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‫So now let's talk about

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‫the AWS Service Catalog.

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‫So the users that are new to AWS, they have too many options

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‫and they don't follow this course, for example

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‫when they get started.

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‫And so if you leave them the option

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‫to do anything they want in AWS,

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‫whatever they create may not be in line

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‫with what the rest of your organization is doing.

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‫And some users that just want to have access

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‫to quick self-service portal

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‫that allows them to launch a set of authorized products,

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‫and these have to be predefined by admins.

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‫So as you can see,

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‫these could include virtual machines, databases,

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‫storage options, and so on.

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‫So to do so, to have this self-service portal,

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‫you use the AWS Service Catalog.

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‫So very simply, as an admin in AWS and Service Catalog,

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‫you're going to create products.

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‫And products are just CloudFormation templates

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‫with the proper parameters.

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‫And you can include them in a portfolio,

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‫and a portfolio is a collection of products.

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‫And then you define who has access

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‫to launching what products within my portfolio.

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‫And then as a user,

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‫you log in to your portal on Service Catalog

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‫and you have a quick list of all the products

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‫that you can use because of your permissions.

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‫And then the users can launch these products

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‫and automatically they get provisioned by CloudFormation.

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‫But we know

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‫that they've been properly configured, properly tagged,

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‫and that they respect the way

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‫our organization is supposed to work.

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‫So say for example,

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‫that a user wants to have access to a quick RDS database

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‫but doesn't know how to create one properly.

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‫Then you could offer this as a service

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‫from within the Service Catalog.

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‫So hopefully that makes sense. I hope you liked it.

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‫And I will see you in the next lecture.