Move Fast AND Stay Secure: AWS ReInvent Executive Summary

AWS

  • AWS has more than 1 million active customers
  • EC2 usage increased 95% YOY (Q2 2014 Q2 2015)
  • S3 usage increased 120% YOY
  • DB Usage 127% YOY
  • 81% YOY Revenue growth
  • Amazon Aurora (Enterprise Database) is one of the fastest growing services, faster than RedShift (Data warehousing)

Why Do Enterprises Switch To The Cloud

  • Change capital expenditures into variable expenses
  • Increase agility
  • Lower variable expenses
  • Less heavy lifting
  • World Wide Infrastructure
  • Stop guessing capacity
  • Give developers freedom and control over their own destiny

7 Basic Freedoms Of The Cloud

  • Freedom to build unfettered
  • Freedom to get real value from data
  • Freedom to get in and out of the cloud quickly
  • Freedom from bad database relationships
  • Freedom to Migrate
  • Freedom to secure your cake and eat it too
  • Freedom to say yes

Capital One Use Case

  • Their goal: Model to the best tech companies out there
  • Use DevOps to speed up software delivery
  • Reduce datacenter count by using cloud
  • Be able to have 1000 developers work efficiently on their products
  • Agility: able to handle Black Friday, Cyber Monday

Werner Vogels (CTO Amazon)

  • Released over 500 new major features in respond to customer feedback
  • Read the AWS well architected framework paper for best practices
  • Simplify to get better reliability
  • Lambda: no server is even easier to manage

Remind Use-Case

  • Use Micro-services to easy scale your application
  • Use Docker for easy deployments, zero downtime deployments and better resource optimization
  • AWS now provides an container registry as a service

AWS New Features

  • Amazon launched too many features to list here. You can find them on their website.
Edward Viaene
Published on October 9, 2015