Get behind the hype and headlines from AWS re:Invent 2017 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 determine how your cloud initiatives will evolve in 2018.

1. AWS RE:INVENT 2017: RECAP

2. • Michael Crandell
• CEO, RightScale
• Josh Fraser
• SVP, RightScale
• Raphael Simon
• CTO, RightScale
• Kim Weins (Moderator)
• VP Marketing and Cloud Cost Strategy, RightScale
Presenters

3. Two Ways to Manage Cloud
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4. POLLS

5. • Show Overview
• What AWS Didn’t Say
• The Announcements
• Deep Dives
• Attendee Buzz
• Your To Do List
Agenda
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6. OVERVIEW

7. AWS re:Invent By the Numbers
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2016 2017
Attendees 36,000 43,000
Livestream 50,000 60,000
Sessions 400+ 1300+
Business $13B, 55% growth $18B, 42% growth
New Services &
Features
29 new services 35 new services
+ 26 new features

8. It’s a Multi-Cloud World
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9. # of Clouds Used
Public Clouds
All public cloud
users
Private Clouds
All private cloud
users
Running applications 1.8 2.3
Experimenting 1.8 2.1
Total 3.6 4.4
Average # of Clouds for Cloud Users
Source: RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report

10. It’s Not Just About AWS

11. Other Cloud Vendors Add Services Too
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12. WHAT AWS DIDN’T TALK ABOUT

13. Your Cloud Cost Complexity Is Increasing
$10.5B
$19.5B
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Multiple clouds
Dozens to hundreds of cloud accounts
Hundreds of thousands of SKUs and prices
Millions of line items in your cloud bills

14. Complexity Leads to Waste
$10.5B
$19.5B

15. Other Cloud Providers Often Lead on Price
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16. AWS Google Azure IBM
Lowest Price 0 24 18 4
Highest Price 15 9 6 19
Comparing Cloud Costs
Based on 46 scenarios

17. What It Means for You
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Develop a practice of cloud management
to govern and manage
your portfolio of clouds and cloud services
for efficient and optimized use of cloud

18. ANNOUNCEMENT RECAP

19. New Instances: M5, H1, T2 Unlimited, Bare metal
Amazon EKS (Kubernetes)
AWS Fargate
AWS Serverless Application Repository
Amazon Time Sync Service
Lambda enhancements
Spot enhancements (Hibernate, new pricing model)
EC2 enhancements (Spread placements groups, Launch
Templates)
Compute Announcements at re:Invent
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20. Amazon Neptune (graph DB)
Amazon Aurora Multi-Master
Amazon Aurora Serverless
Amazon DynamoDB On Demand Backup
Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables
Amazon S3 Select
Amazon Glacier Select
DB/Storage Announcements at re:Invent
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21. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
Amazon MQ
Amazon Sumerian (AR/VR)
Amazon Elemental (Media Services)
Amazon App Sync (Mobile Services)
AWS IoT (Device Management, Analytics, 1-Click,Device
Defender)
AWS Greengrass enhancements
Amazon FreeRTOS
App Services Announcements at re:Invent
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22. Amazon SageMaker (build ML models)
Amazon DeepLens
Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Translate
Amazon Rekognition Video
Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Alexa for Business
Machine Learning Announcements at re:Invent
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23. Inter-Region VPC Peering
AWS PrivateLink
API Gateway enhancements
AWS Systems Manager
AWS GuardDuty
Advanced Security Features for Amazon Cognito
Managed Rules for AWS WAF
Cloud9 IDE
Other Announcements at re:Invent
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24. Key Themes of Announcements
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New instance types and bare metal
• Start saying goodbye to local disk
Kubernetes is king! or is it?
• AWS capitulates with EKS, fights back with Fargate
Serverless goes beyond Lambda
• Amazon Aurora Serverless
Overwhelm Oracle by providing options
• Aurora Multi-Master, Neptune, DynamoDB enhancements
Machine learning plays catchup
• New model builder, more services
Security, security, security
• Security is all of our jobs.

25. ORCHESTRATING INNOVATION

26. RightScale CAT: Orchestrate Cloud Services

27. Cloud Users Use More IaaS+ Services
Source: RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report

28. Access Any Service with RightScale Plugins
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Compute Storage Network Database
Built-In Integration Cloud Service Plug-Ins
AWS
Lambda
AWS
Elastic
Beanstalk
Google
Container
Engine
Azure
PaaS
and more…
Created by
• RightScale
• Customer
• 3rd
party

29. RightScale Plugins Extend Orchestration to
Any Service
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Capabilities
Stay up with cloud provider
innovation
Provision complex systems
Automate operational
actions
• Scale, terminate, backup
or any action supported by
API of the service
Implement automated
policies

30. Growing List of Out-of-the-Box Plugins
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Use, modify, contribute at github rightscale/rightscale-plugins
New plugin created in 64
minutes
during re:Invent keynote

31. DEEP DIVES

32. New Instances: M5 - General Purpose
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m3.large m4.large m5.large
vCPU 2 2 2
ECU 6.5 6.5 10
Memory 7.5 8 8
Disk 1x32 SSD EBS only EBS only
EBS Dedicated
Bandwidth
N/A 450 Mbps up to 2120 Mbps
Cost/hr $.133 $.100 $.096
Cost/GiB RAM/hr $.0177 $.0125 $.0120
Cost/month +
32 GB EBS for m4/m5
$95.76 $75.20 $72.32
m5 + EBS can
replace m3

33. New Instances: C5 - Compute Optimized
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c3.large c4.large c5.large
vCPU 2 2 2
ECU 7 8 8
Memory 3.75 3.75 4
Disk 2x16 SSD EBS only EBS only
EBS Dedicated
Bandwidth
N/A 500 Mbps up to 2250 Mbps
Cost/hr $.105 $.100 $.085
Cost/ECU ECU/hr $.0150 $.0125 $.0106
Cost/month +
32 GB EBS for c4/c5
$75.60 $75.20 $64.40
c5 + EBS can
replace c3

34. New Instances: H1- Storage Optimized
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d2.xlarge h1.2xlarge
vCPU 4 8
ECU 14 26
Memory 30.5 32
Disk 3 x 2 TB HDD 1 x 2 TB HDD
EBS Dedicated
Bandwidth
750 Mbps 1750 Mbps
Cost/hr $0.69 $0.55
Cost/month $496.80 $396

35. EKS: Managed Kubernetes on AWS
● Kubernetes becoming de-facto standard scheduler for containers
● Runs upstream Kubernetes (not a fork)
● Masters distributed into multiple AZs
● Integrates with EC2 services (including IAM for API authentication)
● “Coming in 2018”
Fargate
● AWS answer to Kubernetes
● Alleviates need to manage cluster of VMs
● Seamless integration with ECS (EKS in 2018)
● Specify vCPU and Memory (choose from 50 combinations)
● Pay per second for vCPU and Memory (1 minute minimum)
○ Price per vCPU is $0.0506 per hour and per GB memory is $0.0127 per hour
CaaS: EKS and Fargate
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36. Compare Costs: ECS Instances to Fargate
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ECS (Instances) Fargate (Task)
Size m5.large 2 vCPU, 8GB
vCPU 2 2
Memory 8 8
Cost/hr $.096 $0.2028
Cost/month $69.12 $146.02
Fargate price per vCPU is $0.0506 per hour
Fargate price per GB memory is $0.0127 per hour
More than
double!

37. • On-demand auto-scaling DB
• Scaling happens in seconds
• Connections remain intact during scaling
• Pay for compute, storage, I/O used
• Can scale compute down to 0 and pay only
for storage ($0.10 / GB)
• Can migrate between standard &
serverless
• Use cases
• Infrequently used
• Variable use
• New applications
• Unpredictable workloads
• Dev/Test databases
Aurora Serverless
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38. Aurora Serverless Use Case: Viral Web Site
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39. Aurora Serverless Pricing: Example
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Aurora Standard Aurora Serverless
Size db.r3.large N/A
vCPU 2 1-8 ACU
Memory 15 2GB to 16GB
Cost/hr $.29 $.06 to $0.48
Cost/day $6.96 $2.04
These numbers are based on use case on previous slide.
Which is cheaper will depend on your use case.
(max 256 ACUs)

40. SUMMARY

41. Cloud Adoption
• Multi-Cloud is pervasive.
• Governance and cost management are key challenges.
On AWS Services
• Wow, they announced a lot.
• We don’t want developers to use every service.
On the Event
• Lots of people NOT there
• Multiple venues was a challenge - long shuttle waits/rides
• Will we come next year?
Attendee Buzz
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42. • m5 instances to replace m3 and m4
• c5 instances to replace c3 and c4
• 1 year Convertible RIs
• Inter-Region VPC Peering
• Amazon GuardDuty
• Sign up for relevant previews
• Contact RightScale if you want help
analyzing new instance types or RIs
Right Now For 2018
• Containers: ECS, EKS, Fargate
• Consider other services as relevant for
your business
• Develop a framework to pick the best
cloud for each workload
• Put in place multi-cloud governance
and cost management
Things to Consider

43. • AWS gets 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 Challenges Remain the Same
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44. Contact sales@rightscale.com for more info
Q&A
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