Cloud Computing Series - Part II: SmartSheet Case Study
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Smartsheet.com Amazon Web Services Case Study
Todd FasulloDirector Operations, Smartsheet.com
AgendaAgenda
Who is Smartsheet?Quick DemoHow we use Amazon Web Services–Which services– Benefits to us and our customers
What is Smartsheet?What is Smartsheet?
Smartsheet.com is an online service (SaaS) for managing any kind of work across personal, team, client, or on-demand work scenariosFounded in 2005– 10 Employees– Over 50,000 companies have tried
Smartsheet – Logins from 94+ countries in past year
Sample Use CasesSample Use Cases
Project Management– Team Task List– Time Tracking
Legal & Finance– M&A Due Diligence– IPO Time & Resp.
Sales– Pipeline – Client Contact List
Product Mgmt– Issue/Bug Tracker– Enhancement List
Marketing– Event Planning– Dept. Goal
Tracking
Personal– Wedding Planning– Home Remodel
DemoDemo
AWS Services We UseAWS Services We Use
CloudFront– Implemented in Nov 2008 during beta
period
S3 – Document Attachments & Cache– Using since Nov 2006
Mechanical Turk– New Smartsourcing feature released
this month
RequirementsRequirements
24 x 7 SecureScalableFlexibleIntegrate well with our current hosting infrastructure– Core application infrastructure is running
on dedicated servers at hosting provider
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BenefitsBenefits
Improved scalability and performance– Offload core infrastructure services to AWS
Cost effective solution for us and our customers– S3 was 5% cost of our initial projection for
local storage at our hosting provider– CloudFront was < 1% cost of traditional
CDN provider– No sales negotiation – no long term
contractsSmartsheet 8
ConsiderationsConsiderations
Looking forward to see where CloudFront service is moving – SSL support is important to us–More cache flushing flexibility
Anxious for S3 Management ConsoleSample code libraries are of varying quality
Smartsheet 9
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