Keith Meade is a senior account director and partner at What's Up Interactive, a digital agency located in Atlanta, GA with 25 employees. What's Up Interactive provides marketing, creative and technology services and has clients such as FOX, AT&T, DS Waters, Georgia Lottery, and Georgia Aquarium. The document discusses What's Up Interactive's experience implementing AWS backup and storage solutions in 2011, rolling out Pilot Light and low capacity solutions for clients in 2012, and saving $2,500 per month with Pilot Light. It also provides recommendations to try AWS services, test systems and data flow, and realize the potential for quick scalability.

1. Keith Meade
Senior Account Director, Partner
What’s Up Interactive
@keithmeade

2. About What’s Up Interactive
• True Digital Agency –
Marketing, Creative, Technology
• Atlanta, GA
• 25 employees
• Clients: FOX, AT&T, DS Waters, Georgia
Lottery, Georgia Aquarium
• Growth Businesses (Building a Web Presence)

8. Our Experience
April 2011 – Implemented new backup
and offsite storage solution utilizing S3
August 2011 – Backup of select sites & systems
in EC2

9. Rolling Out this Year
Pilot light and Low Capacity
solutions for all our clients

10. Savings of $2,500/month via Pilot Light

12. What We Learned
• Try It
– Get a good understanding of capabilities and potential
– Get a handle on costs
• Test It, and Test Again
– Test systems and data flow to ensure replication is
working correctly
• Realize Its Potential
– Quickly scalable to add resources to production