CSS Corp at Silicon India

Bullet proof your Amazon Cloud Deployment

Ezhil Arasan BabarajDirector – CSS Corp LabsCSS CorpTwitter : @ezhilsathyaBlog : http://cloud4developers.com/

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About CSS Corp

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Company DNA

High Growth, Profitable Company

Recognized leader in Technology Operations

Management with CoEs in Telecom, SaaS, Cloud, RIM,

Testing, Support and R&D

Strong Partner Ecosystem; AWS, Microsoft, IBM, HP

150+ Long Term, Strategic and Profitable Customers

Operations in USA, UK, Poland, India, Manila &

Singapore

Strong Tools Portfolio

Passion for Advanced Technology Operations & Support Dedicated CSS Labs for Technology Innovation Business Operations and Technology Optimizer Out-comes based pricing models Top Mid Market ITO Provider 2007,2008,2009 – DataMonitor

100% Referenceable Customers Driving Technology Innovation and adoption Technology OpEx Optimization Transparency ,Openness & Flexibility Independent Centers of Excellence for R&D, Testing and Support

Privately held by investors including Goldman Sachs, SBAIF, Sierra

Ventures 5,000+ Resources Market Validation – 100% Client Retention Completed 3 acquisitions in 2010

Key Differentiators

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Cloud Services & Solution


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Cloud Enablement Service & Phases

S.No Phase Key Activity Breakdown

1 Cloud Assessment

2 Cloud Architecture Development

3 Proof of Concept

4 Application (& Data) Migration

5 Production Operations & Optimization


Application / Subsystem portfolio analysis and classification

Technical Assessment Financial Assessment

CLIENT Cloud Deployment Architecture Private Cloud Deployment Architecture OSS Strategy (COTS Vs In-house Tools)

Tools Deployment Runbook Development Optimize usage based on demand

Build a pilot to validate technology AMI Creation Forklift / Hybrid Migration of applications

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Context


Prepare for

failure

Complex Systems

Cascading Failures

Designing for Failure

Testing for Failure

Cloud Vs Traditional

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What To Do?


Understand the Cloud Provider

Appropriate use of Cloud Tools

Draft a Good backup strategy

Implement Monitoring & Alerting

Ensure Effective Recovery Mechanisms

Automate Provisioning

Plan for

Failure

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Compute Cloud Provider


EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud

Multiple Regions

Availability Zones

Machine Images(AMI)

EBS Volumes

Security Groups

Elastic IPs

AWS

EC2

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Understanding AMI’s


EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud

Multiple Regions

Availability Zones

Machine Images(AMI)

EBS Volumes

Security Groups

Elastic IPs

AWS

EC2

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AMI Type: EBS based


Quick boot up

Ability to take Snapshots

Ability to stop instances

Variable Root Disk Sizes

Ease of Bundling

Why EBSBase

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AMI Choice & Customization


Choose Trusted AMI

Launch AMI

Customize Instance

Install Provisioning Agent

Bundle the Instance=New AMI

Perform tasks on DR Regions

MachineImag

es

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Application Deployment


Tested deployment

Best when publicizing

An AMI for Every Version

Cumbersome to Maintain

Instance specific App Configs

Runtime choice

Easy to maintain deployment

Dynamic Configurations

Development knowledge

Not effective when creating public AMI's

Script Provisioning

Bundle

into AMI

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Data Backup


S3 Based backup

Network File Sharing & Virtual SAN

Offsite / Remote Backups

Distributed / Replicated FS

Remote Server Sync

EBS Snapshots

Choices

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DR Setup


Needs a maintenance window

Would do with some data loss

Better cost benefit

Requires monitoring of the Primary

site

Needs a setup running all the time

Higher cost of running

All updates and patch need to be applied

Needs data to sync at all times

Cold Setup

Warm

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Effective * DR Strategy


Run the DR setup in proximity

Run all the components

Back up all data frequently

Not having fallback for DR setup

Track all the changes in live system

Keep 2 level redundant backups

Define maintenance windows

Monitor all at all times

Do’s

Dont’s

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DR Demonstration


CSS Corp Tools Used

Infrastructure Monitoring Dashboard

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DR Demonstration: Cold DR


Keep script updated & versioned

Database Backup

Bring down the Live Environment

AMI with CloudSmart on DR Region

Script CloudSmart for DR

Bring up the Environment in DR

Steps

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DR Demonstration Architecture


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We managed to survive


• The AWS US East Outage

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Best Practices


Build Using AWS Components

Storage of Images / Static files & Content Delivery – S3 / CloudFront

Queue for storing messages – Simple Queue Service

Email sending service – Simple Email Service

Publish message / Subscription to messages - Simple Notification Service

Non-relational Data Store – Simple DB

Relational Database MySQL / Oracle – Relational Database Service

Distribution of traffic – Elastic Load Balancing

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