Getting Started on Amazon Web Services

Getting Started onAmazon Web Services

Security FUD... enables us to operate more securely in the public cloud than we can even in our own datacenters— Rob Alexander CIO, Capital One Re: Invent 2015

Why AWS?

Clear Market Leader10x Deployed Compute

» $7bil ARR business

» 81% YoY growth rate

» EC2: 95% YoY growth in instance hours

» S3: 102% YoY growth in data transfer

» RDS: 127% YoY growth - $1bil ARR business

Rapid Innovation

Massive ScaleEvery day AWS adds enough new server capacity to support all of Amazon’s global infrastructure when it was a $7B annual revenue enterprise (in 2004).— James Hamilton, AWS Re: Invent 2014

FOCUS

Let's get startedCompute, Storage and Database

Compute in the CloudElastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Know your workloads

Pay for what you use

» On-Demand

» Reserved

» Spot

Design for Failure

Storage in the CloudSimple Storage Service (S3)

Static Websites

Origin

Databases in the Cloud

Relational Database Service (RDS)

Leverage RDSAurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server

MultiAZRDS instances

Scale with

Read Replicas

Advanced Topics

Transformyour infrastructure

Infrastructure

as Code

Bootstrapyour compute

AutoScaling

HorizontalScaling

Ditch your Compute

Lambda

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