Cloud computing gives you a number of advantages, such as the ability to scale your web application or website on demand. Join us in this session to understand best practices for scaling your resources from zero to millions of users. We show you how to take your first steps on the AWS Cloud, explain how to make smarter decisions for architecting your application, and demonstrate the best way to scale your infrastructure. Speakers: Ralf Capel, Account Manager, Amazon Web Services Nathan Besh, Enterprise Support Manager, Amazon Web Services

1. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Ralf Capel
Account Manager
Amazon Web Services
Level 100
Build Best Practices and the Right Foundation
for your First Production Workload
Nathan Besh
Enterprise Support Manager
Amazon Web Services

2. CLOUD ADOPTION FRAMEWORK
BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY
Setting a Vision
People and Roles
Training
Culture is King
Foundational Processes
Workload Selection
Security
Design

3. Setting a Vision
People and Roles
Training
Culture is King
Foundational Processes
Workload Selection
Security
Design

4. Setting a Vision
• Top down sponsorship
• Business goals/challenges

5. Setting a Vision
Time to market
CAPEX
Digital TransformationSmart car

6. Setting a Vision
People and Roles
Training
Culture is King
Foundational Processes
Workload Selection
Security
Design

7. People and Roles
• Cloud Skills
• Leader
• Liaison
Centre of Excellence
• Cloud Practice Lead
• Cloud Security Lead
• Cloud Governance Lead
• Cloud Finance Lead
• Human Resources
• IT Cloud Lead
• DevOps Lead
• Cloud Business Partner
Align to business

8. Setting a Vision
People and Roles
Training
Culture is King
Foundational Processes
Workload Selection
Security
Design

9. Training
IN CLASS
AWS TECHNICAL ESSENTIALS
AWS BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
ARCHITECTING ON AWS
ADVANCED ARCHITECTING ON AWS
DEVELOPING ON AWS
SYSOPS ON AWS
DEVOPS ENGINEERING ON AWS
SECURITY OPERATIONS ON AWS
DATA WAREHOUSING ON AWS
ONLINE/AD-HOC
AWS Qwiklabs
Youtube
Acloud.guru
Meetups
AWS Lunch & Learns
Bootcamps
Partners
1 Day
3 Day

10. Setting a Vision
People and Roles
Training
Culture is King
Foundational Processes
Workload Selection
Security
Design

11. Culture is King
• Move decision making to the edges
• You build it you run it
• Good intentions are not enough
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast, lunch and dinner” - Peter Drucker

12. Culture is King
Netflix’ Simian Army Shaun Gregory – CTO
“We were used to
technology evolving in
many, many years”. “Now
it was evolving in weeks.”

13. Setting a Vision
People and Roles
Training
Culture is King
Foundational Processes
Workload Selection
Security
Design

14. Foundational Processes
• Set KPI’s aligned to culture and cloud possibilities
• Systematic metric based management
• Strive towards automation
• Revisit design

15. Setting a Vision
People and Roles
Training
Culture is King
Foundational Processes
Workload Selection
Security
Design

16. Workload Selection – Attributes
Attributes of the First Workload
• New or Existing
• Correct Risk Profile
• Impactful
• Meaningful

17. Workload Selection – Lifecycle
Lifecycle Triggers
• New
• Major Upgrade/Refresh
• Cost Saving - TCO
• Increase Security Posture

18. Setting a Vision
People and Roles
Training
Culture is King
Foundational Processes
Workload Selection
Security
Design

19. Security – Compliance
Assurance Programs
• PCI
• SOC
• ISO27001
Shared Responsibility Model

20. Security – Strategy
• Translation
• Like for Like
• Increase Security Capability
• Improve Existing
• Extend Existing

21. Setting a Vision
People and Roles
Training
Culture is King
Foundational Processes
Workload Selection
Security
Design

22. Design – Strategy
• Translate
• Refresh & Uplift
• AWS White Papers &
Best Practices
• Design Patterns
– Design for Failure
– Component de-Coupling
– Scale & Elasticity
Auto Scaling group
Availability Zone #1
security group
security group
root volume
data volume
EC2 instance
web app
server
Auto Scaling group
Availability Zone #1
security group
security group
EC2 instance
web app
server
Amazon
Route 53
Amazon S3
bucket
CloudFront
distribution
Auto Scaling group
Availability Zone #2
security group
security group
EC2 instance
web app
server
Elastic Load
Balancing
AWS WAF
“Everything fails,
all the time”
Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon.com

23. Design – Go Beyond
• Not Just Physical & Logical
• Deployment & Operational
– DevOps
– CI/CD
• Optimise for Cost – LIVING system
– Short term
– Long term
– Re-factor/New Services

24. Result
45
39
47 45
18
10 10 10 12
9 9 9 10 8 8
-10
0
10
20
30
40
50
Number of Releases
Total After Hours Support

25. Where to Next?

26. Key Takeaways
• Set Your Vision
• People and Roles
• Training
• Culture
• Foundational Processes
• Workload Selection
• Security
• Design

27. Additional Resources
• Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
• Well–Architected
• Security
• Reliability
• Performance
• Cost
• Operational Excellence
• AWS: Support, Professional
Services, Training, Partners
• Other Sessions and Booths

28. Recommended Sessions
Today
14:45 How a Large Business Sprints Like an Agile Startup
17:15 Running Enterprise Workloads on AWS
Tomorrow
12:15 Building a Solid Business Case for Cloud Migration
14:45 Application Portfolio Assessment and the 6Rs in Cloud Migrations
15:30 Creating an Enterprise Cloud Centre of Excellence
16:30 Migrating your Data Centre to AWS

29. Thank you!