Hybrid IT Approach and Technologies with the AWS Cloud | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016
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This session is recommended for anyone considering using the AWS cloud to augment their current capabilities. Adoption of cloud computing provides access to the benefits of new deployment models with significant cost and agility benefits. But how can the cloud benefit existing government organizations that have invested large amounts of resources in existing on-premises technologies? This session outlines several key factors to consider from the point of view of the large-scale IT shop stakeholder. Because each organization has its unique set of challenges in cloud adoption, this session compares some of the opportunities and risks of several hybrid cloud use-case models and then helps customers understand the cloud-native and third-party vendor options available that bridge the gap to the cloud for large-scale government environments.
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Hybrid IT Approach and Technologies with the AWS Cloud | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016
- 1. © 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved. Hybrid IT Approach and Technologies with the AWS Cloud June 20, 2016 Dario Rivera – Solutions Architect – Amazon Web Services Dan Thomas – Chief Engineer - DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority
- 2. Session agenda • Introduction • Hybrid and AWS • Implementing Hybrid Ops • Common Hybrid Apps • Use Case: DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority
- 4. Cloud is an ALL or NOTHING proposition
- 5. Why are customers choosing AWS to implement hybrid?
- 7. Broad accreditations and certifications
- 8. * As of 1 June 2016 2009 48 280 722 82 2011 2013 2015 AWS has been continually expanding its’ services to support virtually any cloud workload and now has more than 70 services that range from compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management and mobile. AWS has launched a total of 368 new features and/or services year to date* - for a total of 2,263new features and/or services since inception in 2006. AWS Pace of Innovation
- 9. TECHNICAL & BUSINESS SUPPORT Account Management Support Professional Services Solutions Architects Training & Certification Security & Pricing Reports Partner Ecosystem AWS MARKETPLACE Backup Big Data & HPC Business Apps Databases Development Industry Solutions Security MANAGEMENT TOOLS Queuing Notifications Search Orchestration Email ENTERPRISE APPS Virtual Desktops Storage Gateway Sharing & Collaboration Email & Calendaring Directories HYBRID CLOUD MANAGEMENT Backups Deployment Direct Connect Identity Federation Integrated Management SECURITY & MANAGEMENT Virtual Private Networks Identity & Access Encryption Keys Configuration Monitoring Dedicated INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES Regions Availability Zones Compute Storage (object, block) Databases SQL, NoSQL, Caching CDNNetworking PLATFORM SERVICES APP Mobile & Web Front-end Functions Identity Data Store Real-time DEVELOPMENT Containers Source Code Build Tools Deployment DevOps MOBILE Sync Identity Push Notifications Mobile Analytics Mobile Backend ANALYTICS Data Warehousing Hadoop Streaming Data Pipelines Machine Learning
- 11. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premises • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS
- 12. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premises • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS
- 13. Secure, flexible connectivity OPS | NETWORKING AWS Direct Connect • Extend your data center network to the AWS cloud using a leased-line/circuit • Secure, consistent performance on a private network - avoid internet traversal • Lower data transfer costs (vs VPN) • 1 Mbps to multiple 10 Gbps • Simpler management of multi-VPC environments • IPSEC VPNs can also be used for small deployments, POCs, and extra redundancy
- 14. Secure, flexible networking OPS | NETWORKING Amazon Virtual Private Cloud • Create a software-defined network topology for your cloud including private and public subnets (RFC1918), routing, firewall policies and NAT • Connect VPCs together using peering, or directly to your data center and offices Implement network isolation at any level, e.g. • App environment, tier, business unit, team, application / project and data classification
- 15. Your Data Center IPSEC VPN Tunnels(x2) AWS Direct Connect Peering Location Circuit(s), e.g Metro Ethernet AWS Fibre cross connect Terminated on an AWS or customer managed gateway (Internet) Network Extension OPS | NETWORKING
- 16. (Optional) Bring your favorite security tools Unified Threat Management & WAF VPN / Routing, Application Delivery, Key Management AVAILABLE NOW
- 17. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premises • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) AWS Direct Connect
- 18. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premises • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) AWS Direct Connect
- 19. Federated Access Management OPS | SECURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT AWS Directory Service – AD Connector • Easily federate your corporate Active Directory environment to AWS and enable single sign-on – no need for SAML infrastructure • Proxy only – does not store credentials • Supports RADIUS-based MFA • Connects to Domain Controllers in your VPC or on-premises Domain Controllers Customers can also use ADFS or partner solutions
- 20. AWS Identity & Access Management OPS | SECURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT AWS Identity and Access Management • Securely control access to AWS services and resources • Combine IAM and AD Connector to develop role based security policies for AWS resources using your existing AD identities • Fine grained control of permissions with auditing via AWS CloudTrail
- 21. OPS | SECURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT AWS Management Console Your Identity Provider e.g., Active Directory IAM (Federated users) Policies AWS Services & Resources AD Connector – (Proxy only) AWS Directory Service Forward Authentication Access per IAM policies Authentication Authorization Allow / deny
- 22. OPS | SECURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT AWS Management Console Your Identity Provider e.g., Active Directory IAM (Federated users) Policies AWS Services & Resources AD Connector – (Proxy only) AWS Directory Service Forward Authentication Access per IAM policies Authentication Authorization Allow / deny Ready in 15 minutes!
- 23. AWS Identity Federation Partners OPS | SECURE ACCESS MANAGEMENT
- 24. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premise • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) AWS Direct Connect AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) AWS Directory Service
- 25. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premises • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) AWS Direct Connect AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) AWS Directory Service
- 26. Step 1 – Use a “cloud broker” OPS | MANAGEMENT
- 27. Start by experimenting with different tools (and try open source)
- 28. ANSIBLE Configuration management HASHICORP PACKER Build machine and container images (cross platform) HASHICORP TERRAFORM Create and deploy application templates (cross platform) AWS CLOUDFORMATION Application templates (AWS only) Common Examples OPS | MANAGEMENT
- 29. HASHICORP PACKER Build cross platform machine and container images VMWare (vmx or ISO) AWS (Amazon Machine Image) OpenStack, etc… Parallel Build Source config OPS | MANAGEMENT
- 30. resource "aws_elb" "frontend" { name = "frontend-load-balancer" listener { instance_port = 8000 instance_protocol = "http" lb_port = 80 lb_protocol = "http" } instances = ["${aws_instance.app.*.id}"] } resource "aws_instance" "app" { count = 5 ami = "ami-043a5034" instance_type = "m1.small" } HASHICORP TERRAFORM Application Templates Ex: Create 5 servers and put them behind a load balancer OPS | MANAGEMENT
- 31. Stack Template References Post- processing Executes API / CLI App Stack E.g. 3 Tier Prod Web Configures Deploys (App) Configures Deploys (Infra) AnsiblePacker Terraform Build automation for hybrid environments OPS | MANAGEMENT
- 32. Importing existing VM images AWS Management Portal for VMWARE vCenter AWS VM Import Point and click migration for VMware Migrate VMWare, Hyper-V and Citrix Xen images OPS | MANAGEMENT
- 33. AWS Import / Export Snowball • 80 TB Amazon-owned appliance design to help move petabytes of data per week • 256-bit data encryption (KMS) • Tamper resistant, durable and rugged enclosure • 10 GB network – takes ~13 hours to load a 50 TB Snowball Use Snowball to move data centers, large data sets, or individual VMs OPS | MANAGEMENT
- 34. AWS Application Discovery Service Overview Agents deployed on source hosts Windows & Linux support Capture system inventory, performance, and dependencies Capture and store secured data to AWS API access to discovered assets Output to CSV or XML Can be imported into a third-party migration or visualization tool Discovery Agents Discovery DB AWS Application Discovery Service On-premises data center Encrypted data Internet
- 35. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premises • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS VPC & Direct Connect IAM, Directory Service Packer, Terraform, Ansible and VM Import
- 36. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premises • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS VPC & Direct Connect IAM, Directory Service Packer, Terraform, Ansible and VM Import
- 37. Amazon CloudWatch APPLICATION PERFORMANCE OPERATIONAL ANALYTICS AWS platform & service metrics Splunk App for AWS API Integration AppDynamics OPS | MONITORING
- 38. COST/Performance/ Reliability MANAGEMENT • Track cloud best practices with reports, dashboards, and email alerts • Recommendations via historical usage analytics • Assure you are using Best Practices in the AWS cloud OPS | MONITORING AWS Trusted Advisor
- 39. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premises • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS VPC & Direct Connect IAM, Directory Service
- 40. • Secure, flexible networking between cloud and on-premise • Secure, federated access management • Management tools for hybrid environments • Integrated monitoring tools HYBRID OPS - REQUIREMENTS VPC & DirectConnect IAM, Directory Service
- 41. Use Case: DC Health Link Dan Thomas Chief Engineer, DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority CEO, IdeaCrew, Inc.
- 42. DC Health Link Health Benefit Exchange Authority (HBX) for District of Columbia Serves DC residents, small businesses members of Congress and staff Health, dental, vision benefits Only marketplace with sole distribution channel for enrollment As of March 2016, over 215K people have come through DC Health Link
- 43. First Generation HBX Some successes… • Kentucky, California, New York …and some setbacks • Oregon, Hawaii • HealthCare.gov DC Health Link went live 10/1/2013, and was one of only four HBXs that opened on time & operated all day (Bloomberg News)
- 44. Technology Drives DC Health Link Customer Experience If system is deficient or degraded: • Cannot accurately determine financial assistance eligibility • Cannot help consumers pick best coverage to meet their needs and budget • Someone who needs coverage may go uninsured or may be unable to access needed care • Uninsured are vulnerable to potentially catastrophic financial burden
- 45. DC Health Link Behind the Scenes Open Enrollments #1 & #2 Large infrastructure (250-plus VMs) in DC data centers System Integrator struggled to deliver. After go-live, each successive release further degraded system Consumer experience adversely impacted, throughout OE 1 & 2, both in terms of functionality and system performance DC Health Link internal teams made heroic efforts to operate, developing side-along systems, semi-automated, and manual processes to help ensure enrollment data integrity and manage exchange among trading partners
- 46. Heroic effort isn’t a sustainable business model Apparent by end of Open Enrollment #2 that IT strategy needed to change
- 47. Enroll Application Program Devised plan in early 2015 to replace COTS system with new “Enroll Application” • Re-architect Web site using open source technology • Adopt Agile delivery model • Move mission-critical functionality to cloud in hybrid configuration With only seven months’ development time, new Enroll Application system went live October 12, 2015 Today, Enroll Application is the only built-to- purpose, open source HBX solution
- 48. Individuals & Families Employers Insurers Employees MongoDB RabbitMQ (Message Bus) Amazon AWS Primary Region Actors Brokers Auto Scaling group DC Health Link Web Site / Portal Identity Management Elastic Load Balancing DCHBX Enroll App (Enrollment & Plan Comparison) VPC Peering Amazon AWS Secondary Region Disaster Recovery (Pilot Light) MongoDB Application Servers Third-Party Premium Billing Provider MS SQL Server MySQL Enterprise Logging EDI Engine Baked AMIs Insurers Third-Party Premium Billing Provider Data Center DC Data Center Financial Eligibility Determination Identity Verification Auto Scaling group Enterprise Services VPN Connection Amazon Cloud Services Amazon CloudWatch Amazon SNS Amazon S3 (Documents, Logs, Backups, etc.) Amazon ElastiCache (Redis) Amazon SES (Confirmations, Invitations, Notices, etc.) Email Notifications Real-Time Data Replication Backups Document Upload/Retrieval EDI Files Low-Latency Transaction Caching Emails Alarms
- 49. AWS Enabled Hybrid Infrastructure Approach DC Data Center • Home page, HBX help, FAQs • Identity and Access Management • Financial assistance eligibility determination • Electronic Data Integration (EDI) AWS Cloud • Individual and employee registration, benefit shopping, life events • Employer registration, benefit package definition, staff roster management • Broker registration, benefit package quoting, client management • Online payment, premium billing 62
- 50. Immediate Benefits of Built-to-Purpose System in Cloud Environment Improved customer experience • Page count for customers to enroll/renew reduced by two-thirds • Concurrent user capacity increased from 50 to 1,200-plus • Average page load time (1.45 seconds) • Average time on site reduced (6.5 minutes) • Call center volume reduced 75% compared to first open enrollment IT Efficiency & Productivity • Provision IT resources in minutes, not days/weeks • Auto-scaling for periodic peak loads • Zero Downtime Deployment • Fewer staff required to manage and support cloud infrastructure Financial Sustainability • Open source investment offset by eliminating millions $$ in COTS change orders and maintenance costs • Dramatically lower infrastructure costs
- 51. Meaningful Results 23% year-over-year increase in new individual and family customers 74% of eligible residents enrolled for 2016 coverage compared to national average of 46% (Kaiser Family Foundation) Third-lowest uninsured state $2.9M per annum immediate COTS license fee savings generated by Enroll Application
- 52. Considerations When is Hybrid Cloud/Data Center Infrastructure a Good Solution? • Low risk proofs-of-concept • Development that parallels production systems • Ability to distribute existing system components • System provisioning needs are unclear or highly volatile system demands Success Factors • Entrepreneurial leadership/agency culture • Program leader with a vision, passion for mission and Agile temperament • Opportunity to demonstrate superiority of vision • Ability to assemble technical team with key development and integration skills • Third-party partner who can help bridge gaps and accelerate (we use A&T Systems)
- 53. Resources • Building a More Efficient Marketplace: Lessons from DC Health Link’s Experience with Open Source Code: http://nashp.org/building-a-more-efficient-marketplace-lessons- from-dc-health-links-experience-with-open-source-code/ • Enroll Application code repository: https://github.com/dchbx/enroll • HBX Canonical vocabulary: https://github.com/dchbx/cv • IdeaCrew site: http://www.ideacrew.com
- 54. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- This session will provide a 100-200 level introduction into hybrid on AWS. We’ll talk about the AWS hybrid story And we’ll split the body of the session into two key parts Implementing hybrid ops Implementing apps Then we’ll discuss an excellent use case on how Hybrid was implemented in Government with the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority …NEXT
- Hybrid Ops provide the foundations, including networking, security and management tools Hybrid Apps sit on top of these foundations. Later in the session we wil talk about the common patterns for hybrid apps
- At AWS is not an all or nothing proposition.
- There are four dimensions to this. Security, is our #1 priority at AWS and we have invested heavily into improving security for all customers Scale, 10x more than the others, Breadth of services, more than 50 at last count Depth of features, we are adding more than 1 new feature every single day.
- Security certifications apply globally to all of our DCs Security is also not a static craft at AWS. We are constantly evolvong and just recently we announce we have achieved ISO27018 certification which relates to data privacy in the cloud We also announced a number of new security products, including a security assessment service Amazon Inpsect, a WAF and a cloud governance solution called AWS config rules
- Note to AWS Employees: Please note that we are no longer providing a bar chart comparing 2015 year-to-date to previous years in this deck. We will provide a final launch number at the close of each year going forward. It is ok however to verbally disclose the current year-to-date launch count in your own presentations/customer materials however.
- Complete technology and enterprise services platform Compute Server Storage Networking Security Enterprise Apps for email, virtual desktops, directory services Mobile development tools, scalable Analytics infrastructure and now reporting tools like Quicksight, Marketplace offers easy software and infrastructure procurement Enterprise Support, professional services and training
- So how do you capitalise on these products and sevrices. In this section we will talk about how companies start by laying the foundations for a hybrid operating model.
- This is the type of plumbing that enterprises have told us they need to implement The first thing that is critical is secure, reliable networking Next, we need to make it easy for companies to connect their access management systems like Active Directory to the cloud Then, enterprises need tools that work with both AWS and their on-premise infrastructure Finally, monitoring tools that can keep your services running smoothly
- As a best practice we don’t disclose locations of our data centers, and so we use peering partners like Equinix who provide demarcation point and cross connect into our cloud services. DX is a Layer 3 service between AWS and your co-lo. BGP and HSRP for failover etc. Customers can use multiple DX and VPNs for redundancy and BGP/HSRP to manage failover
- If you have additional security products in your on-premise environment you can bring them along with you. AWS Marketplace makes procuring and implementing these solutions a one-click experience. Licensing is handled by marketplace and fees are automatically charged to your AWS account. Once purchased Marketplace install the solution into the VPC of your choice. There are thousands of products across multiple categories like security, business intelligence and management in AWS Marketplace
- So I’ve shown you how easy it is to setup a high performance, secure and scalable connectivity and networking between AWS and your existing environment using DirectConnect and VPC. Let’s move onto the next step …. NEXT
- Secure access management is the next step…NEXT
- AWS Directory Service is a full managed directory service that operates in two modes. One is as a standadlone SAMBA4 compatible directory. The other is as a Connector (or Proxy) to your Active Directory environment. With a few clicks you can have your corporate AD environment federated with AWS to for secure access management and single-signon. This means your AD identities can be associated with permissions to AWS platform services. Such as the ability to create and terminate EC2 instances. In CloudTrail, which keeps a log of activities – down to the API level – you will be able to see individual AD user and what action they attempted to perform.
- IAM is our policy driven access management system. It is extremely fine grained. You can use IAMs built in identities, or federate, to link IAM to your existing AD environment
- Using AWS Directory Service and AD Connector it takes just 15 minutes to setup!
- For those who want to use their existing Identity Management solutions, we have partnered with all the leading vendors, including those which you can see here
- Almost every company we work with that is implementing a hybrid strategy is actually choosing just one cloud to partner with. Customers tell us they prefer a cloud partner with a large breadth and depth of services. Multi-cloud is being talked about as a potential long term option, but they are all starting with one knowing that the beginning of a long journey starts with a few humble footsteps. Cloud brokers, or systems that abstract customers from cloud providers APIs, products and services, negate just about all of the benefits of the cloud. Broker platforms are slow to respond to or never support new services, features and API. They can become bottlenecks and introduce reliability issues. In fact, many brokers stop at “VM” integration which is simply not enough.
- Open source has well and truly arrived and it is an extremely viable, and in many cases better alternative to commercial solutions. OS is free, often field tested at scale and is updated frequently. Some of the worlds largest startups like Netflix use AWS and are building ecosystems of management tools to add additional features and capabilities.
- Enterprises are using tools like these to fully automate the deployment of their applications HASHICORP Packer: solves the problem of building multi-platform (VMWare, AWS) machine images Terraform: allows you to describe an application stack (e.g. 3 tier) as a template and then use that template to deploy app environments Ansible: a popular configuration manegment tooll for scripting changes to virtual machines, EC2 instances and applications
- Describe the basic machine type (specifications, running services tc. and types of images you want to produce “builders”) and packer automatically generates those images (AMI, VMX etc.)
- Terraform uses a similar JSON based format. This script for an application running on AWS creates 5 amazon EC2 instances of “m1.small” type and puts them behind a AWS manage load balancer on port 80 and routes through to internal port of 8000.
- This is a common workflow in enterprise environments. Let’s walk through it
- If you have existing VM images you can easily migrate them to AWS using these tools
- What if you wanted to move lots of virtual machines or evne an entire data center That’s where Snowball comes in. Keys are not stored on the appliance It can withstand a 6 G jolt
- Customer/partner steps would be: Set up web proxy (opt) Deploy agents Query, analyze and export data to DiscoveryDB Playup the idea of partner or customer developed agents to populate Discovery DB using public API’s, API’s will be a part of standard AWS SDK, we are releasing custom CLI’s to consume data easliy,
- So we have talked about how packer, terraform, ansible can help you implement automated builds across your on-prem and AWS environments
- Now let’s talk about monitoring tools
- AWS comes with a built-in monitoring platform called CloudWatch. CloudWatch provides useful dashboards and metrics and simple alerts for our platform services and features. Many of these are at the infrastructure level. But you WILL need more detail than that, so you want to invest or extend in your existing tools. New Relic and App dynamics provide application and infrastructure performance management. And data dog provides really detailed infrastructure. These vendors all have integration with AWS and are mutli platform supporting AWS cloud and on-prem infrastructure Splunk App covers cloudtrail, AWS config, EC2 ++
- Now that you are paying as you go, it’s important to track your spend. AWS provides native tools to do so, and its easy to setup billing alerts. Many of our enterprise customers also use a produc called Cloudability” which gives them detailed spending reports, usage analytics and tools to govern and regulate spending
- Finally, we added application performance monitoring and integrated splunk for operational analytics
- And you’re done.
- Enterprises start with dev and test because it’s a low risk and high return prospect
- Create application templates, implement CI, CD and make DevOps a reality. Test full scale environments.
- One thing I hear over and over again from developerss that there simply arnet enough development environments to go around Developers want more, and they want their own discrete environments. And they want environments that replicate the performance dynamics of the production environment. What about a fully built and managed, data center clustered Oracle 12 database in 15 mins? Or SQL, Mysql, Postgres or even MariaDB? And if you’re outsourcing development you also need to provide a secure workspace. With Workspaces, our virrtual desktop as a service, its easy to do this. Plus with the power of VPC, you can provide network isolated environments. J&J is in the process of rollut out 25,000 Amazon Workspaces for temporary employees
- AWS have developer focused services for enterprises and startups. Even if you’re not doing continuous integration and delivery, you can still harvest the benefits of our developer tools. CodeCommit, Git compatible repository fully managed (we handle storage scalability, security and availability) CodeDeploy to managed deployments. This is based on a tool named Apollo that Amazon has been buulding over the last 10 years as part of our journey towards micro-services.
- The next step some customers take is to move Disaster Recovery environments to the cloud. Because enterprises are paying a lot of money for secondary sites that they seldom use. With AWS, you pay for what you use when you’re using it. Not all customers move DR, in fact many skip it and move straight into production workloads.
- If you decomission tape altogether, at the very least send your daily, weekly backups to AWS. Companies like CommVault and Symantec have made that easy with NATIVE integration for AWS S3 as a storage provider. Even if you doint use those products you can use the AWS Storage Gateway, a virtual appliance, that asynchronously replicates data to Amazon S3. Likewise, ordinary server volumes mounted across iSCSI can be replicated into the AWS cloud enabling you to protect specific systems or datasets attached to servers (like databases)
- What about live replicating virtual machines and apps to AWS for DR? That’s possible too Racemi and CLoudVelox both provide solutions to do this and to failover in the event of an issue. Or consider this as a simple and cost effective insurance policy. Use VM Export to make a monthly copy of all of your VMs to a Snowball device and then import them back into the cloud as on-standby virtual machine instances.
- So you got through dev and test and DR… and an amazing new digital project has come up. First off, digital projects are the BEST place to start with AWS … so why is that
- AWS is digital. In fact we have a lot of digital services, like IoT, machine learning, data analytics – but we wont have time to cover all of them in this session – so I’ll just focus on a few
- We have a large variety of services. If you’re building a new mobile app from scratch then check out Mobile Hub. It This is designed to help you ship your product faster by providing you with all the basic mobile app functionality including identity management and session storage, analytics, content delivery, and app testing. If you have an existing app, or a project already underway, you should definitely check out Elastic Beanstalk. With EB, just upload the code and AWS does the rest, buidling the infrastructure (LB app and database) and scaling to adapt to peaks in demand. Apps can take as little as 2 minutes to deploy and it supports all of the major languages and container types.
- If you want to implement an app architecture that uses both on-prem and cloud, then you can – using DirectConnect. Just remember to keep the app and database as together for a better customer experience.
- DCHBX Executive Director Mila Kofman, DHHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, DC Councilmember Brandon Todd
- AWS Cloud services were key to rapid development and deployment of HBX core mission functions Red Hat, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB NoSQL 17-plus AWS tools/services: S3, ElastiCache, SES, CoudWatch Push-button provisioning: CloudFormation, Chef Demand-based performance: AWS AutoScaling groups and launch configurations FedRAMP-compliant environment Disaster Recovery: pilot light environment in remote AWS region
- National Academy for State Health Policy