a
senior DevOps engineer and one of the things that GEL care has
done is started training AIS on how to read CT scans various
different healthcare scans, which then get signed off by a
doctor, but with shortage of different radiologists and.
Testing just the shortage in healthcare in general, this
really helps come up and just give a double tap from from a
doctor. But that's one of the things that they're doing and
they've trained the AI on how to how to do that. So it's super
fascinating to me that a machine can read it and X-ray or
something and be able to tell you what kind of break is in a
bone somewhere or you know, what kind of like, there's a mask
somewhere, it recognizes that.
And then some of the other ones over here actually just get
hosted. They do use some other services like Pinterest and
Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, their their hosting on there,
like the software as a service. So they're pretty much just
using the using it to host their software.
So now we get to the cool part. What can you make with AWS
services?
So you could host your resume. LinkedIn has a spot where you
can put your own website and it'll WS makes super easy to
buy. For example, I bought a URL with of my name and the reason
why my.
Resume is not appears. I'm still still working on that. That kind
of got put on the side as I started at Purdue and have
gotten through my courses, but this is an example of someone
who did the what's called the AWS resume challenge and it.
Really lays out how you can use the services to kind of get into
AWS.
You can make a check bot, so you can.
Use some AWS services. They send notifications and like WhatsApp
kind of idea and you can create personal chat rooms and things
like that. Not as cool as some of the other ones. We're gonna
go into, but it is just is something that you can do on
your own to kind of see what what different projects you can
make.
You can make your own Alexa skill and put it on the Alexa,
so there's all sorts of different things that she
already does, like tells you the weather trivia, jokes, the news,
and you can order food. You can turn lights on and off, so
there's a whole bunch of resources you can do to make
your own skills to do whatever it is that you want to do, and
they again, they have all that documentation on their website.
So it's pretty cool to learn through that how they've made.
Some of the skills that they use and how you can do the same
thing.
So this is a picture of me and one of my dogs. But this is a.
Service called recognition and what it does is it uses an AI to
recognize pieces of the picture. So this isn't so. This isn't all
the results. There's there's more down here, but.
Sometimes people use this as a recognition tool for celebrities
and photos.
Especially if it's like a partial side faced photo or
something like that it does. It does happen, but it's it's
really cool to see the the AI can recognize what's going on in
the picture.
This next one is one that I've also used. This is.
There's a transcription real time transcription for Amazon
transcribe. I've used it for my classes, so I back in my
communications class. I had to upload a video resume.
And I actually uploaded that video resume to Amazon
transcribe and.
Instead of having to type out the entire.
Transcription like Stop, Start Stop, start of what? I was
saying. It split the the whole thing out and.
There's some different options down here for you know the you
know the language that the video is speaking in or it's a
language that you don't know what it is and it it can
identify what language that is.
The next one's also pretty cool. You can play video games, so
that sounds kind of boring. But let's say you have a a laptop
that doesn't have a lot of power and you want to play a game that
takes a lot of resources instead of going out and buying a.
New computer you can just turn on a virtual computer with the
resources that you need to run your game, and you can run your
game on a virtual computer in the cloud and you don't have to
go out and buy a new laptop and take a bunch of money into it,
especially if it's a game you're gonna play forever, or you're
just trying to figure the game out. You don't want to buy the
computer to see what the game is, so there's a quite a few of
my friends who have done this before, and it it's pretty cool
to see.
So in addition to playing video games, you can also.
Create your own games and run them.
All around the globe with.
It on AWS services, so on the right there you see a Warner
Brothers games and Sony Interactive Entertainment they
use.
Various AWS services to run their games, and there's a whole
partner network that can help you.
Put your games out there. Get people to play them real time,
leaderboards and matter like milliseconds get updated. It's
it's really cool to see how quickly this.
Works and how amazing it is to game with people.
All across the world in real time.
And we're practical use that is helpful. That helped me
understand networking better is learning how to.
Create your own.
Uh BPC here and it helps. When I was trying to learn how to do
cider blocks and connecting.
Difference virtual computers. It was really awesome to have it
here so I could see my subnets. I could see what regions they
were in. I it helped me learn routing tables a lot easier and
one of the other persons you can learn security groups. So that's
who's allowed to see what's open to where and it was just really
cool to come in and build off of some routing knowledge that I
already had.
But then put it here and actually be able to see it.
A.
A funny way to go about using the cloud too is making a social
media bot.
So social media bot is an AI that will spit out.
Replies.
And I'm sure if you're on social media, you've seen some
different chat bots that come back and and say things,
especially on Twitter, there's a lot on Twitter who do a lot of
automatic replies.
I wanted to add another one in here to kind of build off of
this a little bit.
There was a project some years ago called the humans of New
York, and if photographer went out into the streets of New
York, took pictures of people and their stories, and it became
an amazing thing to see these individual people in the streets
of New York and you just not glimpse into kind of what their
life was like. So somebody who has yet to reveal who he is.
Created.
Parts of New York still it.
The the There's all this information that is uploaded
into an AI and it spits out a computer generated image and
then a story to go along with that image. And these are just
some of the the wild. There's hundreds of examples. There's a
new post every day from the bot of New York and it's some of
them were not.
PGIP to put on this presentation, they were really
funny, but these are just some of the fun ones that just wild
it spits out just the most random stories you can think of,
or some stuff that you wouldn't even you know.
Come up with in in writing fiction or something.
So that was just a really cool big project that somebody did
that that blew up and thousands of people every day go and go to
the website to just see what the AI has produced today.
Uh, practical use that. I really appreciate is using it as a
backup for my files, so as you can see here, there's a
different files listed for the different classes that I've had
and my OneDrive is full. I've crossed accounts I don't.
Want to get into fixing it right now, especially with, you know,
five weeks left in the term. So I just started backing up my
files to the cloud, so it has all of the stuff here.
And it's set up to where only I can see it and.
It just gives me a little reassurance that if my computer
were to die, I have everything still sorted out here and you
can upload by folders too, so I didn't upload individual
documents. I actually uploaded this entire set here.
In just two or three clicks, and it's backed up right here. So
it's super, super useful.
This is one of my most favorite pieces.
You can create your own app with AWS. There is a program that
they pair with called Figma, and Figma is a screen designing.
Cool. So what you're looking at here is actually the beginnings
of an app that I have started to create and they walk you through
how to use the different services to piece them together
to run your apps. Some of the apps that you've seen, like
Facebook or Pinterest Kind of run off the same thing. There's
quite a bit more, but it's.
I I really didn't want to share what it is yet because I'm still
working on it, but this is so I created all of this from the all
the fields and the colors and the just all just everything. So
you take this, you upload it back to.
A service called AWS to Amplify and they will help you publish
your app to either the Google Play Store or to the.
IOS App Store and it's just a a super cool way to go through and
learn how apps are made.
So there's those are just some of the.
Things that I have personally used in or I am using or going
to learn to use so AWS has all sorts of certifications.
And there's all different platforms that you can learn on
Cloud Academy is during this internship where I'm learning
for the.
The Security specialty certification, but Demi has
courses for like $12.00 and I'll take you through and help you
learn because of course Sarah does too. AWS has has a little
bit going on. It's not as in depth as you need but one of the
other cool things is once you do any one of these certifications
they give you a 50% off coupon for the next certification that
you take. So it kind of helps you move up.
Or over.
And some of these certifications that you get will.
Keep other ones alive. So when I got my cloud practitioner, I
went on to the solutions architect and that renewed my
cloud practitioner for another two years, which was super duper
helpful because I didn't wanna have to go back and take like
the foundational one again. So whenever you, I'm not quite sure
what that map looks like because it is an ever evolving, but.
It's it's cool to see how the different services that you
learn can integrate with the different certifications that
they are offering.
So I apologize. I went through that pretty quickly, but I don't
know if anyone has any questions or comments and I wanted to
thank you all for attending today for the presentation. It
really was a lot of fun to put something out there that I'm
started out as a hobby but has grown into.
I'll career that I really enjoy. I'm currently a cloud architect
for a SAS company and I do enjoy what they're what they're doing
in the cloud and how they're making software work from.
What used to be software you just downloaded on your computer
with a disk sometimes and now it's up in the cloud running and
it looks cool to see how everything is so interconnected
and they have clients all over the world, so it's amazing to
see that kind of in action. So with that, I will open the floor
for any questions or comments, concerns that anyone has.
That was awesome. I say that. Thank you. Bree, this is Tina.
Was it? I was.
Yes, I learned a lot, and I was like, wow. OK. I didn't know
that. I didn't know that. OK, so that's awesome. Very good. Very
good.
I didn't. I didn't want to overload with information like
here's, you know, here's all these factoids, but.
By putting, I felt like putting that in there it would show kind
of an overview of what they do so that the next part of what
you could do with it makes sense. So.
No, it was perfect. It was really perfect. I mean, I I have
advisors asking all the time when students, you know, come to
enroll in your program, you know, in the cloud program is
it, could you explain to me what it is like? Well, it's not
really a short conversation.
No, it isn't. And one of the things that I hope for for the
I.
internship is to move into some.
Cloud centric activities. At some point I know the internship
is still growing, but I think it would be really cool to to
expand into that.
Well, and we'd love to do some with your company.
Ohh yeah for sure.
Now that you're graduating, let your company know that we can
send them some interns. Do you have projects? We have people.
Ohh absolutely they have. They have so much going on they just
moved into the cloud a couple years ago and actually one of
the things that I'm working on that that came into my lap
yesterday was.
We're paying for some services in a WS that we're not actually
Ohh wow.
using, so now we have to the way the way it's all set up with the
with the servers and how we're hosting the software that we
have, there's some some peripheral services that were
set up and then the software wasn't engineered to use those
services. So now I'm working with the developers.
That they they.
Python, Java, all those pieces that go into the software,
working with them on writing code to make some of these cloud
things happen. So it's definitely an up and coming
thing.
With a lot of growth and a lot of potential, UM, it's it's
Yeah, yeah.
amazing. All the things that that they can do.
Yeah, we get a, we get a pretty hefty a little bit from AWS too.
I just saw that today for the for the internship.
I don't doubt it.
But thank you. That was awesome.
Sorry, Tina.
Yeah, absolutely.
Like we have a bunch of hands.
Ohh.
I see a couple errand.
And was somebody else I saw.
Yeah, I I'm actually taking a a cloud computing class this this
semester. Could I've kind of wanted, I know I need to learn
at least a little bit going in this cybersecurity and all that
stuff. So I'm kind of curious cuz the three that were mainly
touching on for cloud provided software especially in this
class is AWS, But there's also the Google Cloud and the
Microsoft Cloud. Do you feel like?
I mean obviously it's been stated before that AWS is like
the OG in terms of cloud computing for the three. But do
Umm.
you feel like any of the other two do certain aspects better or
do you feel like AWS is a catch all like kind of everything
better than the other two or do you feel like, oh, if I'm
working on this one project, maybe Google would be better in
Microsoft would be better?
So.
It's it's kind of tricky. The different cloud providers
obviously have their strengths and weaknesses and one of the
things that AWS does really well is they offer the variety of
services again because they they are the OG in the sense that
they reinvested so much of their money into acquiring talent that
they helped.
So many of their own employees grow so many of these services
that they're offering to the public because a lot of these
services started out as.
We're, you know, we're Amazon. We're selling things online. How
can we make the transactions faster? How can we make our app
better? How can we balance the amount of people coming to our
website that's also kind of sucky for them too, because they
have had in the last couple of years a lot of high up talent
leave.
To go to.
Google to go to Microsoft to improve their products so AWS is
more of a building blocks kind of thing.
Where you can just use storage.
Or you can use.
The computing aspect and storage and upload files automatically
from your computer or something like that. Just a simple example
there. So it's super super building blocks where Google has
a lead is they obviously because they are google.com they have a
hand up in analytics and transcribing. It's just it's
better.
So AWS asked the AI's like, like says learning things as people
ask questions to the, you know, the speakers that are always
listening into your house and whatever they.
The IT gets better, but the amount of data that Google has
collects uses with the cookies, like when you go to website and
use you know says, you know we're collecting cookies and you
say accept all cookies. Well, you're giving them all sorts of
stuff like where you are, what's your website history, what are,
what is it that you're looking at? How long did you spend
looking at an ad?
So that's kind of a a lot of the stuff where they are. They're
definitely ahead in that realm. My company, for example, wants
to go to a multi cloud approach. So we're on Azure and on AWS we
have different.
Software on AWS different other software on.
Azure because.
The software works differently, so those cloud providers can do
it better than the others, so that's.
It it's it's kind of like I just got started in the WS. I really
appreciate learning about it, but the other cloud providers
like Alibaba, they also are gaining some traction in the
market because detractor from AWS is also that they're.
Under the umbrella of Amazon, which has gotten them in trouble
too, in the last two years for using like that, all the
services that you see here that Amazon offers or the I'm sorry,
the AWU US offers Amazon is using for their own improvement
to suggest things on the Amazon buying app or they see that
people are buying a lot of a certain product. So they improve
their own Amazon basics.
Product to better specifications. And so that's
like the data likes I was talking about where they
aggregate all this data and they use that to better their own
products. And then in the algorithms put their own
products 1st and there's a big lawsuit going on over that right
now. So it's various types of data what you're using in the
cloud. But people are definitely starting to move to Azure and
Google as their cloud.
Offering is get better and as you know again as more talent
leaves AWS and and moves over to those services to make them
better too. So I hope that answers your question. Sorry for
this long winded answer.
Oh no, that that's kind of the the answer I was looking for was
I mean, AWS obviously is one of the biggest ones out there right
now. Anytime you think of cloud, I think most people could at
least say AWS is an option, anybody that's in the computer
industry, not as many people maybe know that Google has cloud
Umm.
and Microsoft especially has cloud. So having that like
comparison there and understanding like you're right,
Google does have a massive lead for things like analytics and
all that stuff because it's been in that field for so long.
That, I mean it can just take that data and throw it into its
own processing units and be like what can we find out? So that
definitely makes sense. So I appreciate it.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely. And and thank you for asking the question.
It's that definitely interesting to compare. I think AWS the last
time I looked and spent a hot minute, they had 60% of the
market.
Yeah, they, they've got a lot more servers as well,
And then.
comparatively for cloud, I think than any of the other ones as
well as like region control over a lot of different places.
Yeah. And there and because they have so much they offer it.
So cheaply like it's it's insane how cheap some of the things
that you can do.
On AWS R to to run various things. I mean I. So if I create
so this app that I'm working on.
I was using the calculator because they have a calculator
built in too. If you're gonna use some services, you can
calculate out your bill and in order to run this app, if 10,000
people visit the app.
It was like once or twice a day and they're uploading and
downloading information from it. It'll cost me $46 a month.
So that's amazing, especially if I can.
Attach some sort of revenue to the app. It's virtually free to
to this free to build my app and then it's.
The cost is almost nonexistent to host it and run it.
Right at that point, if you get a little bit of ad revenue
coming back from that, 10,000 people visiting could easily pay
the $46 a month.
Yeah.
So I I will yield floor. I know Angela kind of question as well.
So let's see if she's got anything else she wants to add.
Yeah, I was just wondering how much it actually would cost and
you kind of answered that because after the free trial,
I've heard that a lot of people have gotten huge bills. So I was
kind of wondering about what the cost was.
That's.
Complicated. It's simple and it's complicated, so depending
on the depending on the services.
It's.
Let me see. I'm gonna bring up the website here. It was too
much to put in the presentation, so that's why I kind of cut it
out. But if you go down here.
Uh, so have you start your own small VPC so or your own
computer.
Ohh come on.
You get 750 hours for free, so if you do 30 days times 24
hours, that's 720 hours.
So for the 1st 12 months, it's free.
This is a kind of an API type service, so it runs in between
services to kind of tell the services what to do and you get
a million transcriptions a month for free.
Think I can't see the screen.
Oh, I'm sorry, me.
Because I I know that I've used Umm firebase, Google Firebase
Ohh there we go.
for API.
Yeah.
Sorry about that.
So this is a. This is the free tier and I'll drop this in the
chat. So there's all of these.
Different product categories that you can go through.
There's stuff that's always free, some that's 12 months
free.
But.
AWS likes to kind of make it.
Easier too once you get out of that free tier. So you're 12
months.
And they start charging you for things, but you can always
migrate your stuff to a new account.
They especially recommend that for students, so some of the
things that I had been working on, I put a pause on my free
tier expired and I.
Have to pay for stuff, so I'm just using an alternate e-mail
address and then transferring my stuff over. An easy way to do
that too is just to make your things.
You can connect different AWS accounts like my company has
over 100 AWS accounts to keep things separate from you know,
different departments and things like that.
So you can always get a new e-mail address and and transfer
stuff over.
Oh, really? So you can just stay in the free tier.
But Umm.
You can. Yeah, you can say in the free tier for a really long
time and they don't, they don't care. So that's that's kind of
one of the perks too is I've, I've done that. So I so there's
the link to the free tier but like let's say I have just.
I have you know.
20 gigs of movies or or whatever, and I can separate
that out into different accounts. I just open what's
called the bucket where I have.
All of my stuff, like my school work and I make it accessible
from another AWS account and I send it over there and then.
You know, I dropped down what I have.
But it's also super cheap too, so.
And is this where you would do the video games that you were
That's.
talking about?
With the virtual machine you could you run video games off of
virtual machine.
Yeah, some of these services, some of these services that they
have, so the the storage here is not where you put that. That's
where I was talking about. So the databases.
Aspect of AWS, that's where you would put your video games. Some
of the stuff in there and it you kind of.
Parse it out into the different services that you would piece
together like puzzle pieces to make it work so there's let me,
I'll drop that link as well for.
Come back up here.
Yeah. So I'll drop this in here as well. So some of these
services are are free to do this. I'm not sure which ones
cause I haven't actually gotten into this much. It was something
that just caught my attention when I was.
Going through, you know, the different new things that AWS
was getting into and one of them was global gaming.
That's cool because I I'm a gamer and my family's gamers in
So you said there's.
Sofdev we build games, so that's that's good one to know, yeah.
Oh really?
That's awesome. Yeah, it's. I don't know how easy or hard it
is to do this, but with everything that they offer, they
have.
Instructions on how to use it and if you can't find out how to
do something like uh, when I was when I was trying to build some
of the aspects of the app, I couldn't figure out.
How do you like the program is intuitive to a certain extent,
but I couldn't figure out how to do some of the things so just
went on YouTube and, you know, typed in a A.
What I was looking for in order to build something, and I mean
there's millions of videos out there and how to use the
different AWS services based on whatever it is that you're
Yeah, and figma as well, I use figma all the time for
trying to do.
wireframing and prototyping.
Yeah, it's a steep learning curve.
They have a lot of, it's all free. It's free extensions that
you can use. And yeah, I love figma.
I have learned to love it. I hated it at first because I
didn't. I I'm one of those people that I liked to crash
into a wall first before I figure out how to drive around
Yeah, I I basically the same way, break it and then figure
it. And so I'm sitting here clicking on all sorts of stuff.
out how to fix it.
Yeah. So it looks like I got, I got pretty far here, but yeah,
the, the, the way that you can use figma to for when you do the
framing, there's a YouTube video that even goes over how to take.
So this is for an iPhone 11. I think that's just where it put
me. So it's what I started building, but you can actually
copy this and make it change sizes for all the different
iPhone screens, the Android screens, computer screens, so
that it's all the same throughout.
Every product that you would send this out to, so it's just
it's cool that they have that built in as well for whatever it
is that you're building.
Yeah, I I didn't know that you could do all that stuff so that
that was pretty neat to learn.
It's it's insane. All the stuff that you can do and it's.
Yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty daunting when you think about
it.
Yeah.
Ohh and then with the AI I was thinking I saw that you can take
pictures of like.
A spot on your skin and you can have an AI say, yeah, that's
cancerous. You should get it checked or likely cancerous. You
should get it checked or no, I don't worry about it.
Yeah, that's insane too. So my like I said, my friends who
works at AWS.
He's been there for like, I think, like five years and he
last summer worked on that project for GE, where they were
adding the the ability to upload all these CT scans and MRI scans
because they just couldn't get enough technicians and.
It's been incredibly successful from from what I understand to
the point where it's the accuracy is just it. It's
amazing.
Yeah, that is so great. I mean it it I like it when it helps
people out. AI is great for that. I know a lot of people
will not a lot of people, but there are some people in the
tech industry who are afraid of AI.
They think they're gonna take over the world.
Ohh yeah yeah, and I get one of the last things that I will say
about the security aspect of it too. In addition to AI being
dangerous is so AWS has all this AI information, all these data
lakes, you know everything that Apple has runs on AWS. So you
think back to the San Bernardino shooter and how they were trying
to get into.
A back door into the phone and Apple doesn't really have a way
to get in as a back door because it's so encrypted.
Do you take apples encryption and put that on top of AWS? Is
encryption so there's.
No back door, so even if they got.
Into you know where all the apple files are at for.
All the stuff that everybody's holding, you know, in your, your
cell phones and stuff that's backed up to the cloud, AWS
doesn't even have a back door into your virtual computers. If
you lose that stuff, it's gone. They have no way to unencrypt
it. They use 256 bit encryption for the majority of the
encryption that you can enable.
And they are one of the things that cloud computing is, is
helping is quantum computing. So it's just the massive light
speed type computer that.
Is I? I don't even know how to be. I wrote a paper on it and I
have just forgotten everything about it because.
I'm presenting right now so that you know, sometimes that's how
it goes, but.
Right.
It's.
One of the things that they're they're afraid of is like the
quantum computing breaking 256 bit encryption because it's so
powerful. And that's also part of what I did my paper on too.
But even a quantum computers at this point aren't able to break
the 256 bit encryption that they have for files that you upload,
data that you transfer stuff within the AWS network that they
transfer. I mean, how many times has Netflix had a data leak
where a movie came out?
So it's it's incredible.
That AWS runs on all these networks all over the world too,
and they have.
The the streaming capability to.
Have millions of people watch a movie at one time and and it's
it's going everywhere, all over the place, all over the world.
Right I I use Netflix all the time watching foreign films
mostly.
We were talking about that at the managers meeting.
Yeah, it's, it's. Yeah, that runs on AWS. So a lot of these,
a lot of these companies AWS at one point was in the top 10.
Wealthiest.
Most successful companies in the United States and nobody even
really knew what it was or or that it was even a thing. So
it's it's insane that it's it's done so well from. From the
humble beginnings of how can we make the shopping experience on
Amazon.com better for our clients and it it grew into this
monolith of computing and AI and.
I it and and it's insane to you how much they give back to the
people who are who are learning it. I mean, my my friends makes
half $1,000,000 a year.
Wow.
That's awesome.
So.
Yeah.
Yeah. And when it first came out, I know a lot of people
didn't think it was safe. They didn't wanna use it. They didn't
think it was safe.
And then it became 5050 about, I don't know, a few years ago and
now most people are like, yeah, I use it.
It it's it's great that the they they've done so much for the
safety and they have that built in a lot of the safety features
are free that you can use and.
It definitely helps with their image to.
Be as reliable as they are and bump up the security and the way
that they did because it's it costs so much less to run your
things in the cloud than it would be like to own your own
data center and pay for pay to put people in it, and especially
during the chip shortage, people couldn't get different things
and kind of just moved into the cloud because it was. It was
easier than trying to start up your own servers and buying your
own licensing for.
For all of the software that you wanted to put on it and the
antivirus and you know when something retires, you have to
decommission it and then you have to copy that over to
another server. It's just it's a lot of hassle and this just kind
of takes all that out. And again, it helps your employees
concentrate on what they're what else they can do versus
physically going down, taking a router out and and doing all
that kind of stuff. AWS takes security very seriously and
it's.
Awesome to see some of the reports of.
Distributed denial of service attacks.
So they, uh, hackers will like flood.
I'm probably using that incorrectly, but I'm not in
cybersecurity place that yell at me, but people will flood
request into different websites and and Amazon will, or Edward
will block that. And it's it's cool to see how their their AI
helps with that as well to help keep business websites online
and keep them free from being attacked so that businesses can
still run on a 24/7 basis.
What you're referring to is actually a DDoS attack or
distributed denial of service attack.
Distributed denial.
Sorry I don't remember what I called it.
And that's OK. It's OK. Yeah, it's OK. You had you had the
right idea. Basically a bunch of ping requests go to a server and
it cannot handle the load of requests coming in, so it
crashes it. A lot of IDs and IPS will recognize that it is
getting influx of pings and slow down the actual server traffic
so it can handle it. And then like, OK, let's handle 10 at a
time. OK, those are done. Another ten. OK, those are done
another 10, so that it's not just like, oh, here's millions
of requests.
I can't handle that.
So yeah.
Yeah, it's, it's again, it's, it's pretty cool how they.
Can do. That's part of the scale up and scale down and stuff too.
When the you know, especially around Christmas in the shopping
season, whenever actual clients do visit people's websites and
the.
I don't know. It's just all around. Super cool. Fascinating.
Company that I've just really enjoyed.
Learning about and all the different things that they
offer, and.
I can't wait to continue my my journey.
Hopefully after I get done with my bachelors here, I'm working
into my masters with a concentration at AWS so.
Really excited. They do have that for anybody else who might
be in the in the cloud sector, I haven't met any other students
that are in the cloud sector either.
So.
I don't know.
Yes, the cloud degrees our smallest degree, but there's
like 213 or something like that. Last time I checked in the cloud
degree.
That's what I wondered. So on LinkedIn I see all these posted
This other.
these people who get their degrees and it's.
Never come.
Always and stuff that's not cloud and I'm like, am I the
Yeah.
first? This cannot be a thing because there's all you know.
Yeah.
Yeah, we've had plenty of graduate, a lot, not a lot, but
a meaning. We've had graduates. The program started in 2018, so
we've had graduates, but like just for example, we have 1000
IT students and 1000 cyber students in undergrad. And then
we have, you know, 2:20 or so in cloud.
And analytics too, I mean analytics is about that same
Wow.
number right now in undergrad because they're newer programs
and their specialization programs, whereas you know the
IT and cyber are a little bit more broad.
But the yeah, you're you're part of the thing.
And Jason Anderson says that he's in the cloud path so.
Yeah.
You guys should get together and have a chat.
Oh, nice.
There are others. You have them in your classes.
I'm not.
I don't. I don't know if I have much more to say than what I've
said here, but I'm I'm always excited to talk about, to talk
about the cloud, something that I'm passionate about.
Especially like whenever you Start learning how companies
work in the cloud and I have had many a laugh with my 8 WS friend
and I'm just like Oh my goodness, my company has such
and such set up this way and I cannot believe that they're
doing this thing and he responds back. They're doing what and
it's like again, had that conversation today where my
company paying for services and we're not using them so.
Uh.
Crazy to to get with cloud people who know what's going on
and and or who can talk about like, hey, this is where I'm at.
This is because there's again, there's so many paths that you
can take.
To to learn the different things you get through the cloud
practitioner and then the solutions architect or either
one of these or these three. Here the next level. But you can
move into any one of these other ones and it's the the jobs were
so in demand getting a certification and then learning
some sort of programming language in conjunction with
that. We'll get you a 6 figure job within two to three years if
you can start out somewhere in a junior role which is.
What I'm doing right now I'm in a more junior role, but by the
end of next year I'll be a a senior, so I'm I'm really
excited to make that move. But yeah, for sure, I'll.
Give it. See Jason.
And.
Thanks. And Anderson, yeah.
Yeah.
Umm.
Yeah, that's great that you're already working in the field and
you you're getting hands on experience. That's that's
awesome.
Yeah. And Aaron is right. So you don't actually have to have a
degree in cloud to do cloud things. I don't have a
bachelor's degree or associates or anything, and I've been to
school on and off since 2010 when I graduated high school and
I didn't really know what I wanted to do. So I got my cloud
practitioner and my solutions architect before I even started
it. Purdue and the only reason really I wish, I hate to say
this, but the only reason why I'm I'm actually pursuing my
degree is just because it gets my foot in the door.
For higher levels of management and and things like that, when
you get into the more nitty gritty stuff, they don't want to
bring you in and if you don't have a bachelor's degree. So
when I saw that Purdue had the cloud degree, I was like, oh,
hey, I'm gonna get credits for the cloud certifications that I
already got. And that's gonna take a lot of the course load
off, which it did. But if you know, you have other stuff in
conjunction with the cloud certifications, it's skys the
limit when it comes to what you can do with that.
Because there's all different aspects of of the cloud,
especially when it comes to.
The machine learning and the different data algorithms that
you can pull information out of. So yeah, Aaron, you're you're
definitely right.
Does your company do AWS audits to see every now and then which
services they don't need anymore?
I know that they did find some services now, but maybe maybe
No.
that's something that you could implement every, say, six
No.
months, go through and see which services are needed, which ones
aren't.
That's a.
That's on my To Do List my super Long story short, my department
actually doesn't really have processes and procedures right
now, and that task has fallen to me to create the processes and
procedures for all of our software offerings in my
department. My particular department has, so that's right
now that's on my plate with.
The nearest thing which was the load balancers we have load
balancers that aren't balancing any loads so.
That's that's what I'm going into. But once that gets done,
then I wanna go. I haven't poked around in the cloud much because
I was kind of afraid of.
You know what? What I was allowed to see what I was
allowed to do. Are they gonna be upset if I'm doing different
things? But uncovering the fact that they're actually using
services and they're not doing any sort of audit is quite
alarming because they they do have a very large AWS bill for
all the stuff that they're using.
They're not utilizing it properly.
Right, right. That that, that would save them money and that
So.
would make them happy.
Yeah, there's a there's a few things our software doesn't use
autoscaling or auto balancing either, so that that's part of
what I'm also helping with too is when there's a lot of heavy
traffic.
There's not a way to sort them in very easily, and when you
know billing comes up at the end of the quarter, our websites go
down because all of it you have to manually change the CPU usage
for the servers. So it's again definitely something that
they're working on.
Just it, everything is at a very slow snails pace.
A A lot of politics playing into that too, but yeah, it's a it's
Yeah.
definitely for companies like that that have that have
software as a service offerings.
It's it's an up and coming field. There's a lot of ways
that you can start out and move up and go in and really make a
difference in how they're working and and especially if if
you know something about the billing for the cloud and how to
improve that too.
Because I I would hate I, I mean, I myself have some stuff
running and and I get a bill every once in a while for
services that I've exceeded and just everything that I'm doing,
I'm just like, oh, do I really wanna open this? I I know how
you feel.
I don't know. I apologize. We are a little over time, but did
did anybody have any other questions or or anything?
No, but I would suggest that maybe you maybe consider
teaching a AWS course at some point down the line.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
I would absolutely agree, by the way, Miss Owen, it very
informative, very, very good presentation.
Thank you. And I'm so glad that so many people showed up. I.
I love these master classes and it's really awesome to see
people present what they're passionate about so.
So I I appreciate everybody coming in the questions that
were asked and it gave me some.
Time to to shine a little bit on the knowledge of a AWS that I
have been accruing over the last couple of years.
Yeah, you did a wonderful job. Like I said, there's there was
so many things that you presented that I didn't know
that I'm excited about.
Like the gaming one.
Ohh good.
Yeah.
Good, I'm. I'm excited to hear if you decide to do something
with it, what your experience is in using the services and how
how you find it.
Umm it's.
Awesome to go in and and play around in the cloud and see what
you can make with it and this is just only a a couple projects.
There's thousands of projects out there that you can you can
learn and a lot of them are the free tier. So you go in and
learn how to do stuff in. It doesn't cost you any money to
learn how to do it and that also helps people get jobs too is you
can go in and use the free tier to learn how to do some
different things. It gets you.
Some experience and actually working in the cloud so
definitely helps with that.
I saw Nate had his hand up, but then it went down. I didn't.
Don't know if Nate still has a question or comment.
No, I was gonna say that if we wanted to, we could maybe have a
sit down Bree and and talk about security. When it comes to the
AWS cloud.
And how we do incident response and all that other good security
stuff?
I'd like that as well. I 2nd that I I'd be very interested to
join that.
OK, I'm open this weekend. If you guys wanna mess around with
it.
Yeah, absolutely. I'm.
I'm I'm doing the security specialty. A little scared about
it because VPC's are my weakness when it comes to to setting up
the security groups.
I see you know stateful versus stateless and I it was my
weakest spot when I took my last exam too, but I think it would
be great if we could get together and and talk about.
That that would be awesome.
Yeah, we can talk about that and we can actually really talk
about how do you audit.
Uh, your AWS, your cloud environments?
We can go through that too.
Yes, that would be amazing.
Right.
Yeah. Include me in that. I'm. I'm down for the cause.
Sounds like a plan.
Yes, Sir.
Nate, could you set up a time on the calendar and just invite
Yeah.
everybody and whoever doesn't show up? Because I'd like to do
that too.
OK. Yeah, we can. We can do that. We can do that.
Forewarning.
Umm. Of course, AWS is what Lennox?
So we are gonna do some technical troubleshooting with
Linux commands.
OK.
Ooh.
Uh, yes. So maybe some scripting. OK, so you may see
some Python 2 point blah blah or some Python 3 point blah blah.
But at most of it is going to be, you know, just kind of
technical troubleshooting and looking. And I was scanned stuff
and look at stuff and turn stuff off with the the AWS CLI, all
the fun stuff and secure.
James comment.
Yeah. No, that sounds that sounds awesome. I am baby level
I.
on Python And Linux so it will be great to.
How to get some knowledge around that, especially from somebody
who who knows what's going on?
Well, it's gonna be funny when you find out how much you know
about Lennox already. OK, if you're in AWS cloud
practitioner, you're a pretty solid on a lot of the Linux that
goes on.
Jason or.
J No JS is another.
Umm.
That AWS uses heavily and you probably know that when it comes
Yeah.
to.
Doing what? Editing policies?
Yeah. And it, yeah, that that one's a pretty easy one to
Yep.
understand the.
Yeah. The the different access policies are are written in
Jason and it's.
Pretty self-explanatory, but yeah, the rest of it I.
Yep.
And and you could just edit it right there, you know.
Hmm yeah.
And.
Yeah you can or add together.
So that's something we can look at too.
Alright, I'll leave you guys alone with my mumbo jumbo. Let
you guys get.
I know actually, Nate. Well, I've got to hear really quick
because you you kind of mention the scripting and I know Scott's
been.
With me as well about we've been talking about doing some
scripting talk on Saturday. We got a couple of people that were
was trying to get together and trying to find a team lead to
something on the calendar and talk to that about it. But if
you're looking at doing something like scripting with
AWS CLI, especially for me and Scott and the cybersecurity side
of things, I know that would be very informative as well. If we
wanted to bundle that, I would definitely be OK with that. If
we wanted to get some people together, but I don't want to
time constraints, Scott as well.
Of picking one or the other because I'm I'm intermediate at
best for scripting, I'm just trying to learn myself, so if
that's something that you feel like could kind of be
all-encompassing, I would definitely be willing to yield
the floor to somebody much more knowledgeable.
Well, I'm sure.
Is that something you'd be interested in?
We could possibly get together if you guys want to.
Yeah, depending on the time frame like we can, we can move
Uh.
our. We were gonna do a little study group. We can definitely
I'm willing to move it if we feel like that's something that
Scott would you feel like that would be a little bit more in
What?
depth for you.
I'm good with it. I am good with it. I am open.
Yeah, especially if it's somebody that's done it longer
and is more knowledgeable, I would definitely appreciate the
expertise.
Are we just looking for just?
Yeah, I thought to sit in as well.
Regular scripts like API calling that kind of stuff.
I. Well, that's it. It it was kind of an all-encompassing just
especially foot in the door, understand the different
libraries that Python has to offer and things like that. And
one of the people I was trying to talk to into the group was
OK, OK.
like, well, we can do job when we can do this and we can do
that. I'm like well job was not really a scripting language and
of itself.
But we could definitely.
Job the script.
There there is JavaScript, yeah.
JavaScript.
But my knowledge in that realm was by knowledge in that realm
Umm, we either one.
JavaScript or Python?
was definitely yeah, my knowledge in that was a bit
lackluster.
Yeah, if you're in security, you should definitely be looking at
Python for sure.
Yeah. And that, that's that's, but what I've been doing for a
longer time. I'm going in the pen testing and Python is where
I've primarily, you know, focused on because that's you
just want the quick and dirty. You want the five minute write a
script and then be able to use it 100 times for pen testing. So
Is that and for automation?
but.
Yes, exactly. Just being able to.
OK, it is that what Scott wants to do or.
Oh, that's what I was.
Yeah.
Better.
Yeah, because.
Scott, you're inside.
Yes, I'm. I'm in cyber and you know, I I've. I've just always
OK, OK.
seen a ton of. You know, when I was looking at jobs, I would see
a bunch of scripting on job descriptions, specifically in
Python. So I'm just like, well, apparently this might be
Yeah.
Actually.
something that would add value.
But be.
Yeah. So before we go too much further, Kerry, I think I just
confirm with all the leads here, especially Angela and all that,
I think we are good to go now. I think the actual master class is
over after the hour.
Ohh yeah sorry.
Yeah. So anybody that's got time constraints, anybody that needs
to step out I think can is good to go. Like I'll let the leads
actually determine that they want to dismiss or stop
recording or whatever. But I think we're good there.
Great job, Bree. Thank you, guys.
OK.
Thank you.
They're a good job. It's Bree. Have a good one.
That's pretty great job. Great job.
I.
So yeah, if we can get something on Saturday or Sunday, we were
Yeah, we can.
gonna do Saturday cuz it was kind of open day. But if we
wanna do Sunday as well, when it's everybody available.
Umm uh.