AWS is constantly expanding our global footprint, enabling local customers to run applications and store their content in data centers right here in Hong Kong, with the launch of our brand-new Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. In this session, you will learn about the latest services available with the new region that's most related and valuable to enterprises and how these services can help to take your business to the next level.

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H O N G K O N G
10.18.19
Leveraging AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
Region for Enterprise Innovations
Hong Chan
Platform Business Development Manager
Greater China, AWS

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AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region Launched April 2019

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AWS Global Infrastructure

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$33B
Revenue run rate
37%
Y/Y Growth
75
Price Reduction
since 2006
Millions of active customers

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide, Raj Bala, Bob Gill, Dennis Smith, David Wright, July 2019. ID
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AWS Recognized as
a Cloud Leader for the
9th Consecutive Year

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Fourth Quarter Growth in Cloud Services Tops off a Banner Year for
Cloud Providers
“Amazon, the clear
market leader, nudged
its market share upwards
and remains equivalent
in size to its next four
competitors combined.”
Source: https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/fourth-quarter-growth-cloud-services-tops-banner-year-cloud-providers
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#Servicesandfeaturesreleased
AWS’ History of Innovation
• Customer-driven services and features
• 90% of roadmap originates with customer
requests

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Paris
Cape Town
Hong Kong
Sweden
AWS GovCloud East
First 5 years: 4 regions
2016–2019: 10 regions and 1 local region
Next 5 years: 7 regions
Milan
Coming soon: 3 regions
Bahrain
Jakarta
Regional Expansion

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AWS Global Infrastructure
22 Geographical Regions, 1 Local Region, 69 Availability Zones, 187 POPs
* Available to select AWS customers who request access. Customers wishing to use the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Local Region should speak with their sales representative.

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AWS Global Infrastructure Components
AWS Global
Infrastructure
Regions
Availability
Zones
Data
Centers
Points of
Presence
(PoP)
Network
Custom
Hardware

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• Premium features with premium price
• General designs burdened with
unnecessary features
• Not design for hyperscale
• Expensive distribution network
• Complexity equals cost
Old hardware paradigm … why it doesn’t work

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• Work directly with component
manufacturers like memory, HDD, CPU
• Design optimized for specific workloads
• Hardware and software not burdened
with unnecessary features
• Innovation to scale and cost down
Advantages of purpose-build custom servers

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Optical fiber with 3,456 strands Optical fiber with 6,912 strands
Innovation
to lower costs

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AWS Custom Hardware
Load Balancers Custom SoftwareRouters Custom compute
servers and
semiconductors
Silicon

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• Fully isolated infrastructure with
multiple datacenters
• Meaningful distance of separation
• Unique power infrastructure
• Many 100Ks of servers at scale
• Data centers connected via fully
redundant and isolated metro fiber
Availability Zones

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Anatomy of an AWS Region
Metro Fiber: Intra-AZ Connections
Most with 3+ AZs Some with as many as 6 AZs-Intra-AZ connections

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Most with 3+ AZs Some with as many as 6 AZs-Intra-AZ connections
Anatomy of an AWS Region
Metro Fiber: Inter-AZ Connections
-Inter-AZ connections

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-Intra-AZ connections
Anatomy of an AWS Region
Redundant Transit Centers
-Inter-AZ connections -Transit Center connections
2 redundant Transit Centers Highly peered & connected

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Anatomy of an AWS Region
AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region

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How do AWS object storage classes differ in design?
Availability Zone
Availability Zone
S3 Standard
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
S3 Standard-IA
Availability Zone
S3 One Zone-IA
AWS Region AWS Region
S3 Glacier
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
Availability Zone

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designed for
99.99%
durability
Two copies on one site
designed for
99.999%
durability
One copy on two
sites
designed for
99.999999999%
durability
GlacierStandard IA
AWS Region
Understanding S3’s Durability
10,000 objects stored customers can expect to lose
a single object every 1,000,000 years.
0n-Premise

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Benefits of the AWS Global Infrastructure
Security ReliabilityAvailability
Low Cost
Scalability Performance

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Key Services Available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
Amazon
RDS
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
ElastiCache
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon
Aurora
Amazon ECS
AWS
Lambda
AWS
Step Function
Amazon EC2
Amazon EBS
Amazon EMRAWS DMS
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Amazon
Kinesis
Amazon API
Gateway
Amazon
SQS
Amazon
SNS
X1 instance
AWS Fargate
AWS Batch
Amazon EKS
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
Amazon ECRAWS KMS
Amazon S3
Amazon
S3 Glacier
AWS
CloudHSM
AWS
CloudFormation
AWS
CloudTrail
AWS
Config
AWS
CodeDeploy
AWS IAM
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS Certificate
Manager
Direct
Connect
VPN
Amazon
VPC
Elastic Load
Balancing
AWS Glue
AWS X-Ray Amazon
GuardDuty
AWS
Security Hub
AWS
Storage Gateway
Amazon
SageMaker
AWS
Snowball Edge
AWS
Cloud Map
Amazon Athena AWS IoT
Core
AWS IoT
Device Management

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Connectivity Options

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Private connectivity with VPN
On premises
IPsec tunnel 1 - primary
IPsec tunnel 2- secondary
Virtual private
gateway
VGW
IPsec tunnel over
the internet
Customer
gateway
CGW
The internet

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Customer or
partner cage
Service provider
network
AWS Direct Connect gateway
AWS Region
On premises
AWS Direct Connect location
AWS cage
Cross connect
10.0.0.0/16
192.168.0.0/16
Private VIF
10.2.0.0/16
VGW
VGW
One private VIF  many VPCs
AWS Direct
Connect
gateway

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Customer or
partner cage
Service provider
network
AWS Direct Connect gateway
AWS Region 1
On premises
AWS Direct Connect location
AWS cage
Cross Connect
10.0.0.0/16
192.168.0.0/16
Private VIF
10.2.0.0/16
VGW
VGW
One private VIF  many VPCs across regions
AWS Region 2
AWS Direct
Connect
gateway

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Customer or
partner cage
Service provider
network
AWS Direct Connect gateway
AWS Account 1
On premises
AWS Direct Connect location
AWS cage
Cross connect
10.0.0.0/16
192.168.0.0/16
Private VIF
10.2.0.0/16
VGW
VGW
One private VIF  many VPCs across accounts
AWS Account 2
AWS Direct
Connect
gateway
Multi-account DX gateway

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Hong Kong Direct Connect POP
iAdvantage Mega-iEquinix HK1

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Internet
Account Account
Account Account
Development
Account Account
Account Account
Testing
Account Account
Account Account
Production
Outbound
URL filtering
NAT gateway
DLP / Proxy
Edge
services
WAF / ADC
SD-WAN
VPN / Firewall
IDS / IPS
Firewall / NGFW
Inline services
Shared services
Authentication, Monitoring
VPN
Account Account Account Account
Administrative accounts (logging, AWS Organizations, billing, landing zone)
IAM, Cross-account roles
Route
tables
Route
tables
Transit Gateway East-West +
North-South
AWS Transit Gateway Reference Architecture

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China Office Access
China
POP
AWS China
VPC
HK
POP
Private
Backbone
AWS Global
VPC
Direct Connect
gateway
VPC
Router Router
Direct
Connect
Direct
Connect
China AWS Interconnect
Cross-Border Connectivity to China
Provided by authorized 3rd party carriers
Provided by authorized 3rd party carriers
HK
POP
AWS Global
VPC
Direct Connect
gateway
VPC
Router
Direct
Connect
Office
China
Router

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Your Hong Kong Region 1st Workload
- Data Storage

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Data is a strategic asset
for every organization
The world’s most
valuable resource is no
longer oil, but data.*
*Copyright: The Economist, 2017, David Parkins

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Data
AWS cloud storage is core
…yielding bigger
insights…
…helping you
innovate faster…
…gives you unique
scale and unmatched
durability
Building on or
migrating an
application to
AWS…

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Amazon FSx
for Lustre
More choice for more applications
Object storage
classes
S3 Standard
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
S3 Glacier
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
S3 One Zone-IA
S3 Standard-IA
Block storage
volume types
Provisioned IOPS SSD
Cold HDD
Throughput-Optimized HDD
File storage classes
EFS Standard
EFS Infrequent Access
Elastic
Amazon EFS AWS Storage
Gateway Family
Amazon S3
Amazon FSx
for Windows
File ServerAmazon EBS
Amazon EC2
Backup
AWS Backup

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What are customers building?
Backup &
Restore
Non-disruptive
Easy place to
start
Integrated with
all major vendors
Archive &
Compliance
Media workflows
Tape replacement
Public Sector,
FinServ,
Healthcare/Life
Sciences
Home
Directories
Simple to move
Less latency
sensitive
Significant cost
savings
Data Lakes
Variety of
analytics tools
Foundation for
AI/ML
Built for
streaming data
Data
visualization
Business-
Critical
Applications
Integrated with
major vendors
Fully managed
infrastructure
Lift-and-shift
migrations

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Backup, Restore, and Archive
Backup, Restore, &
Archive Data
Amazon S3
Amazon EFS
AWS Storage
Gateway (optional)

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AWS Tape Gateway
Benefits
On-Premise
iSCSI VTL
Tape Gateway
HTTPS
Application
Virtual tapes
Tape drives
Media changer
AWS Storage Gateway Service
(S3 Glacier Deep Archive)
• Acts as drop-in replacement for your physical tape infrastructure
• Allows you to backup & archive data to AWS without changing your backup applications or workflows
• Reduces your TCO compared to using physical tapes and offsite warehousing
• Provides compliance* and security features
OR (S3 Glacier)
* HIPAA, PCI, SOC (1, 2, 3), ISO (9001, 27001, 27017, 27018)
Tape library
(Amazon S3)
Tape Shelf

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Customers want to migrate to the cloud
Relational
databases
Non-relational
databases
Data
warehouses
Hadoop
and Spark
Redshift EMR
Operational
analytics
Elasticsearch
Service
Aurora DynamoDBRDS

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Data Lakes
Consolidate
all your data
Process, analyze &
visualize
Simplified data lake
management
Machine Learning
S3
Lake Formation & AWS Glue
Snowball Kinesis
Data Streams
Snowmobile Kinesis
Data Firehose
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon
EMR
Athena
Kinesis
Amazon ES
Amazon
SageMaker
Comprehend
Amazon
Rekognition

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AWS Snowball
AWS Snowball Edge
Compute or Storage Optimized AWS Snowmobile
• 80-TB storage capacity
• 10GE networking
• Data encryption end-to-end
• Rugged 8.5-G impact case
• Rain and dust-resistant
• 42 or 100-TB storage capacity
• Data encryption end-to-end
• Rugged 8.5-G impact case
• Rain and dust resistant
• AWS Greengrass support for local
compute, messaging, and caching
• EC2/AMI support for edge
compute
• Optional GPU
• Exabyte-scale storage in a 45-ft
container
• Data encryption end-to-end
• Dedicated security personnel
• GPS tracking, alarm monitoring,
24/7 surveillance, and optional
additional security
AWS Snow Family

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Move large volumes into the cloud
Moving large volumes of data over the internet can
take years
The cloud is not always accessible from remote
locations where connectivity is limited or
intermittent
Traditional shipping of conventional hard drives is
laborious and error prone
AWS Snowball AWS Snowball Edge

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Need for edge analytics in remote and harsh environments
Various industries ranging from research to transportation necessitate edge
computing capabilities to help cope with environments where data generation is
decentralized, data volumes are significant, and network connectivity is either
inaccessible or intermittent.
Research Industrial Healthcare Transportation
https://youtu.be/cQfxchz-yNI
Insomniac's Electric Daisy Carnival
Collecting and managing content captured from 130,000 people at an electronica festival in the desert? It's what Snowball Edge
was made for. Hear Insomniac's David Chen talk about how he replaced disk drives and storage arrays for his temporary,
intensive media production networks all around the world.

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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-hong-kong-region/

46. Thank you!
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Hong Chan
tszhong@amazon.com