AWS Service Catalog | General Flashcards
What is AWS Service Catalog?
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AWS Service Catalog allows IT administrators to create, manage, and distribute catalogs of approved products to end users, who can then access the products they need in a personalized portal. Administrators can control which users have access to each product to enforce compliance with organizational business policies. Administrators can also setup adopted roles so that End users only require IAM access to AWS Service Catalog in order to deploy approved resources. AWS Service Catalog allows your organization to benefit from increased agility and reduced costs because end users can find and launch only the products they need from a catalog that you control.
Who should use AWS Service Catalog?
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AWS Service Catalog was developed for organizations, IT teams, and managed service providers (MSPs) that need to centralize policies. It allows IT administrators to vend and manage AWS resource and services. For large organizations, it provides a standard method of provisioning cloud resources for thousands of users. It is also suitable for small teams, where front-line development managers can provide and maintain a standard dev/test environment.
How do I get started with AWS Service Catalog?
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In the AWS Management Console, choose AWS Service Catalog in Management Tools. In the AWS Service Catalog console, administrators can create portfolios, add products, and grant users permissions to use them with just a few clicks. End users logged into the AWS Service Catalog console can see and launch the products that administers have created for them.
What can end users to do with AWS Service Catalog that they could not do before?
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End users have a simple portal in which to discover and launch products that comply with organizational policies and budget constraints.
What is a portfolio?
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A portfolio is a collection of products, with configuration information that determines who can use those products and how they can use them. Administrators can create a customized portfolio for each type of user in an organization and selectively grant access to the appropriate portfolio. When an administrator adds a new version of a product to a portfolio, that version is automatically available to all current portfolio users. The same product can be included in multiple portfolios. Administrators also can share portfolios with other AWS accounts and allow the administrators of those accounts to extend the portfolios by applying additional constraints. By using portfolios, permissions, sharing, and constraints, administrators can ensure that users are launching products that are configured properly for the organization’s needs.
What is a product?
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A product is a service or application for end users. A catalog is a collection of products that the administrator creates, adds to portfolios, and provides updates for using AWS Service Catalog. A product can comprise one or more AWS resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, storage volumes, databases, monitoring configurations, and networking components. It can be a single compute instance running AWS Linux, a fully configured multitier web application running in its own environment, or anything in between.
Administrators distribute products to end users in portfolios. Administrators create catalogs of products by importing AWS CloudFormation templates. These templates define the AWS resources that the product needs to work, the relationships between components, and the parameters that the end user chooses when launching the product to configure security groups, create key pairs, and perform other customizations.
An end user with access to a portfolio can use the AWS Management Console to find a standard dev/test environment product, for example, in the form of an AWS CloudFormation template, then manage the resulting resources using the AWS CloudFormation console. For information about creating a product, see “How do I create a product?” in the Administrator FAQ.
Is AWS Service Catalog a regionalized service?
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Yes. AWS Service Catalog is fully regionalized, so you can control the regions in which data is stored. Portfolios and products are a regional construct which will need to be created per region and are only visible/usable on the regions in which they were created.
In which Regions is AWS Service Catalog available?
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For a full list of supported AWS Regions, see the AWS Region Table.
Are APIs available? Can I use the CLI to access AWS Service Catalog?
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Yes, APIs are available and enabled through the CLI. Actions from the management of Service Catalog artifacts through to provisioning and terminating are available. You can find more information in the AWS Service Catalog documentation or download the latest AWS SDK or CLI.
