I presented at the AWS Startup Event in San Diego about Coupa's use of EC2 and S3.
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1. Enterprise Apps and AWS Noah Eisner Co-Founder
2. What is Coupa? Founded in 2006 Bring procurement automation
and efficiency to all companies Small, agile, fun team based in SF
Bay Area Took in initial capital in late 06
3. Enterprise Software Model Then Coupa Proprietary tools Open
source, Ruby on Rails Designed for professional users Designed for
end-users
4. Enterprise Software Model Then Coupa Proprietary tools Open
source, Ruby on Rails Designed for professional users Designed for
end-users Lots of expensive sales guys Transparency with inside SCs
$100K+ license deals Affordable entry point Buy and hope Try before
you buy TCO swamps initial investment Pay as you go Lengthy,
Capital Intensive Quick, Low Capital
5. Real Businesses Doing Real Business
6. Use of AWS Backups & AMI (S3) EC2 DNS MySQL Routing
Source Control (EC2) App Code nginx mongrel email, capistrano
Monitoring - Munin (EC2)
7. Why We Chose AWS: Scale in Multiple Directions Backups &
EC2 AMI (S3) DNS MySQL Routing Source Control (EC2) App nginx Code
mongrel email, capistrano Monitoring - Munin (EC2)
8. Scale in Multiple Directions EC2 Backups & MySQL AMI
(S3) MySQL EC2 MySQL MySQL MySQL MySQL EC2 MySQL MySQL MySQL MySQL
MySQL App MySQL DNS NGINX Code MySQL Mongrel Routing MySQL App
Source MySQL Capistrano Email, Code NGINX Mongrel Control (EC2) App
Email, Capistrano Code email, capistrano Monitoring - Munin
(EC2)
9. Launching Coupa On-Demand Today Bring purchasing efficiency
and savings to all companies Simple to get started, simple to use
Affordable for even small enterprises Scalable as you grow 30-day
free trials (scale up and down on EC2)
10. Transparent Pricing As little as a week to go live!
Unlimited Premier Standard Basic Annual Subscription $35,495
$12,995 $5,495 $2,495 Included Users 1000 100 25 10 Additional
Users $10 per user 25 per user 100 per user 200 per user
Requisitioning PO Management RFQs and Quotes Inventory Management
Invoicing Integration Platform Quick Start
11. Lessons Learned Dont spend money when you dont have to
Scale to demand, dont forecast Nothing is 100% reliable Plan and
test Use the AWS forums
12. Whats Next and What I Wish For On our docket SQS for XML
messaging Clustering For Amazonpretty please! Static IPs European
presence Database API service