Adobe decided to use Amazon Web Services as their Platform of Choice. This presentation discusses the details. Mitch Nelson, Director of Managed Services presented at the AWS Enterprise Tour - SF - 2010
The truth is that Adobe is now one of the largest SaaS providers in the worldOn the creative front we have solutions such as photophop.com., our collaboration services targeted at the Knowledge Worker include Acrobat.com. On the Enterprise side we recently acquired Omniture, which was the second largest SaaS provider in the world. In addition, we have the on-demand media solutions from Scene7, Adobe Connect Hosted, our new Collaboration Services offering and we are here today to discuss our new cloud deployment option for LiveCycle ES2.
Rolled out DevEx -> At our MAX conference in the fall
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Software stack [Contains the OS, applications, libraries, configuration settings]EC2 Instances Virtual Server [Delivers scalable, pay-as-you-go compute capacity in the cloud]Elastic Block Store (EBS) File System [Offers persistent storage for Amazon EC2 instances; Provides the ability to create backup snapshots that are then stored in Amazon S3]Simple Storage Service (S3) Backup storage [Fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving data, at any time, from anywhere on the Web]Elastic IP (EIP) Static IP [Static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing]This describes the high-level single tenant architecture of LiveCycle Managed Services. This represents a dedicated instance of LiveCycle on a 4 core virtual server running on an Redhat Enterprise Linux Box. Adobe has partnered with Amazon to use their Web Services EC2 platform for hosting environment. Amazon also provides the storage services. As part of this new deployment option, comes included managed services from Adobe represented by the Control Center in the upper right corner. These services include the day-to-day monitoring of the instances, backup and restore procedures, as well as the administration of the underlying software stack including the OS, JBoss, MySQL and LiveCycle among others. We provide an SLA uptime guarantee of 99.5% The one area our operations center does not provide support is end user help desk. We don’t want to be in that business.From a customer perspective, represented on the left hand side and in the lower right corner, accessing the LiveCycle instances is enabled either through a private tunnel (port 22) shown in green, or the public Internet (port 80 and/or 443) or both, based on the Customer user profile and the Customer IT security policies. Note that the secure tunnel is particularly useful for allowing traffic to flow between the LiveCycle instances and the Customer private network for accessing data and services residing behind their firewall.
Rolled out DevEx -> At our MAX conference in the fall