Slides from the recent AWS High Availability Websites online seminar. Covering static asset and site hosting with S3 and CloudFront.

1. High Availability
Websites: 1
Matt Wood
T E C H N O L O G Y E VA N G E L I S T

2. Part One

3. AGENDA
High Performance Websites: Part 1
1. Availability
2. Static content
3. Multi-tier applications
4 . Per formance boost
5. Summar y

4. Spectrum of websites

5. Static Dynamic
Spectrum of websites

6. Static Dynamic
Simple Complex
Spectrum of websites

7. Static Dynamic
Simple Complex
Niche Mass market
Spectrum of websites

8. Availability is
important

9. Support your
customers

10. Support your
business

11. However...

12. “
Everything fails
all the time
”
Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO

13. Infrastructure
services can
save the day

14. Treat your data
as a Royal Garden
Treat your infrastructure
as a fungible resource

15. Focus on your stuff

16. Patterns for
availability

17. 1. Static content

18. Images
Stylesheets
Streaming
content
Assets
Video Javascript

19. Templates
Images
Stylesheets
Streaming
content
Web
pages Assets
Blog posts
Video Javascript
PDFs

20. High High
redund availabi
ancy lity
Amazon S3
High
durabili
ty

21. http://s3.amazonaws.com/bucketname/objectid
http://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/objectid

22. https://s3.amazonaws.com/bucketname/objectid
https://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/objectid

23. Perfect for asset
hosting

24. Perfect for website
hosting

25. Let’s see how...

26. aws.amazon.com/console

29. Make everything public

30. index.html Text
http://mza.s3.amazon.com/site/index.html

33. https://mza.s3.amazon.com/site/index.html

34. https://mza.s3.amazon.com/site/index.html

35. :(

37. Unfriendly, brittle URL:
http://mza.s3.amazonaws.com/s3/index.html

38. S3 websites

39. Root objects

40. Error pages

41. Let’s see how...

43. https://my-website.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazon.com

44. https://my-website.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazon.com

45. Content
distribution

46. Increased latency

47. CloudFront
Powerful content delivery network

48. Global edge caching
+
Friendly URLs

49. Let’s see how!

52. d19r58gd5nvk1.cloudfront.net

53. d19r58gd5nvk1.cloudfront.net/site/index.html

54. Update
DNS CNAME

55. friendly-example.com/index.html

56. Set CloudFront
Default Root Object

57. API or S3 client

58. CloudBerry Explorer
API or S3 client
Cyberduck

59. amazon_s3.html

60. friendly-example.com

61. friendly-example.com
Global DNS CNAME
Global Amazon CloudFront
Regional Amazon S3
Redundant storage

62. Thank you!

63. Q U E S T I O N S + C O M M E N T S
mawood@amazon.com
@mza
O N T W I T T E R