For a fun end to the week we are going to take your five most outstanding questions for the week and spend 10 minutes on each diving into a detailed answer. We'll be considering the following when choosing your Top 5 questions: Is directly related to the topic being presented Is clearly stated and finely focused The question common to many of our customers Can we add it to our documentation or knowledge base for all customers to benefit from Makes our Solution Architects work hard or think deeply to find a suitable answer Get our Solution Architects to say "Great Question" when you ask it! So don't be shy, bring on your questions and see if you can get your question to be the top question of the week.

2. v

3. Questions of the Week
Dhruv Parpia
Solutions Architect, ASEAN

4. v
Questions
• How do I get started with AWS and how do I get
trained on AWS?
• Can I run any application on EC2?
• What is the difference between Vertical and
Horizontal scaling?
• What is a Region / AZ / Edge Locations
• 1 TB isn’t large enough for EBS, what should I do?

5. v
How do I get started with AWS and how do
I get trained on AWS?
• Self Paced Labs
• Instructional Videos
• Instructor led courses
• Certification
• AWSome Days
• Forums
• Free Tier
• Get Started Documentation

6. v
Self Paced Labs
• Train
on-­‐demand
and
learn
at
your
own
pace,
acquiring
new
and
prac7cal
AWS
skills
• Gain
hands-­‐on
experience
working
with
technology
in
a
prac7ce
environment
• Explore
and
experiment
with
new
products
in
real-­‐7me,
real
environments
• hAps://run.qwiklab.com/

7. v
Instruc3onal Videos
• Our
Introduc7on
to
AWS
series
includes
free,
on-­‐demand
instruc7onal
videos
that
enable
you
to
learn
about
AWS
in
minutes.
• Key
concepts
of
Compute,
Storage,
Databases,
Networking,
etc
covered.
• hAp://aws.amazon.com/training/intro_series/

8. v
Instructor led courses
• Role-­‐based
technical
training
courses
help
you
deepen
your
skills
• Learn
best
prac7ces
for
architec7ng,
developing,
and
opera7ng
infrastructure
and
applica7ons
on
AWS.
• Courses
include
Business
Essen7als,
Architec7ng
on
AWS,
Big
Data
Technology
Fundamentals,
etc.
• hAp://aws.training

9. v
Cer3fica3on
• Validate
your
technical
skills
with
AWS
• Gain
credibility
for
your
AWS
exper7se
through
Associate
and
Professional
cer7fica7ons
• Become
part
of
the
global
AWS
Cer7fied
Community

10. v
AWSome Days
• Gain
a
deeper
understanding
of
AWS
core
and
applica7on
services
• Learn
how
to
deploy
and
automate
your
infrastructure
on
the
AWS
Cloud
• Get
your
ques7ons
answered
by
our
AWS
experts
• Network
with
the
AWS
team
and
your
industry
peers
• Receive
an
AWSome
Day
Cer7ficate
of
AAendance
as
well
as
an
AWS
Training
Guide
• hAp://aws.amazon.com/about-­‐aws/events/

11. v
Developer Forums
• Exchange
thoughts,
ideas,
knowledge,
and
opinions.
• Ask
for
help
from
the
experts
• hAps://forums.aws.amazon.com/index.jspa

12. v
Free Tier
• Gain
free,
hands-­‐on
experience
with
AWS
for
12
Months.
• AZer
crea7ng
your
AWS
account
you
can
use
21
products
and
services,
for
free
within
certain
usage
limits.
• hAp://aws.amazon.com/free/

13. v
Get started Documenta3on
• Step-­‐by-­‐step
instruc7ons
to
get
you
up
and
running
quickly
• Available
in
HTML
/
PDF
/
Kindle
Formats
• hAp://aws.amazon.com/documenta7on/gengstarted/

14. v
Can I run any applica3on on EC2?
• You
have
complete
control
of
your
instances.
• You
have
root
access
to
each
one,
and
you
can
interact
with
them
as
you
would
any
machine.
• You
can
stop
your
instance
while
retaining
the
data.
• Instances
can
be
rebooted
remotely
using
web
service
APIs.
• You
also
have
access
to
console
output
of
your
instances.

15. v
• Vast selection of software solutions optimized for
AWS
• Flexible Pricing: Hourly, Monthly and Annually
• No cost trials
• 1-Click deployment
• Easy provisioning
• One invoice that includes AWS usage and AWS
Marketplace Software
• http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
AWS Marketplace

16. v
What is the difference between Ver3cal and
Horizontal scaling (or how do I add more RAM to
my server?)
• Ver7cal
Scaling
• Changing
instance
size
• Increasing
EBS
Capacity
• Horizontal
Scaling
• Adding
/
removing
instances
• Elas7c
Load
Balancer
r3.8xlarge
c3.2xlarge
m3.medium
m3.medium m3.medium m3.medium
m3.medium m3.medium m3.medium

17. v
What is a Region / AZ / Edge Loca3ons

18. v
AWS Regions
11
Regions
28
Availability
Zones

19. v
AWS Regions and Availability Zones (AZ)
US Regions
AZ - A AZ - B
GovCloud (US)
AZ - A AZ - B
AZ - C AZ - D
US East (VA)
AZ - A AZ - B
US West (CA)
AZ - A AZ - B
AZ - C
US West (OR)
Note: Conceptual drawing only. The number of Availability Zones (AZ) may vary.
Global Regions
AZ - A AZ - B
AZ - C
EU (Ireland)
AZ - A AZ - B
South America (Sao
Paulo)
AZ - A AZ - B
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
AZ - A AZ - B
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
AZ - A AZ - B
AZ - C
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
AZ - A
EU (Frankfurt)
AZ - B

20. v
AWS Edge Loca3ons
53
Edge
Loca7ons

21. v
1 TB isn’t large enough for EBS, what should I do?
We
got
you
covered!

22. Large Storage: 16 TB Storage on EC2
• Previously
• New
with
Larger
and
faster
RAID 0
aAach
sixteen
1
TB
volumes
to
the
EC2
instance
and
create
a
RAID
0
set
to
get
16TB
of
storage
and
an
aggregate
of
20,000
IOPS.
Coordinated
snapshong
of
all
volumes
required
aAach
one
16
TB
PIOPS
volume,
with
20,000
IOPS
to
the
EC2
instance.
No
coordinated
snapshong
required.

23. Managing Snapshots: 5 TB on EBS with Remote Region copies
• Previously
• New
with
Larger
and
faster
RAID 0
When
taking
snapshot
of
mul7ple
volumes
there
are
a
lot
of
snapshots
that
need
to
be
managed.
Addi7onally,
the
snapshots
have
to
be
consistent
With
larger
and
faster
volumes
the
number
of
snapshots
that
need
to
be
managed
is
less.
Remote Region
Remote Region

24. v
Amazon EBS capacity scenario: 48TB shared block storage
NFSCIFS
Availability Zone A Availability Zone B
DistributedNetwork
FileSystem
Previously
NFSCIFS
Availability Zone A Availability Zone B
Distributed
NetworkFile
System
Now