The document discusses Amazon Web Services (AWS) options for deploying a web application called Beer Survey from development to production. It describes using EC2 instances, RDS databases, S3 buckets, Elastic Load Balancers, and CloudFront for the development and production environments. The architectures discussed include using Node.js and MySQL on EC2 instances with a load balancer and CloudFront distribution in production.

1. Amazon
Web
Services
Going
from
development
to
produc9on

2. Introduc9on
Tom
Elrod
–
CTO
@
Make
&
Build
We
build
cool
stuff

5. Narrowing
the
field
EC2
RDS
Elas-c
Load
Balancer
S3
Bucket
Route
53
CloudFront
CloudForma-on

6. Beer
Survey
Web
Applica9on

7. Beer
Survey
–
Tech
Stack
Presenta9on
Bootstrap
Business
Logic
Node.js
Persistence
MySQL
Angular

8. Beer
Survey
–
Architecture
Client
(browser)
Bootstrap
Angular
REST
Server
Node.js
SQL
Database
MySQL

9. Development
Environment
Amazon
Web
Services
nodeJS
EC2
node.js
Web
Browser

10. Development
Environment
Amazon
Web
Services
nodeJS
22
(ssh)
8080
(hVp)
EC2
node.js
3306
(mysql)

11. Produc9on
Environment
Amazon
Web
Services
CloudFront
Elas9c
Load
Balancer
S3
Bucket
nodeJS
EC2
nodeJS
EC2
Web
Browser

12. Produc9on
Environment
Amazon
Web
Services
CloudFront
S3
Bucket
8080,22
(hVp,ssh)
80,443
(hVp,hVps)
Elas9c
Load
Balancer
nodeJS
EC2
nodeJS
EC2
3306
(mysql)

13. EC2
Virtual
servers
that
can
run
applica9ons
Provision
new
server
instances
in
minutes
Pay
only
for
capacity
actually
used
Up
to
20
instances
per
account
(apply
for
more)
• Tip:
Do
not
use
for
sending
email
•
•
•
•

14. Regions
US
East
(N.
Virginia)
$
Asia
Pacific
(Singapore)
$$$
US
West
(Oregon)
$
Asia
Pacific
(Tokyo)
$$$$
US
West
(N.
California)
$$
Asia
Pacific
(Sydney)
$$$
South
America
(Sao
Paulo)
$$$
EU
(Ireland)
$$

15. Instant
Type
Families
Family
Types
Popular
Use
cases
General
Purpose
M1,
M3
Small
and
mid-­‐size
databases,
data
processing,
encoding,
and
caching.
Compute-­‐op9mized
C1,
CC2,
C3
High-­‐traffic
web
applica9ons,
ad
serving,
batch
processing,
video
encoding,
and
distributed
analy9cs.
GPU
Game
streaming,
3D
applica9on
streaming,
and
other
server-­‐side
graphics
workloads
(G2).
Computa9onal
chemistry,
rendering,
financial
modeling,
and
engineering
design
(CG1)
G2,
CG1
Memory-­‐op9mized
M2,
CR1
High
performance
databases,
distributed
memory
caches,
and
in-­‐memory
analy9cs.
Storage-­‐op9mized
NoSQL
databases
like
Cassandra
and
MongoDB,
and
scale
out
transac9onal
databases
(I2,
HI1).
Data
warehousing,
Hadoop,
and
cluster
file
systems
(HS1).
HS1,
I2,
HI1

16. CPU
capacity
-­‐
ECUs
&
vCPUs
Type
CPU
m1.small
Opteron
2218
c1.medium
Xeon
E5410
m1.large
Xeon
E5430
m2.xlarge
Xeon
X5550
c1.xlarge
Xeon
E5410
• ECU
–
One
EC2
Compute
Unit
provides
the
equivalent
CPU
capacity
of
a
1.0-­‐1.2
GHz
2007
Opteron
or
2007
Xeon
processor
• vCPU
–
The
number
of
virtual
CPUs
per
instance

17. EBS
–
Elas9c
Block
Store
“Amazon
Elas5c
Block
Store
(Amazon
EBS)
provides
persistent
block
level
storage
volumes
for
use
with
Amazon
EC2
instances
in
the
AWS
Cloud.”
Root
/dev/sda1
EBS
/dev/sdb

18. EBS
–
Elas9c
Block
Store
“Amazon
Elas5c
Block
Store
(Amazon
EBS)
provides
persistent
block
level
storage
volumes
for
use
with
Amazon
EC2
instances
in
the
AWS
Cloud.”
Root
/dev/sda1
EC2
Instance
EBS
/dev/sdb

19. EBS
–
Standard
EC2
instance
normally
communicate
with
EBS
volumes
using
its
network
interface,
rou9ng
Internet
traffic
and
I/O
opera9ons
over
the
single
network
interface.
EC2
Instance
Network
Interface
EBS
/dev/sdb

20. EBS
–
Op9mized
Instances
with
EBS
Op5mized
badge
receive
another
network
interface,
dedicated
only
to
EBS’
traffic,
with
a
fixed
throughput
of
500Mbps
for
m1.large
types
and
1Gbps
for
the
others.
EBS
EC2
Instance
/dev/sdb

22. Availability
Zones
Amazon
Web
Services
US
East
(N.
Virginia)
EU
(Ireland)
us-­‐east-­‐1b
eu-­‐west-­‐1a
us-­‐east-­‐1c
us-­‐east-­‐1d
eu-­‐west-­‐1b
eu-­‐west-­‐1c

23. IOPS
(input/output
opera9ons
per
second)
• Provisioned
IOPS
volumes
can
achieve
single
digit
millisecond
latencies
and
are
designed
to
deliver
within
10%
of
the
provisioned
IOPS
performance
99.9%
of
the
9me.
• Provisioned
IOPS
volumes
support
up
to
30
IOPS
per
GB.
• Enables
provisioning
4000
IOPS
on
a
volume
as
small
as
134
GB
up
to
1
TB.
• As
a
point
of
reference,
a
standard
EBS
volume
will
generally
provide
about
100
IOPS
on
average.

24. Elas9c
IP
Addresses
•
•
•
•
Map
sta9c
IP
address
to
EC2
instance
Limited
to
5
per
account
(can
apply
for
more)
Charged
for
unallocated
IP
addresses
($.01/hr)
Reverse
DNS
records
can
be
configured
(requires
filling
out
a
form)

25. Security
Groups
•
•
•
•
Firewall
for
EC2
instances
Up
to
5
security
groups
per
network
interface
Up
to
50
rules
to
a
security
group
iptables
setup
on
linux
boxes
with
just
port
22
open
by
default.

26. RDS
• Rela9onal
Database
Service
(RDS)
• Provision
addi9onal
storage
on-­‐the-­‐fly
with
zero
down9me
• Automa9c
patches,
backs
up
and
replica9on
• Mul9-­‐AZ
–
synchronous
replica9on
and
automa9c
failover
to
standby
instance
• Read
Replicas
for
read-­‐heavy
workloads
• Store
up
to
3TB
and
IOPS
up
to
30,000

27. Development
Environment
Amazon
Web
Services
nodeJS
22
(ssh)
8080
(hVp)
EC2
node.js
3306
(mysql)

28. Produc9on
Environment
Amazon
Web
Services
CloudFront
S3
Bucket
8080,22
(hVp,ssh)
80,443
(hVp,hVps)
Elas9c
Load
Balancer
nodeJS
EC2
nodeJS
EC2
3306
(mysql)

29. Elas9c
Load
Balancer
• Load
balances
requests
across
mul9ple
EC2
instance
and
mul9ple
Availability
Zones
• Support
SSL
termina9on
• Supports
s9cky
sessions
• Allows
for
Auto
Scaling
• Up
to
10
per
region

30. Route
53
DNS
service
•
•
•
•
•
•
Latency
Based
Rou9ng
Weighted
Round
Robin
DNS
Failover
AWS
integra9on
(ELB,
CloudFront,
S3)
100%
SLA
Servers
in
United
States(14),
Europe(10),
Asia(9),
Australia(1),
South
America(2)

31. Route
53

32. S3
Simple
Storage
Service
• 99.999999999%
durability,
with
99.99%
availability
• File
size
can
range
between
1
byte
to
5
terabytes,
number
of
files
is
unlimited
• HTTP
&
BitTorrent
protocols,
REST
&
SOAP
API
Reduced
Redundancy
Storage
(RRS)
&
Amazon
Glacier

33. CloudFront
Content
Delivery
Network
(CDN)
•
•
•
•
•
Custom
SSL
support
Private
Content
Geo
Restric9ons
Custom
Error
Responses
Live
Streaming

34. CloudFront
8.7KB
JavaScript
file
download
2500
milliseconds
2000
1500
S3
CloudFront
1000
500
0
Padova,
Italy
London,
Stockholm,
New
York,
United
Sweden
U.S.A.
Kingdom
Cologne,
Germany
Munchen,
Hong
Kong,
San
Zurich,
Groningen,
Germany
China
Francisco,
Switzerland
Netherlands
U.S.A.

35. CloudForma9on
• Template
for
crea9ng
a
Stack
that
includes
AWS
resources
• Ability
to
update
or
delete
en9re
Stack
• Automa9c
rollback
on
failures
• CloudFormer
for
crea9ng
Stack
from
exis9ng
resources

36. CloudForma9on
Amazon
Web
Services
QA
nodeJS
nodeJS

37. CloudForma9on
Amazon
Web
Services
QA
nodeJS
nodeJS
Staging
nodeJS
nodeJS
Produc9on
nodeJS
nodeJS

38. What
is
all
this
going
to
cost?
• Many
factors
go
into
cost…
– Region
(Virginia,
California,
Ireland,…)
– AMI
License
(Linux,
RHEL,
SUSE,Ubuntu,…)
– Type
(m1.small,
m3.medium,c3.large,…)
– EBS
(
size(GB),
Standard/Op9mized,
IOPS,…)
– Monitoring
(CloudWatch)
– Tenancy
(Shared/Dedicated)
– Data
Transfer
(IN/OUT)

40. AWS
Simple
Monthly
Calculator

41. EC2
Purchase
Op9ons
• On-­‐Demand
– Pay
as
you
go
at
hourly
rate
– Nothing
up
front,
no
commitment
• Reserved
– 1-­‐3
year
commitment
– One-­‐9me
upfront
payment,
reduced
hourly
rate
• Spot
– Bid
for
hourly
rate
as
becomes
available

42. Reserved
Instances
-­‐
U9liza9on
*
Rates
are
compared
for
an
m1.xlarge
instance
3-­‐year
Reserved
Instance,
%
savings
on
effec9ve
hourly
rates
are
roughly
the
same
for
all
instance
types

43. Heavy
U9liza9on
Pricing

44. DIY
vs
On-­‐Demand
vs
Reserved

45. References
&
Resources
• En9re
AWS
Web
Site
-­‐
hVp://aws.amazon.com/
• EC2
and
EBS
Performance
-­‐
hVp://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/stg302-­‐28617072
• ECU
CPU
Benchmarking
-­‐
hVp://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/05/
what-­‐is-­‐ecu-­‐cpu-­‐benchmarking-­‐in-­‐cloud.html
• Route
53
speed
comparison
-­‐
hVp://www.dnscomparison.com/route53.html
• CloudVer9cal
cost
cheat
sheet
-­‐
hVps://blog.copper.io/aws-­‐cost-­‐
cheat-­‐sheet-­‐2/
• Simple
Monthly
Calculator
-­‐
hVp://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
• How
AWS
Pricing
Works
-­‐
hVp://d36cz9buwru1V.cloudfront.net/AWS_Pricing_Overiew.pdf
• Beer
Survey
App
-­‐
hVp://www.beersurvey.org

46. Q&A
or
Go
drinks
some
beer?