In this session, Peter De Santis, VP of Compute Services will provide an overview of the key priorities for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). In this session, you will hear about some of the most innovative ways in which customers are using Amazon EC2, learn more about key capabilities launched over the past year, and gain insights into the near term roadmap and priorities.

1. Amazon EC2 “State of the Union"
Peter DeSantis, VP, AWS Compute Services
November 14, 2013
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2. Seven years ago …

3. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/08/amazon_ec2_beta.html

4. Amazon EC2 – Seven years ago
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Single instance family and size
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m1.small (1 vCPU, 1.7 GiB RAM, 160 GB storage)
Linux only
On Demand pricing only
No AWS Management Console
No EBS
No Elastic IPs
No VPC
No Auto Scaling
No load balancing
Amazon EC2

5. Since then
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Many new families and sizes
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M1, M2, C1, M3, CC1, CC2, CG1, G2, CR1, HS1, HI1, T1
Reserved Instances and Spot Instances
Windows (and Enterprise Linux)
Auto Scaling
VPC
Elastic IPs
Performance, security, manageability, and
scalability improvements
Elastic
Load
Balancing
Management
Console

6. Amazon EC2 is designed to help you …
Simplify and automate dev, test
and production operations
Scale as required
Improve resiliency
Run applications securely
Run any application
Reduce your costs

7. How do we achieve these goals?
Simplify with Automation
APIs for everything
Scale
Spin up and down as needed
Save costs with Spot pricing
Automatically respond to demand
Improve Resilience
Multiple regions & Availability Zones
Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, etc. automat
AMI copy runs across regions

8. How do we achieve these goals?
Run securely
VPC
Resource-based permissions
Run Any Application
Multiple instance types/sizes
Many AMIs and operating systems
Lower Costs
Pay for what you use
Turn CapEx into Opex
Reserved Instances
Spot Instances

9. Collects operational and
performance metrics for 15
AWS services.
Amazon
CloudWatch
Get stats, graphs, email
alerts, and Amazon SQS or
http notifications.

10. Amazon CloudWatch – Improved Metrics Browsing
Search through all of your CloudWatch
metrics in seconds

11. Elastic Load Balancing
Automatically distributes incoming
traffic across EC2 instances
(within one AZ or multiple AZs)
Detects EC2 health, and routes
traffic appropriately
Elastic Load
Balancing
Manages availability and scalability
as a service

12. Amazon Route 53 health checks
Use Route 53’s health checking and DNS failover
features for applications running behind a load balancer
Increased redundancy and availability
Cross-zone load balancing
Improved application availability across AZs
Elastic Load
Balancing

13. Egress filtering on security groups
Changing SG membership on the fly
on running instances
Multiple IPs per instance
Multiple network interfaces per
instances
Private IPs only
Amazon VPC
Many other new features are VPC only

14. Virtual Private Clouds for Everyone
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The power of Amazon VPC and
the simplicity of Amazon EC2
New customers in most regions
launch instances into a default
VPC
Default VPC
– One default subnet per Availability
Zone
– A default route table,
preconfigured to send traffic from
the default subnets to the Internet
– An Internet gateway to allow traffic
to flow to and from the Internet

15. Resource-level Permissions
• Control which users are allowed to take specific actions,
e.g., run, stop, reboot, on which specific resources
• Can use specific resource IDs or use tags to control
access
• Coming soon: ability to tag on run
• Enforced at the API level
• Work with any IAM principal type
– Use these permissions in combination with identity federation tokens, MFAprotected access, and all of the other tools that IAM provides.

16. New Instances and Instance Features
• New instances give you access to the latest
technologies, e.g. Intel Xeon E5 (Ivy Bridge) and
the latest graphics capabilities
• Continue to drive up performance, improving
price-performance, and enabling new use cases

17. In the past 18 months
• HI1 instances – 120,000 random read IOPS on SSDs
• M3 instances – Next generation general purpose
instances
• HS1 instances – 48 TB of storage per instance for
petabyte scale data warehouses and Hadoop clusters
• CR1 instances – 244 GiB of memory and Intel Xeon E5
2670 (Sandy Bridge) CPUs for memory-intensive
computing
• EBS-optimized instances – Dedicated network
throughput to Amazon EBS for high storage performance

18. Just announced: G2 instances
• First Amazon EC2 instance that supports graphics
• Targeted towards remote graphics, application
streaming, and scientific computing
• Specifications (g2.2xlarge instances)
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1 NVIDIA GK104 GPU (Kepler)
2.6 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge) CPU
8 vCPUs, 15 GiB of RAM
60GB SSD storage
EBS-Optimized up to 1Gbps
64-bit, HVM Only

19. Customer Demo
• Medical Imaging product from Calgary Scientific
- Resolution MD

20. Just announced: C3 instances
• Next generation compute-optimized instances
• Deliver fast compute power - 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon
E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge) processors
• SSD-based instance storage
• Enhanced Networking
– More on this later

21. C3 Instance Specifications

22. Top 500 Result
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Cores: 26,496 (1656 instances)
484.18 tflops
~81% efficiency
#56 in June Top500
Cost: $3,974.40 per hour
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June Top500 fastest Ethernet based x86 cluster
#49 in June Top500
42,848 cores (60% more cores)
545.5 tflops (13% more performance)
~51% efficiency

23. Not just for huge clusters
• Cores: 8192 (512 instances)
• 163.9 tflops
• Cost: $1228.8 per hour
This cluster would have been in the top 250
clusters in the June Top500.

24. Coming soon: I2 instances
• Next generation High I/O instances
• More instance sizes
• More IOPS
– 350,000+ random read IOPS (4k)
– 320,000+ random write IOPS (4k)
• More memory
• Enhanced networking

25. I2 Instance Specifications

26. Enhanced networking
• Currently supported on C3 and I2 instances
• Requires HVM and VPC
• Enables very high PPS performance, lower
latency, and low jitter networking

27. Improved PPS performance
cc2.8xlarge
c3.8xlarge
c3.8xlarge (enhanced)

28. Low jitter network performance
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Latency (microseconds)
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P50
P90
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P99.9
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29. Reserved Instance Fundamentals
Save up to 65% off on-demand prices
Pay upfront to secure discounts over the term of the
Reserved Instance
Reserved Instance Purchase Parameters
1 or 3 year terms
Light, medium or heavy utilization
Ideal for
Securing savings for predictable workloads
Capacity reservations to assure capacity is available for you when you need it

30. Improving Reserved Instance Flexibility

31. Amazon EC2 Usage Reports (Coming Soon)
• Two new interactive reports which provide visibility
into historical EC2 instance usage and spending.
Filter, group and scope data as needed.
– Instance Usage Report – hourly, daily or monthly grain usage and
cost data for EC2 instances which can be easily filtered and
grouped on availability zone, instance type, consolidated billing
account, purchase option and others.
– Reserved Instance Utilization Report – Contains the calculation
of hourly and total cost, savings vs. on demand, and average
utilization for already purchased Reserved Instances.

32. Instance Usage Report

34. Updated AWS Management Console
• Focus on improved usability and discoverability
• New look and feel

35. AWS Marketplace Integration
Browse, search, discover
and launch thousand of AWS
Marketplace AMIs directly
from within the Amazon EC2
console.

36. Other Amazon EC2 Console Improvements
Choose the instance
type most suitable for
your use case using the
new grouping and
instance specifications.
Easily tag your
resources with autocomplete as you type
into the field.
Use existing security
group rules to create a
new one without starting
from scratch.
You can now search for
EBS volume when you
add storage as part of an
instance launch.

37. Q&Antil
2:30PMp.m.
Until 2:30PM

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