Slides from the recent AWS High Availability Websites online seminar. Part two, covering dynamic web application hosting on Amazon EC2 and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

1. High Availability
Websites 2
D r. M AT T WO O D
T E C H N O LO GY E VA N G E L I S T

2. Part 2

3. AGENDA
High Performance Websites: Part 2
1. Availability
2. Static content
3. Multi-tier applications
4 . Per formance boost
5. Summar y

4. 2. Dynamic or
multi-tier content

5. Ruby on Rails
PHP
Django
Perl
Dynamic
Spring
Database
Java
Data store

6. Blogs
E-commerce Gaming
Dynamic
Productivity
Apps
Social networks

7. Elastic Multiple
capacit instance
y sizes
Amazon EC2
On-
deman
d

8. Masteri Multiple
ng availabilit
failure y zones
High availability
Automation
and
monitoring

9. H I G H AVA I L A B I L I T Y W I T H E C 2
Single server
fail over

10. Elastic IP
EC2 instance

11. Elastic IP
EC2 instance
EBS storage
EBS snapshot

12. Elastic IP
EC2 instance
EBS storage
EBS snapshot

13. Elastic IP
EC2 instance
EBS storage
EBS snapshot

14. Elastic IP
EC2 instance
EBS storage
EBS snapshot

15. Cheap, but not ideal

16. Requires monitoring
and automation
‘Hot swap’ possible

17. H I G H AVA I L A B I L I T Y W I T H E C 2
Horizontal
redundancy

18. Applications with
multiple tiers

19. Web servers
Application servers
Data store

20. Redundancy at
each tier

21. Web servers
Application servers
Data store

22. Tolerant to
instance failure

23. Web servers
Application servers
Data store

24. Tolerant to
AZ failure

25. eu-west-1 eu-west-2
Web servers
Application servers
Data store

26. Scale in and out
(if you need to)

27. Web servers
Application servers
Data store

28. Load balance

29. Elastic Load Balancer
Web servers
Application servers
Data store

30. Let’s take a look!

31. Spin up a
LAMP stack
+
Prepare for battle!

33. yum install apache
yum install php
yum install git
git clone <app>

34. MySQL server with
Amazon RDS

36. Endpoint

37. Configure app +
cut an AMI

38. Create Image

39. Spin up
horizontal
layer

41. 4

44. http://ec2-46-137-20-114.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

45. http://ec2-46-137-20-114.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

46. Load balance

53. Elastic Load Balancer
Web servers
Amazon RDS

54. Multiple AZ
deployment

55. eu-west-1b

56. eu-west-1b

58. eu-west-1a

59. eu-west-1b

60. Elastic Load Balancer
eu-west-1a eu-west-1b
Web servers
Amazon RDS

61. Recovery from
failure

62. Auto-healing &
autoscaling

63. ELB
CloudWatch Autoscaling

64. as-create-launch-config
PHPLaunchConfig
--image-id ami-132216677
--instance-type m1.large
--key amazon-web
--group "Web and SSH"

65. as-create-auto-scaling-group
PHPScalingGroup
--launch-configuration PHPLaunchConfig
--availability-zones eu-west-1a, eu-west-1b
--min-size 10
--max-size 10
--load-balancers lamp-load-balancer

66. as-create-or-update-trigger
CPUUtlization
DiskReadBytes
DiskReadOps
DiskWriteBytes
DiskWriteOps
NetworkIn
NetworkOut
DatabaseConnections
FreeStorageSpace
ReadLatency
ReadThroughput
SwapUsage
WriteLatency

67. Elastic Load Balancer
eu-west-1a eu-west-1b
Auto-scaling
web servers
Amazon RDS

68. Elastic Load Balancer
eu-west-1a eu-west-1b
Auto-scaling
web servers
MySQL Amazon RDS

69. H I G H AVA I L A B I L I T Y W I T H E C 2
Datastore
availability

70. Common single
point of failure

71. Performance
bottleneck

72. Amazon RDS

73. Multi-AZ
fail over

74. Multi-AZ Deployment

75. Synchronous
writes

76. Monitored state

77. Automatic restore
on failure

78. Elastic Load Balancer
eu-west-1a eu-west-1b
Auto-scaling
web servers
Amazon RDS

79. H I G H AVA I L A B I L I T Y W I T H E C 2
Climbing the
Beanstalk

80. AWS Elastic
Beanstalk

81. Automated,
managed
infrastructure

82. One click
deployment

83. Let’s take a look...

85. http://mza-php.elasticbeanstalk.com

87. Created load balancer

88. Created Auto Scaling launch config

89. Created Auto Scaling group

90. Created Auto Scaling trigger

91. Launching EC2 instances

92. Adding to AS group and ELB

93. Application available

94. “Classic”
infrastructure resources
under the hood

95. Apache Tomcat
+
JVM

96. No cost
(only pay for resources in use)

97. Bring your own
datastore

98. Elastic Beanstalk
Elastic Load Balancer
eu-west-1a eu-west-1b
Auto-scaling
web servers
Amazon RDS

99. Extra I G H A V A I L A B I L I T Y W I T H E C 2
H
credit!
Performance

100. Horizontal layers
are flexible

101. Add caching

102. HTTP cache
Web servers
Application servers
Data cache
Data store

103. HTTP cache
Web servers
Application servers
Data cache
Data store

104. Varnish:
HTTP reverse proxy

105. Memcached:
key/value store

106. May require
application refactor

107. Amazon RDS
read replicas

108. AGENDA
High Performance Websites
1. Availability
2. Static content
3. Multi-tier applications
4 . Per formance boost
5. Summar y

109. Importance of
high availability

110. Hosting assets on
Amazon S3

111. Content distribution with
Amazon CloudFront

112. Hosting static web content
on S3 and CloudFront

113. Web applications on
Amazon EC2

114. Designing for availability

115. Multi-tier application
hosting

116. Database management
with Amazon RDS

117. One click deployment with
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

118. Slides + video
available soon

119. Thank you!

120. Questions, comments:
mawood@amazon.com
@mza
on Twitter