During and after a disaster, the speed, timeliness, and accuracy of response and recovery efforts can be the difference that saves many lives. In this session, you will be introduced to the Amazon Web Services Disaster Response Program (AWS DRP). We will provide an overview of the program, its purpose, services, and the capabilities designed to assist customers responding to disasters and/or emergencies. This session will also provide insights into “the Art of the Possible” as it relates to how the various native AWS Services can be used to deliver the capabilities required to assist customers in accessing critical data, infrastructure, and decision making tools during disasters.

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Paul Bockelman
Sr. Manager, WWPS Specialist SA, Amazon Web Services
195348
AWS Disaster Response: Using
Deployable Native AWS Services for
your Rapid Response Infrastructure

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Abstract
During and after a disaster, the speed, timeliness, and accuracy of response and
recovery efforts can be the difference that saves many lives.
In this session, you will be introduced to the Amazon Web Services Disaster Response
Program (AWS DRP). We will provide an overview of the program, its purpose,
services, and the capabilities designed to assist customers responding to disasters
and/or emergencies.
This session will also provide insights into “the Art of the Possible” as it relates to how
the various native AWS Services can be used to deliver the capabilities required to
assist customers in accessing critical data, infrastructure, and decision making tools
during disasters.

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Our Support to Date

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Our Program Goals
 Improve government and NPOs response and resiliency by leveraging
technology, expertise, cash, and credits to solve our customers' biggest
infrastructure and technology challenges during disasters.
 Invest in the build out and deployment of services for disasters that
could also have broader applicability.
 Train and support Amazon technical experts as volunteers to deploy
post-disaster.
 Reinforce Amazon’s position as a positive, proactive force in the global
community.

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Program Focus Areas
Building a Disaster
Response Action
Team
Applying and
using Open and
Large datasets
Integrating and
using native AWS
technologies

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Program Roadmap
 Identify how we can uniquely help
 Inspect our innovations for potential re-use in disaster response and
broader philanthropic efforts
 Scale program globally
 Collaborate with a partner network of relief organizations; help, not
harm existing operations.
 Use our program to engage employees to support the mission

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Disaster Response Action Team (DRT)

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AWS DRT: What We Do
 Service designed to improve government and NPO response and
resiliency capabilities to solve our customers' biggest infrastructure and
technology challenges during disasters
 AWS will deploy technical experts as volunteers to post-disasters
scenarios, to enable customers to utilize AWS services to augment existing
response efforts
 Provides direct, on the ground, support for up to two-weeks
 Zero upfront costs to organizations who want to get started

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AWS DRT: Why We Do It
 Preparedness and data protection is key; working with customers to
establish a playbook to deploy staff and technology solutions in times of
need
 Investment in the build out and deployment of services for disasters that
will also have broader applicability
 Partnership with the AWS Open Data Program to identify key datasets
that can be used in disaster response scenarios
 Philanthropic in nature, the program will provide Disaster Response
credits and cash to organizations who responding to disasters

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AWS DRT: When We Do It
 Response levels will be based on the severity of the incident and the
customer need
 Customers must be on-boarded with the AWS DRT Program in advance of
any deployment
 Scope of Work must be drafted prior to deployment to ensure the AWS
DRT provides maximum value to response efforts
 Staff and/or technology resources will be based on an internal assessment
process

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AWS DRT: How We Do It
 AWS DRT maintains a roster of 20+ technical volunteers who are skilled in
networking, software development, and communications
 Certified in National Incident Management System (NIMS) and First
Aid/CPR
 Critical data will be provisioned with predefined software stacks to allow
the customer to run workloads on the edge
 Delivers the hardware solution to the customer at the disaster site, and
implements infrastructure based on customer need

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DRT and the ”Art of the Possible”
Leveraging the power of native AWS services

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When disaster strikes…
“What’s next for my organization?”

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Satellite Access
Cellular Wireless
Access
(3G/4G/LTE)
The “Art of Possible”: (Re)-establish core infrastructure
Fiber Ingress
Regional
Carrier(s)
Cellular
Uplink
Satellite
Uplink
Relief Organization
(Virtual Private Cloud)
AWS cloud
Relief Organization
Data Center(s)
Relief Operations
Base Camp
Medical Stations

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Establish cloud-based gold templates of the response organization’s technology stack to
be deployed for the emergency stack including services like:
• AmazonVirtual Private Cloud (virtual networking)
• Amazon EC2 (compute)
• AWS Lambda (serverless compute)
• Amazon S3
• AWS IoT
• AWS Greengrass
• Amazon ECS (Docker containers)
• Amazon EKS (Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes)
AWS DRTTechnology: Cloud-based ‘gold’ template(s)

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Satellite Access
Cellular Wireless
Access
(3G/4G/LTE)
The “Art of Possible”: Deploy gold template to the Edge
Fiber Ingress
Regional
Carrier(s)
Cellular
Uplink
Satellite
Uplink
Compute and
Storage
Relief Organization
(Virtual Private Cloud)
AWS cloud
Relief Organization
Data Center(s)
Relief Operations
Base Camp
Medical Stations

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AWS DRT Technology: AWS Snowball
 80 TB capacity/10Gb network
 Data encryption end-to-end
 Rugged 8.5 G impact case
 Rain and dust resistant
AWS Snowball
 100 TB capacity
 10/24/40Gb network interfaces
 Data encryption end-to-end
 Rugged 8.5 G impact case that is
rain and dust resistant
 Compute and storage for
hybrid/edge workloads
 Rack-mountable, cluster-ready
AWS Snowball Edge
 Exabyte-scale 45ft container
 Data encryption end-to-end
 Dedicated security personnel
 GPS tracking, alarm monitoring,
24/7 surveillance, and optional
additional security
AWS Snowmobile

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Satellite Access
Cellular Wireless
Access
(3G/4G/LTE)
The “Art of Possible”: Connect to the disaster areas
Fiber Ingress
Regional
Carrier(s)
Cellular
Uplink
Satellite
Uplink
Compute and
Storage
Relief Organization
(Virtual Private Cloud)
AWS cloud
Relief Organization
Data Center(s)
Relief Operations
Base Camp
5 GHz Wifi Mesh
Wireless
AP
2.4 GHz
2.4 GHz
2.4 GHz
Civic and
Government
Organizations
2.4 GHz
Medical Stations
Urban Areas
Suburban and Rural
Areas
Aerial and Environmental
Assessments

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P3
1.
Train deep learning
models in the Cloud
4.
Visualize the data
and findings and
take necessary
action
AWS DRTTechnology: AWS Deep Lens
3.
Store processed
data using Amazon
S3 object storage
2.
Deploy deep
learning models to
the AWS Deep Lens

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Sample: Orthomosaic map(s) of damaged property

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More Information
https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/nonprofits/npo-disaster-
recovery/
https://registry.opendata.aws/
https://aws.amazon.com/earth
aws-drp@amazon.com

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