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© 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
John Phillips, Amazon Web Services
July 10th 2014
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What we’ll cover:
• Amazon EC2– Brief history
– Key functionality
– Companion services
• Demo
• Q&A
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What is Amazon EC2?
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Elastic Virtual servers in the cloud
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A Brief look back…
Amazon EC2: Seven Years Young
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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 Auto Scaling
• No Elastic Load Balancing
• No VPCAmazon EC2
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Since then• Many new instance families and sizes
– M1, M3, T1, T2, M2, CR1, R3, C1, CC1, CC2, C3, CG1, G2, HS1, HI1, 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
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AWS Global Infrastructure
10 Regions
25 Availability Zones
51 Edge locations
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Amazon EC2 Instances - Families
Compute
Optimized
General
Purpose
Memory
Optimized
Storage
Optimized
GPU
Instances
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Amazon EC2 Instances - Generations
C3
CC2
C1
T2, M3
M1
R3
CR1
M2
I2, HS1
HI1
G2
CG1
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Amazon EC2 Instances – Sizes*
c3.2xlarge
c3.xlarge
m3.2xlarge
m3.xlarge
r3.2xlarge
r3.xlarge
i2.2xlarge
i2.xlarge
g2.2xlarge
*Note: Only one or two instance sizes are shown from each family/generation, as an example
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Recent Instance Highlights
• T2 – lowest cost, general purpose instance
• R3 – Next generation memory optimized, up to 244 GiB
• I2 – Next generation I/O optimized (350,000+ random read IOPS)
• C3 – 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge) CPUs (SSD)
• G2 – Next generation GPU instances, 1 NVIDIA GK104 GPU (Kepler)
• Enhanced networking
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A choice of block storage options
• Locally attached, “instance storage”– Type/amount differs by instance
• Amazon EBS General Purpose (SSD)
• Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS (SSD)
• Amazon EBS Magnetic
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T2 and Amazon EC2 Free Tier
• T2 is a Burstable Performance Instance– Burstable Performance Instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance
with the ability to burst above the baseline.
– T2 instances are for workloads that don’t use the full CPU often or consistently,
but occasionally need to burst.
– Great for getting started on Amazon EC2
• Amazon EC2 Free Tier– 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux t2.micro instance usage (1 GiB of memory and
32-bit and 64-bit platform support)
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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
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• 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
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Some Amazon EC2 Benefits
• Elastic
• Completely Controlled
• Flexible
• Reliable
• Secure
• Inexpensive
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Scaling Automatically
Amazon EC2 Auto ScalingElastic Load
Balancing
Actual
EC2
Elastic Virtual servers
in the cloud
Dynamic traffic
distribution
Automated scaling
of EC2 capacity
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Completely Controlled
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Completely Controlled
• You have control of your instances
• Log on as root (Linux) / Administrator (Windows)
• Install the software you need
• Start/Stop and control via console or APIs
• Make the configuration changes you like
• Create an AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
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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)
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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)
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Example 3-tier Web App architecture
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SecurityCertifications:
• Secured premises
• Secured access
• Built-in firewalls
• Unique users
• Multi-factor authentication
• Private subnets
• Encrypted data storage
• Dedicated connection
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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
• Control if and how your instances access the Internet
• Connect to your on-premises network via HW VPN
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Availability Zone 1a Availability Zone 1b
Internet
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VPC Subnet
VPC Subnet
VPC Subnet
Virtual Private Gateway
Customer Gateway
VPN Connection
Internet Gateway
Customer Data Center
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Unix/Linux instances start at $0.013/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
On-Demand Instances
On-Demand Instances
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Unix/Linux instances start at $0.013/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
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
Reserved instances
Reserved Instances
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Up to >50% Savings
Heavy utilization RI
Unix/Linux instances start at $0.013/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
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
Reserved instances
Reserved Instances
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> 80% utilizationLower costs up to >50%
Heavy utilization RI
Unix/Linux instances start at $0.013/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
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
Reserved instances
Reserved Instances
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Up to ~50%
Savings
Medium utilization RI
Unix/Linux instances start at $0.013/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
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
Reserved instances
Reserved Instances> 80% utilization
Lower costs up to >50%
Heavy utilization RI
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Unix/Linux instances start at $0.013/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
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
Reserved instances
Reserved Instances> 80% utilization
Lower costs up to >50%
Heavy utilization RI
~40-80% utilizationLower costs up to ~50%
Medium utilization RI
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~15-40% utilizationLower costs up to ~35%
Light utilization RI
Unix/Linux instances start at $0.013/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
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
Reserved instances
Reserved Instances> 80% utilization
Lower costs up to >50%
Heavy utilization RI
~40-80% utilizationLower costs up to ~50%
Medium utilization RI
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Best RI for Utilization
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$4,000
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Best RI for Utilization
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Light Utilization RI
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Optimizing costs with RIs
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Improving Reserved Instance Flexibility
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Bid on unused EC2 capacity
Spot Price based on supply/demand, determined
automatically
Cost / Large Scale, dynamic workload handling
Spot instances
Unix/Linux instances start at $0.013/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
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
Reserved instances
Spot Instances
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We like to save you money…
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EC2 Usage Reports
• Two new interactive reports:– Instance Usage Report
– Reserved Instance Utilization Report
• Easy to access in the Management Console
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EC2 Usage Reports
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EC2 Usage Reports
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Easy to get started!
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AWS Marketplace – in the console
Browse, search, discover
and launch thousand of AWS
Marketplace AMIs directly
from within the Amazon EC2
console.
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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
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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
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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
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© 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
Thank you!
John Phillips, Amazon Web Services
July 10th 2014