AWS Cloud for Business

AWS is a catalyst for innovation and digital transformation:

  • Speed: organisations can experiment with new applications and business models at lower cost and greater speed.
  • Scale: organisations can scale near instantaneously to a broader set of customer segments, geographies and channels.
  • Innovation: shared responsibility model frees up teams to work with advanced technologies such as advanced analytics, IoT, and automation at scale.
  • Productivity: infrastructure and security as code automates routine processes and compliance.

Shared Responsibility Model

AWS is responsible for security of the cloud while the customer is responsible for security in the cloud.

AWS is responsible for:

  • The host operating system.
  • The virtualization layer.
  • Physical security of facilities.

Customers are responsible for:

  • The guest operating system (updates/security patches).
  • Other associated application software.
  • Configuration of the AWS provided security group firewall.

AWS Cloud Jobs

There are four main IT leadership roles in the cloud:

  • Cloud Architect:
    • Responsible for overall cloud strategy.
    • Builds the cloud architecture blueprint to deliver highly available, cost-efficient, and scalable cloud environments.
    • Supervises deployment in the cloud environment.
    • Key competencies are:
      • Understands how services are connected/integrated.
  • System Administrator:
    • Responsible for overall performance of cloud systems.
    • Helps deploy, configure and monitor cloud solutions.
    • Key compentencies are:
      • Proficient with understanding and applying configuration changes.
  • Security Administrator:
    • Responsible for reactively investigating security incidents/concerns and proactively developing standards and processes to reduce these incidents.
    • Key competencies:
      • Able to define security requirements for businesses based on security and regulatory requirements.
  • DevOps Administrator:
    • Responsible for optimising use of the AWS cloud.
    • Helps businesses operate at scale by managing developers and orchestrating the numerous tools and stages in the pipeline.
    • Creates/maintains processes so that teams can do small, rapid releases.
    • Key competencies:
      • Applies scripting languages with proficiency.
      • Understands and applies QA and testing.
      • Proficient at the many tools and stages in the pipeline.