Review this presentation of Amazon Web Services' (AWS) to learn about the newly-launched ‘HE Portal’, created by AWS, Janet and Arcus Global. The Portal enables users in the Janet community to procure AWS cloud services with new, additional benefits including: • monthly invoicing (no credit cards required for payment) • itemized billing, consolidated across users/departments • billing in GBP, not dollars • the ability to set spending-limits per user, or by department • volume-discounts through aggregation across multiple HE institutions In the webinar you will find out how to sign up to the Portal, and hear a short overview of AWS technologies and how they are being used by universities, researchers and schools around the world, to reduce costs, shorten academic projects, and increase the speed and impact of research. The webinar is aimed at any user in the Janet community (in HE, FE or schools) with an interest in AWS (whether or not an existing AWS user), and at System Administrators who could act as central points of contact for consolidated, multi-user billing.

1. Introduction to the HE Portal
Amazon Web Services, Janet & Arcus Global
Ed Jackson, AWS
Steven Bryen, AWS
Peter Male, Arcus GlobalJohn Milner, Janet

2. • Introduction (Ed Jackson, AWS)
• Reasons for creating the HE Portal (John Milner, Janet)
• AWS in Higher Education & Research (Steven Bryen, AWS)
• Introduction to Arcus Global (Peter Male, Arcus Global)
• Portal demonstration (Peter Male, Arcus Global)
• Q&A
• Next steps
Agenda

3. Janet and Arcus/AWS

4. Janet Cloud Context

5. Janet Cloud Future

6. Janet Portal from ARCUS
• Portal to provide coherent admin facility to set up AWS
accounts and tie them back to monthly billing and
budgets
• Does not interfere with end user engagement with AWS
services once they have an account
• Existing Accounts can be tied to the portal
• Institutions and/or departments can sign up to the Portal
• Expect improved Ts and Cs
• Expect management information to facilitate access to
AWS volume discounts

7. Education & Research on AWS

8. “We now have access to the kind of
serious parallel processing
that we need to implement model runs in
feasible timescales and the storage to deal
with the massive model output.”

9. Old World:
Infrastructure in
weeks
AWS:
Infrastructure in
minutes
Add New Dev Environment
Add New Prod Environment
Add New DR Environment
Add 1,000 Servers
Remove 1,000 Servers
Deploy 10,000 Core HPC Cluster
Shut down 10,000 Core HPC Cluster
#1: Agility - Reducing the ‘time to science’

10. A Culture of Innovation: Experiment Often & Fail Without Risk

11. A broad and deep platform helps customers
build sophisticated, scalable applications
#2: Platform Breadth

12. 10 regions
26 availability zones
46 edge locations
AWS Global Infrastructure

13. Support CertificationTrainingProfessional Services
Technology Partners Consulting Partners AWS MarketplaceEcosystem
Elastic Beanstalk OpsWorks CloudFormationContainers & Deployment (PaaS)
Management &
AdministrationIAM CloudWatchCloudTrail APIs and SDKsManagement ConsoleCloud HSM Command Line Interface
Direct Connect Route 53VPC
Networking
Analytics
Data PipelineRedshiftEMR Kinesis SWFSNS SQS CloudSearchSES AppStreamCloudFront
Application Services
WorkSpaces
Regions Availability Zones Content Delivery POPs
Storage GatewayS3 EBS Glacier Import/Export DynamoDB ElastiCache
StorageCompute Databases
RDS
MySQL, PostgreSQL
Oracle, SQL Server
Elastic Load BalancerEC2 Auto Scaling
AWS Services Overview

14. Research/HE Use Cases on AWS
High Performance Computing (HPC)
Storage & Backup
Lecture Capture
Development and Test
University and Departmental Websites
Learning/Course Management Systems
Distance Learning
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Disaster Recovery
Student Information System Software
Virtual Desktops
Datacentre Migrations
Student Lab Environments

15. Big Data Services
Amazon EMR AWS Data Pipeline AWS Redshift AWS Kinesis
Hosted Hadoop Framework
Move Data among AWS
Services and on-premises
data sources
Petabyte-Scale Data
Warehouse Service
Real time processing of
streaming data, at any scale

16. 156,000 compute Cores
1.21 PetaFLOPS
throughput (not RMax)
264 years of computing in
just 18 hours
$33k as compared to
$68million

17. #3: Continual Iteration and Innovation
AWS continuously upgrades
infrastructure, so you don’t have to

18. 2008 2009 2010 2011
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2
Amazon SNS
AWS Identity
& Access
Management
AWS Import
& Export
Amazon
CloudWatch
Amazon EMR
Amazon RDS
Amazon VPC
Auto Scaling
Elastic Load
Balancing
Amazon
ElastiCache
Amazon SES
AWS
CloudFormation
AWS Direct
Connect
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
GovCloud
Amazon SWF
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Glacier
Amazon
Dynamo DB
Amazon
CloudSearch
Amazon EC2
AWS Storage
Gateway
Amazon
CloudTrail
Amazon
CloudHSM
Amazon
WorkSpaces
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Elastic
Transcoder
Amazon
AppStream
AWS OpsWorks
AWS Data
Pipeline
AWS Rapid Pace of Innovation
20132012
Since inception AWS has:
• Released 810 new services and features
• Introduced over 35 major new services
• Announced 42 price reductions
2014
Amazon
WorkSpaces

19. Arcus / Janet Higher Education Portal
Arcus Global and Portal Introduction

20. About Arcus Global
• Founded July 2009
• Cambridge UK based
• Key reseller for Amazon Web Services to the Public Sector
• Offers many leading Cloud Products and Services:

21. Janet Arcus AWS HE Portal
• Purpose built by Arcus for HE in UK
• Designed and shaped by real HE Users during pilot (Dec 13 – May 14):
University of Cambridge, Newcastle, York, Manchester, JANET and others
– The Portal enables users in the Janet community to procure AWS cloud services
with new, additional benefits including:
– monthly invoicing (no credit cards required for payment)
– itemized billing, consolidated across users/departments
– billing in GBP
– Ability to Prepay for services
– the ability to set spending-limits per user, or by department
– volume-discounts through aggregation across multiple HE institutions

22. Janet Arcus AWS HE Portal
Demonstration

23. Please submit your questions using the
‘chat’ function.

24. Summary & Next Steps
• Contact support@arcusglobal.com for access to the Portal
• Nominate your Portal Administrator, or let us help you find them
• $50 credit for the first 100 users who sign up before 30 June