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How to Optimize Your AWS Environment for Improved Cloud Performance
Presented by Ranjit Kalidasan, Chitra Shastri, and Martin Kowalewski
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How to Optimize Your AWS Environment for Improved Cloud Performance
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- 2. Cisco Confidential Featured Speakers RanjitKalidasan Partner Solutions Architect Chitra Shastri Sr. Product Marketing Manager Martin Kowaleski Solutions Engineer
- 3. Cisco Confidential 3 Housekeeping © 2025Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Before we begin… • If you have any questions, please type them in the Questions window. • If you have any audio problems, please chat us for help. • A recording of this presentation will be sent to you in a few days.
- 4. Cisco Confidential Agenda 4 © 2025Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. • The case for the Cloud • Users’ expectations and IT challenges • AWS networking and monitoring services • ThousandEyes and AWS “better together” • Demo: Assuring customer experience on AWS • Q&A
- 5. Cisco Confidential © 2025Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5 Cloud Adoption Blistering Pace (Source: Spacelift) Of organizations using the public cloud +90% (Source: Flexera 2024) Of organizations are embracing hybrid cloud environments 73%
- 6. Cisco Confidential © 2025Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6 Cost Savings (TCO) Cost savings/ avoidance from moving to the cloud Reduction in IT infrastructure costs as a percentage of revenue by 20% Operational Resilience Benefit of improving SLAs and reducing unplanned outage Unplanned downtime reduced by 69% Business Agility Deploying new features faster and reducing errors Reduction in time-to- market for new application features of 43% The Business Case for the Cloud Staff Productivity Efficiency improvement Productivity increase of 66% in VMs managed per server admin Sustainability Minimizing environmental impact of operations Reduction in workload carbon footprint of 88% Tactical impact Strategic impact
- 7. Cisco Confidential 7 Manufacturing facilities Cameras and sensors EnterpriseHQ Hybrid workforce © 2025 Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential The experience users want
- 8. Cisco Confidential 8 Regional data centers Edge datacenters Mobile networks Wireless gateway Cloud providers network BYOD Enterprise Edge Branch office Local ISP Transport Mobile user Cloud Services Enterprise data center Manufacturing facilities Cameras and sensors Enterprise HQ Hybrid workforce © 2025 Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Reality is more complex
- 9. Cisco Confidential 9 Edge data centers Mobile networks BYOD Enterprise Edge Branch office Local ISPTransport Mobile user Cloud Services Enterprise data center Manufacturing facilities Cameras and sensors Enterprise HQ Hybrid workforce People, places and things Apps (data center, cloud) Wireless gateway Regional data centers Cloud providers network Unowned networks issues: not your fault, but your responsibility Enterprise connectivity networks Network services Cloud connectivity infrastructure Phishing Malware Brute force Config changes Lateral movement © 2025 Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential And that is just to get to the cloud provider’s front door
- 10. Cisco Confidential © 2025Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10 Cloud networks are highly virtualized Physical network elements are managed by the cloud provider making traditional tooling less relevant. Cloud networks are highly dynamic Auto scale capabilities along with configuration changes make cloud platforms a moving target. Cloud networks span cross multiple accounts With multiple instances connecting, configuration and management complexity increase. Once inside the cloud environment, you’re in a black box. Routine maintenance or configuration changes can have meaningful impacts
- 11. Cisco Confidential © 2025Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11 The Journey to and Inside the Cloud Organizations have different use cases in their cloud journey; some may be at the start or planning to migrate more applications while others are optimizing their existing cloud-based services. Migration Planning Application Deployment Operational Excellence • Understand app performance and define KPIs. With the AWS environment in context Continuously monitor to assure KPIs are met and delivering the business outcome Moment of truth, confirm KPIs, identify optimization opportunities or remediation actions
- 12. Cisco Confidential Cisco Confidential ©2025 Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 12 Sounds familiar? How can we have secured Applications? Are we compliant? Are we operating efficiently? How do we monitor our AWS environment? Can we find root cause to connectivity issues? Are performances the same in Cloud? Can we optimize for hybrid? Am I getting the most out of my network? Can we track changes in Config changes?
- 13. © 2022, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco Confidential AWS Global infrastructure AWS REGIONS, EDGE LOCATIONS, AND THE GLOBAL BACKBONE 36 launched Regions each with multiple Availability Zones 114 Availability Zones 700+ CloudFront POPs and 13 Regional edge caches 42 Local Zones 29 Wavelength Zones for ultralow-latency applications 245 countries and territories served 135 Direct Connect locations
- 14. © 2024, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco Confidential Why have a global network? 14 *except within the People’s Republic of China All Region-to-Region traffic traverses the global network* Traffic traverses our infrastructure rather than the internet Security Controlling scaling and redundancy Availability Controlling paths customer traffic traverses Reliable performance Avoiding internet “hot spots” or sub-optimal external connectivity Connecting closer to customers � �
- 15. © 2024, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco Confidential Cloud networking from AWS NETWORKING SERVICES FOR EVERY APPLICATION AND WORKLOAD 15 Networking foundations Amazon VPC AWS Transit Gateway AWS PrivateLink Global & hybrid connectivity AWS Direct Connect AWS Direct Connect SiteLink AWS Cloud WAN AWS Site to Site VPN Edge networking & content delivery AWS CloudFront AWS Global Accelerator AWS Route 53 Application Networking Elastic Load Balancing Amazon VPC Lattice Network security and remote access AWS Network Firewall AWS Verified Access AWS Client VPN AWS Global Network Infrastructure, silicon innovation, and centralized network operations
- 16. © 2024, AmazonWeb Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco Confidential Monitoring for AWS Networking 16 Internet Monitor Visibility into how internet issues impact the performance and availability between your applications hosted on AWS and your end users Network Flow Monitor Real-time visibility into network performance for traffic between Amazon EC2 instances, and other AWS services, such as Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB Network Synthetic Monitor fully-managed agents to enable you to track and visualize latency and packet loss for hybrid network connections AMAZON CLOUDWATCH NETWORK AND INTERNET MONITORING CAPABILITIES
- 17. Cisco Confidential Cloud Insights 17 KeyCapabilities Cloud Topology Auto discover cloud provider resources to understand every service dependency Events Config changes and other events are time-correlated with views of experience so you can isolate root-cause faster Traffic Flow View traffic patterns so you can efficiently architect and troubleshoot your cloud network Value Deep visibility into cloud-native, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure and service dependencies that impact digital experiences to reduce MTTRby up to 60%
- 18. Demo 18 © 2024 CiscoSystems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- 19. Cisco Confidential 19 © 2025Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Next Steps and Q&A Learn More Free Trial Demo • Subscribe to the blog. thousandeyes.com/blog/ • Tune in to the Internet Report podcast. thousandeyes.com/the-internet-report/ • Get a real-time view into the health of the Internet. thousandeyes.com/outages/ • Sign up for a free trial. thousandeyes.com/signup/ • Request a demo. thousandeyes.com/request-demo
- 20. Cisco Confidential 20 © 2024Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.