Webinar for Getting Started on AWS

1. What is AWS ?
Ganesh Raja – Solutions Architect
graja@amazon.com

2. A broad and deep platform helps customers
build sophisticated, scalable applications
AWS Platform

3. Broad and deep services to support any cloud workload
AWS Global Infrastructure
Application Services
Networking
Deployment & Administration
DatabaseStorageCompute

4. Unmatched platform and geographic breadthSpeed to deployment
+
Support Virtually Every Use Case (for Today and
Tomorrow)

5. It’s Not Just Having Services in a Couple of Regions
10 Regions
26 Availability Zones
51 Edge Locations

6. Lower Costs with AWS Up-Front and Increase Savings as
Your Usage Grows
Source: IDC Whitepaper, sponsored by
Amazon, “The Business Value of Amazon
Web Services Accelerates Over Time.”
July 2012
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“Average of 400 servers
replaced per customer”
Replace up-front
capital expense with
low variable cost
2
42 Price
Reductions
Economies of scale
allow us to continually
lower costs
3
Pricing model choice
to support variable &
stable workloads
4
Save more money as
you grow bigger
On-demand
Reserved
Spot
Tiered Pricing
Volume Discounts

7. AWS Services
Ganesh Raja – Solutions Architect
graja@amazon.com

8. AWS Reference Architecture
AWS Global Infrastructure
Application Services
Networking
Deployment & Administration
DatabaseStorageCompute

9. Virtual Private Cloud
Private, isolated section of the AWS Cloud
Launch resources in a virtual network that you define
complete control over your virtual networking environment
Internet
Networking
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

10. Route 53
Highly available and scalable Domain Name System
Extremely reliable and cost effective
Feature Details
Global Supported from AWS global edge locations for
fast and reliable domain name resolution
Scalable Automatically scales based upon query volumes
Latency based
routing
Supports resolution of endpoints based upon
latency, enabling multi-region application
delivery
Integrated Integrates with other AWS services allowing
Route 53 to front load balancers, S3 and EC2
Secure Integrates with IAM giving fine grained control
over DNS record access
Networking
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

11. AWS Reference Architecture
AWS Global Infrastructure
Application Services
Networking
Deployment & Administration
DatabaseStorageCompute

12. Vertical Scaling
From $0.02/hr
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Basic unit of compute capacity
Range of CPU, memory & local disk options
35 Instance types available, from micro to cluster compute
Feature Details
Flexible Run windows or Linux distributions
Scalable Wide range of instance types from micro to cluster
compute
Machine Images Configurations can be saved as machine images
(AMIs) from which new instances can be created
Full control Full root or administrator rights
Secure Full firewall control via Security Groups
Monitoring Publishes metrics to Cloud Watch
Inexpensive On-demand, Reserved and Spot instance types
VM Import/Export Import and export VM images to transfer
configurations in and out of EC2
Compute
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

13. G2
GPU
enabled
M3
General
purpose
Memory
optimized
R3
CR1M2
Storage and IO
optimized
C3
Compute
optimized
CC2C1
I2
HI1
HS1
CG1M1
Broad Set of Compute Instance Types…

14. …Connected by a World-class Network
High packets-per-
second performance
Low jitter EBS-optimized
instances
Virtual network
interfaces
Physical placement
optimization
Slow Fast
High throughput,
low latency

15. Auto-scaling
Automatic re-sizing of compute clusters based upon demand
Trigger auto-scaling
policy
Feature Details
Control Define minimum and maximum instance pool sizes
and when scaling and cool down occurs
Integrated to
CloudWatch
Use metrics gathered by CloudWatch to drive
scaling
Instance types Run auto scaling for on-demand instances and spot.
Compatible with VPC
as-create-auto-scaling-group MyGroup
--launch-configuration MyConfig
--availability-zones eu-west-1a
--min-size 4
--max-size 200
Compute
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

16. Elastic Load Balancing
Create highly scalable applications
Distribute load across EC2 instances in multiple
availability zones
Feature Details
Auto-scaling Automatically scales to handle request volume
Available Load balance across instances in multiple availability
zones
Health checks Automatically checks health of instances and takes
them in or out of service
Session stickiness Route requests to the same instance
Secure sockets layer Supports SSL offload from web and application
servers with flexible cipher support
Monitoring Publishes metrics to Cloud Watch
Compute
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

17. AWS Reference Architecture
AWS Global Infrastructure
Application Services
Networking
Deployment & Administration
DatabaseStorageCompute

18. S3 - Durable storage, any object
99.999999999% durability of objects
Unlimited storage of objects of any type
Up to 5TB size per object
Feature Details
Flexible object store Buckets act like drives, folder structures within
Access control Granular control over object permissions
Server-side encryption 256bit AES encryption of objects
Multi-part uploads Improved throughput & control
Object versioning Archive old objects and version new ones
Object expiry Automatically remove old objects
Access logging Full audit log of bucket/object actions
Web content hosting Serve content as web site with built in page handling
Notifications Receive notifications on key events
Import/Export Physical device import/export service
Storage
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

19. Elastic Block Store
High performance block storage device
1GB to 1TB in size
Mount as drives to instances
Feature Details
High performance file
system
Mount EBS as drives and format as required
Flexible size Volumes from 1GB to 1TB in size
Secure Private to your instances
Performance Use provisioned IOPS to get desired level of IO
performance
Available Replicated within an Availability Zone
Backups Volumes can be snapshotted for point in time restore
Monitoring Detailed metrics captured via Cloud Watch
Storage
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

20. Glacier
Low-cost storage service
Secure and durable storage for backup and archive
For data that is infrequently accessed
Feature Details
Low cost $0.01/GB/month with no up-front capital
commitments
Durable Same 99.999999999% durability as S3
Flexible Store any amount of data on-demand. Eliminate the
need for capacity planning
Secure Leverage AWS’ robust security platform.
Control access to your data.
API REST-based API to send and receive data
Import/Export Optionally use portable storage devices to
import/export mass data
Vault inventory Index for real-time view of the contents of the vault
Storage
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

21. AWS Reference Architecture
AWS Global Infrastructure
Application Services
Networking
Deployment & Administration
DatabaseStorageCompute

22. Relational Database Service
Database-as-a-Service
No need to install or manage database instances
Scalable and fault tolerant configurations
Feature Details
Platform support Create MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle RDBMS
Preconfigured Get started instantly with sensible default settings
Automated patching Keep your database platform up to date
automatically
Backups Automatic backups and point in time recovery and
full DB backups
Provisioned IOPS Specify IO throughput depending on requirements
Failover Automated failover to slave hosts in event of a
failure
Replication Easily create read-replicas of your data and
seamlessly replicate data across availability zones
Database
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

23. AWS Reference Architecture
AWS Global Infrastructure
Application Services
Networking
Deployment & Administration
DatabaseStorageCompute

24. CloudFront
World-wide content distribution network
Easily distribute content to end users with low latency,
high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.
Feature Details
Fast Multiple world-wide edge locations to serve
content as close to your users as possible
Integrated with other
services
Works seamlessly with S3 and EC2 origin servers
Dynamic content Supports static and dynamic content from origin
servers
Streaming Supports rtmp from S3 and includes support for
live streaming from Adobe FMS and Microsoft
Media Server
London
Paris
NY
Served from S3
/images/*
3
Served from EC2
*.php
2
Single CNAME
www.mysite.com
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Application Services
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

25. AWS Reference Architecture
AWS Global Infrastructure
Application Services
Networking
Deployment & Administration
DatabaseStorageCompute

26. Elastic Beanstalk
One-click deployment from Eclipse, Visual Studio and Git
Rapid deployment of applications
All AWS resources automatically created
Feature Details
Platform support Containers for Java, .NET and PHP
Resource creation Creates load balancer, instances, auto scaling and
monitoring automatically
Monitoring & Logs Integrated with Cloud Watch and consolidates
server logs
Versioning Manage versions of applications and easily rollback
deployments
Notifications Receive alerts on key events
Full resource access Access all underlying AWS resources as necessary
Deployment & Admin
Compute Storage
AWS Global Infrastructure
Database
App Services
Deployment & Administration
Networking

27. + others
Simple Email Service
Simple Notification Service
ElastiCache
CloudWatch
Storage Gateway
…

28. LET’S BUILD A
HIGHLY AVAILABLE
SYSTEM

35. HEALTH CHECKS

41. AMAZON RDS
MULTI-AZ

46. AMAZON ELB AND
MULTIPLE AZs

49. SCALING
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52. AUTO SCALING
SCALE UP/DOWN EC2 CAPACITY

62. UNEXPECTED
SPIKES

63. EXPECTED
SPIKES

64. HEALTH CHECKS
+
AUTO SCALING

69. YOUR GOAL
Applications should continue to function

70. IT’S ALL ABOUT
CHOICE
BALANCE COST & HIGH AVAILABILITY

71. AWS ARCHITECTURE CENTER
http://aws.amazon.com/architecture
AWS TECHNICAL ARTICLES
http://aws.amazon.com/articles
AWS BLOG
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AWS PODCAST
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Ganesh Raja – Solutions Architect
graja@amazon.com
Neha Chauhan – Business Development
ncchauha@amazon.com
Chandra Balani
balanic@amazon.com