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Options for Hybrid Environments –
Extending the Enterprise Data Center
Steffen Krause
Amazon Web Services Germany GmbH
@sk_bln

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Painting the picture of
a customer in transition

3.
First cloud use cases

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Development & Test

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Backup
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Disaster Recovery
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Big Data & Analytics

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Business Apps

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Corporate Data
Center
Extend the Corporate DC

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here there
???
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Corporate
Data
Center
Private
Network
in AWS
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Availability Zone Availability Zone
VPC Customer
10.0.0.5 10.0.0.6
10.0.1.8
10.0.1.9
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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Private
Subnet
VPN
Internal facing systems
Accessible only over VPN – access to
internet over corporate connection
Public
Subnet
www
Internet facing systems
Assert control over networking layer

14.
Public
Subnet
www
Private
Subnet
NAT
VPN

15.
Getting connected
Cloud Datacenter
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Public internet
Data center AWS Cloud
www

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VPN
Data center AWS Cloud
www
routerrouter

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Direct Connect
AWS CloudData center
AWS Direct
Connect
Location

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Maximizing reliability
Data center AWS Cloud
www
router router

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Now you’re connected…

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Integrating AWS with Your Existing On-Premises Infrastructure
Active Directory
Network Configuration
Encryption
Back-up Appliances
Users & Access Rules
Your Private Network
HSM Appliance
Cloud back-ups
AWS Direct Connect
Your On-Premise Apps Your Cloud Apps
Corporate Data
Centers

22.
Development &Test
Developers
&
Operations
Internal
Git
CI Server
Pre-commit
Hook
Testing Environment Subnet
CI Workers
Dev Environment VPC Subnet
DEV
WEB
ELB
Dev Stack
Tier 1
Dev Stack
Tier 2
Dev
MySQL
DB
Instance
DEV APP
ELB
VPN
TUNNEL
VPN facing VPC Subnet
Virtual
Private
Gateway
Monitoring
Dev Admin
Instance
NAT
Instance
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon SQS
Amazon S3

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Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
AWS Storage
Gateway
Backup - Storage Gateway

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Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
Synchronization of
key datasets
Disaster Recovery

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Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
Disaster Recovery

26.
Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
Promotion of
stopped instances
to live
Disaster Recovery

27.
Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
Analytics

28.
Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
Application data
and logs for
analysis pushed
to S3
Analytics

29.
Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
Amazon Elastic
Map Reduce
name node to
control analysis
N
Analytics

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Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
Hadoop cluster
started by Elastic
Map Reduce
N
Analytics

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Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
N
Adding many
hundreds or
thousands of
nodes
Analytics

32.
Corporate Data
Center
Elastic Data
Center
N
Disposed of when
job completes
Analytics

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AWS
region
Active Directory + DNS in the VPC
Public Facing
Web App
Internal
Corporate
App
VPN
Connection
Corporate Data center
corp.example.com
AD Controller
Domain
Controller
+ DNS
example.com
DNS
AD
Replication
Domain Join +
DNS Queries
DNS
Forward
Requests
New Instance:
friendly-vpc-123.corp.example.com

34.
SharePoint Reference Implementation
Remote
Admin
AWS Region
Availability Zone 2
Private Subnet
Availability Zone 1
Public Subnet Private Subnet Private Subnet Private Subnet
Private Subnet Private Subnet Private Subnet Private Subnet
Public Subnet
NAT
RDGW
RDGW
Primary DC/DNS
Active Directory
Active DirectoryDatabase Tier
Database Tier
Primary DB
SQL Server
Mirror DB
Witness
Application TierWeb Tier
Application TierWeb Tier
Central Admin &
SharePoint Services
Central Admin &
SharePoint Services
IIS & SharePoint
Web Front End
ELB
NAT
Backup DC/DNS
Internet
Gateway
Users
IIS & SharePoint
Web Front End

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Blueprint

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Blueprint (1)
• Make a matrix of fully supported, semi supported,
and unsupported OSes, databases and applications
• Figure out what could move and what must stay(for
now)
• Enable developers to begin writing code against
AWS services
• Identify PoC’s and low hanging fruit with value at
both business and operational levels

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Blueprint (2)
• Begin training those who will lead the charge
• Review what operational processes might need
to change
• Identify tools that can increase operational agility
• Encourage use of the AWS Free Tier
• Make use of the Test Drive Program

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Test Drive Major Workloads at No Cost
Ready to use preconfigured test workloads for fast PoC:
SAP Microsoft Oracle Red Hat Many
others

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AWS Marketplace & Partners Can Help
• Customer can find, research,
buy software
• Simple pricing, aligns with
EC2 usage model
• Launch in minutes
• Marketplace billing integrated
into your AWS account
• 1300+ products across 20+
categories
Learn more at: aws.amazon.com/marketplace

40.
Customer Story
NET-A-PORTER.COM

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NET-A-PORTER.COM
• Founded in 2000
• 3 websites and 1 printed magazine
• 6 million unique visitors each month
• 40% growth per year for the past 5
years
• £434 million revenue in 2013

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Wasted capacity
Planned capacity

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Customer dissatisfaction

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Objectives
• Don’t crash during sale season
• Don’t limit the marketing team
– social media and email communication
• Bonus points
– Make the website faster
– Improve deployment process

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AWS Cloud
Corporate Data
Center
users
CDN
Legacy
Webapp
Product
Information
API
Elastic
Beanstalk
Node.js App
Elastic
Beanstalk
Scala App
Amazon
S3
CloudFront
http://
www.net-a-
porter.com
http://www.net-a-
porter.com/sale
Dynamic
requests
Static
requests

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Load testing

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Load testing
• Your test environment is as big as your live one
• Unlimited number of testing nodes !
D1 D2 D3 D0 D1 D2 D3

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Lessons learned
• Start small and do a PoC
• Application need to take advantage of cloud
– Design for failure
– Understand Elastic Load balancers
• Automate everything
• Engage other teams

49.
Thank you
@gburiola
www.net-a-porter.com

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Thank you, Luis!

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Find out more
• aws.amazon.com/vpc
• aws.amazon.com/directconnet
• aws.amazon.com/storagegateway
• aws.amazon.com/whitepapers
– Development and Test
– VPC networking
– Backup & archive
• Contact me: skrause@amazon.de @sk_bln