News Corp’s AWS Cloud Adoption Showcasing their deep adoption of cloud technology and how it's driving innovation and savings within the business.

1. AWS Meetup - Sydney
Nicholas Tan – Chief Architect, Infrastructure/Cloud
News Corp Australia
Driving Innovation & Savings with Cloud

3. The #1 Media Franchise in Australia

4. Our Journey with AWS
• From Singapore Fling • To Cloud First / All In

5. 2011: Dev / Test POC
Key Focus
• Learn how to provision quicker
• Be able to run more projects
• Trial new tools/methodologies
Key Building Blocks
• Singapore AWS Region
• Internet VPN
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Key Learning’s
• LOTS of new IaaS concepts to
learn
• External Partner = Quick Start
• Limited by VPN to Singapore corporate data center
Dev / Test POC
Singapore region
VPN
connection

6. 2012: Dev / Test + Prod Ready
Key Focus
• Learn how to provision quicker
• Be able to run more projects
• Establish production capability
Key Building Blocks
• Singapore AWS Region
• Internet VPN / VPC
• Internet Gateway
Key Learning’s
• Security Design to internet critical
• External Partnering still of value
• Replicating our overly complex DC
security zone model over
complicated things !
corporate data center
Dev / Test/ Prod
Singapore region
VPN
connection

7. 2013: Bringing it all back home
Key Focus
• Establish On-shore Environment
• Ensure benefit of low latency
• Online launch (Taste.com.au)
Key Building Blocks
• Sydney AWS Region
• Direct Connect
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Key Learning’s
• Tactical focused project/tactical
decisions
• Learnt that it is easy to learn
• Redesigned and redeployed
second Sydney VPC
corporate data center
AWS Direct Connect
Dev / Test / Prod
Sydney region

8. 2014: Growing Pains – Time to stretch out
Key Focus
• Fix resource limits via VPC Peering
• Provide more granular design options
• Establish the base camp for wider
adoption
Key Building Blocks
• Sydney AWS / Direct Connect
• Shared Services ‘Hub’ VPC
• VPC Peering
Key Learning’s
• Use Network ACL’s sparingly
• Aim for reuse but expect exceptions
• VPC’s are ‘free’ so should have
started at least with Prod / Non-Prod
VPC’s when redesigning prior V2
corporate data center
AWS Direct Connect
VPC peering
Online / Content
Shared Services
Sydney region

9. 2015: Cloud First / All In
Key Focus
• Establish repeatable Enterprise wide
model
• Create framework for policy
governance & cost allocation
• Ensure security between LoBs
Key Building Blocks
• Sydney AWS / Direct Connect
• Multiple LoB Virtual Private Clouds
(VPCs)
• VPC Peering
Key Learning’s
• Now it is standard and in ‘code’ – can
spin up new LoB VPC in a day
• Access to AWS ‘public’ services –
“It’s Complicated”
• AWS Technology partners still
needed to address some
requirements
corporate data center
AWS Direct Connect
VPC peering
Online / Content BI/Big Data Corporate System
Shared Services
Sydney region

10. Why AWS?

11. Because ‘News’ happens and tomorrow is too late!

13. Powering Agile DevOps @Newscorp

14. A/B Testing, Hot/Cold, Red/Green Deployments

16. 6 Min Hot Deployments
Why?
* Emergency hot-fix deployment
* Fast turn-around time
* Fast roll-back in case of failure

17. 20 Min Cold Deployments
Why?
* Consistency
* Easy stack duplication
* One-click infrastructure

19. Data & Insights drive responsive Operations

22. We even recycle the tears from our own retrospectives!

23. The best place to work in Sydney