Resident AWS cloud experts Sebastian Straub (Sr. Sys Admin, N2WS) & Joey Yep (Solutions Architect, Spotinst) shared their tips on how to overcome the most common devops challenges such as automated backup, instant AWS EC2 recovery, container workload automation and resilience: - Learn the real value of automating AWS workloads to improve efficiency (including how to reduce operational overhead and development time) - Discover the top-rated tools to eliminate the headaches of traditional cloud backup and recovery methods (to avoid costly downtime) - Leverage the extreme cost savings of spot instances and restore instances in stateful solution - Overcome the most common challenges of restoring instances between accounts, availability zones and regions (for worry-free code commits)

1. AWS Cloud Resilience and
Container Workload Automation
Learn how to overcome the most common challenges
to bring real value to your organization.

2. AWS Backup & Disaster Recovery Automation
More Top Automation Strategies for AWS
N2WS Live Demo (with a v2.7 sneak peak!)
Spotinst Container Workload Automation & Resilience (Elastigroup, Ocean)
Spotinst Live Demo!
Live Q+A Time
Agenda

3. Today’s expert presenters
Sebastian Straub
N2WS, Sr. Solutions Architect
• AWS + N2WS Expert
• 20+ years experience Enterprise
Management and Backup Solutions
• Previously with Dell, Oracle, Quest
and the Department of Defense
Joey Yep
Spotinst, Solutions Architect
• Cloud solutions evangelist
• 20 years experience in data center design,
HPC, Big Data, private, public and hybrid
cloud solutions
• Previously with ZeroStack, Mirantis,
Seagate, Broadcom (formerly Brocade)

4. AWS Shared Responsibility Model
AWS provides the virtual
hardware and protects
that infrastructure
But the data you store within
it is YOUR responsibility –this
often goes unrealized

5. Compliance + Data Security
EBS Failure
Ransomware AZ Failure
Human
Error
Why we still need backup & recovery in AWS

6. Why N2WS?
#1 AWS Backup
Single pane of
glass
Manage storage and compute
resources from one console
Flexible retention
options
Keep data for as long as you need, stay
compliant and lower your AWS bill
Different
storage tiers
Archive snapshots into a lower-cost
S3 repository for long term storage
Complete data
management
Use N2WS to manage your data lifecycle with
ability backup, store and delete data as required

7. Why N2WS?
#1 AWS Backup
Volumes vs. VMs
N2WS backs up on an instance level,
including VPC settings, security
groups and instance meta data
Recovery Options
Combine cross-account and cross-region
disaster recovery for near-zero downtime
Restore Anything
Recover anything from a single file
to your entire AWS environment
(yes, even encrypted files)
Multi-tenancy
Manage multiple accounts from one
console – great if you are a service provider
or managing a large environment

8. The promise of the cloud, delivered!

9. HQ
Palm Beach
FL | USA
Edinburgh
UK
Haifa
Israel
• Founded in 2012
• #1 Backup & Recovery Solution on the
AWS Marketplace
• Purpose-built for AWS
• Distributed via AWS Marketplace
About N2WS

10. AWS Accounts
5K+
Petabytes of Backup
13+
HUNDREDS of
THOUSANDS of
Protected Instances
Trusted by global organizations on AWS

11. The ultimate data protection
#1 AWS Backup
Cross-Region
Protect against regional
outages with cross-region
disaster recovery.
Securely copy backups
between 18 data centers
around the world.

12. The ultimate data protection
#1 AWS Backup
Cross-Account
Protect against account
compromises with cross-
account disaster recovery

13. The ultimate data protection
#1 AWS Backup
Snapshot Vault
Use BOTH cross-region and
cross-account DR to create a
highly secure “snapshot vault”

14. Lower your AWS storage bill by up to 60%
#1 AWS Backup
Archive snapshots
to S3 buckets
Save big on your AWS storage
bill by copying EBS snapshots to
a low-cost S3 repository
Start/stop instances
on demand
Stay compliant
for less
Store data for as long as you
need while paying a third of
the standard cost
Reduce your AWS bill by turning
off non-critical EC2/RDS
instances automatically or on-
demand

15. Offers very high durability, high availability, low
latency access, and relatively cheap access cost
Only pay for the storage used and not
provisioned. (from $0.023 per GB)
No risk of over-provisioning and no need to
manage disk utilization.
Why archive snapshots to S3?
#1 AWS Backup

16. Auto hibernate idle instances
#1 AWS Backup
Turn off resources when you’re
not using them.
With N2WS Resource Control, you can flip
the switch on resources on-demand (or on a
schedule) for instant savings.

17. Capture VPC settings such as subnets, security groups
& route tables, and clone them to different regions.
Eliminates the need for manual configuration during
recovery process by copying VPC settings and re-
applying them to other workloads.
Automate infrastructure backup
#1 AWS Backup
VPC Capture and clone

18.  Schedule reports or generate on demand
 Receive reports by email
 Stay compliant and meet customer requirements
Reporting Automation

19. Automation using
different purchasing
options

20. Make an upfront payment and receive
a discounted price for the instance.
Analyze long-term predictions and try
to benefit from the extended discount
for a 3-year commitment wherever
possible.
AWS Trusted Advisor makes
recommendations only based on 7, 30
or 60 days of data
Tips for using reserved instances

21. Bid on unused EC2 instances offered at a significant
discount to an On-Demand Instance.
Price fluctuates according to supply and demand. Check the
pricing history and set the maximum price accordingly.
Caveat: the instance can be reclaimed by Amazon if it needs
the capacity back.
Tips for using spot instances

22. Scale using Spot for fault-tolerant, flexible,
stateless workloads
On-demand, for new or stateful spiky
workloads
Use RIs for known, steady-state workloads
Use N2WS to automate instance backup and
cross region/account disaster recovery
To optimize EC2, combine options

23. Demo
SNEAK PEEK of V2.7…

24. Cloud Resilience and Container
Workload Automation

25. Cloud Excess Capacity aka “Spot Instances”
Spot Instances
Low Priority
VMs
Preemptible
VMs
Spot
Instances
Cloud providers spare capacity offerings:
● Prices are 50-90% less
● No guarantee on
availability
~ 45% of Current Cloud Computing Capacity is Unused

26. Spotinst | Company Overview
Founded
2015
Raised $17M
2017
Raised $35M
2018
Highland Europe
Series B
Intel & Vertex
Series A
150+
Employees
Today
4 Locations
*Deloitte’s Israel 2017
Rising Star Winner
Customers
1,500+
The Fastest
Growing Company
in 2017 in Israel*
Spotinst | Company Overview

27. Spotinst manages ~
3B+Resource Hrs/Month
● 60%-80% Cost Reduction
● Simple per-usage Pricing Model
2016
Today
# of managed resource hours over
time
Spotinst | SaaS Platform Growth

28. Worldwide | 50+ Countries Serving Enterprises & SMBs

29. Container Orchestration | Tetris Scaling Challenges

30. ● Scaling Containers
Containerized Workloads | Common Scaling Challenges
Container Orchestration

31. ● Scaling Containers
Containerized Workloads | Common Scaling Challenges
Infrastructure as a Service
M4.MEDIUM C3.2XLARGE
M5.LARGE
Container Orchestration
● Scaling Infrastructure

32. ● Scaling Containers
Containerized Workloads | Common Scaling Challenges
Infrastructure as a Service
M4.MEDIUM C3.2XLARGE
M5.LARGE
Container Orchestration
● Scaling Infrastructure
● Metrics based step scaling
HPA
VPAThresholds
Thresholds
Headroom

33. ● Scaling Containers
Containerized Workloads | Common Scaling Challenges
Infrastructure as a Service
M4.MEDIUM C3.2XLARGE
M5.LARGE
Container Orchestration
● Scaling Infrastructure
● Metrics based step scaling
HPA
VPAThresholds
Thresholds
Headroom
● Matching the resources
Spot On-Demand
GPU

34. ● Scaling Containers
Containerized Workloads | Common Scaling Challenges
Infrastructure as a Service
M4.MEDIUM C3.2XLARGE
M5.LARGE
Container Orchestration
● Scaling Infrastructure
● Metrics based step scaling
HPA
VPAThresholds
Thresholds
Headroom
● Matching the resources
Spot On-Demand
GPU
● Right sizing containers

35. ● Scaling Containers
Containerized Workloads | Common Scaling Challenges
Infrastructure as a Service
M4.MEDIUM C3.2XLARGE
M5.LARGE
Container Orchestration
● Scaling Infrastructure
● Metrics based step scaling
● Matching the resources
● Right sizing containers
Need a better way to automate

37. Spotinst is a platform that optimizes cloud infrastructure through cost aware
automation, abstracts complexity and provides multi-cloud management
Spotinst | Solutions

38. The Serverless Container Experience
elastigroup
Provision, manage and scale cloud infrastructure
Reserved Capacity Management Service

39. Spotinst Elastigroup | Autoscaler

40. Spotinst Ocean | The Container Serverless Experience
● Run inexpensive, reliable container
clusters on the cloud at scale
● Deeper insight into container
deployments and costs
● Smart auto scaling based on the pods
requirements
● Headroom
● PV’s, PVC’s awareness
● Right Sizing Suggestions

41. Spotinst | Solution Stack
kops EKS GKE AKS

42. ● 3 layers approach to optimizing and automating container
workloads
○ Pricing Model
■ Spot, On-Demand & Reserved Instances
○ Instance Sizing
■ Matching container to instances
○ Container Utilization
■ Monitoring real usage
Spotinst | Putting It All Together

43. Demo

44. • https://console.spotinst.com
• joey.yep@spotinst.com
• n2ws.com/trial
• jessica@n2ws.com
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