Advanced AWS meetup December 2013

1. AWS re:invent 2013 - recap and highlights
Advanced Amazon Web Services Meetup
December 3, 2013
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Peter Sankauskas Answers for AWS
@pas256 @Answers4AWS

2. Introductions
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Name
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Role
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Company
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How you use AWS

3. Next Meetup
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Tuesday January 21
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Anki
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Hosted at their office
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Architecture & design
patterns
Food and drinks
RSVP early

4. Keynotes

5. Steve Ballmer
Remember this?

6. Enterprise! Enterprise!
Enterprise! Enterprise!

7. Amazon WorkSpaces
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
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Fully managed desktop computing
service in the cloud
2 Options
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Regular
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Limited Preview
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2 Types
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Standard - $35/user/month
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Plus (+ $15/user/month)
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1 vCPU, 3.75 GiB Memory, 50 GB
User Storage
Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer 9,
Firefox, 7-Zip, Adobe Flash, JRE
Microsoft Office Professional
2010, Trend Micro Worry-Free
Business Security Services
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Windows 7
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Login and use from any device
Performance - $60/user/month
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2 vCPU, 7.5 GiB Memory, 100 GB
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Mac laptop, iPad, Andriod, Kindle etc

8. IAM supports SAML
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Single Sign on for AWS web console
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Also works for API

9. Trusted Advisor
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New UI
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New checks
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Will recommend PIOPS for
standard EBS volumes
Business level support needed
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That’s 10% of your monthly
AWS bill

10. Amazon AppStream
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Run and render your application on
EC2 instances
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Selling points
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No device constraints (advanced
3D rendering on any device)
Easy updates (more like
updating a website)
Stream the rendered output to any
device
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Limited Preview
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Application must be able to run on
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
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Instant On (no download, no
loading screen)
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Application cannot run without an
internet connection
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Improved security (no more
pirating games?)
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Particularly good for games

11. AWS Web Console
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Integration with AWS
Marketplace
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New launch UI
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Copy an existing security
group to a new one with just
one click.
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Choosing a snapshot is one
search away.
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Tagging instances now
supports auto-complete

12. RDS supports PostgreSQL
Applause

13. RDS adds supports for PostgreSQL
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Available NOW (beta)
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Version 9.3.1
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Multi-AZ
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Comes with all the PostgreSQL
goodies
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Provisioned IOPS
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Automatic backups
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VPC support
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Monitoring
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PostGIS
PL/Perl, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl
Full text search dictionaries
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Still has RDS goodies:
HStore, JSON
Makes Heroku migration easy

14. RDS Cross Region
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Can now create cross-region read replicas
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Can promote a read-replica to master later
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Limit 5 read replicas per source

15. Redshift updates
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Remote loading - put data
in over SSH
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Database auditing and
logging to S3
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HSM support (on premise
or CloudHSM)
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SNS notification for events
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Cross-region snapshot
copy

16. Elastic Beanstalk
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You can now do rolling updates
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Control how updates are
propagated when you make
changes to environment
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All at once for dev
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Gradual for production
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Allows site to serve traffic
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An alternative to using 2
environments and switching
between them
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Things to consider - rollback half
way through

17. New Instance Types

18. C3 - Compute Optimized instances
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SSDs
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Hardware Hyper-Thread 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge)
processor
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Available in: us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, ap-* regions
Instance
Name
vCPU
Count
Total ECU
RAM
Local
Storage
Hourly OnDemand
c3.large
2
7
3.75 GiB
2 x 16 GB
$0.15
c3.xlarge
4
14
7 GiB
2 x 40 GB
$0.30
c3.2xlarge
8
28
15 GiB
2 x 80 GB
$0.60
c3.4xlarge
16
55
30 GiB
2 x 160 GB
$1.20
c3.8xlarge
32
108
60 GiB
2 x 320 GB
$2.40

19. G2 - High performance 3D graphics
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Instance type: g2.2xlarge
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NVIDIA GRID™ (GK104 "Kepler") GPU (Graphics
Processing Unit), 1,536 CUDA cores and 4 GB of video
(frame buffer) RAM
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Intel Sandy Bridge processor running at 2.6 GHz with
Turbo Boost enabled, 8 vCPUs (Virtual CPUs)
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15 GiB of RAM
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60 GB of SSD storage

20. I2 - High I/O
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SSDs
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2.5 GHz intel Xeon E5-2670v2 processors with Turbo mode enabled
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Not available yet
Instance Name
vCPU Count
RAM
Local Storage
i2.large
2
15 GiB
1 x 360 GB
i2.xlarge
4
30.5 GiB
1 x 720 GB
i2.2xlarge
8
61 GiB
2 x 720 GB
i2.4xlarge
16
122 GiB
4 x 720 GB
i2.8xlarge
32
244 GiB
8 x 720 GB

21. DynamoDB
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Global Secondary Indexes
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Coming “within weeks”
Fine-grain security control
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Useful from JavaScript SDK
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Read/Write directly to
DynamoDB from the
browser

22. Breakout Sessions

23. They Don't Hug Back! Or Why You Need to Stop
Worrying about Prodweb001 and Start Loving i-98fb9856
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Chris Munns - Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services
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Martin Rhoads - Site Reliability Engineer with Airbnb
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Slides
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http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/stopworrying-about-prodweb001-and-start-loving-i98fb9856arc201-aws-reinvent-2013
YouTube
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http://youtu.be/lQUdjPBJX5c

24. Maximizing EC2 and Elastic Block Store Disk
Performance
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Miles Ward - Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture with Amazon Web
Services
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Doug Grismore - Director, Operations and Site Reliability Engineering
with Twitter
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Slides
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http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/
stg302-28617072
YouTube
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http://youtu.be/cGF4cnwFMWY

25. A Day in the Life of a Billion Packets
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Eric Brandwine - Sr. Principal Security Engineer with
Amazon Web Services
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Slides
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http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/a-dayin-the-life-of-a-billion-packets-cpn401-awsreinvent-2013
YouTube
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http://youtu.be/Zd5hsL-JNY4

26. Larry will now cover…
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Amazon Kinesis
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Real-time processing of streamed data
Limited preview
AWS CloudTrail
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Stores an audit log of all API calls made to your AWS
account in S3
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Region specific (available in us-east-1 and us-west-2)

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Thank you!
Slides available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/pas256/aws-reinvent2013recap
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Peter Sankauskas Answers for AWS
@pas256 @Answers4AWS
http://answersforaws.com/