Hosting for pennies at scale in AWS

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AWS Amplify Console
Hosting for pennies at scale
Ric Harvey
Startup Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
rjh@amazon.com
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2. Hosting at scale
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3. https://infrastructure.aws/

4. DIY Hosting for Static Sites
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5. Amazon S3 + Amazon Cloudfront
Your Stack
DNS (www.example.com)
SSL
Global CDN
Storage
Build your own CI/CD pipeline
Users
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6. Building your own CI/CD Pipeline
https://digilution.io/posts/ci-cd-pipeline-for-hugo/
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7. Hosting with ease
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8. AWS Amplify Console
1. Connect your repository 2. Configure build settings 3. Deploy your app
https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/console/
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9. Scalable Hosting for Fullstack Serverless Web apps
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10. Deploy straight from version control
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11. Simple static website hosting
https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/console/
Automatic detection from version control
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12. Demo time!
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13. Pricing
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14. Example pricing
A hugo web app has 100 daily active users and is updated 30 times per month
Monthly build & deploy charges
Assumptions: Average build time = 2 mins
Total build time per month = num of updates/month * avg. build time = 30*2 = 60 build mins per month
Monthly build & deploy charges = 60*.01 = $0.60
Monthly hosting charges
Assumptions: Web app size = 1.5 MB, average size of page requested = 0.3 MB
Monthly GB served = Daily active users * average page size * days = 100 * (0.3/1024) * 30 = 0.87GB
Monthly GB stored = web app size * number of monthly builds = (1.5/1024)*2 = 0.003 GB
Monthly hosting charges = 0.87*$0.15 + 0.003*$0.023= $0.13
Total monthly charges
Total charges = Build & deploy charges + Hosting charges = $0.60+$0.13 = $0.73 per month
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15. You heard that right….
$0.73per month
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16. Beyond Static Sites
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17. Amplify framework
https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/
Easy-to-Use Library
Choose your cloud services and
easily connect them to your app with
just a few lines of code.
Powerful Toolchain
Effortlessly create and maintain
sophisticated serverless backends
for your apps.
Beautiful UI Components
Accelerate app development by
leveraging our beautiful out-of-the
box UI components.
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18. Check out the examples
Fullstack serverless apps comprise of backend resources such as GraphQL APIs, Data and File Storage,
Authentication, or Analytics, integrated with a frontend framework such as React, Gatsby, or Angular. Deploy these
example projects to the Amplify Console with a single click.
Examples to deploy:
• Real-time drawing canvas (React)
• Todo app (React)
• GraphQL Notes App (React)
• Authentication Starter (Gatsby)
• Real-Time Offline Ready Chat App (React)
• Authentication Starter (React)
https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/console/getting-started/
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19. Questions?
Ric Harvey
Startup Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
rjh@amazon.com
@ric__harvey
https://gitlab.com/ric_harvey/