This document discusses implementing hybrid IT with AWS. It defines hybrid IT as combining on-premises IT resources with cloud resources for capacity or capability reasons. Common hybrid IT use cases include cloudbursting to leverage cloud resources during spikes in demand and using the cloud for disaster recovery. The document discusses options for connecting hybrid environments like AWS Direct Connect, VPN connections, and software VPN solutions. It emphasizes the importance of managing hybrid IT through self-service, standardization, governance, and cost management tools to provide control and visibility while enabling innovation.

1. The Best of Both Worlds:
Implementing Hybrid IT with AWS
Brian Adler, Principal Cloud Architect, RightScale
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2. Introductions
Brian Adler!
Principal Cloud Architect!
RightScale

3. Agenda
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What is Hybrid IT?
Hybrid IT Trends
Use Cases
Connecting your Hybrid IT Environment
Management of your Hybrid IT Environment
Q&A

4. What is Hybrid IT?

5. What is Hybrid IT?
A combination of the following for capacity or capability:
Onpremises IT
Cloud
resources

6. Definitions and Terminology
On-Premises IT : Compute, storage, and network resources for a single
tenant that are accessed programmatically via an API endpoint.
Cloud Architecture: A similar set of multi-tenant resources provided by a
cloud vendor with access via an API endpoint.
Hybrid IT: An environment that spans your cloud provider as well as one or
more on-premises IT environments.
Multi-Cloud: An environment that spans two or more separate cloud
providers or regions.

7. What is Hybrid IT?
Capacity
A
+
=
B
Source: 10/3/13 “Hybrid Clouds and Hybrid IT: The Next
Frontier”, Tom Bittman, Gartner
C
Capability
Workload
X
Resource
A
Workload
Y
Resource
B

8. Hybrid IT Trends

9. Hybrid IT Trends
Current Cloud Usage
By organizations with a hybrid IT strategy
Currently running apps in
the cloud
Enterprises want multi-cloud/hybrid IT
Multi-public
15%
Multi-private
15%
Hybrid IT
47%
Source: RightScale State of the Cloud 2013
625 respondents, conducted Q1 2013
Currently running apps in
on-premises environments
Currently running apps in
hybrid environments

10. Common Use Cases

11. Use Case - Cloudbursting
o An application deployment model in which an application runs
in your on-premises environment and bursts to a cloud provider
when the demand for computing capacity spikes.
o The advantage of a cloud bursting-enabled deployment is that
an organization only pays for extra compute resources when
they are needed.

12. Use Cases - Cloudbursting
LOAD BALANCERS
PUBLIC
INTERNET
APP SERVERS
MASTER DATABASE
APP SERVERS
SLAVE DATABASE
OBJECT STORAGE
ON-PREMISES
CLOUD

13. Use Cases - Disaster Recovery
o Production environment in on-premises
o DR environment in cloud
o Most common configuration is the “Warm DR” scenario
• Replicating slave in the cloud
• All other servers in non-operational state

14. Use Cases – Disaster Recovery
CLOUD
CONTROLLER
PUBLIC
INTERNET
LOAD BALANCERS
LOAD
BALANCERS
APP SERVERS
APP SERVERS
MASTER DATABASE
SLAVE DATABASE
SLAVE DATABASE
OBJECT STORAGE
OBJECT STORAGE
ON-PREMISES
CLOUD

15. Use Cases – Data Residency Requirements
Choose AWS whenever possible, but in a limited
number of situations, you may have to resort to
on-premises storage.
On-premises

16. Connecting Your Hybrid IT Environment

17. Connecting Clouds
• AWS Direct Connect
– Network speaks BGP
– Virtual Private Gateway required
(if VPC used)
– Low latency (sub-3ms)
– High Bandwidth (1GBit or
10GBit interconnects available)
– Cost is based on port speed
(per hour) and data transfer out
of AWS (inbound data transfer is
free)
Source: AWS Direct Connect documentation

18. Connecting Clouds
• VPN Endpoint/Hardware Device
VPN Connection
– Available with any combination of
environments (AWS regions and onpremises locations)
– Virtual Private Gateway required (if VPC
used)
– Latency may be high
– Bandwidth constrained by the
characteristics of the network between
the environments
– Cost is dependent on outbound data
transfer. No additional AWS costs.
(configured via API
or AWS Console)
Internet
Hardware Device
(Cisco, Juniper, etc.)
On-Premises
Resources

19. Connecting Clouds
• VPN Endpoint/Software Solution
– Available with any combination of
environments
– SSL or IPsec can be used
– Virtual Private Gateway required (if VPC
used)
– Latency may be high
– Bandwidth constrained by the characteristics
of the network between the environments
– Cost is dependent on outbound data
transfer. No additional AWS costs.
– On-premises software solution can be run on
VM within the environment or on a physical
node.
VPN
Connection
Userimplemented
Software VPN
Internet
OpenSSL, Openswan,
pfSense, Raccoon, etc.
On-Premises
Resources

20. Management of Your Hybrid IT Environment

21. Self-Service
o IT can be the hero, agility with control
o Provide standardized builds with operational
excellence
o Leverage all resources

22. Simplicity through Self-Service
Service Designers
Cloud Team Ops
Developers
QA End Users
Self-Service Portal
Auth/SSO
RightScale UI
publish
use
Service
Catalog
RightScale API
RightScale Multi-Cloud Platform
On-Premises
Increase Innovation
o Access to portfolio of
hybrid infrastructure
o Standardized technology
stacks
o Instant provisioning for
innovation
o Visibility and control
– Access controls
– Budget controls
– Audit trails
AWS
o Integrate to existing
systems

23. Governance
o For every cloud project you know about, there may be
3-5 others you don’t know about*
o Not rebellion, but revenue & productivity
o Security and compliance
o Billing and chargeback
Enterprise
Business Unit
A
Tokyo
Region z
San Diego
Region 1
Retail platform
w/ PII and PCI
*10/11 Forrester Research blog, James Staten
“What are Enterprises Really Doing in the Cloud?”
Business
Unit C
Business
Unit B
Marketing Site
Dev
QA
Chicago
Region n
Business
SaaS
Unit 2
Stage
Busines
Analytics
s Unit 1
Prod

24. Standardization through Automation
o Cloud builds are everywhere
o A myriad of machine image & workload
o Configuration language abundance
o Many deployment options
o How can IT support this?
“By 2016, more than 70% of large enterprises will choose a heterogeneous IT operations
management vendor (rather than an infrastructure vendor) for their cloud management
platform to unify cloud investments through a single manager-of-managers style of
management and control.”*
Donna Scott, Gartner
*7/12 Gartner, Inc., Debra Curtis and Donna Scott
“Heterogeneity Will Determine the Preferred Type of CMP Vendor”

25. Cost Management
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o
o
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End-user awareness of spend
Cost visibility
Chargeback capability
Cloud Analytics for optimization

26. Cost Management through Cloud Analytics
o Visualize all of your
IT costs
o Forecast future spend
o Optimize your spend and
reduce waste

27. Questions?