AWS Customer Presentation - Autodesk

Virtual Private Cloud
Paul Cochrane
Infrastructure Architect
paul.cochrane@autodesk.com

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Autodesk: A World Leader in 2D and 3D Design, Engineering, and Entertainment Software
10+ million users of our software
800,000+ companies
FY10 revenue $1.7M
6,600 employees
Image courtesy of ADEPT Airmotive (Pty) Ltd.
Image courtesy of Mammoth-WEBCO, Inc.

Initial Success With AWS
Several successful SaaS products on AWS
How can IT get in on the fun?

What problem are we trying to solve?

What is the purpose of a data center?

Conversion of electricity to compute cycles

Can someone else generate compute cycles for less?
Can we consume compute cycles as a utility?
Can we present this utility where it’s useful?

Let’s look at these in reverse order:
(Because number three is hard)

Question 1:

Need my water utility connected to kitchen and bathroom
The problem with utility computing!
Not to living room!

VPC is part of the Autodesk internal network

VPC Connectivity
Can connect to any internal resource
Cannot connect to internet
Uses Autodesk firewalls, IDS, etc.

Question 2:

Yes!
Standardized OS images
Integrated management systems
Integrated security controls
“Just looks like any other server in our data center”

Initial pilot projects

Data Crunching With Hadoop
What happens when daily ETL takes >24 hours?
Should we buy a bigger server?
Should we be using MapReduce?

Meeting Peak Computing Demands
Demand for internal compute resources fluctuates with the release cycle
How do we scale for these fluctuations?

Meeting Peak Computing Demands
For some asynchronous services, we can add VPC instances to meet peak demand.

Infrastructure to Support Agile
Many scrum teams = many environments
Continuous integration = continuous deployments = continuous infrastructure changes
“How can I iterate code changes quickly when it takes a week (or even a day) to get a new server?”

Question 3:

Not sure

Lessons Learned

For the security guy…….

“We are concerned about security”

For the CIO…….

Start figuring out your internal costs now!
If you don’t embrace utility computing now, someone else will very soon! (IT outside of IT)
Set standards, create policies – treat like an internal data center, not a free for all
Message your people – utility computing is not a threat!

For the sysadmin…….

Implement standards from day one – take some time to create standard AMIs that look like internal servers
Integrate management systems from day one – directory services, patching, log collection, AV, etc.
Go home. Spend some time with your family (or World of Warcraft clan). Life is about to get much easier.

I am was a decidedly average sysadmin

The Automation You Always Meant to Build
Provision and attach 1TB of storage in 2 minutes (from the back of an auto-rickshaw in India).
10 new Linux servers in 2 minutes (while sitting by the pool on a nice day).
Monitoring server resources from an iPhone (in a bar).

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