at iProperty

Journeying into the cloud

Andy Kelk, CIO, iProperty Group @andykelk

About iProperty

Over 3 million monthly unique visitors

15 servers at AIMS in KL

Moving services to AWS

Store & Deliver: S3, Cloudfront

Storage and delivery of images

Delivering static content

Streaming video

Commodity: Route53, SES

Moved from self-hosted DNS to UltraDNS

Route53 is 5% the cost of UltraDNS

Email is easy – no coding needed

Compute: EC2, RDS

Don’t want to spend time managing hardware

Different failure modes and recovery methods

RDS abstracts it even further

From IaaS to PaaS

Templated instances (CloudFormation)

Auto Scaling

True PaaS (Elastic Beanstalk)

More power tools

ElastiCache – Memcached compatible

CloudSearch – Full text searching

DynamoDB – NoSQL datastore on SSDs

Thank You

Photo Credits

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirak/644336486/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/erase/279354851/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24352521@N06/5119033076/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/helefran/6850800733/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/traftery/4773457853/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityhunter12/1337553704/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hvc/2681974174/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69er/324345762/

AWS User Group

http://www.facebook.com/groups/awsugmy/

Saturday, Nov 3, 10:00am @ iTrain