AWS SF Summit 2015 DevOps with AWS

Some very informative presentations on the AWS Services for DevOps presented at the AWS SF Summit. Slides and video replays:
1. http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/transforming-software-development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCrhemssYuI&index=12&list=PLhr1KZpdzukeD0iBeDI9WqZLYtuaFaaGc

2. http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/devops-continuous-integration-and-deployment-on-aws-putting-money-back-into-your-mission-46838630
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DurzNeBQ-WU&list=PLhr1KZpdzukeD0iBeDI9WqZLYtuaFaaGc&index=23

3. http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/accelerating-devops-pipelines-with-aws
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/accelerating-devops-pipelines-with-aws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hxe_o6493s&list=PLhr1KZpdzukeD0iBeDI9WqZLYtuaFaaGc&index=14

All sessions can be found on Slideshare and Youtube here:
http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/tag/2015sfsummit?adbsc=awssummit2015_20150411_43646046&adbid=586959582653648896&adbpl=tw&adbpr=66780587
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhr1KZpdzukeD0iBeDI9WqZLYtuaFaaGc&adbsc=awssummit2015_20150411_43648896&adbid=586713471154159616&adbpl=tw&adbpr=66780587

Boot strapping with user data and CloudFormation

For simple bootstrapping, user data text/scripts may be adequate.  Keep in mind the limit on size is 16K for user data.

s3cmd is often used to load the bootstrap scripts for S3. More on this can be found here:

http://s3tools.org/s3cmd

https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd

A very good document on using user data, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet and other tools to bootstrap EC2 instances can be found here:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/BoostrappingApplicationsWithAWSCloudFormation.pdf

CloudFormation, OpsWorks and Elastic Beanstalk

Now that AWS has announced OpsWorks and also has CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk there are questions on which application and infrastructure management tools is best for you.  Through in thinks like Chef and Puppet and things get really interesting. More can be found here:

https://aws.amazon.com/application-management/

AWS Boston User Group

Great session yesterday at Boston Amazon Web Services Meetup Group -
http://www.meetup.com/The-Boston-Amazon-Web-Services-Meetup-Group/

Glad to see the good attendance and the group back up and running.  

Here is the linked in group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4651147&trk=anet_ug_hm