Have you wondered what best practices are for running Microsoft workloads on AWS? In this chalk talk, we cover the most important best practices for running Microsoft workloads on AWS and answer any questions that you may have. This is an interactive question-and-answer session, so please bring your questions and join us for this discussion.

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Designing Well-Architected
Microsoft Workloads in AWS
Boris Nisenbaum
Sr AWS SA, Microsoft
Amazon Web Services
W I N 3 3 3
George Churchill
Sr AWS SA, Microsoft
Amazon Web Services

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Agenda
• Introduction to the AWS Well-Architected framework
• Value proposition of Well-Architected
• Pillars of Well-Architected
• Benefits of Well-Architected
• Example of Well-Architected

4. “Everything fails all the time.”
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO at Amazon.com

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The AWS Well-Architected framework
• Increases awareness of architectural best practices
• Addresses foundational areas that are often neglected
• Consistent approach to evaluating architectures
Composed of:
• Pillars
• Design principles
• Questions

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Value proposition of Well-Architected
Making informed decisions about architecture in the cloud and
understand the potential impact of decisions
• Consistent approach to reviewing architectures
• Understand and reduce risk in your architecture
• Learn best practices
• Influence future architectures

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Pillars of Well-Architected
Operational
excellence
Security Reliability Performance
efficiency
Cost
optimization

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Typical Microsoft application architecture
Proxy
SQL Primary SQL Secondary
Web Web
Active Directory
Application
Management
Primary Datacenter DR Datacenter
SQL
Always
On
Proxy
DMZ DMZ
Web Web
Application
Management
SQL Secondary
Synchronous
Commit Asynchronous
Commit
Certificate Server

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Well-Architected

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Questions / Topics
1. How are you defining roles and responsibilities of system users to control human access to the AWS Management Console and
API?
2. How does your system adapt to changes in demand?
3. How are you backing up your data?
4. How do you select your database solution?
5. How are you protecting the integrity of the operating systems on your Amazon EC2 instances ?
6. How do you make sure your capacity matches but does not substantially exceed what you need?

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12. Thank you!
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George Churchill
georgchu@amazon.com
Boris Nisenbaum
nboris@amazon.com

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