3. Customer’s isolated AWS
resources
Subnets
NAT
Internet Router
VPN
gateway
Amazon
Secure VPN Web Services
connection over cloud
the Internet
Customer’s
network
9. “Using AWS’s cloud to operate the mars.jpl.nasa.gov website enables JPL to get images, videos and developments to the
public quickly, without having to build and operate the infrastructure in-house”.*
--Khawaja Shams, Senior Solution Architect, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Public Sector case study Organizational Benefits
• NASA JPL uses AWS to capture and store images and • Mars.jpl.nasa.gov website had the availability,
meta data collected from the Mars Exploration Rover and scalability and performance needed during live
Mars Science Laboratory missions. streaming of the Mars landing event.
• Right before landing, NASA/JPL was able to leverage the • Use of Amazon Route 53 and Elastic Load Balancing
AWS cloud to rapidly provision capacity and successfully enables NASA to balance load across AWS regions to
deliver engaging experiences of the mission to Mars to ensure the availability of its content under any
fans globally. circumstance.
*From: CloudTweaks News
Catherine Balavage
August 14, 2012
http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2012/08/amazon-reaches-mars/
10. “Our migration to the cloud took only 22 days from feasibility study to production.”
Recovery.gov --Jim Warren, Chief Information Officer, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board
Public Sector case study Organizational Benefits
• The RATB originally intended to use Amazon Web • Andre Romano of Newsweek wrote, “The current
Services (AWS) only for development, testing, and as incarnation of Recovery.gov…is perhaps the clearest,
failover richest interactive database ever produced by the
• The RATB now uses the following AWS services: Amazon American bureaucracy.”
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage • The Geospatial tools, based on ESRI software, allow up
Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic to 5,000 concurrent users and enables them to go
Load Balancing , and Amazon CloudWatch. directly to go to their communities of interest at the
state, zip, congressional district, or county level.
11. "I view this project as a Lewis and Clark expedition to the interior of the
human genome”
1000 Genomes Project - Stephen Sherry, Ph.D., Chief of the Reference Collections Section
Public Sector case study Organizational Benefits
• The 1000 Genomes Project is an international research • Researchers can use the Amazon EC2 utility computing
effort coordinated by a consortium of 75 companies and service to dive into this data without the usual capital
organizations to establish the most detailed catalogue of investment required to work with data at this scale.
human genetic variation. The project has grown to 200
terabytes of genomic data including DNA sequenced from • All 200 TB of the latest 1000 Genomes Project data is
more than 1,700 individuals that researchers can now available in a publicly available Amazon S3 bucket at
access on AWS for use in disease research. s3.amazonaws.com/1000genomes
12.
13. Logical Server Granular Logical Physical Government Only ITAR Sample Workloads
and Information Network Server Physical Network Compliant
Application Access Policy Isolation Isolation and Facility (US Persons
Isolation Isolation Only)
AWS public Public-facing apps &
regions web sites, critical
applications, FISMA
low & moderate
Amazon Virtual Data center extension,
Private Cloud TIC environment, some
(VPC) CUI, FISMA moderate
AWS GovCloud USP compliant, CUI
(US) and government-
specific apps