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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Leveraging the Cloud to
Strengthen Democracy
Chris Spence
cspence@ndi.org
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Cloud and Democracy?
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Journey to the Cloud
1. Increasing challenges
1. Employee demand for more technology
2. Security issues
3. Competition
2. Opportunity to
innovate in the field
3. Flat or decreasing
tech budget
Building our server room in 2011 - before we
started tearing it down in 2013
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Cloud Strategy
v
SaaS
AWS
On-Premise
Private Cloud
Authentication,
Logging, HRMS,
Reverse DR
VPC S3
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Role of SaaS
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
DemTools as a Service
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Program Sites, Apps
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Example: Malawi
Malawi Election Monitoring Center, May 2014
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
AWS as Data Center - VPC
AWS
On-Premise Private Cloud
v
Authentication
Systems, Logging,
HRMS
Reverse DR
VPC S3
• Virtual Private Cloud -
single network
• Business apps in VPC,
connect to on-premise
services
• Example: DNS
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Software Dev, DevOps
• Cloning preconfigured server stacks  snapshots
• Easy backups, restores, snapshots  Amazon Simple Storage
Service (S3).
• Streamlined project
development
• Lower project costs
• Easy to set up
dev, staging,
production
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
• Integrated On-Premise
Infrastructure
• Backup/Recovery, DR
• High Availability, Load Balancing
Additional Benefits
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Improve Security
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Suggested Best Practices
Get started, the benefits are significant and can be realized in the
short term:
• Get the low-hanging fruit first
• Migrate services to the cloud in line with lifecycle
• Get to know Reserved Instances, appropriate sizing
• Approach DevOps differently
• Map out your security plan in advance
• Document everything
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Challenges
• Training Technical Staff
– Professional development
• Managing Costs
– Costs peaked at $11K/month,
now $3500
• Security Configuration
– Hybrid environment
– Coordinated security policies
between EC2 environment,
onsite firewalls, servers
Monthly AWS Costs
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
The Numbers
• September, 2011
• 85 physical servers, 7 racks in server room
• 10 tons of AC cooling
• June, 2014
• 12 physical servers, 53 EC2 instances, 30 VMware instances in private
cloud on premise, 2 server racks
• Reduced server room size by 50%
• 5 tons of AC cooling
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Wins for Democracy
• Focus resources
• Reduce costs, complexity
• Increase impact of programs
• Drive democratic innovation
Cambodia: Presidential Candidate Debates
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Chris Spence, CTO
@cspence
cspence@ndi.org
Tech4Democracy Programs
Blog: http://demworks.org
@NDItech
http://ndi.org
@NDI
Contact Us!
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
About NDI
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium
Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014
Thank You
Chris Spence
cspence@ndi.org

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  • 2. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Cloud and Democracy?
  • 3. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Journey to the Cloud 1. Increasing challenges 1. Employee demand for more technology 2. Security issues 3. Competition 2. Opportunity to innovate in the field 3. Flat or decreasing tech budget Building our server room in 2011 - before we started tearing it down in 2013
  • 4. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Cloud Strategy v SaaS AWS On-Premise Private Cloud Authentication, Logging, HRMS, Reverse DR VPC S3
  • 5. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Role of SaaS
  • 6. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 DemTools as a Service
  • 7. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Program Sites, Apps
  • 8. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Example: Malawi Malawi Election Monitoring Center, May 2014
  • 9. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 AWS as Data Center - VPC AWS On-Premise Private Cloud v Authentication Systems, Logging, HRMS Reverse DR VPC S3 • Virtual Private Cloud - single network • Business apps in VPC, connect to on-premise services • Example: DNS
  • 10. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Software Dev, DevOps • Cloning preconfigured server stacks  snapshots • Easy backups, restores, snapshots  Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). • Streamlined project development • Lower project costs • Easy to set up dev, staging, production
  • 11. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 • Integrated On-Premise Infrastructure • Backup/Recovery, DR • High Availability, Load Balancing Additional Benefits
  • 12. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Improve Security
  • 13. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Suggested Best Practices Get started, the benefits are significant and can be realized in the short term: • Get the low-hanging fruit first • Migrate services to the cloud in line with lifecycle • Get to know Reserved Instances, appropriate sizing • Approach DevOps differently • Map out your security plan in advance • Document everything
  • 14. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Challenges • Training Technical Staff – Professional development • Managing Costs – Costs peaked at $11K/month, now $3500 • Security Configuration – Hybrid environment – Coordinated security policies between EC2 environment, onsite firewalls, servers Monthly AWS Costs
  • 15. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 The Numbers • September, 2011 • 85 physical servers, 7 racks in server room • 10 tons of AC cooling • June, 2014 • 12 physical servers, 53 EC2 instances, 30 VMware instances in private cloud on premise, 2 server racks • Reduced server room size by 50% • 5 tons of AC cooling
  • 16. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Wins for Democracy • Focus resources • Reduce costs, complexity • Increase impact of programs • Drive democratic innovation Cambodia: Presidential Candidate Debates
  • 17. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 Chris Spence, CTO @cspence cspence@ndi.org Tech4Democracy Programs Blog: http://demworks.org @NDItech http://ndi.org @NDI Contact Us!
  • 18. AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofits Symposium Washington, DC | June 24, 2014 - June 26, 2014 About NDI
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