This advanced technical session is ideal for customers that are looking to maximise the performance of AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage to support workloads with demanding IO performance requirements. If you need to run high IO workloads on EBS such as NoSQL or RBDMS systems then attend this session to find out how to optimise your EBS configuration to enable this.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Uses and Best Practices for Amazon Redshift (200)Amazon Web Services
Interested in finding out more about the AWS data warehouse service, Amazon Redshift? Then join us for this introductory level technical session where you can learn more about the way in which AWS customers are using Redshift and the benefits that they have delivered to their organisations as a result as well as tricks and tips for getting the most from Redshift.
Overview and Best Practices for Amazon Elastic Block Store - September 2016 W...Amazon Web Services
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we present the differences between the types of Amazon EBS block storage so that you can best understand which storage type to use for your different application deployments. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance with a special eye towards low-latency and high-throughput applications. We discuss Amazon EBS encryption and share best practices for Amazon EBS snapshot management. Throughout, we share tips for success.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn about the latest updates to EBS
• Learn about best practices for using EBS.
Who Should Attend:
• Application admins, DBAs, database and big data architects
AWS Summit London 2014 | Scaling on AWS for the First 10 Million Users (200)Amazon Web Services
This mid-level technical session will provide an overview of the techniques that you can use to build high-scalabilty applications on AWS. Take a journey from 1 user to 10 million users and understand how your application's architecture can evolve and which AWS services can help as you increase the number of users that you serve.
In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We’ll cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.
Speaker:
Shaun Pearce, AWS Solutions Architect
Amazon EBS provides persistent block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, you will discover how Amazon EBS can take your application deployments on EC2 to the next level. Session attendees will learn about the Amazon EBS features and benefits, how to identify applications that are appropriate for use with Amazon EBS, best practices, and details about its performance and volume types. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special emphasis on low-latency, high-throughput applications like transactional and NoSQL databases, and big data analysis frameworks like Hadoop and Kafka. We will also dive deep and discuss Elastic Volumes, our latest EBS feature that allows you to dynamically increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of EBS volumes on the fly. Throughout, we share tips for success.
In this session, you get an overview of Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully-managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. We'll cover how Amazon Redshift uses columnar technology, optimized hardware, and massively parallel processing to deliver fast query performance on data sets ranging in size from hundreds of gigabytes to a petabyte or more. We'll also discuss new features, architecture best practices, and share how customers are using Amazon Redshift for their Big Data workloads.
This mid-level technical session will help you choose among the AWS services that can help you deploy and run your applications more easily. You will learn how to get an application running using AWS OpsWorks and AWS Elastic Beanstalk and how to use AWS CloudFormation templates to document, version control, and share your application configuration
In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We’ll cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Uses and Best Practices for Amazon Redshift (200)Amazon Web Services
Interested in finding out more about the AWS data warehouse service, Amazon Redshift? Then join us for this introductory level technical session where you can learn more about the way in which AWS customers are using Redshift and the benefits that they have delivered to their organisations as a result as well as tricks and tips for getting the most from Redshift.
Overview and Best Practices for Amazon Elastic Block Store - September 2016 W...Amazon Web Services
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we present the differences between the types of Amazon EBS block storage so that you can best understand which storage type to use for your different application deployments. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance with a special eye towards low-latency and high-throughput applications. We discuss Amazon EBS encryption and share best practices for Amazon EBS snapshot management. Throughout, we share tips for success.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn about the latest updates to EBS
• Learn about best practices for using EBS.
Who Should Attend:
• Application admins, DBAs, database and big data architects
AWS Summit London 2014 | Scaling on AWS for the First 10 Million Users (200)Amazon Web Services
This mid-level technical session will provide an overview of the techniques that you can use to build high-scalabilty applications on AWS. Take a journey from 1 user to 10 million users and understand how your application's architecture can evolve and which AWS services can help as you increase the number of users that you serve.
In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We’ll cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.
Speaker:
Shaun Pearce, AWS Solutions Architect
Amazon EBS provides persistent block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, you will discover how Amazon EBS can take your application deployments on EC2 to the next level. Session attendees will learn about the Amazon EBS features and benefits, how to identify applications that are appropriate for use with Amazon EBS, best practices, and details about its performance and volume types. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special emphasis on low-latency, high-throughput applications like transactional and NoSQL databases, and big data analysis frameworks like Hadoop and Kafka. We will also dive deep and discuss Elastic Volumes, our latest EBS feature that allows you to dynamically increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of EBS volumes on the fly. Throughout, we share tips for success.
In this session, you get an overview of Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully-managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. We'll cover how Amazon Redshift uses columnar technology, optimized hardware, and massively parallel processing to deliver fast query performance on data sets ranging in size from hundreds of gigabytes to a petabyte or more. We'll also discuss new features, architecture best practices, and share how customers are using Amazon Redshift for their Big Data workloads.
This mid-level technical session will help you choose among the AWS services that can help you deploy and run your applications more easily. You will learn how to get an application running using AWS OpsWorks and AWS Elastic Beanstalk and how to use AWS CloudFormation templates to document, version control, and share your application configuration
In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We’ll cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.
This "how-to" session will cover the basics to get started with AWS. After a brief overview, this session will dive into discussions of core AWS services and provide demonstrations of how to set up and utilize those services. Demonstrations and discussions will include: - Setting up and connecting to your first Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual machine - How to backup and restore your virtual machine instance - How to set an email alert for changes in your virtual machine instance - How to upload files to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and make them publicly available on the Internet
AWS re:Invent 2016: Case Study: Librato's Experience Running Cassandra Using ...Amazon Web Services
At Librato, a Solarwinds company, we run hundreds of Cassandra instances across multiple rings and use it as our primary data store. In the past year, we embarked on a process to upgrade our fleet of Cassandra Amazon EC2 instances from instance store to instances using Amazon EBS and attached elastic network interfaces (ENIs). We find running Cassandra on EBS gives us the flexibility to choose the best instances for the best performance of our workload while saving us significant costs on infrastructure. In this session, we discuss how Librato operates Cassandra on EBS. Topics include how we chose the right instance for our workload, use detached EBS volumes and ENI mobility to reduce MTTR, use mixed EBS storage types for the best cost/performance tradeoff, debug performance issues, and continuously monitor Cassandra to get the most from AWS. We also look at performance tradeoffs made in the implementation of storage engines of large data systems like Cassandra.
AWS provides a range of Compute Services – Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda. We will provide an intro level overview of these services and highlight suitable use cases. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) itself provides a broad selection of instance types to accommodate a diverse mix of workloads. Going a bit deeper on EC2 we will provide background on the Amazon EC2 instance platform, key platform features, and the concept of instance generations. We dive into the current-generation design choices of the different instance families, including the General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Storage Optimized, Memory Optimized, and GPU instance families. We also detail best practices and share performance tips for getting the most out of your Amazon EC2 instances, both from a performance and cost perspective.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora is disruptive technology in the database space, bringing a new architectural model and distributed systems techniques to provide far higher performance, availability, and durability than was previously available using conventional monolithic database techniques. In this session, we dive deep into some of the key innovations behind Amazon Aurora, discuss best practices and migration from other databases to Amazon Aurora, and share early customer experiences from the field.
Amazon RDS for MySQL – Diagnostics, Security, and Data Migration (DAT302) | A...Amazon Web Services
Learn how to monitor your database performance closely and troubleshoot database issues quickly using a variety of features provided by Amazon RDS and MySQL including database events, logs, and engine-specific features. You also learn about the security best practices to use with Amazon RDS for MySQL. In addition, you learn about how to effectively move data between Amazon RDS and on-premises instances. Lastly, you learn the latest about MySQL 5.6 and how you can take advantage of its newest features with Amazon RDS.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides flexible, persistent storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of all types of Amazon EBS block storage including General Purpose SSD (gp2) and Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1). Along the way, we will share Amazon EBS best practices for optimizing performance, managing snapshots and securing data.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic Block Store (STG301)Amazon Web Services
In this popular session, you will learn about the latest features and use cases for Amazon EBS, including best practices, an overview of newly introduced features, and brand-new re:Invent announcements. In particular we will cover the expanded portoflio of volume types, including provisioned IOPS, cold storage, and throughput-optimized. This session will help database admins and application architects understand how to blend performance and cost with applicaitns for big data analytics, data warehousing, and transactional and NoSQL databases.
Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL: Performance, Security, Best Practices (DAT303) ...Amazon Web Services
Come learn about architecting high-performance applications and production workloads using Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Understand how to migrate your data to an Amazon RDS instance, apply security best practices, and optimize your database instance and applications for high availability.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. The service is now in preview. Come to our session for an overview of the service and learn how Aurora delivers up to five times the performance of MySQL yet is priced at a fraction of what you'd pay for a commercial database with similar performance and availability.
Production NoSQL in an Hour: Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB (DAT101) | AWS r...Amazon Web Services
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully-managed, zero-admin, high-speed NoSQL database service. Amazon DynamoDB was built to support applications at any scale. With the click of a button, you can scale your database capacity from a few hundred I/Os per second to hundreds of thousands of I/Os per second or more. You can dynamically scale your database to keep up with your application's requirements while minimizing costs during low-traffic periods. The service has no limit on storage. You also learn about Amazon DynamoDB's design principles and history.
Amazon EBS provides persistent block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, you will discover how Amazon EBS can take your application deployments on EC2 to the next level. Session attendees will learn about the Amazon EBS features and benefits, how to identify applications that are appropriate for use with Amazon EBS, best practices, and details about its performance and volume types. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special emphasis on low-latency, high-throughput applications like transactional and NoSQL databases, and big data analysis frameworks like Hadoop and Kafka. We will also dive deep and discuss Elastic Volumes, our latest EBS feature that allows you to dynamically increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of EBS volumes on the fly. Throughout, we share tips for success.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. The service is now in preview. Come to our session for an overview of the service and learn how Aurora delivers up to five times the performance of MySQL yet is priced at a fraction of what you'd pay for a commercial database with similar performance and availability.
Speakers:
Ronan Guilfoyle, AWS Solutions Architect
Brian Scanlan, Engineer, Intercom.io
AWS Webcast - Cost and Performance Optimization in Amazon RDSAmazon Web Services
Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. The service offers a variety of options for optimizing the performance level delivered, as well as optimizing your spending. In this webinar, we will show a variety of techniques for implementing the right performance level for your application.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the Amazon RDS options that change database performance and cost
• Select the appropriate performance and cost level for your specific application Who Should Attend:
• Technical Amazon RDS customers and prospective customers
Nearly 1,000 takeaways ordered a minute from hungry consumers, with near real time confirmation from restaurants and delivery of their food just 45 minutes later is a hard technical challenge.
AWS allows the many small engineering teams at JUST EAT to take responsibility to meet that challenge, as they build and operate a platform that delivers a takeaway experience for consumers to love.
Learn how we migrated our e-commerce platform to AWS and organise both our platform and teams around the the twin goals of rapid change and high availability. Watch as during the session we deploy changes and break things live in production, and see how the JUST EAT platform is designed around AWS to recover quickly and automatically.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of the types of Amazon EBS block storage including General Purpose (SSD), Provisioned IOPS (SSD) as well as the new Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD. Along the way, we will share Amazon EBS best practices for performance, management and security.
AWS Summit London 2014 | From One to Many - Evolving VPC Design (400)Amazon Web Services
In this advanced technical session you will learn how you can use AWS to build and deploy virtual data centres as fast as you can design them. Learn how to combine CloudFormation templates together with best practice techniques that are in use by AWS customers today to optimise the design and implementation of your VPCs
In this presentation, you will get a look under the covers of Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully-managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service for less than $1,000 per TB per year. Learn how Amazon Redshift uses columnar technology, optimized hardware, and massively parallel processing to deliver fast query performance on data sets ranging in size from hundreds of gigabytes to a petabyte or more. We'll also walk through techniques for optimizing performance and, you’ll hear from a specific customer and their use case to take advantage of fast performance on enormous datasets leveraging economies of scale on the AWS platform.
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service for applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. This talk explores DynamoDB capabilities and benefits in detail and discusses how to get the most out of your DynamoDB database. We go over schema design best practices with DynamoDB across multiple use cases, including gaming, AdTech, IoT, and others. We also explore designing efficient indexes, scanning, and querying, and go into detail on a number of recently released features, including JSON document support, Streams, and more.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Introduction to Amazon EC2 (100)Amazon Web Services
This session will provide an overview of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service capability and help you understand the latest updates to the range of instances types, virtual private cloud (VPC) features. It will also help you to understand the broad range of pricing options that EC2 provides and how you can use these to make smart decisions that reduce your costs.
This "how-to" session will cover the basics to get started with AWS. After a brief overview, this session will dive into discussions of core AWS services and provide demonstrations of how to set up and utilize those services. Demonstrations and discussions will include: - Setting up and connecting to your first Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual machine - How to backup and restore your virtual machine instance - How to set an email alert for changes in your virtual machine instance - How to upload files to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and make them publicly available on the Internet
AWS re:Invent 2016: Case Study: Librato's Experience Running Cassandra Using ...Amazon Web Services
At Librato, a Solarwinds company, we run hundreds of Cassandra instances across multiple rings and use it as our primary data store. In the past year, we embarked on a process to upgrade our fleet of Cassandra Amazon EC2 instances from instance store to instances using Amazon EBS and attached elastic network interfaces (ENIs). We find running Cassandra on EBS gives us the flexibility to choose the best instances for the best performance of our workload while saving us significant costs on infrastructure. In this session, we discuss how Librato operates Cassandra on EBS. Topics include how we chose the right instance for our workload, use detached EBS volumes and ENI mobility to reduce MTTR, use mixed EBS storage types for the best cost/performance tradeoff, debug performance issues, and continuously monitor Cassandra to get the most from AWS. We also look at performance tradeoffs made in the implementation of storage engines of large data systems like Cassandra.
AWS provides a range of Compute Services – Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda. We will provide an intro level overview of these services and highlight suitable use cases. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) itself provides a broad selection of instance types to accommodate a diverse mix of workloads. Going a bit deeper on EC2 we will provide background on the Amazon EC2 instance platform, key platform features, and the concept of instance generations. We dive into the current-generation design choices of the different instance families, including the General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Storage Optimized, Memory Optimized, and GPU instance families. We also detail best practices and share performance tips for getting the most out of your Amazon EC2 instances, both from a performance and cost perspective.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora is disruptive technology in the database space, bringing a new architectural model and distributed systems techniques to provide far higher performance, availability, and durability than was previously available using conventional monolithic database techniques. In this session, we dive deep into some of the key innovations behind Amazon Aurora, discuss best practices and migration from other databases to Amazon Aurora, and share early customer experiences from the field.
Amazon RDS for MySQL – Diagnostics, Security, and Data Migration (DAT302) | A...Amazon Web Services
Learn how to monitor your database performance closely and troubleshoot database issues quickly using a variety of features provided by Amazon RDS and MySQL including database events, logs, and engine-specific features. You also learn about the security best practices to use with Amazon RDS for MySQL. In addition, you learn about how to effectively move data between Amazon RDS and on-premises instances. Lastly, you learn the latest about MySQL 5.6 and how you can take advantage of its newest features with Amazon RDS.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides flexible, persistent storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of all types of Amazon EBS block storage including General Purpose SSD (gp2) and Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1). Along the way, we will share Amazon EBS best practices for optimizing performance, managing snapshots and securing data.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic Block Store (STG301)Amazon Web Services
In this popular session, you will learn about the latest features and use cases for Amazon EBS, including best practices, an overview of newly introduced features, and brand-new re:Invent announcements. In particular we will cover the expanded portoflio of volume types, including provisioned IOPS, cold storage, and throughput-optimized. This session will help database admins and application architects understand how to blend performance and cost with applicaitns for big data analytics, data warehousing, and transactional and NoSQL databases.
Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL: Performance, Security, Best Practices (DAT303) ...Amazon Web Services
Come learn about architecting high-performance applications and production workloads using Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Understand how to migrate your data to an Amazon RDS instance, apply security best practices, and optimize your database instance and applications for high availability.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. The service is now in preview. Come to our session for an overview of the service and learn how Aurora delivers up to five times the performance of MySQL yet is priced at a fraction of what you'd pay for a commercial database with similar performance and availability.
Production NoSQL in an Hour: Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB (DAT101) | AWS r...Amazon Web Services
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully-managed, zero-admin, high-speed NoSQL database service. Amazon DynamoDB was built to support applications at any scale. With the click of a button, you can scale your database capacity from a few hundred I/Os per second to hundreds of thousands of I/Os per second or more. You can dynamically scale your database to keep up with your application's requirements while minimizing costs during low-traffic periods. The service has no limit on storage. You also learn about Amazon DynamoDB's design principles and history.
Amazon EBS provides persistent block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, you will discover how Amazon EBS can take your application deployments on EC2 to the next level. Session attendees will learn about the Amazon EBS features and benefits, how to identify applications that are appropriate for use with Amazon EBS, best practices, and details about its performance and volume types. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special emphasis on low-latency, high-throughput applications like transactional and NoSQL databases, and big data analysis frameworks like Hadoop and Kafka. We will also dive deep and discuss Elastic Volumes, our latest EBS feature that allows you to dynamically increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of EBS volumes on the fly. Throughout, we share tips for success.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. The service is now in preview. Come to our session for an overview of the service and learn how Aurora delivers up to five times the performance of MySQL yet is priced at a fraction of what you'd pay for a commercial database with similar performance and availability.
Speakers:
Ronan Guilfoyle, AWS Solutions Architect
Brian Scanlan, Engineer, Intercom.io
AWS Webcast - Cost and Performance Optimization in Amazon RDSAmazon Web Services
Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. The service offers a variety of options for optimizing the performance level delivered, as well as optimizing your spending. In this webinar, we will show a variety of techniques for implementing the right performance level for your application.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the Amazon RDS options that change database performance and cost
• Select the appropriate performance and cost level for your specific application Who Should Attend:
• Technical Amazon RDS customers and prospective customers
Nearly 1,000 takeaways ordered a minute from hungry consumers, with near real time confirmation from restaurants and delivery of their food just 45 minutes later is a hard technical challenge.
AWS allows the many small engineering teams at JUST EAT to take responsibility to meet that challenge, as they build and operate a platform that delivers a takeaway experience for consumers to love.
Learn how we migrated our e-commerce platform to AWS and organise both our platform and teams around the the twin goals of rapid change and high availability. Watch as during the session we deploy changes and break things live in production, and see how the JUST EAT platform is designed around AWS to recover quickly and automatically.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of the types of Amazon EBS block storage including General Purpose (SSD), Provisioned IOPS (SSD) as well as the new Throughput Optimized HDD and Cold HDD. Along the way, we will share Amazon EBS best practices for performance, management and security.
AWS Summit London 2014 | From One to Many - Evolving VPC Design (400)Amazon Web Services
In this advanced technical session you will learn how you can use AWS to build and deploy virtual data centres as fast as you can design them. Learn how to combine CloudFormation templates together with best practice techniques that are in use by AWS customers today to optimise the design and implementation of your VPCs
In this presentation, you will get a look under the covers of Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully-managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service for less than $1,000 per TB per year. Learn how Amazon Redshift uses columnar technology, optimized hardware, and massively parallel processing to deliver fast query performance on data sets ranging in size from hundreds of gigabytes to a petabyte or more. We'll also walk through techniques for optimizing performance and, you’ll hear from a specific customer and their use case to take advantage of fast performance on enormous datasets leveraging economies of scale on the AWS platform.
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service for applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. This talk explores DynamoDB capabilities and benefits in detail and discusses how to get the most out of your DynamoDB database. We go over schema design best practices with DynamoDB across multiple use cases, including gaming, AdTech, IoT, and others. We also explore designing efficient indexes, scanning, and querying, and go into detail on a number of recently released features, including JSON document support, Streams, and more.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Introduction to Amazon EC2 (100)Amazon Web Services
This session will provide an overview of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service capability and help you understand the latest updates to the range of instances types, virtual private cloud (VPC) features. It will also help you to understand the broad range of pricing options that EC2 provides and how you can use these to make smart decisions that reduce your costs.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Optimising TCO for the AWS Cloud (100)Amazon Web Services
This introductory level business focused session will help you to understand how to calculate, track and optimise the costs of using AWS to deliver your applications and run other IT workloads.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Options for Hybrid Environments (200)Amazon Web Services
This session is recommended for anyone considering using the AWS Cloud to augment their current IT capabilities. Adoption of cloud computing provides access to the benefits of new deployment models. But for existing enterprises, in many cases, applications deployed to the cloud need to integrate with existing on-premises resources. This session outlines several key factors to consider from the point of view of a large-scale real IT shop executive. Since each company is unique, this session compares the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and risks of each model and then helps participants create new hybrid orchestration and deployment options for hybrid enterprise environments.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Amazon Elastic MapReduce Deep Dive and Best Practice...Amazon Web Services
Join this advanced technical session on Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) for an introduction to Amazon EMR design patterns such as using Amazon S3 instead of HDFS, how you can take advantage of both long and short-lived clusters as well as other Amazon EMR architectural patterns. Learn how to scale your cluster up or down dynamically and about ways you can fine-tune your cluster. We also share best practices to keep your Amazon EMR cluster cost efficient.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Dynamic Content Acceleration (300)Amazon Web Services
This session is recommended for people who are new to content distribution networks (CDNs) and have a need to decrease server load and speed up their website’s load time.
In this mid-level technical session you will be able to learn more about improving the performance of web sites and web applications using Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Router 53. Learn how to assess whether your web applications will benefit from caching and how to optimize the delivery of static and dynamic content to boost performance and improve your customers' experience in using your applications.
Amazon WorkSpaces is a new service from AWS that delivery fully managed desktops in the Cloud. In this session you be able to learn more about the benefits and capabilities of WorkSpaces and see a demo of the user's experience when using WorkSpaces and the administrators' experience in managing it.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Partners & Solutions Track | Best Practices for Part...Amazon Web Services
In this session, we will cover how ISV and SI partners have successfully integrated their products with AWS and developed their sales and marketing strategy to transform their businesses. Learn best practices on how ISVs such as Infor have leveraged the global AWS platform and how to build a consulting practice around cloud enablement, the skills that are required, as well as examples of successful programs that have been delivered by AWS partners at F2000 clients and Public Sector accounts.
AWS Summit London 2014 | Partners & Solutions Track | AWS Partner NetworkAmazon Web Services
In this session, we will cover how ISV, VAR's, and SI can become AWS partners and take advantage of AWS global programs and tools that can help partners grow and manage their business. Learn how partners have leveraged global AWS programs and the AWS Marketplace to quickly Cloud-enable their software and make it available for customers worldwide to purchase and run on AWS.
Accenture Cloud Platform helps customers manage public and private enterprise cloud resources effectively and securely. In this session, learn how we designed and built new core platform capabilities using a serverless, microservices-based architecture that is based on AWS services such as AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway. During our journey, we discovered a number of key benefits, including a dramatic increase in developer velocity, a reduction (to almost zero) of reliance on other teams, reduced costs, greater resilience, and scalability. We describe the (wild) successes we’ve had and the challenges we’ve overcome to create an AWS serverless architecture at scale. Session sponsored by Accenture.
AWS Competency Partner
Maximizing EC2 and Elastic Block Store Disk Performance (STG302) | AWS re:Inv...Amazon Web Services
Learn tips and techniques that will improve the performance of your applications and databases running on EC2 instance storage and/or Elastic Block Store. This advanced session discusses when to use HI1, HS1, and EBS. It shares an under the hood view on how to tune the performance of Elastic Block Store. The presenter(s) will share best practices on running workloads on EBS such as relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, postgres) and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Riak.
Learn tips and techniques that will improve the performance of your applications and databases running on Amazon EC2 instance storage and/or Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). This advanced session discusses when to use HI1, HS1, and Amazon EBS. We will share an "under the hood" view to tune the performance of your Elastic Block Store and best practices for running workloads on Amazon EBS, such as relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, postgres) and NoSQL data stores, such as MongoDB and Riak.
Learn tips and techniques that will improve the performance of your applications and databases running on Amazon EC2 instance storage and/or Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). This advanced session discusses when to use HI1, HS1, and Amazon EBS. We will share an "under the hood" view to tune the performance of your Elastic Block Store and best practices for running workloads on Amazon EBS, such as relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, postgres) and NoSQL data stores, such as MongoDB and Riak.
Learn tips and techniques that will improve the performance of your applications and databases running on Amazon EC2 instance storage and/or Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). This advanced session discusses when to use HI1, HS1, and Amazon EBS. We will share an "under the hood" view to tune the performance of your Elastic Block Store and best practices for running workloads on Amazon EBS, such as relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres) and NoSQL data stores, such as MongoDB and Riak.
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of the differences among the three types of Amazon EBS block storage: General Purpose (SSD), Provisioned IOPS (SSD), and Magnetic. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special eye towards low-latency, high-throughput applications like databases. We discuss Amazon EBS encryption and share best practices for Amazon EBS snapshot management. Throughout, we share tips for success.
Speakers:
Tom Maddox, AWS Solutions Architect
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides flexible, persistent storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of all types of Amazon EBS block storage including General Purpose SSD (gp2) and Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1). Along the way, we will share Amazon EBS best practices for optimizing performance, managing snapshots and securing data.
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of the differences among the three types of Amazon EBS block storage: General Purpose (SSD), Provisioned IOPS (SSD), and Magnetic. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special eye towards low-latency, high-throughput applications like databases. We discuss the performance implications of our new larger and faster SSD volumes (up to 16 TB with increased maximum throughput levels), as well as Amazon EBS encryption. Throughout, we share tips for success.
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of the differences among the three types of Amazon EBS block storage: General Purpose (SSD), Provisioned IOPS (SSD), and Magnetic. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special eye towards low-latency, high-throughput applications like databases. We discuss the performance implications of our new larger and faster SSD volumes (up to 16 TB with increased maximum throughput levels), as well as Amazon EBS encryption. Throughout, we share tips for success.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of the differences among the three types of Amazon EBS block storage: General Purpose (SSD), Provisioned IOPS (SSD), and Magnetic. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special eye towards low-latency, high-throughput applications like databases. We discuss the performance implications of our new larger and faster SSD volumes (up to 16 TB with increased max throughput levels), as well as Amazon EBS encryption. Throughout, we share tips for success.
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Key takeaways:
Understand the trade-off between SQL and NoSQL and when to go for a hybrid model.
Best practices in setting up your database in the AWS cloud whether using managed services or managing it yourself.
Learn how to minimize the costs of your database with the right architecture and pricing models.
Who should attend:
DBA’s
Startup CTO’s
Developers
Engineers
Architects
Growth Hackers
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special eye toward low-latency, high-throughput applications like databases. We explain how to monitor your application and share real-world examples.
Elastic Block Store is one of the fundamental components of a best-practices cloud architecture. Join Senior Solutions Architect Miles Ward for a detailed review of the service, a clear breakdown on cost and approaches for price estimates, easy methods for extracting maximum performance from both Standard and Provisioned-IOPS EBS volumes, configuration nuances for both Windows and Linux users, RAID guidance, RDBMS and NoSQL storage configuration tuning, as well as several examples of EBS delivering amazing value at scale.
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Optimize MySQL Workloads with Amazon Elastic Block Store - February 2017 AWS ...Amazon Web Services
As the cloud continues to grow, organizations need IT talent with cloud skills. AWS Certifications validate cloud knowledge with an industry-recognized credential that can help advance your career.
Join this webinar to learn more about why AWS Certifications matter and to hear tips from an AWS expert about how to prepare for certification exams. During this webinar, you’ll hear about the AWS training, self-paced labs, and online resources that can help you on your path toward preparing for any one of our Associate exams including: Solutions Architect, Developer, and SysOps Administrator. We’ll also walk you through sample questions and study tips so you can learn how to think through typical associate-level exam questions. Finally, you’ll have the chance to have your questions answered live by an AWS expert.
Learning Objectives:
• Hear about a recommended preparation path for the career-enhancing AWS associate certification exams
• Learn more about how AWS Training can help you prepare to take the exam
• Hear study tips, work through a practice question, and have your questions answered live
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. In this technical session, we conduct a detailed analysis of the differences among the three types of Amazon EBS block storage: General Purpose (SSD), Provisioned IOPS (SSD), and Magnetic. We discuss how to maximize Amazon EBS performance, with a special eye towards low-latency, high-throughput applications like databases. We discuss Amazon EBS encryption and share best practices for Amazon EBS snapshot management. Throughout, we share tips for success.
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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5. What is Amazon EBS?
Very flexible service with lots of choice
– Used with Amazon EC2 instances
– Attach/detach/copy/delete volumes
– Point-in-time snapshots of volumes -> Amazon S3
– Automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to protect
from component failure
– Paying a low price for only what you provision
8. Amazon EBS Standard
Amazon Elastic
Block Storage
(EBS)
IOPS: ~100 IOPS steady-state, with best-effort bursts
Throughput: variable by workload, best effort to 10s of MB/s.
Latency: Varies, reads typically <20 ms writes typically <10 ms
Capacity: As provisioned, up to 1 TB
10. EBS PIOPS
Amazon Elastic
Block Storage
(EBS)
IOPS: Within 10% of up to 4000 IOPS,
99.9% of a given year, as provisioned.
Throughput: 16 KB per I/O = up to 64 MB/s, as provisioned.
Latency: low and consistent. Second / IOPS
Capacity: As provisioned, up to 1 TB
*
11. ❶ Select a new type of Provisioned IOPS volume
❸ Specify the number of I/O operations per
second your application needs, up to 4000
IOPS per volume. The volume will deliver the
specified I/O operations per second.
❷ Specify the volume capacity
12. I/O Characteristics
• I/O size
– 4 KB to 64 MB
• I/O pattern
– Sequential and random
• I/O type
– Read and write
• PIOPS always measures I/O in terms of
16 KB or smaller
• PIOPS delivers same number of IOPS for
sequential and random I/O
• PIOPS delivers same number of IOPS for
reads or writes
PIOPS is optimized for database workloads
26. Architecting for Performance
IOPS consistency requires
EBS-optimized instances
Maximum throughput delivered by
Amazon EBS is limited by Amazon
EC2 bandwidth
EBS throughput =
EBS IOPS × Block size
Ex: 64 MB/s = 4000 IOPS × 16 KB
Instance
vCPU
EBS
Optimized
Max MB/s
Max 16k IOPS
t1 micro
1
No
32MB/s
2000
m1.small
1
No
64MB/s
4000
m1.medium
1
No
64MB/s
4000
m1.large
2
Yes
64MB/s
4000
m1.xlarge
4
Yes
128MB/s
8000
m3.xlarge
4
Yes
64MB/s
4000
m3.2xlarge
8
Yes
128MB/s
8000
c1.medium
2
No
32MB/s
2000
c1.xlarge
8
Yes
128MB/s
8000
cc2.8xlarge
32
NA
800MB/s
50,000
m2.xlarge
2
No
64MB/s
4000
m2.2xlarge
4
Yes
64MB/s
4000
m2.4xlarge
8
Yes
128MB/s
8000
cr1.8xlarge
32
NA
800MB/s
50,000
hi1.4xlarge
16
NA
800MB/s
50,000
cg1.4xlarge
16
NA
800MB/s
50,000
27. Smaller I/O (4 KB, 16 KB)
• Why are 4 KB I/O size in
sequential operations
driving greater than 4000
IOPS?
• Why is m1.large and
m3.xlarge IOPS at 16 KB
less than 4000 IOPS?
• Database needs 5000 ops/
second. How many IOPS do
I need to provision?
• What happens when
customers want to burst
beyond provisioned IOPS?
IOPS and BW
performance at QD
8
m1.large M3.xlarge m3.2xlarge
AvgIOPs
Avg BW
( KB) AvgIOPs
Avg BW
( KB) AvgIOPs
Avg
BW
( KB)
Write
sequential
4K 4146 16,587 5997 23,990 7767 31,068
16K 3712 59,402 4157 55,461 4153 60,332
Write random
4K 4082 16,329 4433 17,733 4178 16,712
16K 3713 59,422 3743 53,813 4153 60,332
Read
sequential
4K 5301 21,205 9232 36,929 13450 53,802
16K 3533 56,535 4796 56,824 4153 60,332
Read random
4K 4538 18,154 5864 23,457 4177 16,711
16K 3510 56,168 3583 51,246 4153 60,332
Results for 400 GB volume with 4000 IOPS at QD 8; EBS-optimized instances
28. Larger I/O (128 KB, 512 KB)
• Why am I seeing only 462
IOPS on a volume?
• Why there is no difference
in performance for
random and sequential
workloads?
• How should I configure
500 MB/s read or write
throughput using PIOPS
volumes
IOPS and BW
performance at QD 8
m1.large M3.xlarge m3.2xlarge
AvgIOPs
Avg
BW(KB) AvgIOPs
Avg
BW(KB) AvgIOPs
Avg
BW(KB)
Write sequential
128K 462 59,268 462 59,145 522 66,843
512K 115 59,292 115 59,278 130 66,804
Write random
128K 462 59,265 462 59,241 522 66,843
512K 115 59,291 115 59,272 130 66,843
Read sequential
128K 455 58,240 454 58,225 522 66,843
512K 113 58,003 114 58,589 130 66,843
Read random
128K 455 58,236 454 58,215 522 66,843
512K 113 57,960 114 58,496 130 66,805
4000, 16 KB read/write per second, or 2000 32
KB read/write per second, or 1000 64 KB read/
write per second…
Results for 400 GB volume with 4000 IOPS at QD 8
29. Write Latency
• Database applications care
about latency as much as IOPS
delivered
• There is an Interdependency
among IOPS, queue depth, and
latency
• Current guidance is queue
depth of 1 for every 200 IOPS,
but if latency-bound and write-
heavy, 1:500 – 1:1000 is better.
1 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32
AvgIOPS ( Count) 845 4152 4153 4177 4152 4176 4177 4177 4151
AvgTP90 ( ms) 3.13 1.47 2.03 3.56 3.62 5.54 6.18 7.48 7.71
845
4152
3.13
1.47
2.03
3.56 3.62
5.54
6.18
7.48
7.71
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
WriteIOPS
16 KBk random WRITE- M3.2Xlarge EBS-
optimized
L
a
t
e
n
c
y
QD
30. Read Latency
• Reads can take advantage of a
deeper queue
• Current guidance is queue
depth of 1 for every 250 IOPS
• EBS-optimized provides
predictable latency
1 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32
AvgIOPS ( Count) 1864 4153 4153 4177 4120 2800 1965 1213 1089
AvgTP90 ( ms) 0.68 1.46 2.15 3.43 3.88 5.18 91.14 93.18 93.70
1864
4153
4120
1965
0.68 1.46 2.15 3.43 3.88 5.18
91.14
93.18 93.70
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
ReadIOPS
16 KB random READ - M3.2Xlarge EBS-optimized
L
a
t
e
n
c
y
QD
31. • Performance requirements may be driven by IOPS or latency or both
• Recommendation is to start with queue depth of 4 and tune based on
IOPS and latency requirement
– Some customers may need lowest possible latency; this can be achieved at queue
depth of 1 or 2
• Very high queue depths ( >24) may decrease IOPS count as well as
increase latency
Architecting for Performance: Latency
32. • Typically 5%, extreme worst case of 50% performance
reduction in IOPS and latency when volumes are used without
pre-warming
– Performance is as provisioned when all the chunks are accessed
• Recommendation if testing or you have spare setup time:
– Write to every 4 MB block before using new volumes
• Linux: DD
• Windows: NTFS Full format
– Takes roughly an hour to pre-warm 1TB 4KB PIOPS volume
– Be warned, can take up to a day for a 1 TB standard EBS volume
Pre-warming EBS volumes
33. What about RAID?
Amazon Elastic
Block Storage
(EBS)
Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud
(EC2)
• Don’t do
RAID 5, 6
Amazon Elastic
Block Storage
(EBS)
Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud
(EC2)
34. Architecting for Performance: RAID
Stripe number of volumes to
drive higher IOPS and
throughput
– RAID 0 or RAID 10
Taking snapshots on a striped
volume:
– Quiesce file systems and
take snapshot
– Unmount file system and
take snapshot
– Use OS-specific tools
12×400 GB PIOPS volumes, pre-warmed,
RAID 0 LVM, Stripe size 64 KB, attached to
CR1 instance
IO
Pa&ern
Block
Sizes
Thread
Write
IOPS
Write
BW
(MB)
Read
IOPS
Read
BW
(MB)
Sequen>al
4K
8
33,500
134
48,250
193
16K
8
13,875
222
48,063
769
1M
1
247
247
823
823
Random
4K
8
35,250
141
48,250
193
16K
8
13,875
222
42,125
674
1M
1
496
496
795
795
38. Performance – Extra-large Production Scale
• Leverage SSD instance type
(hi1.4xlarge)
o 2 × 1 TB SSD storage (ephemeral
storage)
o Perfect for replicas
• If replicas on SSD instance types, disable
integrity features such as fsync and
full_page_writes on those hosts to
improve performance
40. What about Capacity Cost?
cc2.8xlarge
48x
1TB
EBS
VS.
hs1.8xlarge hs1.8xlarge
$7312 on-demand,
$6128 effective 3 YR reserved
$6734 on-demand,
$2408 effective 3 YR reserved
If >43TB, or > 800MB/s, choose hs1
If 3 year, and >18TB, choose hs1