The document discusses how AWS services like EC2, S3, and RDS allow startups to manage infrastructure components like computation, storage, databases, and load balancing without having to manage their own hardware. It notes how infrastructure can now be treated as code that is automated, tested, and deployed through APIs and automation. Potential challenges mentioned are managing costs across regions and ensuring reliability.

1. EC2 & AWS
FOR STARTUPS
FOR STARTUPS

2. Ian Eure
@ieure
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3. THE LAST GENERATION

4. THE LAST GENERATION
• Lots of components to manage
• Staffing
• Vendor relationships
• Slow!

5. THE LAST GENERATION

6. THE LAST GENERATION

7. TODAY

8. TODAY

9. TODAY

10. TODAY
• Computation (EC2)
• AMI Marketplace
• Storage (EBS)
• MySQL (RDS)
• Load balancing (ELB)
• Addresses (EIP)

11. TODAY
• Storage (S3)
• Monitoring (CloudWatch)
• Queues (SQS)
• Content Distribution (CloudFront)
• Elastic MapReduce

12. BENEFITS
• Immediate capacity
• Snapshots
• Multiple regions
• Management console
• API
• Low risk

13. INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
>>> import boto
>>> ec2_conn = boto.connect_ec2(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
>>> images = ec2_conn.get_all_images(image_ids=['ami-b111f4d8'])
>>> images[0]
Image:ami-b111f4d8
>>> reservation = images[0].run(1,1, 'yourKeyPair')
>>> reservation
Reservation:r-c2dc2fab

14. INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
• Automation
• It’s all development now
• Cross-pollination of dev & ops

15. INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
• Automate
• Acquisition
• Installation
• Configuration
• Upgrades

16. INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
• Develop
• Source control
• Strong build system
• Automated testing
• Strong release cycle

17. INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
• Operate
• Packaging & deployment
• Architecture
• Metrics
• Monitoring & alerts

18. GOTCHAS
• Cost
• Regions are silos
• Reliability

19. GOTCHAS
• Cost
• Regions are silos
• Reliability…?

20. DEMO

21. Ian Eure
@ieure
http://simplegeo.com
http://atomized.org