‫So now let's talk about
‫the AWS Service Catalog.
‫So the users that are new to AWS, they have too many options
‫and they don't follow this course, for example
‫when they get started.
‫And so if you leave them the option
‫to do anything they want in AWS,
‫whatever they create may not be in line
‫with what the rest of your organization is doing.
‫And some users that just want to have access
‫to quick self-service portal
‫that allows them to launch a set of authorized products,
‫and these have to be predefined by admins.
‫So as you can see,
‫these could include virtual machines, databases,
‫storage options, and so on.
‫So to do so, to have this self-service portal,
‫you use the AWS Service Catalog.
‫So very simply, as an admin in AWS and Service Catalog,
‫you're going to create products.
‫And products are just CloudFormation templates
‫with the proper parameters.
‫And you can include them in a portfolio,
‫and a portfolio is a collection of products.
‫And then you define who has access
‫to launching what products within my portfolio.
‫And then as a user,
‫you log in to your portal on Service Catalog
‫and you have a quick list of all the products
‫that you can use because of your permissions.
‫And then the users can launch these products
‫and automatically they get provisioned by CloudFormation.
‫But we know
‫that they've been properly configured, properly tagged,
‫and that they respect the way
‫our organization is supposed to work.
‫So say for example,
‫that a user wants to have access to a quick RDS database
‫but doesn't know how to create one properly.
‫Then you could offer this as a service
‫from within the Service Catalog.
‫So hopefully that makes sense. I hope you liked it.
‫And I will see you in the next lecture.