1. EPAM Cloud Orchestration
Hello everyone, welcome to EPAM Cloud Orchestration v overview video
EPAM Cloud Orchestration V
September 3, 2016

2. EPAM Orchestration v.2.1.77 Update Overview
India, Welcome on Board!
Infrastructure Updates
Platform Services Updates
EPAM-IN1 region is introduced
SSD Introduction in Minsk
Migration to Open Stack
EPAM-RU1 decommissioning, EPAM-RU2/US2 introduction
New Services: Splunk, Magento, ATG
Existing services improved
ACS service unified
Cloud UI Updates
Security Updates
Knowledge Sharing
3 documents updated
Service Catalog Updated
Cloud trainings in progress
EPAM Cloud Badges introduced
IAM Users control for advanced management group
Managed policies resolution
Cost Estimator updated
Cloud Monitoring: more project details
Access to EPAM Services
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3. Trainings: Become a Certified Expert with EPAM Cloud
The first session of Effective Cloud Computing Training was completed.
72 people attended the course.
Most attendees subscribed for the course in order to improve their knowledge. Still, there are those who are absolutely new to the subject
Attendees are absolutely satisfied with the course. There were no complains.
44 EPAMers passed free AWS certification after the training was completed
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4. New Region: India, Welcome on Board!
EPAM Cloud introduces a new region, EPAM-IN1. The new region is based in the OpenStack (Mitaka 9.0.1) technology and has the following specifics:
Billing coefficient: 1
Storage volumes are billed by provisioned, not by used, space
Checkpoints are disabled
Graceful shutdown (or2stop) functionality is not available
The commands from other groups (as listed in Maestro CLI Reference Guide) are mostly available, but some are disabled.
View instance pool scope is not available
+ Network specifics
Activate at EPAM Support Portal:

5. RU2 6XL Infrastructure Updates
In addition to a new region, we started big infrastructure restructuring processes, and we are already gradually implementing them:
SSD Introduction in Minsk. About 40% VMs in EPAM-BY1 were moved to SSD. Within a year, region migration to SSD will be completed.
Migration to OpenStack. The gradual migration to OpenStack Mitaka has started. It is planned to complete the migration by the end of summer 2017.
EPAM-RU1 Decommissioned. Over 300 VMs were moved from Saratov datacenter. Instead, EPAM-RU2 region (OpenStack + SSD), hosted in St.Petersburg, will be introduced.
EPAM-US2 Region Coming Soon. The region is designed for large shapes usage and will allow VMs of up to 6XL shape (8CPU, 46GB RAM)
RU2
6XL

6. New Platform Services
Big Data: Splunk as a Service, based on Splunk Enterprise You can request the service in the basic configuration, and, if necessary, apply additional proxy settings.
E-Commerce: Magento as a Service, based on Magento 2.0
E-Commerce: ATG as a Service, based on ATG 11.2.
Service activation in CLI
or2ms –p PROJECT –r REGION –a activate –s splunk/magento/atg

7. Existing Services Updates
Adobe AEM: PaaS mode allowed for AEM 6.2. Each instance, both author and publish, is created with its own dispatcher.
Sitecore: Large mode enabled. The configuration involves several VMs each dedicated to a particular function:
Sitecore Server + MongoDB
MS SQL
Jenkins Master
Jenkins Slave
Load Balancer
Jenkins: Updated to Jenkins 2.0.
Gerrit: Database changed to PostgreSQL.

8. Cloud Monitoring Updates
Monthly Financial KPI is added to both Project and Region levels.
VM Lifetime and Optimization metrics are now available not only on Project, but also on Region level.

9. IAM User Control via Maestro CLI
or2-aws-iam (or2iam) command allows to provide the information about IAM users registered for the project and to allow the Advanced Management group (Project Managers/Coordinators, Account Managers, and Delivery Managers) delete the specified IAM User account or reassign it to another project member.
The default action for the command is describe
Standard command call:
or2iam –p PROJECT –a describe
Response:
IAM User name
User creation date
IAM User group names
MFA devices serial numbers
Last password usage date

10. EPAM Cloud: Be a Hero!
We always highly appreciate this input, and want to thank all our contributors and trainings attendees for their enthusiasm and interest in EPAM Cloud. There are six badges you can get by participating in Cloud educational and development activities:
Passing Cloud basic education programs
Passing Cloud
advanced education programs
Passing Cloud expert education programs
Sharing own solutions with Cloud team
Having high skills in Cloud automation and solutions
Passing AWS Partner Network certifications

11. Documentation Updates
Maestro CLI User Guide
EPAM Cloud Services Guide
Hybrid Cloud Guide
Service-related commands updated
IAM users management command added
New services added
Existing services info updated
IAM users management info added
Glossary
FAQ
EO v Update Documents
Main concepts included
Gives references to related sources
Reviewed
New questions added
What’s New
Release Notes
Video Overview
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12. Thank You For Attention!
EPAM Cloud Consulting team