An Introduction to AWS Solution Architecture

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An Introduction to
AWS Solution Architecture
Mario Li
Solutions Architect
22 Jul 2019

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What is an AWS Solution Architect?
• The customer’s trusted advisor in digital transformation
• The owner of the technical relationship with the customer
• A critical guide on the customer’s cloud journey
• The technical expert, consultant, architect, educator, and trainer
• The customer’s Cloud CTO or Chief Cloud Architect

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The Keys to AWS Success
You
Customer Success
Customer Obsession is key!
• Customer Obsession • Earn Trust • Invent and Simplify • Bias For Action
• Learn and Be Curious • Dive Deep • Think Big • Deliver Results
Amazon Leadership Principles
We Do Things in Peculiar Ways

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Breadth and Depth of Services
CORE SERVICES
Integrated Networking
Rules Engine
Device Shadows
Device SDKs
Device Gateway
Registry
Local Compute
Custom Model
Training & Hosting
Conversational Chatbots
Virtual Desktops
App Streaming
Schema Conversion
Image & Scene
Recognition
Sharing &
Collaboration
Exabyte-Scale
Data Migration
Text to Speech
Corporate Email Application Migration
Database Migration
Regions
Availability Zones
Points of Presence
Data Warehousing
Business Intelligence
Elasticsearch
Hadoop/Spark
Data Pipelines
Streaming Data
Collection
ETL
Streaming Data
Analysis
Interactive SQL
Queries
Queuing & Notifications
Workflow
Email
Transcoding
Deep Learning
(Apache MXNet,
TensorFlow, & others)
Server MigrationCommunications
MARKETPLACE
Business Apps Business Intelligence DevOps Tools Security Networking StorageDatabases
API Gateway
Single Integrated
Console
Identity
Sync
Mobile Analytics
Mobile App Testing
Targeted Push
Notifications
One-clickApp
Deployment
DevOps Resource
Management
Application Lifecycle
Management
Containers
Triggers
Resource Templates
Build & Test
Analyze & Debug
Identity
Management
Key Management
& Storage
Monitoring &
Logs
Configuration
Compliance
Web Application
Firewall
Assessment
& Reporting
Resource & Usage
Auditing
Access Control
Account
Grouping
DDOS
Protection
TECHNICAL & BUSINESS SUPPORT
Support
Professional
Services
Optimization
Guidance
Partner
Ecosystem
Training &
Certification
Solutions Management Account Management
Security & Billing
Reports
Personalized
Dashboard
Monitoring
Manage
Resources
Data Integration
Integrated Identity &
Access
Integrated Resource &
Deployment Management
Integrated Devices
& Edge Systems
Resource
Templates
Configuration
Tracking
Server
Management
Service
Catalogue
Search
MIGRATIONHYBRID ARCHITECTUREENTERPRISE APPSMACHINE LEARNINGIoTMOBILE SERVICESDEV OPSANALYTICS
APP SERVICES
INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY & COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT TOOLS
Compute
VMs, Auto-scaling, Load
Balancing, Containers,
Virtual Private Servers,
Batch Computing, Cloud
Functions, Elastic GPUs,
Edge Computing
Storage
Object, Blocks, File, Archivals,
Import/Export, Exabyte-scale
data transfer
CDN
Databases
Relational, NoSQL,
Caching, Migration,
PostgreSQL compatible
Networking
VPC, DX, DNS
Facial Recognition &
Analysis
Facial Search
Patching
Contact Center

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1. Define your scope
2. Dive deep
3. Design “Well-Architected” solutions
4. Earn trust
5. Educate
6. Iterate, Invent and Simplify, Innovate
The Solution Architect is Key!

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1. Cloud migration is a process
2. Customers need your expertise and help
3. Know your customer
4. Know the AWS platform and services
5. Act in the customer’s long-term, best interest
Long-term, professional services revenue = Success
We play the long game
A Few Guiding Principles for AWS SAs

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Building and managing cloud since 2006
165+ services to support any cloud workload; rapid
customer driven releases
66 Availability Zones within 21 geographic Regions
187 Points of Presence (176 Edge Locations and 11 Regional Edge Caches)
in 69 cities across 30 countries.
Tens of thousands of APN partners. The AWS Marketplace offers 39
categories, and more than 4,800 software listings from more than 1,400 ISVs.
Experience: 1M+ customers
Service Breadth & Depth
Global Footprint
Ecosystem
Fine-grained controlSecurity
More machine learning happens on AWS than anywhere else.
Machine learning in the hands of every developer and data scientist.Machine Learning
AWS positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service, WorldwideEnterprise leader
What sets AWS apart?

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160
280
516
722
1017
1430
1,957
2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
#Servicesandfeaturesreleased
AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any
cloud workload, and it now has more than 165 services that range from
compute, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services,
deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT),
Artificial Intelligence (AI), security, hybrid and enterprise applications.
In 2011, we released over 80 new significant services and features, followed
by nearly 160 in 2012; 280 in 2013; 516 in 2014; 722 in 2015; 1,017 in
2016; 1,430 in 2017; and 1,957 in 2018
Customer-driven services and features
AWS’ History of Innovation

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AWS has been named as a Leader in
Gartner’s Infrastructure as a Service
(IaaS) Magic Quadrant for the 9th
Consecutive Year
Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant
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the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from AWS. Gartner
does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise
technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research
publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as
statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research,
including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Compute - EC2
(instances)
Storage – EBS
(block storage)
VMs
SAN Storage
Networking Networking – VPC
Virtual machine instance running on an AWS hypervisor
Block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances
Isolated virtual subnets in the AWS Cloud
Some AWS Services Are Very Familiar

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AWS Lambda
• A serverless compute service
• Runs code in response to an event
• Triggers in milliseconds
• Low-cost
• Focus on the application, not infrastructure
Some AWS Services Are a Little Bit Different

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Some are Very Different
Amazon SageMaker
• A fully-managed Machine Learning (ML) service
• Covers the entire ML workflow
• Help to label & prepare your data, choose an
algorithm, train the model, tune & optimize for
deployment, make predictions, and take action

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Amazon Managed Blockchain
• A fully managed service that allows you to set up and
manage a scalable blockchain network with just a few
clicks
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
• A fully managed ledger database that provides a
transparent, immutable, and cryptographically
verifiable transaction log owned by a central trusted
authority
…And Some Offer Emerging Technology

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Third Party Tools
DNS
External services and third-party too are native and integrated.
Load Balancing
Monitoring Logging
Content
Delivery
Network
Amazon
Route 53
Amazon
CloudFront
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS
CloudTrail
Elastic Load
Balancing*
External Services
The Sum is Greater Than Its Parts

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AWS Global Infrastructure
21 Geographical Regions, 66 Availability Zones, 187 Points Of Presence (POP)

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AWS Regions
• AWS Regions are comprised of multiple Availability Zones (AZs)
• Resigned for High Availability, High Scalability, High Fault Tolerance
AWS Availability Zone (AZ)
A Region is a physical location in the world
where we have multiple Availability Zones.
AZ
AZ
AZ AZ
Transit
Transit
Datacenter
Datacenter
Datacenter
AWS Region

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AWS Availability Zones (AZs)
• Fully isolated infrastructure with one or more datacenters
• Meaningful distance of separation
• Unique power infrastructure
• Datacenters are connected with fully redundant and isolated metro fiber
• Data can be replicated in real time and consistent in the different AZs

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Benefits of the AWS Global Infrastructure
Security ReliabilityAvailability Scalability Performance

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What Do You Want To Manage?
Database DB on EC2
instance RDS
AWS Data
Center(s)
AWS Data
Center(s)
Corporate data
center
Self-Managed
Amazon EC2
Service
Fully Managed
Service

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Shared Security Model

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AWS CloudFormation
Managing applications and infrastructure using code-based tools and
software development techniques
• Build an AWS solution
• Create templates of your solution stacks
• Use templates to replicate stack deployments consistently, at scale
• Update templates as you update the solution design
• Manage templates like code
AWS Infrastructure as Code

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Takeaways
• Starts with well-understood tools and constructs
• Adds complex, powerful functionality and services
• Cloud infrastructure is interchangeable and dynamic
• The sum is greater than the parts
• Solutions focused
• There is much to know
• You will build amazing things!

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Thank You!