AWS Basics
Securian uses this AWS service to store many terabytes of log data with eleven 9's of durability.
What is S3?
Not so fast Microsoft. This is Securian's predominant public cloud provider.
What is AWS?
If you're new to AWS, you may want to start by earning this beginner certification to increase your understanding of what the platform has to offer.
What is a Cloud Practitioner?
No need to go looking in caves for logs coming from Securian's AWS. Just use this tool, where all logs in AWS are ingested and stored.
What is Splunk?
Securian just released a way for workloads to more easily implement AWS DRS, a service that provides continuous replication of your EC2 instances for use in these scenarios (it's the "D" and "R" in DRS).
What is disaster recovery?
Will from the Black-Eyed Peas has no affiliation with this global AWS service that manages all access for the platform.
What is IAM?
You might "collab" with this team from time to time and enjoy (or suffer through?) some knowledge sharing about engineering in the cloud.
Who is CET?
The cool kids aren't manually provisioning resources in AWS. Instead, they do this, a concept that promotes repeatable, consistent, automated deployment of resources like servers, storage configurations, and many others.
What is Infrastructure as Code?
You can use this aptly named BAI Delivery developed tool to configure your AWS resource builds and deploys. You'll know you're using it right when it gives you the thumbs up.
What is Shippy?
AWS has plenty of capabilities, like load balancing and auto-scaling, that can help you make sure your workload has this, a feature that tells customers they'll never lose service. Well, almost never.
What is high availability?
These AWS virtual firewalls are stateful, meaning you only set up a rule for the initial connection, and responses will be allowed without the need for an additional rule.
What are security groups?
The moon doesn't cause these groupings of migrations at Securian that are executed by pods, but if you're riding on one long enough, you still may get sick.
What are waves?
AWS groups its services into larger categories like Compute, Networking, and this one, which includes services like S3, EFS, and EBS.
What is storage?
Need to lift and shift a server? This tool can copy an entire on-premises virtual or physical server to AWS.
What is AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)?
Deploying EC2 instances across multiple of these within a single AWS region can help you achieve high availability and redundancy.
What is an Availability Zone?
This resource is core to networking in AWS - it's a virtual network for other resources to be able to communicate with each other across.
What is a VPC?
It's not all coding in the cloud world. This area in the CCoE acts as a central point of governance across architecture, finance, vendors, and migration projects.
What is CBO?
Securian uses this AWS solution to create and manage our over 130 AWS accounts.
What is the landing zone?
Is your app having connection problems? Submit a request in this tool and talk to a CyberTech perimeter team member.
What is Tufin?
The creative service-naming minds must have had the day off when they named this AWS service that backs up resources like EBS volumes, EC2 instances, and RDS databases.
What is AWS backup?
After being bottlenecked by calls to relational databases, AWS CTO Werner Vogels came up with this sans-SQL solution that he introduced to the public 10 years ago.
What is DynamoDB?
Better watch that spending! This function within CBO will make sure you are tagging your resources in AWS so your costs are appropriately allocated.
What is FinOps?
This container orchestration platform, whose name is Greek for "pilot", has been available for use at Securian since 2019 and offers zero downtime and canary deploys.
What is kubernetes?
This open-source framework used at Securian can help you create Lambda applications by creating CloudFormation for you.
What is the Serverless Framework?
Services like AWS DRS specialize in helping customers meet data-loss objectives that measure the amount of data lost by the amount of time a workload is down. These type of objectives also go by this name.
What are RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives)?