An Introduction to

Amazon Web Services

for Public Sector

Jon Hepner (hepnerj@amazon.com)

AWS Introduction Why are Government customers choosing AWS?

What are Government customers using AWS for?

How are Government customers getting started with AWS?

Broad and deep services to support any cloud workload

AWS Global Infrastructure

Application Services

Networking

Deployment & Administration

Database Storage Compute

AWS Global Infrastructure

10 Regions

26 Availability Zones

51 Edge Locations

A

B

C

D

US-EAST

Region

Availability Zones (AZs)

AWS Global Infrastructure

2008 2009 2010 2011

Amazon EBS

Amazon SNS

AWS Identity & Access Management

Amazon RDS

Amazon VPC

Auto Scaling

Elastic Load Balancing Amazon

ElastiCache

Amazon SES

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

GovCloud

Amazon SWF

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Glacier

Amazon Dynamo DB

Amazon CloudSearch

AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon CloudTrail

Amazon CloudHSM

Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Amazon AppStream

AWS OpsWorks

AWS Data Pipeline

AWS Rapid Pace of Innovation

2013 2012

Since inception AWS has:

• Released 810 new services and features

• Introduced over 35 major new services

• Announced 42 price reductions

2014

*as of May 16, 2014

Amazon CloudFront

Used by Government Agencies & Educational Institutions

Worldwide

Trusted by Enterprises Around the World

2014 Premier Tier Partners

AWS Consulting Partners

AWS ISV Partners

Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service,” Lydia Leong, Douglas

Toombs, Bob Gill, Gregor Petri, Tiny Haynes, August 19, 2013. This Magic Quadrant graphic

was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in

the context of the entire report.. The Gartner report is available upon request from Steven

Armstrong (asteven@amazon.com). Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or

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Gartner Magic Quadrant

for Cloud Infrastructure

as a Service (August 19, 2013)

“AWS is the overwhelming market share leader,

with more than five times the compute capacity

in use than the aggregate total of the other

fourteen providers.”

AWS Introduction Why are Government customers choosing AWS?

What are Government customers using AWS for?

How are Government customers getting started with AWS?

Architected for Government Security Requirements

Certifications and accreditations for

workloads that matter

AWS CloudTrail - AWS API call logging

for governance & compliance

Stores data in S3, or

archive to Glacier

Log and review

user activity

Increased agility has

become the #1 reason

Governments use the AWS

cloud

• Serve constituents and communities

• Easier Access to infrastructure

• React faster to public needs

• Overcome constrained IT budgets

Lower Costs with AWS Up-Front and Increase Savings as

Your Usage Grows

Source: IDC Whitepaper, sponsored by

Amazon, “The Business Value of Amazon

Web Services Accelerates Over Time.”

July 2012

1

“Average of 400 servers

replaced per customer”

Not on the hook for

large outlay of capital –

Easier Access to

infrastructure

2

42 Price

Reductions

Economies of scale

allow us to continually

lower costs

3

Pricing model choice

to support variable &

stable workloads

4

Save more money as

you grow bigger

On-demand

Reserved

Spot

Tiered Pricing

Volume Discounts

Custom Pricing

Governments Are Being Asked To Be Proactive

Add New Dev Environment

Add New Prod Environment

Add New Environment in Japan

Add 1,000 Servers

Remove 1,000 Servers

Deploy 1 PB Data Warehouse

Shut down 1 PB Data Warehouse

AWS:

Infrastructure in Minutes Old World:

Infrastructure in Weeks

Everything changes with this kind of agility

A culture of Innovation: Experiment Often – Get to

the “Right” Answer More Quickly

On-Premises

Experiment Infrequently

Failure is expensive

Does Not Promote Innovation

Experiment Often

Fail quickly at a low cost

Encourages Innovation

$ Millions

Nearly $0

AWS Introduction

Why are government customers choosing AWS?

What are government customers using AWS for? How are government customers getting started with AWS?

Government use cases on AWS

Development and Test

Storage, Backup, and Archival

Disaster Recovery

GIS Applications/Workloads

Web, Mobile, and Social Apps

Enterprise Applications

Platform for Open Data

Big Data and High Performance Computing (HPC)

Virtual Desktops

Data Center Migrations

City of Asheville, NC – Pilot Light Disaster Recover

with Cloud Velocity

• RTO reduced by 75%

– 12 hours down to 3

• Extended Protection

– More Apps Protected – Urgent and Important apps

• Ability to have DR on the West Coast

• RPO reduced to 4 hours

• Enterprise Class DR without the complexity and cost of traditional DR

Douglas County – ESRI ArcGIS Implementation

• Strong Partnership with ESRI

• Focus on GIS Project

– Avoid Heavy Lifting of IT

– Focus on the Mission

• Single Biggest Benefit is Flexibility

• Provide Improved Services More Quickly

Citizen Global – Public Safety through Crowdsourcing and

Collaboration

• Enables Law Enforcement to: – Easily, Collect, Manage, Analyze, Store and Distribute

Video and Photo Images

• Accelerate Critical Investigations and response times

• Allows Citizens to upload from their smart devices into a secure and scalable platform

• Visit: www.CitizenGlobal.com to learn more.

• http://www.leedir.us/howitworks

City of Houston – Dept. of Public Works and

Engineering – Drainage Utility Billing

• Challenges – Time to deliver services – Typical 3 months

– Scalability – Over or Under Provisioned

– Needed PCI Compliance

• Outcomes – Low Cost, Fast Deliver and Scalable

– More time using technology vs Provisioning and Implementing

– Used VPC to securely extend City of Houston Data Center

– Leveraged AWS Workspaces to increase productivity of 500 staff.

– Achieved PCI Compliance - $60M/Month in Credit Card Processing

AWS Service Overview

Networking Services

Amazon VPC AWS DirectConnect Amazon Route 53

Availability

Zone B Availability

Zone A

Private, isolated

section of the AWS

Cloud

Private connectivity

between AWS and your

datacenter

Domain Name System

(DNS) web service.

Compute Services

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Elastic Load

Balancing

Actual

EC2

Elastic Virtual servers

in the cloud

Dynamic traffic

distribution

Automated scaling

of EC2 capacity

Storage Services

Amazon EBS

EBS

Block storage for use

with Amazon EC2

Amazon S3

Images

Videos

Files

Binaries

Snapshots

Internet scale

storage via API

AWS Storage Gateway

S3,

Glacier

Integrates on-premises

IT and AWS storage

Amazon Glacier

Images

Videos

Files

Binaries

Snapshots

Storage for archiving

and backup

Database Services

Amazon RDS Amazon

DynamoDB

Managed relational

database service Managed NoSQL

database service

DBA

Amazon

ElastiCache

In-Memory Caching

Service

Application Services

Amazon CloudFront

Distribute content

globally

Amazon

CloudSearch

Managed search

service

Amazon Elastic

Transcoder

Video transcoding

in the cloud

Amazon CloudFront Amazon

CloudSearch Amazon CloudFront Amazon Amazon CloudFront Amazon

WorkSpaces: Desktop Virtualization the AWS Way

No hardware or virtualization software

Access through any tablet device

Monthly pricing—no long-term commitments

Pre-installed software or bring your own licenses

Easy integration with MS Active Directory

10k+ limited preview sign-ups

Now available to all

Big Data Services

Amazon EMR

(Elastic Map Reduce) AWS Data Pipeline

Hosted Hadoop

framework Move data among AWS

services and on-

premises data sources

Amazon Redshift

Petabyte-scale data

warehouse service

Amazon Kinesis

Real time processing of

streaming data, at any

scale

Deployment

AWS OpsWorks

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Web App

Enterprise

App

Database

Dev-Ops framework

for application

lifecycle management

Templates to deploy

& manage Automate resource

management

Administration

Amazon CloudWatch

AWS IAM (Identity

& Access Mgmt)

Monitor resources Manage users,

groups &

permissions

AWS CloudTrail

AWS API call logging

for governance &

compliance

PHYSICAL

NETWORK

SYSTEM

PEOPLE & PROCESS

Familiar security

model Customer

ecosystem

Every customer

benefits Partner

ecosystem

Comprehensive Security Capabilities, Validated by

Experts

Which Is the Better Path?

On-premises data center

Is it really the future for

government customers?

Satisfy your isolation requirements

No upfront costs

Continued benefit of economies of scale

100s of new features & services every year

Build a new

Private Cloud‘

Rip everything out and move to AWS

#1 #2 or

Many Government Customers Worry That These are the Only Two Choices

The good news is that cloud isn’t an ‘all or nothing’

choice

On Premises

Data Centers

On-Premises

Resources

Cloud

Resources Integration

Integrated

networking

Integrated

access control

Integrated

cloud backups

Single pane

of glass

# 192.168.1.10

# 192.168.1.11

Microsoft Active

Directory

Custom

LDAP

App 1

AWS Storage Gateway

Integrating AWS with your existing On-Premises

Infrastructure

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• Thank you for joining us for Part 1 of our Series

• We hope you can also join us for:

• Getting Started with AWS – May 28th, 2014

• Ease of AWS Deployment – June 4th, 2014

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