A discussion about why AWS makes sense, and the most common AWS services people use to get started.

1. Getting Started on
Amazon Web Services

2. Security FUD
... enables us to operate more securely in the public cloud than we can
even in our own datacenters
— Rob Alexander CIO, Capital One Re: Invent 2015

3. Why AWS?

4. Clear Market Leader
10x Deployed Compute
» $7bil ARR business
» 81% YoY growth rate
» EC2: 95% YoY growth in instance hours
» S3: 102% YoY growth in data transfer
» RDS: 127% YoY growth - $1bil ARR business

5. Rapid Innovation

6. Massive Scale
Every day AWS adds enough new server capacity to support all of
Amazon’s global infrastructure when it was a $7B annual revenue
enterprise (in 2004).
— James Hamilton, AWS Re: Invent 2014

7. FOCUS

8. Let's get started
Compute, Storage and Database

9. Compute in the Cloud
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

10. Know your workloads

11. Pay for what you use
» On-Demand
» Reserved
» Spot

12. Design for Failure

13. Storage in the Cloud
Simple Storage Service (S3)

14. Static Websites

15. Origin

16. Databases in the
Cloud
Relational Database Service (RDS)

17. Leverage RDS
Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server

18. MultiAZ
RDS instances

19. Scale with
Read Replicas

20. Advanced Topics

21. Transform
your infrastructure

22. Infrastructure
as Code

23. Bootstrap
your compute

24. AutoScaling

25. Horizontal
Scaling

26. Ditch your Compute
Lambda

27. Industry News
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