Amazon Web Services Security: Release Engineering & Recommended Architecture Kenneth White Principal, BAO Systems Raleigh ISSA Back-to-Basics May 1, 2014
Amazon Web Services Footprint 2003: Chris Pinkham & Benjamin Black paper to Bezos 2004-2006: Team develops v. 1 in Cape Town (EC2+S3) 2008: EC2 reaches General Release (skipping a lot) 2014: $4.5B est. annual AWS revenue 5.1M public IP addresses Long-time leader in Gartner MQ for Cloud Infrastructure
Major Clients Federal Government DOE, CIA, NASA, HHS, FDA, NIH, CDC, Navy, AF, FBI, State May 2013: FedRAMP ATO, all US Regions http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/171827 March 2014: DoD Authorization Level 1-2, GovCloud
Current-gen infrastructure & services M3, C3, R3 instance types: All-SSD M3 best for general purpose All-SSD local storage M3 & R3 Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge) CPUs C3 best for high CPU workload E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge) R3 best for high-memory (up to 244GB) VPC+HVM+SR-IOV=5X speedup in I/O, sig ↓ load