This "hands-on" webinar and free lab will allow participants to launch and configure a Windows virtual machine (instance) in the Amazon cloud. Learning Objectives: • Securing network access to Amazon EC2 Instances with Security Groups • Selecting Amazon Machine Images (AMI) with Windows • Launch and configure a Windows virtual machine • Bootstrapping using Powershell • Creating Key Pairs for authentication • Attaching Elastic IPs to Amazon EC2 Instances Who Should Attend: IT professionals who want to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing to run: • Development and test workloads • Microsoft SQL Server databases • Web hosting services • Traditional workloads such as Microsoft Exchange, Lynch, SharePoint and Dynamics

1. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(EC2) for Microsoft Windows Server
Mike Sutton
Technical Trainer
AWS Training & Certification
May 29, 2015

2. Traditional Computing Challenges
Heavy Up Front Expense
Poor Utilization
Slow
Costly

3. Why are people flocking to the cloud?
Capex to variable
expense
Lower variable expense
than on-premise
Elasticity
Better use of
scarce resources
Agility Go global quickly

4. Most Expansive Technology Infrastructure Platform

5. What is EC2 for Windows?

6. Amazon EC2 for Windows
Resizable compute capacity in the AWS cloud
Scale up or down quickly, as needed
Pay for what you use
Familiar Microsoft Windows Server operating system

7. EC2 for Windows Benefits
Secure
Extensive
High-Performance
Cost-Effective Flexible
Reliable Familiar

8. Secure
Security-in-layers approach
Isolate infrastructure and workloads
Identity and access control
Auditing and compliance

9. Reliable
99.95% SLA
Multi-region synchronous replication
Uptime and performance monitoring
Low network variability

10. High-Performance
Enterprise-grade computing on-demand
Automation for both complex and routine
tasks
Dedicated, low-latency network connections
Automated Scaling
Monitoring tools with user-defined thresholds

11. Familiar
Windows-based application support
Your own servers
Utilize existing VMs
License as you see fit
Use your existing management
tools

12. Cost-Effective
Trade capital expense for variable expense
Benefit from massive economies of scale
Pay only for what you use
No long-term commitments
Bring your own licenses

13. Extensive
More than 40 services available
Broad ecosystem of partners
Third-party application marketplace
Continuous service improvement
Technical certifications for multiple skill levels

14. Flexible
Highly-customizable infrastructure
Variety of instance types
Maintain availability at the lowest
cost
Wide variety of storage options

15. Getting Started Demo

16. To Launch Your Lab:
• Go to: https://webinars-run.qwiklab.com/#section-4 by clicking on
the URL provided on your webinar screen
• Click the blue “Launch Free Lab” button in the center of the page
• Click the blue “Select” button in the upper right corner of the page
• If you already have a qwikLABS account, you may sign in.
• If you do not have an account, click “Create Account” and provide
the basic info requested, then click “Create a New Account”
• Sign in
• Click the green “Start Lab” button to begin, and copy and paste the
user name and password into your console log in window
• Follow the step-by-step instructions provided
• Move back to your webinar window to ask questions

17. Q & A
To ask a question, please type it in the box in the middle of
the right side of your screen.

18. Important Links
To launch your lab: https://webinars-run.qwiklab.com/#section-4
For more information on Microsoft Windows Server on AWS, to take a
Test Drive with a partner, to browse more training options, to talk to a
cloud expert or to sign up for a free account :
https://aws.amazon.com/windows/windows-ec2-ll-learn-
more//?sc_channel=we&trkcampaign=global_2015_windows_ec2_ll&t
rk=we_global_2015_windows_ec2_ll&sc_campaign=global_2015_win
dows_ec2_ll

19. AWS Summit – Chicago: An exciting, free cloud conference designed to educate and inform new
customers about the AWS platform, best practices and new cloud services.
Details
• July 1, 2015
• Chicago, Illinois
• @ McCormick Place
Featuring
• New product launches
• 36+ sessions, labs, and bootcamps
• Executive and partner networking
Registration is now open
• Come and see what AWS and the cloud can do for you.
• Simply go to: http://amzn.to/1RooPPL

20. Thank You