AWS platform has developed rapidly over the past few years through continuous iteration and innovations. In this session we provide a high level overview of the AWS platform and how customers leverage this to create highly available and scalable infrastructure. This session provides the required knowledge on how to get started with AWS.
3. • AWS Overview
• Innovation at scale
• Reasons organisations are migrating to cloud
• Cloud adoption
• Reckon Limited – “Our Journey to AWS”
TOPICS
4. AWS Global Infrastructure
• Over 1 million active
customers
• Customers in 190 countries
• 900+ government agencies
• 3,400+ educational
institutions
• 11,200+ non for profits
• 11 regions
• 28 availability zones
• 53 edge locations
5. AWS Global Infrastructure
• Over 1 million active
customers
• Customers in 190 countries
• 900+ government agencies
• 3,400+ educational
institutions
• 11,200+ non for profits
• 11 regions
• 28 availability zones
• 53 edge locations
6. Sydney Region
• Sydney is 1 of 11 Regions around the world
• All regions have 2 or more Availability Zones
• Availability Zones (AZs) are isolated
• Low millisecond latency between AZ’s
• Supporting highly available architectures “HA”
• Customer data is onshore in Australia
Data on our infrastructure is durable!
7. Sydney Region
• Sydney is 1 of 11 Regions around the world
• All regions have 2 or more Availability Zones
• Availability Zones (AZs) are isolated
• Low millisecond latency between AZ’s
• Supporting highly available architectures “HA”
• Customer data is onshore in Australia
Data on our infrastructure is durable!
Sydney Region
Availability Zone A Availability Zone B
10. Innovation at Scale
“5X the cloud capacity in use than
the aggregate total of the other 14
providers”
99% usage growth YoY
137% external usage growth
YoY in data transfer
Over 1,000,000
active customers
11. Perspective on Scaling
Every day, AWS adds enough new server capacity
to support all of Amazon’s global infrastructure
when it was a $7B annual revenue enterprise
13. Security is a Shared Responsibility
AWS Foundation
ServicesCompute Storage Database Networking
AWS Global
Infrastructure Regions
Availability Zones
Edge Locations
Client-side Data
Encryption
Server-side Data
Encryption
Network Traffic
Protection
Platform, Applications, Identity & Access Management
Operating System, Network, & Firewall Configuration
Customer applications & content
Customers Customers have their
choice of security
configurations in the
cloud
AWS is responsible for
the security of
The cloud
15. 1. Dramatically Increase Speed & Agility
Number of Instances 1,000
Instance Type M3 Extra Large
Availability Zone US-West-2b
Launch
aws.amazon.com/managementconsole
AWS: Infrastructure in MinutesOld World: Infrastructure in Weeks
The primary reason businesses are moving so quickly
to AWS and the cloud
16. 1. Dramatically Increase Speed & Agility
Add New Dev Environment
Add New Production Environment
Add New Environment in Japan
Add 1,000 Servers
Remove 1,000 servers
Number of Instances 1,000
Instance Type M3 Extra Large
Availability Zone US-West-2b
Launch
aws.amazon.com/managementconsole
AWS: Infrastructure in MinutesOld World: Infrastructure in Weeks
The primary reason businesses are moving so quickly
to AWS and the cloud
20. Infrastructure Regions Points of PresenceAvailability Zones
Core Services
Storage
(Object, Block
and Archival)
Compute
(VMs, Auto-scaling
and Load Balancing)
Databases
(Relational, NoSQL, Caching)
Networking
(VPC, DX, DNS)
CDN
21. Infrastructure Regions Points of PresenceAvailability Zones
Core Services
Storage
(Object, Block
and Archival)
Compute
(VMs, Auto-scaling
and Load Balancing)
Databases
(Relational, NoSQL, Caching)
Networking
(VPC, DX, DNS)
CDN
Access Control
Usage
Auditing
Monitoring and
Logs
Administration
& Security
Key
Storage
Identity
Management
22. Infrastructure Regions Points of PresenceAvailability Zones
Core Services
Storage
(Object, Block
and Archival)
Compute
(VMs, Auto-scaling
and Load Balancing)
Databases
(Relational, NoSQL, Caching)
Networking
(VPC, DX, DNS)
CDN
Access Control
Usage
Auditing
Monitoring and
Logs
Administration
& Security
Key
Storage
Identity
Management
Platform
Services
Deployment & Management
One-click web app
deployment
Dev/ops resource
management
Resource Templates Push Notifications
Mobile Services
Mobile Analytics
Identity
Sync
App Services
Workflow
Transcoding
Email
Search
Queuing &
Notifications
App streaming
Analytics
Hadoop
Data Pipelines
Data Warehouse
Real-time
Streaming Data
23. Infrastructure Regions Points of PresenceAvailability Zones
Core Services
Storage
(Object, Block
and Archival)
Compute
(VMs, Auto-scaling
and Load Balancing)
Databases
(Relational, NoSQL, Caching)
Networking
(VPC, DX, DNS)
CDN
Access Control
Usage
Auditing
Monitoring and
Logs
Administration
& Security
Key
Storage
Identity
Management
Platform
Services
Deployment & Management
One-click web app
deployment
Dev/ops resource
management
Resource Templates Push Notifications
Mobile Services
Mobile Analytics
Identity
Sync
App Services
Workflow
Transcoding
Email
Search
Queuing &
Notifications
App streaming
Analytics
Hadoop
Data Pipelines
Data Warehouse
Real-time
Streaming Data
Enterprise
Applications
Virtual Desktops Collaboration and Sharing
24. 3: Continual Iteration and Innovation
AWS continuously upgrades
infrastructure, so you don’t have to
25. 2009
Amazon RDS
Amazon VPC
Auto Scaling
Elastic Load
Balancing
+48
2010
Amazon SNS
AWS Identity
& Access
Management
Amazon Route 53
+61
2011
Amazon
ElastiCache
Amazon SES
AWS
CloudFormation
AWS Direct
Connect
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
GovCloud
+82
Amazon
CloudTrail
Amazon
CloudHSM
Amazon
WorkSpaces
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Elastic
Transcoder
Amazon
AppStream
AWS OpsWorks
+280
2013
Amazon SWF
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Glacier
Amazon
Dynamo DB
Amazon
CloudSearch
AWS Storage
Gateway
AWS Data
Pipeline
+159
2012
Since inception AWS has:
• Released 1111 new services and features
• Introduced more than 40 major new services
2008
+24
Amazon EBS
Amazon
CloudFront
+516
2014
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Zocalo
Amazon Mobile
Analytics
*as of Nov 13, 2014
AWS Directory
Service
Amazon RDS for Aurora
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS Lambda
AWS Config
AWS Key Management
Service
AWS Service Catalog
Amazon EC2
Container Service
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodeCommit
Rapid pace of Innovation
26. 4: Cost Saving and Flexibility
1 2 3
Trade CapEx
for
OpEx
• Pay for what you use
• No long term contracts
Economies-of-scale
• Providing lower costs than
companies can do on
their own
• 48 Price Reductions
Pricing Models
• On demand
• Reserved
• Spot
4
Save more money
as you grow
• Tiered Pricing
• Volume discounts
28. CLOUD HAS BECOME THE NEW NORMAL
Experimentation New
Applications
Wide-spread Use
“Existing Workloads”
Corporate Standard
“All In”
"by 2020 the distinction between private and public cloud will disappear as self
built private clouds will become extinct." – Crawford Del Prete IDC.
29. 1. Experiment
• Experiment more, with no CapEx
• Resource projects instantly
• Eliminate idle servers and cost
• Maintain consistency across teams
• Technology evaluation
• Prototyping
• Agile Development
Benefits
Use Cases
Challenge:
Platform lead-time from 56 days
to 1 day
SAP Test & Dev
SharePoint
30. 2. New Applications
• Develop applications faster
• Multiple data centers for high availability
• Auto-scale up and down with demand
• Hardware upgrades with no downtime
• Easy global deployment
Benefits
Moved 95% of public
facing workloads to
AWS
Mobile
apps
Scientific
computing
Public or private web
apps
Big data apps
Public facing websites
Big Data analysis
31. 3. Existing Workloads
• Lower TCO
• Auto scale
• Higher availability
• Easier and faster hardware upgrades
• Less downtime for software upgrades
• Easier global deployment
Benefits
34. Customer Adoption Path – Building Blocks
Web & Digital
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Storage
Enterprise
Applications
Executive
Engagement
Security
Team
Technical
Champions
AWS Owner
Quarterly
Business
Review
Risk &
Compliance
Partners
Customer to
Customer
Workshops
Executive
Briefing
Center
Training
Program
Account
Specific
Marketing
NDA
Enterprise
Agreement
Enterprise
Support
Networking
AWS Account
Deployment
Processes
ProserveProcurement
Projects
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Hosted
Solutions
37. Reckon Overview
• We provide Accounting Solutions for Businesses and Business
Solutions for Accountants
• Large portfolio of solutions – Desktop / Hosted / Cloud
• Reckon Accounts Hosted
• APS
• Reckon Docs
• Disrupted market
• Committed to becoming a Cloud business
• The adoption path – building blocks
38. Web & Digital
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Storage
Enterprise
Applications
Executive
Engagement
Security
Team
Technical
Champions
AWS Owner
Quarterly
Business
Review
Risk &
Compliance
Partners
Customer to
Customer
Workshops
Executive
Briefing
Center
Training
Program
Account
Specific
Marketing
NDA
Enterprise
Agreement
Enterprise
Support
Networking
AWS Account
Deployment
Processes
ProserveProcurement
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Hosted
Solutions
Customer Adoption Path – Building Blocks
Projects
39. Evaluating our Options
• Engaged several vendors, including AWS
• How can AWS help us address our challenges?
• NDA
• Workshops
• Risk and compliance requirements
• Security concerns
40. Executive
Engagement
Technical
Champions AWS Owner
Quarterly
Business
Review
Partners Customer to
Customer
Executive
Briefing
Centre
Training
Program
Account
Specific
Marketing
Enterprise
Agreement
Enterprise
Support Networking
AWS Account Deployment
Processes Proserve Procurement
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Web & Digital
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Storage
Enterprise
Applications
Hosted
Solutions
Reckon Adoption Path – Building Blocks
Projects
41. Executive
Engagement
Security
Team
Technical
Champions AWS Owner
Quarterly
Business
Review
Risk &
Compliance Partners Customer to
Customer
Workshops
Executive
Briefing
Centre
Training
Program
Account
Specific
Marketing
NDA Enterprise
Agreement
Enterprise
Support Networking
AWS Account Deployment
Processes Proserve Procurement
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Web & Digital
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Storage
Enterprise
Applications
Hosted
Solutions
Reckon Adoption Path – Building Blocks
Projects
42. Making a Decision
• AWS is the right platform for Reckon, what’s next?
• Get the leadership team on board:
• Executive management
• Finance
• Cloud first policy for customer facing solutions!
• Enterprise Agreement – legal review
43. Security
Team
Technical
Champions
Quarterly
Business
Review
Risk &
Compliance Partners Customer to
Customer
Workshops
Executive
Briefing
Centre
Training
Program
Account
Specific
Marketing
NDA
Enterprise
Support Networking
AWS Account Deployment
Processes Proserve Procurement
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Web & Digital
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Storage
Enterprise
Applications
Hosted
Solutions
Reckon Adoption Path – Building Blocks
Projects
44. Executive
Engagement
Security
Team
Technical
Champions AWS Owner
Quarterly
Business
Review
Risk &
Compliance Partners Customer to
Customer
Workshops
Executive
Briefing
Centre
Training
Program
Account
Specific
Marketing
NDA Enterprise
Agreement
Enterprise
Support Networking
AWS Account Deployment
Processes Proserve Procurement
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Web & Digital
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Storage
Enterprise
Applications
Hosted
Solutions
Reckon Adoption Path – Building Blocks
Projects
45. Getting Started
• Engaged a Partner
• Created an Account and a VPC
• Direct Connect – Hybrid Cloud
• Technical Champion
• Training the team
• ReckonOne in AWS
46. Executive
Engagement
Security
Team AWS Owner
Quarterly
Business
Review
Risk &
Compliance
Customer to
Customer
Workshops
Executive
Briefing
Centre
Account
Specific
Marketing
NDA Enterprise
Agreement
Enterprise
Support
Deployment
Processes Proserve Procurement
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Storage
Enterprise
Applications
Hosted
Solutions
Reckon Adoption Path – Building Blocks
Projects
47. Executive
Engagement
Security
Team
Technical
Champions AWS Owner
Quarterly
Business
Review
Risk &
Compliance Partners Customer to
Customer
Workshops
Executive
Briefing
Centre
Training
Program
Account
Specific
Marketing
NDA Enterprise
Agreement
Enterprise
Support Networking
AWS Account Deployment
Processes Proserve Procurement
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Web & Digital
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Storage
Enterprise
Applications
Hosted
Solutions
Reckon Adoption Path – Building Blocks
Projects
48. Migrating to the AWS Cloud
• Reckon Accounts Hosted
• Large scale solution
• 27,000+ active users, 5,500+ concurrent users daily
• “Lift & Shift”
• Re-architect for the AWS Platform
• Moved from Business Support to Enterprise Support
• Regular Business Reviews
• Migrating other line of business applications
49. Executive
Engagement
Security
Team
Technical
Champions AWS Owner
Risk &
Compliance Partners Customer to
Customer
Workshops
Executive
Briefing
Centre
Training
Program
Account
Specific
Marketing
NDA Enterprise
Agreement
Enterprise
Support Networking
AWS Account Proserve Procurement
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Web & Digital
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Projects
Reckon Adoption Path – Building Blocks
50. Executive
Engagement
Security
Team
Technical
Champions AWS Owner
Quarterly
Business
Review
Risk &
Compliance Partners Customer to
Customer
Workshops
Executive
Briefing
Centre
Training
Program
Account
Specific
Marketing
NDA Enterprise
Agreement
Enterprise
Support Networking
AWS Account Deployment
Processes Proserve Procurement
Alignment
Expertise
Enablers
Web & Digital
Client
Computing
Big Data &
Analytics
Dev/Test
Storage
Enterprise
Applications
Projects
Hosted
Solutions
Reckon Adoption Path – Building Blocks
51. What’s Next
• More solution optimization
• Cost management
• Actively exploring more AWS tools e.g. WorkSpaces, WAM
• Faster implementation of CICD across our solution portfolio
• Business Intelligence
• Cloud First across the board
54. AWS Account
Get started immediately
• Set up an AWS Account
• Identify an AWS champion in your organization
• Identify the initial workload to migrate
• Start experimenting