Here are the slides from Monica Lora's session at Pilvekonverents 2018 held in Tallinn, Estonia.

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Monica Lora, AWS Solutions Architect
monlora@amazon.com
March 2018
Amazon - A culture of Innovation
powered by AWS
Pilvekonverents 2018, Tallinn
@monlorag

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Who is Amazon?

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We want to be earth’s most
customer centric company

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A look back at our story.

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2001

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Monolith development lifecycle
developers
releasetestbuild
delivery pipelineapp

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2001
Development transformation at Amazon: 2001-2009
2009
monolithic
application + teams
microservices + 2 pizza teams

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Amazon achieves speed and agility with
Two-Pizza teams

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Things went much
better under this
model and teams were
releasing faster than
ever, but we felt that
we could still improve.

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In 2009, we ran a
study to find out
where inefficiencies
might still exist

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We were just waiting.
WaitWrite
Code WaitBuild
Code WaitDeploy
to Test
Deploy
to Prod

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• Self-service
• Technology-agnostic
• Encourage best practices
• Single-purpose services

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• Deployment service
• No downtime deployments
• Health tracking
• Versioned artifacts and
rollbacks

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Pipelines
• Continuous delivery
• Automated release
process
• Faster and more reliable
releases
• >90% of teams

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Microservice development lifecycle
developers delivery pipelinesservices
releasetestbuild
releasetestbuild
releasetestbuild
releasetestbuild
releasetestbuild
releasetestbuild

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Innovations at Amazon
Drone Development
Advanced Shopping
Kindle Reader In-house
Entertainment
Grocery Delivery
Video Streaming
Home AutomationCloud Computing

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AWS Pace of Innovation

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Today
+90services

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Duolingo voices its language learning service Using Polly
Duolingo is a free language learning service where
users help translate the web and rate translations.
With Amazon Polly our users
benefit from the most lifelike
Text-to-Speech voices
available on the market.
Severin Hacker
CTO, Duolingo
”
“
• Spoken language crucial for language
learning
• Accurate pronunciation matters
• Faster iteration thanks to TTS
• As good as natural human speech

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Early detection of diabetic
complications

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FDA-approved
medical imaging

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Online grocery
delivery services

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Today
Millions
of customers
22,000
Non profit
organizations
2,300
government
agencies
7,000
Education
institutions

28. Some customers from the Nordics and Baltics

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What’s the real power of the
cloud?

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Monica Lora, AWS Solutions Architect
monlora@amazon.com
March 2018
Thank you!
Pilvekonverents 2018, Tallinn
@monlorag