Clavis and AWS - Clavis Insight

1. © Clavis Insight
CLAVIS AND AWS
AMAZON AWS ENTERPRISE SUMMIT
DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 2016
Eamon Walsh, CTO Clavis Insight

2. AGENDA
1. Context
• What Clavis do
• The Challenge
2. Use of AWS
3. AWS Use case + description
4. Key business benefits of AWS
5. Conclusion

3. WHAT CLAVIS DO
Global leader in eCommerce measurement and execution for consumer product brands
100bn’s of product data points monitored across
~150 online retailers in over 20 countries
Used by 9 of the top 10 global CPG
companies and many more of the top 100

4. WHAT CLAVIS DO
SaaS - Dashboard with real-time data for management and operational teams

5. CHALLENGE
Very large data volumes
Complex Analytics on Large data volumes
SaaS with Very large numbers of users - High Availability
Global from the beginning
New Market – Evolving Requirements; be quick to market
and keep innovating

6. FLAGSHIP AWS USE CASE
Scaling, Auto-scaling:
Web application:
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk with load-balancer and autoscale
Data loading:
• Auto-scaling services listening on Amazon SQS
Next – Database volumes & number of users querying the DB
• Database Replication

7. SQL Autoscale Group
Elastic Beanstalk
DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
OVERVIEW
S3 BucketData Feeds
Q-er Q-er
SQS
Loader
(SQS consumer)
Loader
(SQS consumer)
RDS
RDS
(replica)
Services
(analysis, metadata,
product info, ldap…)
Elastic Beanstalk
Elastic Load
Balancer
EC2 Web
Server
EC2 Web
Server
Users
Route53 VPC SES CloudWatch IAMCloudformation
RDS
Lambda
Glacier

8. AWS TECHNOLOGIES USED
EC2 (via Elastic Beanstalk)
Elastic Load Balancer (via Elastic Beanstalk)
Elastic Beanstalk – manages and auto-scales deployed services
CloudFormation - for ease of system deployment
RDS (MySQL & Postgres) for Database – Easy to manage and scale
SQS – for Data ingest
S3 – Data Files
Glacier – Archive
Lambda – Trigger processing of files on S3
SES – Mail sending
VPC – Secure networks on AWS
Route53 – DNS
CloudWatch – monitoring
IAM – Access control to AWS
Future:
Redshift – Data Warehouse
EC2 Container Service

9. BENEFITS OF AWS TO CLAVIS
Low fixed IT costs - No data center, servers, fewer IT
Operations staff
Flexibility to evolve deployment and architecture
Fast and easy deployment for continuous integration of
software updates
Scaling - Vertical & Horizontal
Easy to deploy closer to the customer for Global reach
Extremely Reliable!
Range of Services available reduces effort to set up and
manage system

10. CONCLUSION – TAKE AWAY
Flexible & reliable platform for rapidly
scaling and evolving architecture

11. ©
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