AWS Deep Racer Event Hosting — Setup

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Amazon SES

I decided it’d be sensible to automate the set-up as much as possible. The Deep Racer elements can’t be automated due to lack of API, but everything else can. I used a Microsoft Form (we’re Office365 users) to capture email addresses of interested participants. I’ve then created infrastructure as code and open sourced it in my GitHub repository here to create everything except the Deep Racer config automatically. I took the email addresses and used them as the IAM username (adding them to the variables file in my repo will allow you to deploy them). Running the code creates everything required permission wise and the S3 bucket for model storage, it then dumps out IAM usernames and passwords for you to issue to participants. I used the CSV output, converted it to an Excel table that could then ultimately be used as a data source for a mail merge (I was tempted to use AWS SES but my participants weren’t in domains my account had verified) to issue those details along with instructions for our event, along with some billing alerts so your event doesn’t get out of hand cost wise.

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Amazon S3

To make use of multi-user mode only a single AWS Account is required. Within that account each user requires the ability to access that account, with appropriate permissions. Options include an IAM user within that account, or if you’re operating this within an enterprise environment you could assume a role within the account, for example via using AWS Identity Centre (formerly known as Single Sign-On). Permissions required to use AWS Deep Racer are provided via an AWS managed policy (AWSDeepRacerDefaultMultiUserAccess), but if you’re using IAM users you’ll probably also want to add another AWS managed policy to allow users to manage their passwords (IAMUserChangePassword). As our event is a hybrid event with a round of virtual use, followed by a live in-person event, I also wanted to give people an easy way to provide their models to us ahead of time, to make it easier on the day to schedule everyone’s laps. To that end I created another policy that granted permissions to a shared S3 bucket I created, but only to a subfolder of the user’s IAM user name. The policy makes use of ${aws:username}, so there’s no need to create them per user.

#Cloud Hosting #Object Storage #Cloud Storage 170 social mentions

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Amazon SSO

To make use of multi-user mode only a single AWS Account is required. Within that account each user requires the ability to access that account, with appropriate permissions. Options include an IAM user within that account, or if you’re operating this within an enterprise environment you could assume a role within the account, for example via using AWS Identity Centre (formerly known as Single Sign-On). Permissions required to use AWS Deep Racer are provided via an AWS managed policy (AWSDeepRacerDefaultMultiUserAccess), but if you’re using IAM users you’ll probably also want to add another AWS managed policy to allow users to manage their passwords (IAMUserChangePassword). As our event is a hybrid event with a round of virtual use, followed by a live in-person event, I also wanted to give people an easy way to provide their models to us ahead of time, to make it easier on the day to schedule everyone’s laps. To that end I created another policy that granted permissions to a shared S3 bucket I created, but only to a subfolder of the user’s IAM user name. The policy makes use of ${aws:username}, so there’s no need to create them per user.

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AWS Identity and Access Management

To make use of multi-user mode only a single AWS Account is required. Within that account each user requires the ability to access that account, with appropriate permissions. Options include an IAM user within that account, or if you’re operating this within an enterprise environment you could assume a role within the account, for example via using AWS Identity Centre (formerly known as Single Sign-On). Permissions required to use AWS Deep Racer are provided via an AWS managed policy (AWSDeepRacerDefaultMultiUserAccess), but if you’re using IAM users you’ll probably also want to add another AWS managed policy to allow users to manage their passwords (IAMUserChangePassword). As our event is a hybrid event with a round of virtual use, followed by a live in-person event, I also wanted to give people an easy way to provide their models to us ahead of time, to make it easier on the day to schedule everyone’s laps. To that end I created another policy that granted permissions to a shared S3 bucket I created, but only to a subfolder of the user’s IAM user name. The policy makes use of ${aws:username}, so there’s no need to create them per user.

#Identity And Access Management #Identity Provider #SSO 52 social mentions

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AWS DeepRacer

I’m Mark Ross, Lead Cloud Architect at Atos, specialising in AWS. I’ve been an AWS Ambassador since 2021 and joined the AWS Community Builder program in 2022. I’ve set-up an AWS focussed community interested in training, certification and working with AWS technologies with our customers, our Atos AWS Coaching Hub. Our most recent event is an AWS Deep Racer competition, to allow colleagues to get hands on and learn some reinforcement learning in a fun and gamified way.

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Amazon AWS

I’m Mark Ross, Lead Cloud Architect at Atos, specialising in AWS. I’ve been an AWS Ambassador since 2021 and joined the AWS Community Builder program in 2022. I’ve set-up an AWS focussed community interested in training, certification and working with AWS technologies with our customers, our Atos AWS Coaching Hub. Our most recent event is an AWS Deep Racer competition, to allow colleagues to get hands on and learn some reinforcement learning in a fun and gamified way.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #IaaS 360 social mentions

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Atos

I’m Mark Ross, Lead Cloud Architect at Atos, specialising in AWS. I’ve been an AWS Ambassador since 2021 and joined the AWS Community Builder program in 2022. I’ve set-up an AWS focussed community interested in training, certification and working with AWS technologies with our customers, our Atos AWS Coaching Hub. Our most recent event is an AWS Deep Racer competition, to allow colleagues to get hands on and learn some reinforcement learning in a fun and gamified way.

#Communication #CRM #Business & Commerce 3 social mentions