We’re excited to announce that we are evolving our cloud application architecture to be more flexible and modular, giving you greater control of your environment and more choices for components, deployment options and infrastructure. During this webcast we'll provide more information on Engine Yard Cloud's new cluster model, infrastructure abstraction layer and monitoring and alerting agent, share what's coming and have an open Q&A to answer your questions.

1. Josh Hamilton, Product
Manager
March 7, 2013

2. • A flexible and modular architecture designed
to give developers more granular control"
• Greater variety of choices for platform
components, infrastructure and deployment
options"
• A complete solution to effectively plan, build,
deploy and manage applications"
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3. You"
Your Running App"
Engine Yard"
Platform Components"
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4. Your Running App"
You"
CLI" Dashboard" Custom"
App Environment"
API"
Agents"
Stack"
Engine Yard" Private"
Monitor & IaaS-A" IaaS-B" Private"
Plan!
Manage!
Infrastructure
Abstraction"
API" Security,"
Management,
Automation &
Orchestration"
Build & Deploy!
Core" Add-ons"
• Operating System" • Load testing"
• Runtime" • E-mail"
• Database" • Monitoring"
• Etc." • Etc."
Platform Components"
4!

5. Languages! Operating Systems!
OS"
Gentoo"
Ubuntu"
Middleware! Databases!
OS"
IaaS Management" Gentoo"
IaaS Management" Ubuntu"
Runtime flexibility: Choose your platform components!
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7. Security,"
BEFORE"
Management, AWS
API"
Automation & Only"
Orchestration"
In place
now"
AWS"
Infrastructure
Security,"
Abstraction"
Terremark"
NEW
Management,
API
Automation & Private"
Orchestration" …"

8. App" DB" Utility"
AMI" AMI" AMI"
App" DB" Utility" Environments!
AMI" AMI" AMI"
Before!
App" DB" Utility"
AMI" AMI" AMI"
App" DB" Utility"
App DB Utility
AMI" AMI" AMI"
Environments! App DB Utility
With Clusters ! AMI" AMI" AMI"
App DB Utility
AMI" AMI" AMI"
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9. • Remove the need
for instance roles
• Cluster belongs
to a region – can
have clusters in
multiple regions.
• Cluster AMI and
Cookbooks
(soon)
• Try Now - Early
Access
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10. • A new monitoring and alerting
agent is included with all new
Engine Yard Cloud
deployments
• New monitoring capabilities
provide incident data on
applications, components and
other processes in a VM
Alerts and monitoring are
available for virtual resources
in the infrastructure, including
CPU, memory and disk
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12. • Built using Angular.js,
the new UI provides a
structured experience
• Developers can
• Plan projects
• Deploy applications
• Monitor performance
• Manage
environments
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13. • Blueprints are
predefined structured
plans based on Engine
Yard best practices
• Help developers use
proven deployment
options for others to
easily reuse
• Use blueprints
provided, save for
future use, modify
parts, or create custom
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14. Control
Choice
• Use Engine Yard best
• Choice of infrastructures
practices via blueprints
• Increasing variety of components
OS
• Create purpose built clusters
or bring your own
• Automate all tasks via
Gentoo
• Choice of private or hybrid cloud
Ubuntu
the API
deployment
• Direct SSH access to your
environment
• Plan projects
• We are here to help – from
• Build platform stacks, extend
trouble shooting to solving
OS
capabilities
any application issues
• Deploy applications
• Best of breed architecture
Gentoo
• Manage and monitor
based on deep expertise
Ubuntu
environments
Comprehensive
Expertise
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15. Learn more about our announcement:"
https://www.engineyard.com/products/cloud/preview"
Architecture Vision Whiteboard: http://ey.io/XVtKgX"
New UI Preview Screencast: http://ey.io/VLvDNG"
Architecture Solution Brief: http://ey.io/WYmoLZ"
Key Resources in our Community Forum!
Feature Requests: http://ey.io/13hIXIA"
Release Notes: http://ey.io/Xtb6gY"
Early Access: http://ey.io/WNgmZ8"
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16. Josh Hamilton, Product
Manager
@joshbhamilton