Building your MVP and startup on AWS Anas Khattar AWS UG Beirut Lead - Founder Digico Solutions @anaskhattar

A little about me Founded Digico Solutions a B2B startup which recently pivoted into an AWS consulting partner with focus on helping startups and SMEs AWS UG Beirut founder and AWS Community Day MENA organizer Studied MIS at Lebanese American University ☁ $

What’s an MVP? Successful startups: dev team processes Architectural Patterns Security and Databases What will we cover:

What’s an MVP?

The MVP Process: Hypothesis

Prove Measure? (Surveys, Data..) Hypothesis / Idea Disprove Measure again? End project? Build MVP to measure better Build MVP for investors... The MVP Process: Measuring

Minimum {x} Product

“If you aren't embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.” - Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn CoFounder

Usable Reliable Scalable Beautiful Valuable Mature Product Features

Usable Reliable Scalable Beautiful Valuable Your M VP MVP Features

Product evolution `

( ) * Successful startups dev teams processes

5% 5% 5% Development Iterations Incremental value

Planning

Minimize Task Size

Standups

AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeBuild Third Party Tooling AWS CodeDeploy AWS CodePipeline Source Build Test Deploy AWS CodeStar Continuously Ship Releases

Learn Prototype Experiment Optimize for Learning

Architectural patterns

Monolith Does everything Monoliths are OK

Easiest way to get started Create larger instances Add attached block storage Load balance your application Connect to AWS services Networking & data transfer DNS management One static IP/instance Computing power AWS Lightsail

Deploy and Scale Monolith Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2 Auto Scaling Group Amazon RDS (master) Instances Amazon RDS (read-replica) Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Microservices Each does one thing Microservices can help you scale

Building your API (backend focus) Amazon Cognito Web Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Amazon API Gateway Services AWS Lambda Any AWS Service Mobile AWS Fargate

Amazon CloudFront Mobile Web Amazon Aurora AWS AppSync Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Building your web/mobile app (frontend focus) Amazon Cognito Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Elasticsearch Service AWS Lambda AWS Amplify

Over invest where its difficult to change

AWS Organizations AWS Key Management Service AWS CloudTrail AWS Systems Manager (Session Manager) AWS Secrets Manager (Parameter Store) AWS Shield MFA token AWS Identity and Access Management Amazon Cognito AWS Certificate Manager Amazon CloudFront Security

Relational Referential integrity, ACID transactions, schema- on-write Lift and shift, ERP, CRM, finance Aurora, RDS Key-value High throughput, low- latency reads and writes, endless scale Real-time bidding, shopping cart, social, product catalog, customer preferences DynamoDB Document Store documents and quickly access querying on any attribute Content management, personalization, mobile DocumentDB In-memory Query by key with microsecond latency Leaderboards, real-time analytics, caching ElastiCache Graph Quickly and easily create and navigate relationships between data Fraud detection, social networking, recommendatio n engine Neptune Time-series Collect, store, and process data sequenced by time IoT applications, event tracking Timestream Ledger Complete, immutable, and verifiable history of all changes to application data Systems of record, supply chain, health care, registrations, financial QLDB Service Use Cases Who needs to store data?

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Anas Khattar @anaskhattar Thank you!