AWS 101: A Quick Guide to AWS Solutions, originally presented at Vancouver Initiate Day on September 27, 2018.

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Tulsi Garg
Sr. Solutions Architect
27th Sept 2018
AWS 101:
A Quick Guide to AWS Solutions

4. Undifferentiated
Heavy Lifting

5. Solution Breakdown:
Infrastructure
Software

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11. ACTUAL AWS REGION

12. TRANSIT CENTERS

13. METRO FIBER

14. FULLY SCALED AVAILABILITY ZONES

17. “We have virtually 24/7 uptime for our border-control solution in all
the airports that we operate in across North America, because of
the reliability we get using AWS,” says Schucroft.
Linda Schucroft Director, Innovative Travel Solutions, Vancouver
International Airport
ITS originally hosted its BORDERXPRESS
Automated Passport Control solution in two on-
premises data centers at Vancouver
International Airport.

18. Solution Breakdown:
Infrastructure
Software

19. MPAC—the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation—is a
public-sector organization responsible for providing valuations for
more than five million properties across Ontario, Canada’s largest
province.
3-6 months == 1-2 weeks
5000% faster, 1/10th cost
Amazon Relational Database Service
(RDS)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodePipeline
Elastic Load Balancing …………..

20. Fast Deployments
Access computing
infrastructure in minutes
Low Cost
Pay-as-you-go pricing
Elastic
Easily add or remove capacity
Globally Accessible
Easily support customers
around the world
Secure
A collection of tools to
protect data and privacy
Scalable
Access to effectively
limitless capacity

21. AWS EC2 Instances for HPC :
Powered by Intel

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Amazon EC2 Instances
General
purpose
Dense
storage
Compute
optimized
Storage
optimized
Memory
optimized
High
I/OM4 D2 X1T2 R4I3C5M5 H1 EC2 Bare MetalT2 Unlimited X1eI2C4
High
I/O
General
purpose
burstable
Direct access to
physical server
resources

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C5: Compute-Optimized Instances
Based on Intel Skylake
• Based on 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
(Skylake)
• Up to 72 vCPUs and 144 GiB of memory
(2:1 Memory:vCPU ratio)
• 25 Gbps NW bandwidth
• Support for Intel AVX-512
25% price/performance
improvement over C4
C4 C5
“We saw significant performance
improvement on Amazon EC2 C5, with up to a
140% performance improvement in industry
standard CPU benchmarks over C4.”
“We are eager to migrate onto the AVX-512
enabled c5.18xlarge instance size … We
expect to decrease the processing time of some
of our key workloads by more than 30%.”

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M5: Next-Generation General Purpose
Instance
• Powered by 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Scalable
Processors (Skylake)
• New larger instance size—m5.24xlarge with
96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of memory
(4:1 memory:vCPU ratio)
• Improved network and Amazon EBS performance
on smaller instance sizes
• Support for Intel AVX-512, offering up to twice
the performance for vector and floating point
workloads
14% price/performance
improvement with M5
M4 M5

25. Shared Responsibility Model for Security :
Certifications
Compliance

26. AWS Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
AWS Global
Infrastructure Regions
Availability Zones
Edge
Locations
AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud

27. AWS Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
AWS Global
Infrastructure Regions
Availability Zones
Edge
Locations
Client-side data
encryption
Server-side data
encryption
Network traffic
protection
Platform, applications, identity & access management
Operating system, network, & firewall configuration
Customer applications & contentCustomers
Customers configure their security in the cloud

28. Tips
Simple Monthly
Calculator
Billing
Alerts
AWS
Quick Starts

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