3. Amazon’s Mission
To be Earth’s most customer-centric company where
people can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
4. Over
2 MM Active
Seller Accounts
Hundreds of
thousands of
customers in 190
countries
More than 244MM Active
Customer Accounts
Amazon Ecosystem
More than 124,000
employees worldwide
5. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform
that provides flexible, scalable, and cost-effective IT
infrastructure for businesses, governments, universities,
non-profits and more of all sizes around the world.
What is Amazon Web Services?
…running on the same
reliable, secure technology
platform used to power
Amazon.com’s global web
properties.
7. What Is Cloud Computing?
The on-demand delivery of IT
resources via the Internet with
pay-as-you-go pricing
8. No Up-Front
Capital Expense
Pay Only for
What You Use
Self-Service
Infrastructure
Easily Scale
Up and Down
Improve Agility &
Time-to-Market
Low Cost
Cloud Computing Benefits
9. Why Does the Cloud Matter?
Pave the Way for Innovation Make the World a Better Place
It offers:
• Disruptive innovation
• Agility
• Twenty-first century capability
• New skills
• Cost savings
It enables:
• World-changing projects
• Economic development
• Citizen services and
engagement
• Research and education
10. Speed is not just for Start-ups
Enterprise, Governments, Education & Non-Profit
Institutions of all sizes are moving faster than ever
before
11. In the Old Days…
Spend millions for expensive,
inflexible, slow-moving
infrastructure that is
#FrozenInTime
12. Old World
Large upfront capital investment
Basic compute and storage only
Responsible for feature upgrades
Slow to get new capabilities
Amazon Web Services
Low, variable cost
Broad and deep platform
New features arrive almost
every day
Ready to use
13. Sample Solution / Use Cases on Amazon Web
Services
• Web hosting
• Virtual desktops
• Development and testing
• Storage, backup, and archiving
• Disaster recovery
• Big data and high-performance
computing (HPC)
• Web, mobile, and social apps
• Enterprise applications
• Data center migrations
14. Organizations Can’t Afford to Be Slow
Old World:
Infrastructure adapted in
WEEKS or MONTHES
AWS:
Infrastructure adapted in
MINUTES
Add new dev environment
Add new prod environment
Add new environment in Japan
Add 1,000 servers
Remove 1,000 servers
Deploy 1 PB data warehouse
Shut down 1 PB data warehouse
A new level of agility
transforms your
operations
16. AWS is Architected for Government Security Requirements
Certifications and accreditations for
workloads that matter – Compliant Solutions
AWS CloudTrail and AWS
Configuration – Call logging and
configuration management for
governance and compliance
• Log, review, alarm
on all user actions
• Browse-and-query
database of current
and previous state
of cloud resources
MTCS
17. Economies of Scale Apply to Security and Compliance
There is nothing better for the entire customer community than an exacting subset of customers.
Tough scrutiny, market-leading capabilities,
constant improvements, and a world-class AWS
security team benefit the whole client
community.
Everyone’s Systems and Applications
REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENTS REQUIREMENTS
Amazon Web Services Security Infrastructure
The stringent demands of a few…
Set a higher standard for everyone
18. So, How Are Enterprises,
Government’s, Education
& Non-Profit Institutions
working with the Cloud
Today?
21. Global Impact Initiatives for Science
AWS Research Grants AWS Hosted Public Datasets AWS SciCo Team
• Initiate and support development
of cloud-enabled technologies
• Typically one-off grants of AWS
resources like EC2 (compute) or
S3 and EBS (storage) or more
exotic like Amazon Kinesis and
Twitter feeds
• Frequently result in reusable
resources, like AMIs or open data,
which we strongly encourage
• Lowers the risk to try the cloud
• Large and globally significant datasets
hosted and paid for by AWS for
community use
• Data quickly and easily processed with
elastic computing resources in the
surrounding cloud
• Aims to more quickly enable increased
innovation
• Datasets provided in partnership with
content owners who curate the data
• Dedicated team focusing on scientific computing
and research workloads
• Globally focused and engaged in big science
projects like the SKA
• Leveraging AWS resources worldwide
• Ensuring the cloud is able to make a disruptive
impact on science
22. Labs and training on
cloud topics and AWS
products
Open course content by
leading professors and
AWS
Grants for free
usage of AWS
services
Communities that
share best practices
virtually and in person
AWS Educate
Amazon’s global initiative to dramatically accelerate cloud in the
classroom and graduate students ready to enter the cloud-enabled
workforce.
The four pillars of AWS Educate are:
Learn more at: http://www.awseducate.com
23. Strategy 1: Cloud for Development and
Test Environments
Oracle Enterprise
Applications
Large Scale
Education Application
ArcGIS
• Expanded data
storage quickly
• Achieved 100%
reliability over
18 months
• Saved costs
• Reduced test
environment costs
• Performed aggressive
testing to prepare for
more than 18 million
youth coding on their
website in a week, with a
peak load of 330,000
concurrent users
24. Strategy 2: Build New Apps in the Cloud
• Faster to build
• Easier to manage
• Less expensive
to run
• Distributed
architectures for
high availability
Financial
record archiving
App streaming
Global deals
engine
Video
streaming
Crowdsourced
supercomputing
Massive
online platform
Genomic
research
Citizen
social app
Open
geographic data
Web
applications
Genomics and
cancer research
Geographic information
systems
25. Strategy 3: Use the Cloud to Improve
On-Premises Apps
Amazon S3
Amazon
Redshift
Amazon EMR
AWS cloud
App 1
AWS
Storage
Gateway
App 2
App 3
•
•
•
App N
ANALYTICS
BACKUP
Legacy data centers
26. Strategy 3: Use the Cloud to Improve
On-Premises Apps
Big Data Analytics
and Collaboration
Rapid Deployment
of Analytics Engine
• Post “Flash
Crash” forensics
on EC2
collaboration
platform for SEC
• Mining social media
for early warnings
of food and drug
safety issues
on accelerated
timeline
Big Data Analytics
• Exports operational
data to AWS for
analytics processing
27. Hybrid App
Strategy 4: Use Cloud Apps that Integrate with
On-Premises Apps
NASA scientists share
large, complex datasets
from projects such as
robotic articulation
calculations and
exploration of the Arctic
climate, on-demand,
across the globe.
Sophisticated load
balancing includes cost
analysis for optimal
workload routing.
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
On-Premises
Data Centers
28. App
Strategy 5: Migrate Existing Apps to the Cloud
On-Premises
Data Centers
• Migrated nearly 100% of
streaming video content
to AWS
• Reduced error rate by 50%
• Improved testing
• Increased volume of
content delivered, equaling
more than one petabyte of
content each month
PBS
• Migrated IT infrastructure
to AWS as an alterative to
replacing more than 1,300
servers
• Saved 75% in annual costs
• Enables continuity across
multiple zones
• Provides self-service
capabilities to customers
State of Arizona
29. Strategy 6: Build and Run All Apps in the Cloud
• Migrated applications to the cloud
to meet increasing demand with
limited budget and resources
• Reduced costs by 90%
• Improved security
• Enabled easier installation and
maintenance of applications
• Increased scalability leading
to higher availability
National Democratic Institute (NDI)
• Auto Scaling supported a one-day
traffic spike from 38,000 visitors
to 150,000
• Migrated university website to AWS
by January 2013, saving 40%
(in costs) over two years
The University of Notre Dame
33. What is the next step and how do I take it?
1. Enroll: Sign up for a Free Tier AWS
Account
2. Learn: Watch the re:Invent sessions
3. Study: AWS Accreditation Programs,
AWS Blogs, WhatsNew Section, etc.
4. Leverage: Various Activate, Educate &
more programs
5. Engage: Partners to accelerate your
projects
We are often asked the question: how did Amazon get into cloud computing? Amazon is really good at providing an immense selection of products, and of shipping those products to customers efficiently. But behind that online capability lies years of experience in providing technical services to the business that ensures our online stores are secure, fast, always available and capable of meeting huge seasonal demand.
AWS is not running on excess amazon.com server capacity. Come xmas and when Amazon.com is undergoing a seasonal spike in load, Amazon does not reclaim computing to finalise orders! There are hundreds of thousands of businesses running on Amazon Web Services ranging in size from the smallest startup to multi-national companies. Indeed, Amazon.com also uses AWS. It's a strategic business for Amazon.
As you may know, Amazon.com opened for business on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer our customers the lowest possible prices and the best possible services. Technology innovation has always driven Amazon’s growth. As we expanded our offerings for retail customers, we also expanded customer segments.
After over a decade of building and running the highly scalable set of web applications and databases known as Amazon.com, the company realized that we had developed a core competency in operating massive scale technology infrastructure and datacenters. So, we embarked on a much broader mission of serving a new customer segment – including government agencies – with a platform of web services through our cloud computing business called Amazon Web Services (AWS).
One way to think about cloud computing is that instead of buying, owning, and maintaining their own datacenters or servers, federal agencies can acquire technology resources such as compute power and storage on an as-needed basis, and dispose of it when it no longer is needed. Many industry experts refer to this as a “utility” model of obtaining and using IT capability, analogous how the government obtains access to water, gas, or electrical power. Users only pay for what they use – by the compute-hour or storage-gigabyte – and they are not locked into long-term contracts.
If a program is funded one year and then unfunded the next, or a pilot project or test program does not achieve its expected results, agencies no longer need to be tied to large, capital IT expenditures that cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars. As a result, organizations have more agility, which enables greater innovation, but when a project does fail, agencies also have more flexibility to adjust quickly and contain costs. The result is achieving more on your investment and avoiding costly overruns and high profile failures.
Cloud computing is a better way to run your business. The cloud helps companies of all sizes become more agile. Instead of running your applications yourself you can run them on the cloud where IT infrastructure is offered as a service like a utility.
With the cloud, your company saves money: there are no up-front capital expenses as you don’t have to buy hardware for your projects. The massive scale and fast pace of innovation of the cloud drive the costs down for you. In the cloud, you pay only for what you use just like electricity.
The cloud can also help your company save time and improve agility – it’s faster to get started: you can build new environments in minutes as you don’t need to wait for new servers to arrive. The elastic nature of the cloud makes it easy to scale up and down as needed. At the end of the day you have more resources left for innovation which allows you to focus on projects that can really impact your businesses like building and deploying more applications.
“With the high growth nature of our business, we were looking for a cloud solution to enable us to scale fast. Think twice before buying your next server. Cloud computing is the way forward.” - Sami Lababidi, CTO, Playfish
… indeed, it is becoming one of the key reasons why enterprises are moving to the cloud is such large numbers.