Introduction to the HE Portal Amazon Web Services, Janet & Arcus Global

Ed Jackson, AWS

Steven Bryen, AWS Peter Male, Arcus Global John Milner, Janet

• Introduction (Ed Jackson, AWS)

• Reasons for creating the HE Portal (John Milner, Janet)

• AWS in Higher Education & Research (Steven Bryen, AWS)

• Introduction to Arcus Global (Peter Male, Arcus Global)

• Portal demonstration (Peter Male, Arcus Global)

• Q&A

• Next steps

Agenda

Janet and Arcus/AWS

Janet Cloud Context

Janet Cloud Future

Janet Portal from ARCUS

• Portal to provide coherent admin facility to set up AWS

accounts and tie them back to monthly billing and

budgets

• Does not interfere with end user engagement with AWS

services once they have an account

• Existing Accounts can be tied to the portal

• Institutions and/or departments can sign up to the Portal

• Expect improved Ts and Cs

• Expect management information to facilitate access to

AWS volume discounts

Education & Research on AWS

“We now have access to the kind of

serious parallel processing that we need to implement model runs in

feasible timescales and the storage to deal

with the massive model output.”

Old World:

Infrastructure in

weeks

AWS:

Infrastructure in

minutes

Add New Dev Environment

Add New Prod Environment

Add New DR Environment

Add 1,000 Servers

Remove 1,000 Servers

Deploy 10,000 Core HPC Cluster

Shut down 10,000 Core HPC Cluster

#1: Agility - Reducing the ‘time to science’

A Culture of Innovation: Experiment Often & Fail Without Risk

A broad and deep platform helps customers

build sophisticated, scalable applications

#2: Platform Breadth

10 regions

26 availability zones

46 edge locations

AWS Global Infrastructure

Support Certification Training Professional Services

Technology Partners Consulting Partners AWS Marketplace Ecosystem

Elastic Beanstalk OpsWorks CloudFormation Containers & Deployment (PaaS)

Management &

Administration IAM CloudWatch CloudTrail APIs and SDKs Management Console Cloud HSM Command Line Interface

Direct Connect Route 53 VPC Networking

Analytics

Data Pipeline Redshift EMR Kinesis SWF SNS SQS CloudSearch SES AppStream CloudFront

Application Services

WorkSpaces

Regions Availability Zones Content Delivery POPs

Storage Gateway S3 EBS Glacier Import/Export DynamoDB ElastiCache

Storage Compute Databases

RDS

MySQL, PostgreSQL

Oracle, SQL Server Elastic Load Balancer EC2 Auto Scaling

AWS Services Overview

Research/HE Use Cases on AWS

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Storage & Backup

Lecture Capture

Development and Test

University and Departmental Websites

Learning/Course Management Systems

Distance Learning

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Disaster Recovery

Student Information System Software

Virtual Desktops

Datacentre Migrations

Student Lab Environments

Big Data Services

Amazon EMR AWS Data Pipeline AWS Redshift AWS Kinesis

Hosted Hadoop Framework

Move Data among AWS

Services and on-premises

data sources

Petabyte-Scale Data

Warehouse Service

Real time processing of

streaming data, at any scale

156,000 compute Cores

1.21 PetaFLOPS throughput (not RMax)

264 years of computing in

just 18 hours

$33k as compared to

$68million

#3: Continual Iteration and Innovation

AWS continuously upgrades

infrastructure, so you don’t have to

2008 2009 2010 2011

Amazon EBS

Amazon EC2

Amazon SNS

AWS Identity

& Access

Management

AWS Import

& Export

Amazon

CloudWatch

Amazon EMR

Amazon RDS

Amazon VPC

Auto Scaling

Elastic Load

Balancing

Amazon

ElastiCache

Amazon SES

AWS

CloudFormation

AWS Direct

Connect

AWS Elastic

Beanstalk

GovCloud

Amazon SWF

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Glacier

Amazon

Dynamo DB

Amazon

CloudSearch

Amazon EC2

AWS Storage

Gateway

Amazon

CloudTrail

Amazon

CloudHSM

Amazon

WorkSpaces

Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Elastic

Transcoder

Amazon

AppStream

AWS OpsWorks

AWS Data

Pipeline

AWS Rapid Pace of Innovation

2013 2012

Since inception AWS has:

• Released 810 new services and features

• Introduced over 35 major new services

• Announced 42 price reductions

2014

Amazon

WorkSpaces

Arcus / Janet Higher Education Portal

Arcus Global and Portal Introduction

About Arcus Global

• Founded July 2009

• Cambridge UK based

• Key reseller for Amazon Web Services to the Public Sector

• Offers many leading Cloud Products and Services:

Janet Arcus AWS HE Portal

• Purpose built by Arcus for HE in UK • Designed and shaped by real HE Users during pilot (Dec 13 – May 14):

University of Cambridge, Newcastle, York, Manchester, JANET and others – The Portal enables users in the Janet community to procure AWS cloud services

with new, additional benefits including: – monthly invoicing (no credit cards required for payment) – itemized billing, consolidated across users/departments – billing in GBP – Ability to Prepay for services – the ability to set spending-limits per user, or by department – volume-discounts through aggregation across multiple HE institutions

Janet Arcus AWS HE Portal

Demonstration

Please submit your questions using the

‘chat’ function.

Summary & Next Steps

• Contact support@arcusglobal.com for access to the Portal

• Nominate your Portal Administrator, or let us help you find them

• $50 credit for the first 100 users who sign up before 30 June