Get behind the hype and headlines from AWS re:Invent 2016 and find out what it all means to you. We’ll share what’s working for AWS users and highlight which new features and services you’ll want to look at. Whether or not you attended re:Invent, this wrap-up will help you develop your 2017 cloud to-do list.

1. AWS RE:INVENT RECAP:
WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT IT MEANS

2. Panelists
• Michael Crandell
• CEO, RightScale
• Josh Fraser,
• Senior Vice President Sales & BD, RightScale
• Brian Adler
• Director Enterprise Architecture, RightScale
• Kim Weins (Moderator)
• VP Marketing, RightScale

3. Universal Cloud Management Platform
Self-Service Cloud Analytics
RightScale Cloud Management Platform
Cloud Management
Multi-Cloud Orchestration
2
Governance
Public
Clouds
Private
Clouds
Virtual
Servers
Bare Metal
Servers

4. • Show Overview
• The Announcements
• Deep Dives
• Pricing Recap
• Hot Topics
• Your To Do List
Discussion Topics
3

5. POLLS

6. • Attendees: 32,000*
• Livestream: 50,000
• Sessions: 400+
• Business: $13B run rate, growing at 55% YoY
• New Services/Features announced: 29
AWS re:Invent By the Numbers

8. • C5s, I3s, R4s, new T2 sizes
• Elastic GPUs – add on GPU to any instance
• Aurora for PostgreSQL
• AWS Personal Health Dashboard –tailored AWS
health
• Lightsail– easy VPS
Improving the Core Logical Extensions
• AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate – managed
Chef
• Athena – SQL to S3
• AWS Batch – batch services
• Glue – ETL
• EC2 Systems Manager – patch/configure
• CodeBuild – build/test code
• X-Ray – trace requests
• Pinpoint – mobile push targeting
• Shield – DDoS protection
Announcements-at-a-Glance: The Expected

9. • C# on Lambda
• Lambda@Edge – edge devices
• Greengrass – IoT devices
• Step Functions – workflow
• Snowball Edge – Snowball +
compute
Serverless Other Stuff
• AI
• Lex – Alexa-aaS
• Polly – text to speech
• Rekognition – image recognition
• Containers
• Blox – open source schedulers
• Special case
• F1s – FPGA
• Snowmobile – Truckload o’ data
• VMware on AWS Cloud
Announcements-at-a-Glance: Bleeding Edge

10. • Serverless
• Lambda everywhere
• Lots of new Compute options
• But no custom instances
• Yes, of course, we’ll take your data
• Bring more data
• More services, more complexity
• AWS wants you, and they want to lock you in
Key Themes from AWS Announcement

11. • AWS is leading the way, defining the new normal … and that’s
a good thing
• Others will follow, providing increasingly competitive offerings
• Azure now always in the mix
• Google breaking away from the remainder of the pack
• The public cloud market is bigger than AWS … “multi-cloud
happens”
What it Means for Other Cloud Providers

12. • The re:Invent FAQ
• How will you keep up with the pace of innovation?
• When will you support AWS’ new feature ____?
• RightScale Then
• Core, tightly integrated, building blocks
• ROI – provision your application
• RightScale Now
• Extensible platform with comprehensive governance framework
• ROI – just connect your cloud(s)
What it Means for RightScale

13. PlugIns: Connect RightScale to Cloud Services
13
Compute Storage Network Database
Built-In Integration Cloud Service Plug-Ins
AWS
Lambda
AWS
Batch
Google
Container
Engine
Azure
PaaS
and more…
Created by
• RightScale
• Customer
• 3rd party
Governance

14. R3.large R4.large
vCPU 2 2
Processor Intel Xeon E5-2670
v2 (Ivy Bridge)
Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4
(Broadwell)
Memory 15.25 15.25
Disk 1x32 SSD EBS only
Cost/hr $.166 $.133
Cost/GiB RAM/hr $.0109 $.0087
Deep Dive: R4 Instances
20%
less

15. • FPGA access
• 1 to 8 FPGAs
• Each has approx. 2.5 million logic elements.
• Dedicated to instance, isolated in multi-tenant environment
• FPGA AMI with Dev Tools is available
• Speeds up many types of genomics, seismic analysis, financial risk analysis,
big data search, and encryption algorithms by up to 30 times
• Intel Broadwell E5 2686 v4 processors
• 2.3 GHz base speed, 2.7 GHz Turbo mode on all cores, and 3.0 GHz Turbo
mode on one core
• Up to 976 GiB of memory
• Up to 4 TB of NVMe SSD storage
Deep Dive: F1 Instances (Developer Preview)

16. Deep Dive: Other New Instances (Soon)
• C5 – CPU intensive
• Next generation of C3
• Xeon “Skylake” Processor
• Advanced floating point support for machine learning, multimedia, scientific, and financial
operations
• Six sizes up to 72 vCPU, 144 GiB of memory
• I3 – I/O intensive
• Next generation of I2
• Low latency SSDs
• 3.3 million random IOPS at a 4 KB block size and up to 16 GB/second of disk throughput
• I/O intensive relational & NoSQL databases, transactional, and analytics workloads including ERP
• All stored data will be encrypted at rest
• Six sizes up to to 64 vCPUs, 488 GiB of memory, and 15.2 TB of storage

17. • Previously only available with G2 or P2 instance types
• Will now be available as an “add on” option to multiple instance types
• Interaction similar to EBS volumes (create, then attach at boot or start)
• Sizing:
• Initially OpenGL support on Windows. Linux to follow
• May add support for DirectX and/or Vulkan libraries
Deep Dive: Elastic GPU
Source: AWS

18. • Lambda@Edge – serverless functionality at CloudFront
locations
• Greengrass – run Lambda functions on your IoT devices in
the field
• Snowball Edge – run Lambda functions against your data as it
is uploaded from a Snowball device to S3
Deep Dive: Serverless
• Step Functions – run Lambda functions
within a distributed application

19. • Native, fully managed VMware environment in AWS
datacenters (“VMware Cloud on AWS”)
• ESXi 6.5 on bare metal (no Xen/nested virtualization)
• Hourly, on-demand or subscription
• vSphere, vSAN, NSX all supported via same VMware tools
• VMware licenses, discounts, agreements, etc. all apply
• Low-latency connections to all AWS services in same region
Deep Dive: VMware on AWS

20. • Use Cases
• Extension of on-premises environment when capacity is exhausted
• Disaster Recovery
• Migration off/on via vMotion
• Billing for all services through VMware
• Support via VMware
• Pricing not yet announced
• AWS services (i.e. S3, EC2, etc.) will be billed via VMware
Deep Dive: VMware on AWS

21. • Most recent cuts:
• C4, M4, T2s: Reduced 5-10% in US-East, 20-25% in AP
• S3: reduced 16-28% depending on region
• New RIs
• Convertible RIs and Regional Benefit
• Rate of AWS price cuts has slowed
• They now emphasize features
• AWS price cuts are targeted by instances/regions/services
• AWS is not lowest cost – usually in middle between Azure and
Google
AWS Pricing Recap: Complexity Grows

22. Resource Type
(us-east, Linux)
AWS
Instance
Azure
Instance
Google
Instance
AWS
OD
Hourly
Azure
OD
Hourly
Google
OD
Hourly
AWS
/GB
RAM
Azure
/GB
RAM
Google
/GB
RAM
Standard 2 vCPU
w SSD
m3.large D2 v2 n1-standard-2 $0.133 $0.114 $0.212 $0.017 $0.016 $0.028
Highmem 2 vCPU
w SSD
r3.large D11 v2 n1-highmem-2 $0.166 $0.149 $0.238 $0.011 $0.011 $0.018
Highcpu 2 vCPU
w SSD
c3.large F2 n1-highcpu-2 $0.105 $0.099 $0.188 $0.028 $0.025 $0.104
Standard 2 vCPU
no SSD
m4.large D2 v2 n1-standard-2 $0.108 $0.114 $0.100 $0.014 $0.016 $0.013
Highmem 2 vCPU
no SSD
r4.large D11 v2 n1-highmem-2 $0.133 $0.149 $0.126 $0.009 $0.011 $0.010
Highcpu 2 vCPU
no SSD
c4.large F2 n1-highcpu-2 $0.105 $0.099 $0.076 $0.027 $0.025 $0.042
AWS vs. Azure vs. Google On-Demand
Prices
Source: RightScaleAs of Dec 2, 2016
Lowest Highest

23. • AWS + Azure (and Google)
• Security
• New directions: containers & orchestration, serverless
• Cost Management & Optimization
• Governance
Hot Topics – re:Invent Attendee Buzz

24. • New AWS features
• New instance types
• AWS Personal Health Dashboard
• Chef Automate (managed Chef)
• Athena – SQL to S3
• AWS Shield – if using ELB, Route
53 or Cloud Front
• AWS Batch – in Preview (US East)
Right Now Next 12 Months
• Your container strategy
• Where serverless makes sense
• VMware on AWS (maybe?)
Things to Consider

25. • AWS just got more complex:
• Instance sizes, pricing options, services
• Multi-cloud is a given
• Adoption has already occurred, costs rising fast
• Managing and governing all the above = priority #1
• RightScale addresses these problems
• Any cloud, any service, any server, any container
• Governance – from visibility to automated controls
• Immediate ROI just by connecting your clouds
Core Problems Remain the Same

26. • Want to learn more about the RightScale CMP?
• sales@rightscale.com
Q&A