A good requirement is to be measurable and specific, which will aid in understanding in the long run.
- verifiable
- monitor able
- traceable
- feasible
It's important to keep risks, assumptions, and constraints in mind.
- User commitment, late deliveries.
- single point of failure.
- Assumptions are things that we pretend are true but are not.
- budget changes,
- stakeholders availability.
- sufficient network bandwidth.
- time: 14 weeks of boot camp.
- budget – utilizing the free tier.
- AWS vendor selection.
- There are three steps to this.
- Conceptual design is an abstract idea created by stakeholders without specific details.
- Database, Server, no specifics.
How it should be implemented, without actual names
- Represent the actual infrastructure that was built.
- IP addresses, EC2 instances, access resource names, bucket names
- This phase is super important.
"Dumb questions," such as "do we have enough skillsets, enough workforce?" must be asked.
- Where the data lies and how it works
- Use AWS's well-architected framework to review your workloads against current AWS best practices. The main idea is to ask the right questions without getting too caught up in infrastructure.
- Knowing the AWS well-architected framework allows you to ask stakeholders and engineers the right questions.
- It's good to ask what the goal of this meeting is, especially if they have different backgrounds. Try to overcome your fear of asking "dumb questions" and ask about architecture.
- In AWS right now it's possible to select black theme and default region (no more switching) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/unified-settings-aws-management-console/
- It's good security practice to grant least access as posible, use AWS Organizations. Force to use MFA to spin up ec2 instances. Yubikey is also supported by AWS for 2FA.
- Great aws organizations policy resources https://github.com/hashishrajan/aws-scp-best-practice-policies
- Least privilages as possible
Sharing Conceptual and Logic diagrams. Conceptual diagram was draw on real napkin, picture uploaded to repo.
