Are you interested in the cloud, and want to start learning more about cloud computing with Amazon Web Services? If you answered yes then this webinar is for you! You will receive an overview of AWS, discover why others in state and local government are choosing AWS and what they are using AWS for as well as how to get started.
2. AWS Introduction
Why are Government customers choosing AWS?
What are Government customers using AWS for?
How are Government customers getting started with AWS?
3. Broad and deep services to support any cloud workload
AWS Global Infrastructure
Application Services
Networking
Deployment & Administration
DatabaseStorageCompute
11. 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
service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select
only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the
opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of
fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research,
including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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.”
12. AWS Introduction
Why are Government customers choosing AWS?
What are Government customers using AWS for?
How are Government customers getting started with AWS?
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. AWS Introduction
Why are government customers choosing AWS?
What are government customers using AWS for?
How are government customers getting started with AWS?
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
25. 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.
26. 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
27. 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
29. 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 AmazonAmazon CloudFront Amazon
30. 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
31. 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
35. 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
36. 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
37. The good news is that cloud isn’t an ‘all or nothing’
choice
On Premises
Data Centers
On-Premises
Resources
Cloud
Resources
Integration
39. We want to hear from you!
• aws.amazon.com/stateandlocal
• aws.amazon.com/training
• Cloud vLabs – run.qwiklabs.com
• 6 Free AWS Labs – EBS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM and ELB
• 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
40. Two Additional AWS Opportunities
Run your city in a cloud! Register for AWS City on a Cloud,
you will have free access to applications running on AWS,
in real time – with full interaction – for 24 hours. Give it a try!
City On a Cloud Innovation Challenge
http://aws.amazon.com/stateandlocal/cityonacloud/
http://aws.amazon.com/events/wwps/symposia/washington/