Microsoft applications like SharePoint and Exchange are excellent candidates to move to the cloud, because they readily benefit from the scalability and low storage costs that Amazon Web Services offers. Review this webinar, led by the AWS Premier Consulting Partner Smartronix, to learn best practices in designing, building, and managing Microsoft workloads on AWS. Webinar topics include: • Cloud deployment options best suited to Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange environments • Governance, security, and compliance considerations when migrating Microsoft workloads • Proven methods for enabling enterprise-class Microsoft solutions on AWS.

1. Rapid and Reliable Implementation of
Microsoft Workloads on AWS

2. Webinar Overview
 Submit Your Questions using the Q&A tool.
 A copy of today’s presentation will be made available on:
 AWS SlideShare Channel@ http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/
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3. Introducing
Kyle Lichtenberg
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Robert Groat
Chief Technology Officer
Smartronix

4. What We’ll Cover
 Why customers choose Amazon Web Services for Microsoft Workloads
 Cloud deployment options best suited to Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange
environments
 Governance, security, and compliance considerations when migrating
Microsoft workloads
 Proven methods for enabling enterprise-class Microsoft solutions on AWS
 Q&A

5. Architected for Enterprise Security Requirements
Certifications and accreditations
for workloads that matter

6. Benefits of Scale
• Lower costs
– Pay only for what you use
– Multiple pricing models
– Price reductions
• Increased Agility
– Infrastructure in minutes
– Experiment more often with lower risk

7. Hand to Robert

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Rapid and Reliable Implementation of
Microsoft Workloads on AWS
March 13th , 2014

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A Clear Leader in Cloud Deployments

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Smartronix specializes in delivering enterprise class solutions in
the cloud. Our teams have successfully deployed:
• SQL Server 2008/2012
• Exchange 2007/2010/2013
• Lync 2010/2013
• SharePoint 2007/2010/2013
• Dynamics CRM
• FAST Search
• System Center Operation Manager, Data Protection Manager
• Forefront Unified Access Gateway
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Microsoft Technology Expertise on AWS

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Tooth Fairy
Microsoft Apps not supported on AWS
No license mobility Loch Ness Monster
Requires code re-writes
Different Management
Tools Required
Performance issues
Microsoft is more expensive on AWS
Armed chaos monkeys
Integration issues
Gartner Press Releases
Myths

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• Some of the world’s largest websites run on SharePoint
deployed on Amazon Web Services
– US Department of the Treasury – Treasury.gov, Recovery.gov
– Fortune 500 Intranets
– Amazon’s Internal Collaboration Environment
• Major Logistics Company runs Exchange, SharePoint and
Lync on AWS
• Exchange is one of the fastest growth segments with some
enterprises over 100,000 people
Customer Use Cases

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Why SharePoint on AWS?
Reliable
Time-to-Market
Agility
Scalable
Lower Cost
Highly Secure
Operational
Effectiveness

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• Benefits inherent to AWS
• Flexibility of deployment and customization
• Increased integration to line of business
• Internal facing farms can be connected via private circuits
• Migrate existing licenses to AWS (BYOL)
• Easily leverage private, non cloud content / Hybrid model
• Third party add-on ecosystem
SharePoint on AWS vs. Other SaaS Offerings

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Why Exchange on AWS?
Reliable
Time-to-Market
Agility
Scalable
Lower Cost
Highly Secure
Operational
Effectiveness
Upgrades

17. Internet
Region us-east-1
Availability Zone us-east-1a Availability Zone us-east-1d
VPC Subnet
10.x.x.x/xx
VPC Subnet
10.x.x.x/xx
VPC Subnet
10.x.x.x/xx
VPC Subnet
10.x.x.x/xx
Security Group FW-SG
Security Group INT-SG
Security Group INT-SG
Virtual Private Cloud
10.0.0.0/16
Internet Gateway
(Public) (Public)
(Private) (Private)
Mailbox Database Replication
Edge Firewall / Reverse Proxy
Client Access /
Hub Transport
Server
Client Access /
Hub Transport
Server
VPC Subnet VPC Subnet(Private) (Private)
10.x.x.x/xx 10.x.x.x/xx
Edge Firewall / Reverse Proxy
Security Group
Mailbox Server Mailbox Server
EXREPL-SG
File Share
Witness
Instance Type: m1.small
Active Directory Domain Controller
Active Directory Global Catalog
DNS Server
Instance Type: m1.small
Active Directory Domain Controller
Active Directory Global Catalog
DNS Server

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• Benefits inherent to AWS
• Host-based security or standards compliance; security agents, host monitoring, etc.
• Exchange-integrated third-party application support
• Migrate existing licenses to AWS (BYOL)
• Legacy public folder access if modern public folder migration is not possible
• Legacy, public folder-based free/busy scheduling access
• More control over geographic placement and partitioning of data and services
• Access to the full feature set of the deployed version of Exchange Server
• No need for ADFS to support SSO or hybrid deployment; your Active Directory forest
and Exchange Server organization are self-contained and controlled
Exchange on AWS vs. Other SaaS Offerings

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• No single point of failure
• Active / Active environment across AZs
• Domain Controllers across AZs
• DR/COOP Options
• Robust Monitoring
• Exchange
– Exchange Database Availability Groups across AZs
– Storage Availability
• SharePoint
– Robust SQL Mirroring / Always on Availability Groups
Best Practices - High Availability

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Traditional Approach:
- Replicate the infrastructure to DR site
- HA requires approximately double the cost
- Assets sit idle until needed
Cloud Optimized Approach
- Enable Active / Active load balanced approach utilizing half the resource
- Automate scale out if WFE goes down
- HA costs is only 40% higher in this scenario
- Management and Ops costs are also reduced
Best Practices - High Availability

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• Load balanced workloads
• Increase/decrease compute, RAM and storage
• SharePoint
– Linear scale by adding more WFEs
– Maximum scale by adding CDN such as CloudFront
• Exchange
– Linear scale by adding more servers or storage
Best Practices - High Scalability

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Traditional Approach
- Run all kinds of load and stress tests and trust Microsoft calculators to
properly size your infrastructure
- Over-buy compute and storage to adjust for growth or risk
Cloud Optimized Approach
- Run tests as a baseline estimate
- Right size servers as needed
- Adjust capacity on demand
Best Practices - High Scalability
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2K
3K
Time
Demand
AWS

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• Combine SCOM with Amazon CloudWatch, or use the
AWS Management Pack for Microsoft System Center
• Tag instance volumes to make it easy to identify them
in your monitoring tools
• Create a custom AMI for standardized configuration
• Automate your deployments via CloudFormation
templates and scripting
Best Practices, Tips and Tricks

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Highly Secure – Full control over security control implementation
Agility – Project finished in time it typically takes to procure and configure hardware
Scalable – Flexibility to increase storage or capacity as needed
Lower Cost – Minimal CapEx, Lower Operational Costs, Lower labor costs
Operational Effectiveness – Undifferentiated heavy lifting, lower cost of ownership
Responsive Performance – Finely tuned storage and compute
Reliable – Removed single points of failure including datacenter fault tolerance

25. Questions
Contacts:
Smartronix:
www.smartronix.com
http://www.cloudassured.com
AWS Contact:
aws.amazon.com/contact-us