This talk will feature a list of quick-hitting pro tips aimed at improving your day-to-day life building on AWS. This session will cover tips on: working effectively with the AWS CLI and other third-party CLIs; creating, editing, debugging, and deploying an AWS Lambda-powered serverless application quickly and easily using the new AWS Toolkit; and performing powerful filtering and searches on your structured application logs with Amazon CloudWatch.

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Pro tips for builders on AWS
Gabe Hollombe
Sr. Technical Evangelist
Amazon Web Services

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As builders, we want…

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Teletype Model 33
1963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33#/media/File:Teletype-IMG_7287.jpg

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Multics OS
1965
Multics
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Multics_logo.gif

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DataPoint 3300
1969
http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ctc/3300/

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Why we love AWS Command Line Interface

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roles=$(aws iam list-roles
--query 'Roles[?starts_with(RoleName, `some-prefix`)].RoleName’
--output text)
for role in $roles; do
policies=$(aws iam list-attached-role-policies
--role-name=$role
--query AttachedPolicies[*][PolicyArn]
--output text)
for policy in $policies; do
aws iam detach-role-policy --policy-arn $policy --role-name $role
done
aws iam delete-role --role-name $role
done
Cleaning up roles

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AWS Command Line Interface Tooling
The AWS CLI
https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
SAWS (“Supercharged AWS”)
https://github.com/donnemartin/saws
AWS Console Recorder
https://github.com/iann0036/AWSConsoleRecorder

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Sketchpad
Ivan Sutherland, 1962
https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Software/images/Ivan_Sutherland1962.jpg

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Smalltalk-76
Xerox PARC, 1976
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface#/media/File:Smalltalk-76.png

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Debugging a Lambda
The AWS Toolkit in IntelliJ /
PyCharm, 2019

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Serverless
❤️ IDEs
AWS Toolkits for popular IDEs
https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-jetbrains
https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode

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AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (Developer Preview)
• Open Source IDE Toolkit
• Will support .NET Core and Node.js
• Support for AWS Lambda application
development
• Templates for easy getting-started
• Integrated step-through debugging
• Easy to deploy
• Visit aws.amazon.com/vscode or
download source code from GitHub

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Allocation of beer
Cuniform Tablet, 3,100-3,000 BCE
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_writing_tablet_recording_the_allocation_of_beer.jpg

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Accounting ledger
1828
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_ledger#/media/File:Ledger.png

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Analysing log files
Amazon CloudWatch, 2019

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Structured logging
[2019-02-14T11:22:33.000000] INFO -- :
User gabehollombe completed order 123 for total $313.37
{
timestamp: “2019-02-14T11:22:33.000000”,
level: 2,
event: “Order Completed”,
userId: “gabehollombe”,
orderId: “123”,
totalCents: 31337
}
Only good for humans
Good for humans and machines

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Get more out of your logs
Searching and filtering
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/MonitoringLogData.html
Visualisation and analysis
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/AnalyzingLogData.html

30. Thank you!
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Gabe Hollombe
@gabehollombe