Rapid and Reliable Implementation of Microsoft Workloads on AWS

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Introducing

Kyle Lichtenberg

Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

Robert Groat Chief Technology Officer

Smartronix

What We’ll Cover Why customers choose Amazon Web Services for Microsoft Workloads

Cloud deployment options best suited to Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange

environments

Governance, security, and compliance considerations when migrating

Microsoft workloads

Proven methods for enabling enterprise-class Microsoft solutions on AWS

Q&A

Architected for Enterprise Security Requirements

Certifications and accreditations for workloads that matter

Benefits of Scale

• Lower costs

– Pay only for what you use

– Multiple pricing models

– Price reductions

• Increased Agility

– Infrastructure in minutes

– Experiment more often with lower risk

Hand to Robert

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Rapid and Reliable Implementation of Microsoft Workloads on AWS

March 13th , 2014

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A Clear Leader in Cloud Deployments

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Smartronix specializes in delivering enterprise class solutions in the cloud. Our teams have successfully deployed: • SQL Server 2008/2012

• Exchange 2007/2010/2013

• Lync 2010/2013

• SharePoint 2007/2010/2013

• Dynamics CRM

• FAST Search

• System Center Operation Manager, Data Protection Manager

• Forefront Unified Access Gateway

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Microsoft Technology Expertise on AWS

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Tooth Fairy

Microsoft Apps not supported on AWS

No license mobility Loch Ness Monster

Requires code re-writes

Different Management

Tools Required Performance issues

Microsoft is more expensive on AWS

Armed chaos monkeys

Integration issues

Gartner Press Releases

Myths

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• Some of the world’s largest websites run on SharePoint deployed on Amazon Web Services – US Department of the Treasury – Treasury.gov, Recovery.gov – Fortune 500 Intranets – Amazon’s Internal Collaboration Environment

• Major Logistics Company runs Exchange, SharePoint and Lync on AWS

• Exchange is one of the fastest growth segments with some enterprises over 100,000 people

Customer Use Cases

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Why SharePoint on AWS?

Reliable

Time-to-Market Agility

Scalable

Lower Cost

Highly Secure

Operational Effectiveness

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• Benefits inherent to AWS • Flexibility of deployment and customization • Increased integration to line of business • Internal facing farms can be connected via private circuits • Migrate existing licenses to AWS (BYOL) • Easily leverage private, non cloud content / Hybrid model • Third party add-on ecosystem

SharePoint on AWS vs. Other SaaS Offerings

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Why Exchange on AWS?

Reliable

Time-to-Market Agility

Scalable

Lower Cost

Highly Secure

Operational Effectiveness

Upgrades

Internet

Region us-east-1

Availability Zone us-east-1a Availability Zone us-east-1d

VPC Subnet10.x.x.x/xx

VPC Subnet10.x.x.x/xx

VPC Subnet10.x.x.x/xx

VPC Subnet10.x.x.x/xx

Security Group FW-SG

Security Group INT-SG

Security Group INT-SG

Virtual Private Cloud10.0.0.0/16

Internet Gateway

(Public) (Public)

(Private) (Private)

Mailbox Database Replication

Edge Firewall / Reverse Proxy

Client Access / Hub Transport

Server

Client Access / Hub Transport

Server

VPC Subnet VPC Subnet(Private) (Private)10.x.x.x/xx 10.x.x.x/xx

Edge Firewall / Reverse Proxy

Security Group

Mailbox Server Mailbox Server

EXREPL-SG

File Share Witness

Instance Type: m1.smallActive Directory Domain Controller

Active Directory Global CatalogDNS Server

Instance Type: m1.smallActive Directory Domain Controller

Active Directory Global CatalogDNS Server

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• Benefits inherent to AWS

• Host-based security or standards compliance; security agents, host monitoring, etc.

• Exchange-integrated third-party application support

• Migrate existing licenses to AWS (BYOL)

• Legacy public folder access if modern public folder migration is not possible

• Legacy, public folder-based free/busy scheduling access

• More control over geographic placement and partitioning of data and services

• Access to the full feature set of the deployed version of Exchange Server

• No need for ADFS to support SSO or hybrid deployment; your Active Directory forest and Exchange Server organization are self-contained and controlled

Exchange on AWS vs. Other SaaS Offerings

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• No single point of failure • Active / Active environment across AZs • Domain Controllers across AZs • DR/COOP Options • Robust Monitoring • Exchange

– Exchange Database Availability Groups across AZs – Storage Availability

• SharePoint – Robust SQL Mirroring / Always on Availability Groups

Best Practices - High Availability

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Traditional Approach: - Replicate the infrastructure to DR site - HA requires approximately double the cost - Assets sit idle until needed

Cloud Optimized Approach - Enable Active / Active load balanced approach utilizing half the resource - Automate scale out if WFE goes down - HA costs is only 40% higher in this scenario - Management and Ops costs are also reduced

Best Practices - High Availability

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• Load balanced workloads

• Increase/decrease compute, RAM and storage

• SharePoint – Linear scale by adding more WFEs

– Maximum scale by adding CDN such as CloudFront

• Exchange – Linear scale by adding more servers or storage

Best Practices - High Scalability

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Traditional Approach

- Run all kinds of load and stress tests and trust Microsoft calculators to properly size your infrastructure

- Over-buy compute and storage to adjust for growth or risk

Cloud Optimized Approach

- Run tests as a baseline estimate

- Right size servers as needed

- Adjust capacity on demand

Best Practices - High Scalability

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Demand AWS

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• Combine SCOM with Amazon CloudWatch, or use the AWS Management Pack for Microsoft System Center

• Tag instance volumes to make it easy to identify them in your monitoring tools

• Create a custom AMI for standardized configuration

• Automate your deployments via CloudFormation templates and scripting

Best Practices, Tips and Tricks

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Highly Secure – Full control over security control implementation

Agility – Project finished in time it typically takes to procure and configure hardware

Scalable – Flexibility to increase storage or capacity as needed

Lower Cost – Minimal CapEx, Lower Operational Costs, Lower labor costs

Operational Effectiveness – Undifferentiated heavy lifting, lower cost of ownership

Responsive Performance – Finely tuned storage and compute

Reliable – Removed single points of failure including datacenter fault tolerance

Questions

Contacts: Smartronix: www.smartronix.com http://www.cloudassured.com AWS Contact: aws.amazon.com/contact-us