AWS re:invent 2013 - recap and highlights

Advanced Amazon Web Services MeetupDecember 3, 2013!!!!!Peter Sankauskas Answers for AWS@pas256 @Answers4AWS

Introductions

• Name

• Role

• Company

• How you use AWS

Next Meetup

• Tuesday January 21

• Anki

• Architecture & design patterns

• Hosted at their office

• Food and drinks

• RSVP early

Keynotes

Steve Ballmer Remember this?

Enterprise! Enterprise! Enterprise! Enterprise!

Amazon WorkSpaces• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

• Fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud

• Limited Preview

• 2 Types

• Standard - $35/user/month

• 1 vCPU, 3.75 GiB Memory, 50 GB User Storage

• Performance - $60/user/month

• 2 vCPU, 7.5 GiB Memory, 100 GB

• 2 Options

• Regular

• Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, 7-Zip, Adobe Flash, JRE

• Plus (+ $15/user/month)

• Microsoft Office Professional 2010, Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services

• Windows 7

• Login and use from any device

• Mac laptop, iPad, Andriod, Kindle etc

IAM supports SAML

• Single Sign on for AWS web console

• Also works for API

Trusted Advisor

• New UI

• New checks

• Will recommend PIOPS for standard EBS volumes

• Business level support needed

• That’s 10% of your monthly AWS bill

Amazon AppStream

• Run and render your application on EC2 instances

• Stream the rendered output to any device

• Limited Preview

• Application must be able to run on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

• Application cannot run without an internet connection

• Particularly good for games

• Selling points

• No device constraints (advanced 3D rendering on any device)

• Easy updates (more like updating a website)

• Instant On (no download, no loading screen)

• Improved security (no more pirating games?)

AWS Web Console

• Integration with AWS Marketplace

• New launch UI

• Copy an existing security group to a new one with just one click.

• Choosing a snapshot is one search away.

• Tagging instances now supports auto-complete

RDS supports PostgreSQL Applause

RDS adds supports for PostgreSQL

• Available NOW (beta)

• Version 9.3.1

• Comes with all the PostgreSQL goodies

• PostGIS

• PL/Perl, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl

• Full text search dictionaries

• HStore, JSON

• Still has RDS goodies:

• Multi-AZ

• Provisioned IOPS

• Automatic backups

• VPC support

• Monitoring

• Makes Heroku migration easy

RDS Cross Region

• Can now create cross-region read replicas

• Can promote a read-replica to master later

• Limit 5 read replicas per source

Redshift updates

• Remote loading - put data in over SSH

• HSM support (on premise or CloudHSM)

• Database auditing and logging to S3

• SNS notification for events

• Cross-region snapshot copy

Elastic Beanstalk

• You can now do rolling updates

• Control how updates are propagated when you make changes to environment

• All at once for dev

• Gradual for production

• Allows site to serve traffic

• An alternative to using 2 environments and switching between them

• Things to consider - rollback half way through

New Instance Types

C3 - Compute Optimized instances

• SSDs

• Hardware Hyper-Thread 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge) processor

• Available in: us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, ap-* regions

Instance Name

vCPU Count Total ECU RAM Local

StorageHourly On-

Demand

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

G2 - High performance 3D graphics

• Instance type: g2.2xlarge

• NVIDIA GRID™ (GK104 "Kepler") GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), 1,536 CUDA cores and 4 GB of video (frame buffer) RAM

• Intel Sandy Bridge processor running at 2.6 GHz with Turbo Boost enabled, 8 vCPUs (Virtual CPUs)

• 15 GiB of RAM

• 60 GB of SSD storage

I2 - High I/O

• SSDs

• 2.5 GHz intel Xeon E5-2670v2 processors with Turbo mode enabled

• Not available yet

Instance Name vCPU Count RAM Local Storage

i2.large 2 15 GiB 1 x 360 GBi2.xlarge 4 30.5 GiB 1 x 720 GBi2.2xlarge 8 61 GiB 2 x 720 GBi2.4xlarge 16 122 GiB 4 x 720 GBi2.8xlarge 32 244 GiB 8 x 720 GB

DynamoDB

• Global Secondary Indexes

• Coming “within weeks”

• Fine-grain security control

• Useful from JavaScript SDK

• Read/Write directly to DynamoDB from the browser

Breakout Sessions

They Don't Hug Back! Or Why You Need to Stop Worrying about Prodweb001 and Start Loving i-98fb9856

• Chris Munns - Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services

• Martin Rhoads - Site Reliability Engineer with Airbnb

• Slides

• http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/stop-worrying-about-prodweb001-and-start-loving-i98fb9856-arc201-aws-reinvent-2013

• YouTube

• http://youtu.be/lQUdjPBJX5c

Maximizing EC2 and Elastic Block Store Disk Performance

• Miles Ward - Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture with Amazon Web Services

• Doug Grismore - Director, Operations and Site Reliability Engineering with Twitter

• Slides

• http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/stg302-28617072

• YouTube

• http://youtu.be/cGF4cnwFMWY

A Day in the Life of a Billion Packets

• Eric Brandwine - Sr. Principal Security Engineer with Amazon Web Services

• Slides

• http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-billion-packets-cpn401-aws-reinvent-2013

• YouTube

• http://youtu.be/Zd5hsL-JNY4

Larry will now cover…

• Amazon Kinesis

• Real-time processing of streamed data

• Limited preview

• AWS CloudTrail

• Stores an audit log of all API calls made to your AWS account in S3

• Region specific (available in us-east-1 and us-west-2)

Thank you!

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

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