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# System prepended metadata

title: AUI 2
tags: [AUI]

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# AUI 2

## Potential Services
* EC2
* IAM
* VPC
* S3
* RDS
* CloudWatch
* SNS
* AWS Backup

## User Authentication

![](https://i.imgur.com/q6a8GEi.png)

|Group/Role|Group/Role Name|Permissions|
|------------|---------------|-----------|
|Group|SysAdmin|SystemAdministrator|
|Group|DBAdmin|DatabaseAdministrator|
|Group|Monitor|AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess, AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess, AmazonRDSReadOnlyAccess, AmazonRDSEnhancedMonitoringRole, Monitoring role|
|Role|EC2toS3IAMRole|New policy - S3 - List, Read, Write - object|


|Requirement|Solution|
|-|-|
|Should be at least 8 characters and have 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase, 1 special character, and a number |IAM Account settings - Set password policy|
|Change password every 90 days and ensure that the previous three passwordds can't be re-used| IAM Account settings - Set password policy - Enable password expiration|
|All administrators require programmistic access|IAM Users - Add user - select Programmatic access|
Administrator sign-in to the AWS Management Console requires the use of Virtual MFA |IAM Users - User Name - Security credentials - Assigned MFA device - Manage MFA Device - Virtual MFA device|

## Design: Web Tier

|Requirement|Solution|
|-|-|
|Architecture must be flexible and handle any peak in traffic or performance|Auto Scaling Group|
|The overall acceptable incoming network bandwidth is between 300 Mbps and 750 Mbps.|Storage Gateway Console / m4.xlarge instance type with High Network Performance|
|Application adminstrators want to be notified by email if there are more than 100 "400 HTTP errors" per minute in the application.|Load Balancer -> CloudWatch alarms -> HTTP 4XXs Count -> SNS notification|
|Web Tier instances should be tagged as "Key=Name" and "Value=web-tier"|Auto Scaling Group Tags Key="Name" Value="web-tier"|



## Design: Application Tier

|Requirement|Solution|
|-|-|
|Architecture must be flexible and handle any peak in traffic or performance.|Auto Scaling Group|
|Server capacity should be between 50% and 60%.|Create a custom metric and install needed software in UserData for instances. Then in Auto Scaling Policy use this custom metric. [link](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UsingAlarmActions.html)|
|Overall memory and CPU utilization should not go above 80% and 75% respectively or below 30% for either.|Auto Scaling Policy CPUUtilization >=75% -> +1 and <=30% -> -1|
|Internet access is required for patching and updates without exposing the servers.|Security Group with SSH from Anywhere and http + https from internal network only|
|Application Tier Instances should be tagged as "Key=Name" and "Value=app-tier".|Auto Scaling Group Tags Key=Name Value="app-tier"|


## Design: Database Tier

|Requirement|Solution|
|-|-|
|Database needs consistent storage performance at 21000 IOPS|Provisioned IOPS|
|High availability is a requirement|Standby in a different Availability Zone|
|No change to the database schema can be made at this time|???|


## Proposed VPC Architecture Diagram

tu diagram ???

## Network

|VPC|Region|Purpose|Subnets|AZs|CIDR Range|
|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|1|US West (North California)|Headquaters|hq-public, hq-private|us-west-1|172.31.0.0/16| 
|2|EU (London)|Production|eu-public, eu-private|eu-west-2|172.41.0.0/16|
|3|South America (Sao Paulo)|Production|sa-public, sa-private|sa-east-1|172.51.0.0/16|

|Subnet Name|VPC|Subnet Type (public/private)|AZ|Subnet Address|
|-|-|-|-|-|
|hq-public-1|#1|public|us-west-1|172.31.0.0/20|
|hq-private-1|#1|private|us-west-1|172.31.64.0/20|
|eu-public-1|#2|public|eu-west-2|172.41.0.0/20|
|eu-private-1|#2|private|eu-west-2|172.41.64.0/20|
|sa-public-1|#3|public|sa-east-1|172.51.0.0/20|
|sa-private-1|#3|private|sa-east-1|172.51.64.0/20|



## Proposed Architecture Diagram

![](https://i.imgur.com/qUEcm3g.png)

## Security

|Security Group (SG)|SG Name|Rule|Source|
|-|-|-|-|
|ELB load balancer|elb-sg|???|???|
|Web Tier|web-tier-sg|Can receive requests on port 80 and 443|Anywhere|
|App Tier|app-tier-sg|Can receive requests on port 443 from Web Servers and SSH from anywhere|Web Servers + Anywhere|
|Database Tier|db-tier-sg|Can receive requests on port 433|Application Servers|

|Other Security Options|Justification|
|-|-|
|S3 Bucket files encryption|To maintain security of users files in case of data leakage|

## Design: Encryption
|Requirement|Solution|
|-|-|
|Encryption option for **data at rest**|RDS -> Enable Encryption|
|Encryption option for **data in transit**|HTTPs traffic through all layers|

## Intance details
|Tier|AMI|Tag|Type|Size|Justification|# of instances|
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|Web|Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (HVM), SSD Volume Type|Key="Name" Value="web-tier"|m4|xlarge|Needs High Network Performance|6|
|App|Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (HVM), SSD Volume Type|Key="Name" Value="app-tier"|t2|xlarge|Meets client requirements|5|
|DB |Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (HVM), SSD Volume Type|N/A|m5|2xlarge|Meets client requirements|2|

## Recovery Point Objective

**Q**: *How would you achieve a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of four hours?*
**A**: RPO is acceptable loss of data measured in time, so easiest way to do it is make backup of data every 4 hours. Use AWS Backup to do this.

## Document Storage
|Storage/Archive Option|Detail|
|-|-|
|Amazon S3 Standard|For data that is frequently accessed|
|Amazon S3 Standard - Infrequent Access|For data that is less frequently accessed|


## Additional AWS Services
* Elastic Beanstalk
* RDS -> Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility
* Route 53

###### tags: `AUI`