Compute and Database options on Amazon Web Services. Including ideas on how to transform your architecture.

1. RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS
ON AMAZON WEB
SERVICES

2. HOUSEKEEPING

3. LEVEL 200

4. APPLES VS.
ORANGES

5. SECURITY FUD
... enables us to operate more securely in the public
cloud than we can even in our own datacenters
— Rob Alexander CIO, Capital One Re: Invent 2015

6. WHY AWS?

7. CLEAR MARKET LEADER
10X DEPLOYED COMPUTE
> $7bil ARR business
> 81% YoY growth rate
> EC2: 95% YoY growth in instance hours
> S3: 102% YoY growth in data transfer
> RDS: 127% YoY growth - $1bil ARR business

8. RAPID
INNOVATION

9. MASSIVE SCALE
Every day AWS adds enough new server capacity to
support all of Amazon’s global infrastructure when it
was a $7B annual revenue enterprise (in 2004).
— James Hamilton, AWS Re: Invent 2014

10. FOCUS

11. LET'S GET
STARTED

12. COMPUTE IN THE
CLOUD

13. KNOW YOUR
WORKLOADS

14. PAY FOR WHAT YOU USE
ON-DEMAND
RESERVED
SPOT

15. DESIGN FOR
FAILURE

16. DATABASES IN
THE CLOUD

17. LEVERAGE RDS

18. MULTIAZ
RDS INSTANCES

19. SCALE WITH
READ REPLICAS

20. TRANSFORMYOUR INFRASTRUCTURE

21. INFRASTRUCTURE
AS CODE

22. BOOTSTRAP
YOUR COMPUTE

23. AUTOSCALING

24. HORIZONTAL
SCALING

25. DITCH YOUR COMPUTE
LAMBDA

26. HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
4 WEEKS TO YOUR OWN AWS ENVIRONMENT
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27. EMAIL COURSE
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28. INDUSTRY NEWS
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