Find out more about how AWS can help you optimize your microsoft workloads.

1. Julien Lépine, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2017
Microsoft Best Practices on AWS
How AWS can help you optimize your Microsoft workloads

2. Cloud is an ongoing optimization model
On-
Premises
Lift & Shift Instance Right-
Sizing
Improved
Elasticity
Measure,
Monitor,
Improve
Optimized EC2 Storage
Optimization
Serverless
Architecture
Managed
Services
True AWS
Optimized
Traditional TCO Comparisons

3. Topics we’ll cover
DEPLOYING DEVELOPINGMANAGING

4. Building foundations
AWS IAM AMAZON VPC AWS DIRECTORY SERVICE

5. Platform identity
corporate data
center
ADDC
ADFS
AWS IAM
Amazon
S3
AWS
CloudTrail
AWS
Config
Logging and monitoring platform

6. Core network infrastructure
Availability Zone
Availability Zone
Internet
gateway
NAT
gateway
NAT
gateway
VPN
connection
corporate data
center
Amazon
S3
Logging and monitoring platform
Public subnet
Public subnet Private Subnet
Private Subnet
flow logs
Amazon
CloudWatch Logs
Availability Zone

7. Windows identity
Availability Zone
Availability Zone
Internet
gateway
NAT
gateway
Active
Directory Tier
AWS Directory
Service
NAT
gateway
VPN
connection
corporate data
center
AWS IAM
ADFS
ADDC

8. Moving initial Microsoft workloads to AWS
BUILDING IN THE
CLOUD
MIGRATION

9. Instance migration

10. Migrating data to and from AWS
AWS Database Migration Service
Minimize downtime during migrations, migrate between
different DB platforms, Schema Conversion Tool
Amazon RDS Native Backup / Restore
Store your existing SQL Server backups ‘.bak’ files in Amazon
S3 and restore them on Amazon RDS
Microsoft SQL Server Database
Publishing Wizard
Export to T-SQL files, load using sqlcmd
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AWS Marketplace
Third-party data import and export tools and
solutions
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11. Database Migration

12. Creating repeatable architectures
BOOTSTRAPPING CONTAINERS AUTOMATED
DEPLOYMENTS
AWS
CloudFormation
Amazon ECS
PowerShell
AWS Systems
Manager
State Manager

13. AWS CloudFormation

14. Amazon RDS features
Your familiar Microsoft SQL Server platform
Choose from SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2014 / 2016, in Express,
Standard, Web or Enterprise Edition
All major processes automated
Creation via one API call, automated failover, patching, backup,
point in time recovery, easy scalability, AD integration
You retain a high level of control
Use your existing licenses, the settings of the database engine,
programmability
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So you focus on your business
Focus on the data schema, query planning and workload
optimization based on your business
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15. Scaling Web Application
Availability Zone
Availability Zone
Internet
gateway
NAT
gateway
NAT
gateway
VPN
connection
corporate data
center
ADDC
ADFS
AWS IAM
users
Active
Directory Tier
Database
Tier
Web Tier
ELB
IIS
Server
Amazon
RDS
AWS Directory
Service
IIS Server

16. Administration at scale
REMOTE DESKTOP
ACCESS
REMOTE SCRIPTING
RDGW Amazon
WorkSpaces
CLOUD CONTROL
CENTER
PowerShell
AWS Tools for
Windows
PowerShell
AWS Systems
Manager

17. Keeping the platform up to date
IMAGE HYGIENE
PowerShell
DSC
MONITORING
INVENTORY
AUDITING
CONFIGURATION
MANAGEMENT
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS Systems
Manager
PATCHING
AWS
Config

18. Licensing
LICENSE INCLUDED LICENSE MOBILITY LEGACY / OS

19. Licensing Continuum
License Included
• Amazon manages the
licenses
• Pay-as-you-go pricing
• Multi-tenant or dedicated
• No license management
overhead
• AWS provides images
Hybrid
• Baseline in BYOL
• Leverage scalability and
pay-as-you-go where
applicable
• Limit management
overhead
• Import and use some of
your OS or software
BYOL
• Import and use your own
OS/software
• Reduce your spend if you
already pay an ISV for
licensing
• You manage licensing
costs and compliance
with your ISV
• Committed contracts with
your ISVs

20. Delaware North Moves Data Center to AWS to Save $3.5M Over Five Years
• Construction of new headquarters building led
company to reevaluate its IT platform
• Evaluated several cloud vendors and chose AWS
• Reducing its data center server footprint by 91%
• Anticipates saving at least $3.5 million over five years
with leaner IT
• Improving security compliance, disaster recovery, and
delivery of new services and solutions
From a CIO’s perspective, I looked
very closely at the reputation and
value proposition that each cloud
vendor brought to the table. AWS had
a clear lead over the competition.
Kevin Quinlivan,
Chief Information Officer
”
“
Delaware North is $3 billion leader in the food service and
hospitality industry. It is based in Buffalo, New York.

21. AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
AWS Toolkit
for Visual
Studio
.NET SDK

22. ENTERPRISE
APPS
DEVELOPMENT & OPERATIONSMOBILE SERVICESAPP SERVICESANALYTICS
Data
Warehousing
Hadoop/
Spark
Streaming Data
Collection
Machine
Learning
Elastic
Search
Virtual
Desktops
Sharing &
Collaboration
Corporate
Email
Backup
Queuing &
Notifications
Workflow
Search
Email
Transcoding
One-click App
Deployment
Identity
Sync
Single Integrated
Console
Push
Notifications
DevOps Resource
Management
Application Lifecycle
Management
Containers
Triggers
Resource
Templates
TECHNICAL &
BUSINESS
SUPPORT
Account
Management
Support
Professional
Services
Training &
Certification
Security
& Pricing
Reports
Partner
Ecosystem
Solutions
Architects
MARKETPLACE
Business
Apps
Business
Intelligence
Databases
DevOps
Tools
NetworkingSecurity Storage
Regions
Availability
Zones
Points of
Presence
INFRASTRUCTURE
CORE SERVICES
Compute
VMs, Auto-scaling,
& Load Balancing
Storage
Object, Blocks,
Archival, Import/Export
Databases
Relational, NoSQL,
Caching, Migration
Networking
VPC, DX, DNS
CDN
Access
Control
Identity
Management
Key
Management
& Storage
Monitoring
& Logs
Assessment
and reporting
Resource &
Usage Auditing
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
Configuration
Compliance
Web application
firewall
HYBRID
ARCHITECTURE
Data
Backups
Integrated
App
Deployments
Direct
Connect
Identity
Federation
Integrated
Resource
Management
Integrated
Networking
API
Gateway
IoT
Rules
Engine
Device
Shadows
Device
SDKs
Registry
Device
Gateway
Streaming Data
Analysis
Business
Intelligence
Mobile
Analytics

23. Hosting your .NET applications
AMAZON EC2 AWS LAMBDAANY PLATFORM
AWS
OpsWorks
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
Amazon ECS
Amazon API
Gateway

24. AWS also provides extended support
AWS CodeCommit/CodePipeline/CodeDeploy
• Manage a large fleet (on-premises and cloud-based)
.NET SDK and PowerShell cmdlets
• Integration in custom build pipelines in TFS or other
AWS native integrations
• Jenkins, Bamboo have native integration to AWS
• Other IDE support AWS (Unity, Xamarin Studio, Eclipse…)

25. How to get started
Create an AWS Account and leverage the free tier
• 1 year Amazon EC2 instance
• 1 year AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory
• 1 year Amazon RDS Instance
• Much more
Contact us and come meet us
AWS and partners offer training and certification
Amazon
EC2
AWS Directory
Service
Amazon
RDS

26. Thank you!