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Questions of the Week Dhruv Parpia Solutions Architect, ASEAN

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Questions • How do I get started with AWS and how do I get

trained on AWS? • Can I run any application on EC2? • What is the difference between Vertical and

Horizontal scaling? • What is a Region / AZ / Edge Locations • 1 TB isn’t large enough for EBS, what should I do?

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How do I get started with AWS and how do I get trained on AWS? • Self Paced Labs •  Instructional Videos •  Instructor led courses • Certification • AWSome Days • Forums • Free Tier • Get Started Documentation

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Self  Paced  Labs

•  Train  on-­‐demand  and  learn  at  your  own  pace,  acquiring  new  and  prac7cal  AWS  skills  

• Gain  hands-­‐on  experience  working  with  technology  in  a  prac7ce  environment  

•  Explore  and  experiment  with  new  products  in  real-­‐7me,  real  environments  

• hAps://run.qwiklab.com/  

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Instruc3onal  Videos

• Our  Introduc7on  to  AWS  series  includes  free,  on-­‐demand  instruc7onal  videos  that  enable  you  to  learn  about  AWS  in  minutes.  

• Key  concepts  of  Compute,  Storage,  Databases,  Networking,  etc  covered.  

• hAp://aws.amazon.com/training/intro_series/  

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Instructor  led  courses

• Role-­‐based  technical  training  courses  help  you  deepen  your  skills  •  Learn  best  prac7ces  for  architec7ng,  developing,  and  opera7ng  infrastructure  and  applica7ons  on  AWS.    

• Courses  include  Business  Essen7als,  Architec7ng  on  AWS,  Big  Data  Technology  Fundamentals,  etc.  

• hAp://aws.training  

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Cer3fica3on

• Validate  your  technical  skills  with  AWS  • Gain  credibility  for  your  AWS  exper7se  through  Associate  and  Professional  cer7fica7ons  

• Become  part  of  the  global  AWS  Cer7fied  Community    

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AWSome  Days

• Gain  a  deeper  understanding  of  AWS  core  and  applica7on  services  •  Learn  how  to  deploy  and  automate  your  infrastructure  on  the  AWS  Cloud  

• Get  your  ques7ons  answered  by  our  AWS  experts  • Network  with  the  AWS  team  and  your  industry  peers  • Receive  an  AWSome  Day  Cer7ficate  of  AAendance  as  well  as  an  AWS  Training  Guide  

• hAp://aws.amazon.com/about-­‐aws/events/  

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Developer  Forums

•  Exchange  thoughts,  ideas,  knowledge,  and  opinions.  • Ask  for  help  from  the  experts  • hAps://forums.aws.amazon.com/index.jspa  

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Free  Tier

• Gain  free,  hands-­‐on  experience  with  AWS  for  12  Months.  • AZer  crea7ng  your  AWS  account  you  can  use  21  products  and  services,  for  free  within  certain  usage  limits.  

• hAp://aws.amazon.com/free/  

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Get  started  Documenta3on

•  Step-­‐by-­‐step  instruc7ons  to  get  you  up  and  running  quickly  • Available  in  HTML  /  PDF  /  Kindle  Formats  • hAp://aws.amazon.com/documenta7on/ge\ngstarted/  

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Can  I  run  any  applica3on  on  EC2?     • You  have  complete  control  of  your  instances.    • You  have  root  access  to  each  one,  and  you  can  interact  with  them  as  you  would  any  machine.    

• You  can  stop  your  instance  while  retaining  the  data.  • Instances  can  be  rebooted  remotely  using  web  service  APIs.    • You  also  have  access  to  console  output  of  your  instances.  

v  •  Vast selection of software solutions optimized for

AWS

•  Flexible Pricing: Hourly, Monthly and Annually

•  No cost trials

•  1-Click deployment

•  Easy provisioning

•  One invoice that includes AWS usage and AWS

Marketplace Software

•  http://aws.amazon.com/marketplace

AWS  Marketplace

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What  is  the  difference  between  Ver3cal  and  Horizontal  scaling  (or  how  do  I  add  more  RAM  to  my  server?) • Ver7cal  Scaling  

•  Changing  instance  size  •  Increasing  EBS  Capacity  

• Horizontal  Scaling  •  Adding  /  removing  instances  •  Elas7c  Load  Balancer  

r3.8xlarge

c3.2xlarge

m3.medium

m3.medium m3.medium m3.medium

m3.medium m3.medium m3.medium

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What  is  a  Region  /  AZ  /  Edge  Loca3ons

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AWS  Regions

11  Regions    28  Availability  Zones  

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AWS Regions and Availability Zones (AZ) US Regions

AZ - A AZ - B

GovCloud (US)

AZ - A AZ - B

AZ - C AZ - D

US East (VA)

AZ - A AZ - B

US West (CA)

AZ - A AZ - B

AZ - C

US West (OR)

Note: Conceptual drawing only. The number of Availability Zones (AZ) may vary.

Global Regions

AZ - A AZ - B

AZ - C

EU (Ireland)

AZ - A AZ - B

South America (Sao Paulo)

AZ - A AZ - B

Asia Pacific (Sydney)

AZ - A AZ - B

Asia Pacific (Singapore)

AZ - A AZ - B

AZ - C

Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

AZ - A

EU (Frankfurt)

AZ - B

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AWS  Edge  Loca3ons

53  Edge  Loca7ons  

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1  TB  isn’t  large  enough  for  EBS,  what  should  I  do?

We  got  you  covered!  

Large  Storage:  16  TB  Storage  on  EC2

• Previously   • New  with  Larger  and  faster  

RAID 0 aAach  sixteen  1  TB  volumes  to  the  EC2  instance  and  create  a  RAID  0  set  to  get  16TB  of  storage  and  an  

aggregate  of  20,000  IOPS.  Coordinated  snapsho\ng  of  all  volumes  required  

aAach  one  16  TB  PIOPS  volume,  with  20,000  IOPS  to  the  EC2  instance.  No  coordinated  

snapsho\ng  required.  

Managing  Snapshots:  5  TB  on  EBS  with  Remote  Region  copies

• Previously   • New  with  Larger  and  faster  

RAID 0

When  taking  snapshot  of  mul7ple  volumes  there  are  a  lot  of  snapshots  that  need  to  be  managed.  Addi7onally,  the  

snapshots  have  to  be  consistent  

With  larger  and  faster  volumes  the  number  of  snapshots  that  need  to  be  managed  is  less.  

Remote Region

Remote Region

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Amazon  EBS  capacity  scenario:  48TB  shared  block  storage

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