This document provides an overview of getting started with AWS cloud services. It highlights some of the benefits of AWS like no upfront costs, ability to pay only for resources used, ability to easily scale resources up and down. It also discusses some common challenges with on-premise infrastructure like high costs, underutilized assets, difficulty scaling. The document provides links to AWS websites to learn more and get started building applications on AWS. It also outlines some next steps like using free tier services and links to documentation, forums and partner programs.

1. Getting Started in the AWS
Cloud

2. Welcome
Glen Robinson
Solutions Architect

3. Your competitive landscape

4. On-Premise Infrastructure is Costly & Complex
Large Capital Expenditures
Underutilized IT Assets
Patching Software
Out of Datacenter Space
Scaling down as needed
Slow IT Deployments
Contract negotiation
Scaling up quickly
Prices too high for IT products
Managing physical growth
“IT spends 80% of its time and resources keeping the lights on”
Gartner Press Releases

5. Cloud Computing Benefits
No Up-Front Low Cost Pay Only for
Capital Expense What You Use
Self-Service Easily Scale Improve Agility &
Infrastructure Up and Down Time-to-Market
Deploy

6. Let’s be realistic

7. Let’s get started

8. http://www.amazon.co.uk

9. http://aws.amazon.com

13. Let’s build something!

17. Global Infrastructure for Global Enterprises
GovCloud US West US West US East South EU Asia Asia
(US ITAR (Northern (Oregon) (Northern America (Ireland) Pacific Pacific
Region) California) Virginia) (Sao Paulo) (Singapore) (Tokyo)
AWS Regions
AWS Edge Locations

34. Isn't that server a single point of
failure and didn’t Werner say
“Everything fails all the time”?

37. That’s fine Glen, but how do I
get my traffic to these
servers? Don’t tell me I have
to use something like DNS
round-robin.
YUK!

45. If you have time, add screen shot of ELB DNS name in browser loading my
page.

51. Isn't that server a single point of
failure and didn’t Werner say
“Everything fails all the time”?

54. www.yourApp.com
Amazon CloudFront
Elastic Load
Balancer
Amazon Elastic Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud Compute Cloud
(EC2) (EC2)
Security Group
Amazon Simple
Storage Service
(S3)
RDS DB Instance
Security Group Standby (Multi-AZ)
Availability Zone Availability Zone
Region

55. Let’s do that again

66. www.yourApp.com
Elastic Load
Balancer
Instances Instances
Auto Scaling
Security Group
RDS DB Instance
Security Group Standby (Multi-AZ)
Availability Zone Availability Zone
Region

68. SECURITY

69. www.yourApp.com
Elastic Load
Balancer
Amazon Elastic Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud Compute Cloud
(EC2) (EC2)
Security Group
RDS DB Instance
Security Group Standby (Multi-AZ)
Availability Zone Availability Zone
Region

70. www.yourApp.com
Elastic Load
Balancer
Amazon Elastic Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud Compute Cloud
(EC2) (EC2)
Security Group
RDS DB Instance
Security Group Standby (Multi-AZ)
Virtual Private Cloud
Availability Zone Availability Zone
Region

71. www.yourApp.com
VPC Subnet VPC Subnet
Elastic Load
Balancer
Amazon Elastic Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud Compute Cloud
(EC2) (EC2)
Security Group
RDS DB Instance
Security Group Standby (Multi-AZ)
Virtual Private Cloud
Availability Zone Availability Zone
Region

78. AWS Direct Connect

82. https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=RunInstances
&ImageId=ami-60a54009
&MaxCount=3
&MinCount=1
&Placement.AvailabilityZone=us-east-1b
&Monitoring.Enabled=true
&AWSAccessKeyId=0GS7553JW74RRM612K02EXA
MPLE
&Version=2012-04-01
&Expires=2010-10-10T12:00:00Z
&Signature=lBP67vCvGlDMBQ1dofZxg8E8SUEXAMP
LE
&SignatureVersion=2
&SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256

83. Next Steps

84. AWS Free Usage Tier (Per Month):
750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory
and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously
each month*
750 hours of Amazon EC2 Microsoft Windows Server Micro Instance usage
(613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to
run continuously each month*
750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing*
30 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, plus 2 million I/Os and 1 GB of
snapshot storage*
5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put
Requests*
100 MB of storage, 5 units of write capacity, and 10 units of read capacity for
Amazon DynamoDB.**
25 Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage**
1,000 Amazon SWF workflow executions can be initiated for free. A total of
10,000 activity tasks, signals, timers and markers, and 30,000 workflow-days
can also be used for free**
100,000 Requests of Amazon Simple Queue Service**
100,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications
for Amazon Simple Notification Service**
10 Amazon Cloudwatch metrics, 10 alarms, and 1,000,000 API requests**
15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services*

85. Amazon RDS free trial (Per Month): for 60 days
750 hours of Amazon RDS Small Single-AZ Instance usage – enough hours to run
continuously each month
20 GB of database storage
10 million I/Os
20 GB of backup storage for your automated database backups and any user-
initiated DB Snapshots
The free trial applies to MySQL Single-AZ deployments and the Oracle “Bring-Your-
Own-License (BYOL)” licensing model. In addition to these services, the AWS
Management Console is available at no charge to help you build and manage your
Database Instances on Amazon RDS.

86. System Integrators Independent Software Vendors

87. Premium support
"How to" questions about AWS service and
features
Best practices to help you successfully integrate,
deploy, and manage applications in the cloud
Troubleshooting API and AWS SDK issues
Troubleshooting operational or systemic problems
with AWS resources
Issues with our Management Console or other
AWS tools

88. Next steps
http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/gettingstarted/
http://forum.aws.amazon.com
http://aws.amazon.com/free/
http://aws.amazon.com/partners/overview/

89. Thank you for listening