Office Hours Recap: All about AWS
In our recent office hours, JumpCloud® DevOps Engineer Jude Quintana and Solutions Architect Kyle Moorehead sat down with Product Marketing Manager Leia Schultz to go over a fan favorite topic: Amazon Web Services® (AWS).
We covered a lot! We’ll recap the highlights here, and if you want to know even more about the tools that JumpCloud uses for provisioning cloud resources, or how our teams use serverless for infrastructure automation, make sure you check out the full recording.
Some of the Quicker Questions
First, let’s go through a few of the more rapid-fire questions Jude and Kyle touched on.
Why would an IT administrator use both AWS and JumpCloud?
AWS and JumpCloud fill very different roles in an organization. At a high level, JumpCloud manages identities, access, and devices. AWS, of course, has an almost endless number of services, but it doesn’t really focus on user management outside of AWS.
How does JumpCloud handle user management in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?
The main way to integrate into AWS’s identity and access management (IAM) is through a SAML connector. In addition to the base connector, there’s also a Redshift connector for accessing your data warehouse as well as a connector for the AWS Client VPN. Plus, if you need any more customization, there’s the option to pass some custom attributes that could be used on the AWS side (like AWS Session Tags).
Is there a way in Terraform for an admin to back up their JumpCloud data to AWS in the event that anything were to happen that would require a backup?
There’s a Terraform module for JumpCloud that only handles users, not systems or apps. For a more comprehensive backup of your JumpCloud data, the Get-JCBackup command is the quickest and easiest way. This utilizes the PowerShell module, which is a tool that solutions put out. This can then be used to back up your users and systems.
Autoscaling
The next big topic we covered was autoscaling. First, a potentially controversial question: Is Kubernetes the best option for autoscaling?
Well, to answer this, we have (Read more...)
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Blog – JumpCloud authored by Brandon White. Read the original post at: https://jumpcloud.com/blog/aws-office-hours
