Introduction to Amazon EC2

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Introduction to Amazon EC2

Stephen Elliott, Amazon Web Services

March 26th 2014

What we’ll cover:

• A brief look back

• Amazon EC2– Key functionality

– Companion services

• Demo

What is Amazon EC2..?

A Brief look back…

Amazon EC2: Seven Years Young

Amazon EC2 – Seven years ago

• Single instance family and size– m1.small (1 vCPU, 1.7 GiB RAM, 160 GB storage)

• Linux only

• On Demand pricing only

• No AWS Management Console

• No EBS

• No Elastic IPs

• No VPC

• No Auto Scaling

• No Elastic Load BalancingAmazon EC2

Since then• Many new families and sizes

– M1, M2, C1, C3, M3, CC1, CC2, CG1, G2, CR1, HS1, HI1, T1, G2, I2

• Windows (and Enterprise Linux)

• Reserved Instances and Spot Instances

• AWS Management Console

• Elastic Block Store

• Elastic IP Addresses

• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Auto Scaling

• Elastic Load Balancing

• Performance, security, manageability, and scalability improvements

AWS Global Infrastructure

10 Regions

25 Availability Zones

51 Edge locations

Amazon EC2

• Resizable compute instances in the cloud

• Provision 1 or many instances

• Pay for what you use; no minimum commitment

• Familiar operating systems, with cloud benefits

Amazon EC2 Instances - Families

Compute-Optimized

Storage-Optimized

Micro Instances

General Purpose

GPU Instances

Memory-Optimized

C1/CC2/C3

HI1/I2/HS1

T1

M1/M3

G2

M2/CR1

Amazon EC2 Instances - Generations

Amazon EC2 Instances – Types*

c3.large

i2.xlarge

t1.micro

m3.medium

g2.2xlarge

m2.xlarge

*Note: Only instance type is shown from each family/generation, as an example

Recent Instance Highlights

• HI1– 120,000 random read IOPS on SSDs

• I2 - Next generation I/O optimized (350,000+ random read IOPS)

• M3 – Next generation general purpose

• HS1– 48 TB of storage per instance

• CR1– 244 GiB of RAM &Intel Xeon E5 2670 (Sandy Bridge) CPUs

• G2 – 1 NVIDIA GK104 GPU (Kepler)

• C3 - 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge) CPUs (SSD)

A choice of block storage options

• Locally attached, “instance storage”– Type/amount differs by instance

• Amazon EBS Standard Volumes

• Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS Volumes

Who uses EC2..?

Using AWS, Dow Jones saved $40,000;

improves time-to-market by 30%

• Dow Jones & Company provides news and

business information for the global investment

market.

• Dow Jones needed to replace its Asian data

center with a flexible, cost-effective alternative

that allowed its staff to focus on building

products

• Moving its data center to AWS saved $40,000 in

hardware costs and enabled Dow Jones staff to

focus on creating revenue-producing

applications for the website

• One of the world's leading online travel

companies, providing leisure and business

travel to customers worldwide

• Expedia needed a global infrastructure to

support its commitment to create a great

experience for customers worldwide

• Using AWS, Expedia created a global

infrastructure for its critical applications while

reducing network latency to under 50

milliseconds and enabling a 230% CPU

consumption efficiency for data processing

Expedia uses AWS to run critical, high volume applications globally

Some Amazon EC2 Benefits

• Elastic

• Completely Controlled

• Flexible

• Reliable

• Secure

• Inexpensive

Elastic

Amazon EC2 is designed to help you:

• Simplify your operations

• Scale as required

• Improve resiliency

• Run applications securely

• Run any application

• Reduce your costs

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Elastic Capacity

Completely Controlled

Completely Controlled

• You have control of your instances

• Log on as root (Linux) / Administrator (Windows)

• Install the software you need

• Make the configuration changes you like

• Create an AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

• Start/Stop and control via console or APIs

Flexible

Multiple Instance Types

• Choose the instance type that suits you

• Change the instance type when you want to

• Attach as much or as little storage as you need

• Choose your operating system

• Choose a pre-configured image (AMI)

Reliable

Build Reliable Architectures

• Easily build highly available applications

• AWS Elastic Load Balancing distributes load

• Auto Scaling helps ensure availability and scale

• Use multiple Availability Zones (AZs)

Example 3-tier Web App architecture

Secure

Security

Certifications:

• Secured premises

• Secured storage

• Secured keys

• Secured communications

• Secured network access

• Secured users

• Secured logins

• Full control to add security

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Default

• Provision a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud

• Control your virtual networking environment– Subnets

– Route Tables

– Security Groups

– Network ACLs

• Connect to your on-premises network via hw VPN

• Control if and how your instances access the Internet

Availability Zone 1a Availability Zone 1b

Internet

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VPC Subnet

VPC Subnet

Virtual Private Gateway

Customer Gateway

VPN Connection

Internet Gateway

Customer Data Center

Inexpensive

Unix/Linux instances start at $0.02/hour

Pay as you go for compute power

Low cost and flexibility

Pay only for what you use, no up-front commitments or long-term contracts

Use Cases:

Applications with short term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads;

Application development or testing

On-demand instances

On-Demand instances





Use Cases:



On-demand instances

1- or 3-year terms

Pay low up-front fee, receive significant hourly discount

Low Cost / Predictability

Helps ensure compute capacity is available when needed

Use Cases:

Applications with steady state or predictable usage

Applications that require reserved capacity, including disaster recovery

Reserved instances

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On-demand instances

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Reserved instances

Reserved instances

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Reserved instances

Reserved instances

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Use Cases: Databases, Large Scale HPC, Always-on infrastructure, Baseline






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Use Cases: Web applications, many heavy

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Use Cases: Web applications, many heavy

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Use Cases: Disaster Recovery, Weekly / Monthly reporting, Elastic Map Reduce

Light utilization RI

Improving Reserved Instance Flexibility

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Reserved instances

Bid on unused EC2 capacity

Spot Price based on supply/demand, determined automatically

Cost / Large Scale, dynamic workload handling

Use Cases:

Applications with flexible start and end times

Applications only feasible at very low compute prices

Spot instances

Spot instances

We like to save you money…

EC2 Usage Reports

• Two new interactive reports:– Instance Usage Report

– Reserved Instance Utilization Report

• Easy to access in the Management Console

EC2 Usage Reports

EC2 Usage Reports

Easy to get started..!

Demo

AWS Marketplace – in the console

Browse, search, discover

and launch thousand of AWS

Marketplace AMIs directly

from within the Amazon EC2

console.

AWS Marketplace

• AWS Online Software Store

• Find, research and buy software

• Simple pricing, aligns with the utility model

• 1-Click launch products - run in minutes

• Over 1300 products listed in 25 categories

• Free trials and Enterprise offerings– Move seamlessly from PoC to production

Benefits for You

• 1-Click launch, no

procurement of

hardware and software

launches pre-configured

for AWS

• Minutes for deployment,

instead of weeks or

months

• Vetted, tested, secure

and approved products

• Use your AWS account

to purchase

• Supports Invoice Billing

• See charges for

software and AWS

services separately

• Clear pricing for all products, hourly and monthly options, different instance size and region choices

• Tools to track your purchases and control usage

• Ability to scale software up or down on-demand

Find and Deploy Fast One Bill Simple Purchasing

http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace

http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace

University of Liège is a Belgian multi-disciplinary research lab studying the brain’s function and structure

Needed a solution that would quickly and reliably conduct image processing for Parkinson’s research

Found the NITRC computational environment on AWS Marketplace, reducing time required to process neuroimaging data by 85%

Using NITRC on AWS Marketplace, University of Liège

Accelerates Parkinson’s Disease Research

Next Steps

• Sign-up for an AWS account!

• Take advantage of the free tier– aws.amazon.com/free

• Learn more: aws.amazon.com/ec2

• Join us at the booth

© 2014 Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates. All rights reserved. May not be copied, modified, or distributed in whole or in part without the express consent of Amazon.com, Inc.

Introduction to Amazon EC2

Stephen Elliott, Amazon Web Services

March 26th 2014

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