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| [SES](#ses) | [📗](#ses-basics) | [📘](#ses-tips) | [📙](#ses-gotchas-and-limitations) |
| [Certificate Manager](#certificate-manager) | [📗](#certificate-manager-basics) | [📘](#certificate-manager-tips) | [📙](#certificate-manager-gotchas-and-limitations) |
| [WAF](#waf) | [📗](#waf-basics) | [📘](#waf-tips) | [📙](#waf-gotchas-and-limitations) |
| [OpsWorks](#opsworks) | [📗](#opsworks-basics) | [📘](#opsworks-tips) | [📙](#opsworks-gotchas-and-limitations) |
**Special Topics**
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- As of December 2016, WAF is available in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and EU (Ireland) regions.
OpsWorks
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### OpsWorks Basics
- 📒 [Homepage](https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/) ∙ [Documentation](https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/opsworks/) ∙ [FAQ](https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/faqs/) ∙ [Pricing - Stacks](https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/stacks/pricing/) ∙ [Pricing - ChefAutomate](https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/chefautomate/pricing/)
- OpsWorks is a configuration management service that relies heavy on [Chef](https://www.chef.io/chef/) for configuration-as-code deployment automation. The service lets you configure and launch stacks specific to your application's needs.
- There are numerous options, in and out of AWS, that let you automate application deployments. The separating factor between OpsWorks and other configuration management services (Elastic Beanstalk for example) is that OpsWorks specializes in letting you control the details of the systems your application runs on, where a service like Elastic Beanstalk simplifies this to focus on application configuration.
- [OpsWorks Stacks](https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/stacks/) allows you to run your deployment stacks both in the AWS cloud as well as on your own hardware on-premises.
- [OpsWorks for ChefAutomate](https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/chefautomate/) provides a managed Chef configuration management server for your deployment pipeline. This server stores configuration tasks and provides them to your deployment nodes without manual intervention, in addition to providing other management and monitoring features.
- As of December 2016, OpsWorks Stacks supports Chef versions [12, 11.10.4, 11.4.4 and 0.9.15.5](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/workingcookbook.html).
- As of December 2016, OpsWorks for ChefAutomate uses [Chef Server version 12.11.1](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/welcome_opscm.html) This is the current stable version of Chef.
- [Berkshelf can be used](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/workingcookbook-chef11-10.html#workingcookbook-chef11-10-berkshelf) with Chef stacks of version 11.10 and later for managing cookbooks and their respective dependencies.
- Running your own Chef environment may be an alternative to consider - some considerations are listed [in this Bitlancer article.](http://www.bitlancer.com/blog/2015/10/05/opsworks-vs-chef.html)
- A key difference between running OpsWorks and rolling your own Chef environment is that the latter allows the scheduling of Chef runs, while the former has Chef runs occur according to lifecycle hooks.
### OpsWorks Alternatives and Lock-in
- Major competitors to Chef include [Puppet](https://puppet.com/product/how-puppet-works) and [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/how-ansible-works).
### OpsWorks Tips
- [OpsWorks relies heavily on Chef cookbooks and recipes](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/gettingstarted-cookbooks.html) for customization, so familiarity with reading their syntax will help greatly with getting up and running.
### OpsWorks Gotchas and Limitations
- Although OpsWorks will let you work with common Chef recipes when creating your stacks, creating custom recipes will require familiarity with Chef syntax.
- As of December 2016, OpsWorks is available in all regions except Canada, GovCloud (US), and China (Beijing).
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