AWS re:invent 2013 recap

A short recap of the announcements made at the Amazon Web Services conference. This was presented at the Advanced AWS meetup in San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/AdvancedAWS/events/151633362/

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1. AWS re:invent 2013 - recap and highlights Advanced Amazon Web Services Meetup December 3, 2013 ! ! ! ! ! Peter Sankauskas Answers for AWS @pas256 @Answers4AWS
2. Introductions • Name • Role • Company • How you use AWS
3. Next Meetup • Tuesday January 21 • Anki • Architecture & design patterns • Hosted at their office • Food and drinks • RSVP early
4. Keynotes
5. Steve Ballmer Remember this?
6. Enterprise! Enterprise! Enterprise! Enterprise!
7. Amazon WorkSpaces • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) • Fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud • Limited Preview • 2 Types • Standard - $35/user/month • 1 vCPU, 3.75 GiB Memory, 50 GB User Storage • Performance - $60/user/month • 2 vCPU, 7.5 GiB Memory, 100 GB • 2 Options • Regular • Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, 7-Zip, Adobe Flash, JRE • Plus (+ $15/user/month) • Microsoft Office Professional 2010, Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services • Windows 7 • Login and use from any device • Mac laptop, iPad, Andriod, Kindle etc
8. IAM supports SAML • Single Sign on for AWS web console • Also works for API
9. Trusted Advisor • New UI • New checks • Will recommend PIOPS for standard EBS volumes • Business level support needed • That’s 10% of your monthly AWS bill
10. Amazon AppStream • Run and render your application on EC2 instances • Stream the rendered output to any device • Limited Preview • Application must be able to run on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 • Application cannot run without an internet connection • Particularly good for games • Selling points • No device constraints (advanced 3D rendering on any device) • Easy updates (more like updating a website) • Instant On (no download, no loading screen) • Improved security (no more pirating games?)
11. AWS Web Console • Integration with AWS Marketplace • New launch UI • Copy an existing security group to a new one with just one click. • Choosing a snapshot is one search away. • Tagging instances now supports auto-complete
12. RDS supports PostgreSQL Applause
13. RDS adds supports for PostgreSQL • Available NOW (beta) • Version 9.3.1 • Comes with all the PostgreSQL goodies • PostGIS • PL/Perl, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl • Full text search dictionaries • HStore, JSON • Still has RDS goodies: • Multi-AZ • Provisioned IOPS • Automatic backups • VPC support • Monitoring • Makes Heroku migration easy
14. RDS Cross Region • Can now create cross-region read replicas • Can promote a read-replica to master later • Limit 5 read replicas per source
15. Redshift updates • Remote loading - put data in over SSH • HSM support (on premise or CloudHSM) • Database auditing and logging to S3 • SNS notification for events • Cross-region snapshot copy
16. Elastic Beanstalk • You can now do rolling updates • Control how updates are propagated when you make changes to environment • All at once for dev • Gradual for production • Allows site to serve traffic • An alternative to using 2 environments and switching between them • Things to consider - rollback half way through
17. New Instance Types
18. C3 - Compute Optimized instances • SSDs • Hardware Hyper-Thread 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge) processor • Available in: us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, ap-* regions Instance Name vCPU Count Total ECU RAM Local Storage Hourly On- Demand c3.large 2 7 3.75 GiB 2 x 16 GB $0.15 c3.xlarge 4 14 7 GiB 2 x 40 GB $0.30 c3.2xlarge 8 28 15 GiB 2 x 80 GB $0.60 c3.4xlarge 16 55 30 GiB 2 x 160 GB $1.20 c3.8xlarge 32 108 60 GiB 2 x 320 GB $2.40
19. G2 - High performance 3D graphics • Instance type: g2.2xlarge • NVIDIA GRID™ (GK104 "Kepler") GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), 1,536 CUDA cores and 4 GB of video (frame buffer) RAM • Intel Sandy Bridge processor running at 2.6 GHz with Turbo Boost enabled, 8 vCPUs (Virtual CPUs) • 15 GiB of RAM • 60 GB of SSD storage
20. I2 - High I/O • SSDs • 2.5 GHz intel Xeon E5-2670v2 processors with Turbo mode enabled • Not available yet Instance Name vCPU Count RAM Local Storage i2.large 2 15 GiB 1 x 360 GB i2.xlarge 4 30.5 GiB 1 x 720 GB i2.2xlarge 8 61 GiB 2 x 720 GB i2.4xlarge 16 122 GiB 4 x 720 GB i2.8xlarge 32 244 GiB 8 x 720 GB
21. DynamoDB • Global Secondary Indexes • Coming “within weeks” • Fine-grain security control • Useful from JavaScript SDK • Read/Write directly to DynamoDB from the browser
22. Breakout Sessions
23. They Don't Hug Back! Or Why You Need to Stop Worrying about Prodweb001 and Start Loving i-98fb9856 • Chris Munns - Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services • Martin Rhoads - Site Reliability Engineer with Airbnb • Slides • http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/stop- worrying-about-prodweb001-and-start-loving-i98fb9856- arc201-aws-reinvent-2013 • YouTube • http://youtu.be/lQUdjPBJX5c
24. Maximizing EC2 and Elastic Block Store Disk Performance • Miles Ward - Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture with Amazon Web Services • Doug Grismore - Director, Operations and Site Reliability Engineering with Twitter • Slides • http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/ stg302-28617072 • YouTube • http://youtu.be/cGF4cnwFMWY
25. A Day in the Life of a Billion Packets • Eric Brandwine - Sr. Principal Security Engineer with Amazon Web Services • Slides • http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/a-day- in-the-life-of-a-billion-packets-cpn401-aws- reinvent-2013 • YouTube • http://youtu.be/Zd5hsL-JNY4
26. Larry will now cover… • Amazon Kinesis • Real-time processing of streamed data • Limited preview • AWS CloudTrail • Stores an audit log of all API calls made to your AWS account in S3 • Region specific (available in us-east-1 and us-west-2)
27. Thank you! Slides available at: http://www.slideshare.net/pas256/aws-reinvent2013recap ! ! ! ! ! Peter Sankauskas Answers for AWS @pas256 @Answers4AWS http://answersforaws.com/ We are looking for Speakers, Sponsors and Venues. Don’t be shy