AWS helps you build, deploy, scale, and manage Microsoft applications quickly, easily, more securely, and more cost-effectively. This Hands on Lab workshop will give you everything you need to get started deploying Windows Workloads on AWS, starting with creating and securing a new EC2 Windows instance.

1. 1. Intro to EC2 Windows
Watch a short presentation introducing you
to EC2 Windows
15 minutes
2. Watch a demo of the lab
Watch as our Presenter walks you
through tips and tricks for completing
the lab.
25 minutes
3. Do the lab on your own
After the demo you will be given the link to
launch the lab on your own.
45-60 minutes
About Today’s Webinar

2. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(EC2) for Microsoft Windows Server
Lou De La Torre
Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

3. Traditional Computing Challenges
• Heavy Up Front Expense
• Poor Utilization
• Slow
• Costly

4. Why are people flocking to the cloud?
Capex to variable
expense
Lower variable expense
than on-premise
Elasticity
Better use of
scarce resources
Agility Go global quickly

5. TECHNICAL &
BUSINESS
SUPPORT
Account
Management
Support
Professional
Services
Solutions
Architects
Training &
Certification
Security
& Pricing
Reports
Partner
Ecosystem
AWS
MARKETPLACE
Backup
Big Data
& HPC
Business
Apps
Databases
Development
Industry
Solutions
Security
MANAGEMENT
TOOLS
Queuing
Notifications
Search
Orchestration
Email
ENTERPRISE
APPS
Virtual
Desktops
Storage
Gateway
Sharing &
Collaboration
Email &
Calendaring
Directories
HYBRID CLOUD
MANAGEMENT
Backups
Deployment
Direct
Connect
Identity
Federation
Integrated
Management
SECURITY &
MANAGEMENT
Virtual Private
Networks
Identity &
Access
Encryption
Keys
Configuration Monitoring Dedicated
INFRASTRUCTURE
SERVICES
Regions
Availability
Zones
Compute
Storage
Objects,
Blocks, Files
Databases
SQL, NoSQL,
Caching
CDNNetworking
PLATFORM
SERVICES
APP
Mobile
& Web
Front-end
Functions
Identity
Data Store
Real-time
DEVELOPMENT
Containers
Source
Code
Build
Tools
Deployment
DevOps
MOBILE
Sync
Identity
Push
Notifications
Mobile
Analytics
Mobile
Backend
ANALYTICS
Data
Warehousing
Hadoop
Streaming
Data
Pipelines
Machine
Learning

6. EC2 for Windows Benefits
Secure
Extensive
High-Performance
Cost-Effective Flexible
Reliable Familiar

7. Secure
• Security-in-layers approach
• Isolate infrastructure and workloads
• Identity and access control
• Auditing and compliance

8. Reliable
• 99.95% SLA
• Multi-AZ synchronous replication
• Uptime and performance
monitoring
• Low network variability

9. High-Performance
• Enterprise-grade computing on-demand
• Automation for both complex and routine
tasks
• Dedicated, low-latency network
connections
• Automated Scaling
• Monitoring tools with user-defined
thresholds

10. Familiar
• Windows-based application
support
• Your own servers
• Utilize existing VMs
• License as you see fit
• Use your existing management
tools

11. Cost-Effective
• Trade capital expense for variable
expense
• Benefit from massive economies of scale
• Pay only for what you use
• No long-term commitments
• Bring your own licenses

12. Extensive
• More than 60 services available
• Broad ecosystem of partners
• Third-party application marketplace
• Continuous service improvement
• Technical certifications for multiple skill
levels

13. Flexible
• Highly-customizable infrastructure
• Variety of instance types
• Maintain availability at the lowest
cost
• Wide variety of storage options

14. Benefits of Windows Workloads in AWS
AWS CloudFormation | Virtual Private Cloud | AWS Direct Connect
• SQL Server in Amazon RDS: fully managed service
• SQL Server in Amazon EC2: full control
• Span multiple AZs for high availability
• High-performance options and Provisioned IOPs
• Agility: deploy a full farm before lunch!
• Scale up and down front-end web servers with
Elastic Load Balancer
• Easily grow your storage and/or off-load BLOBS
• Integrate with Active Directory or AWS
Directory Service
• Easily expand storage as needed
• Span multiple AZs for high availability
• Rapid Auto-Scaling, up and down
• Bring Your Own License
• Runs like it’s in your own datacenter
• Multiple options for Active Directory
SharePoint
Server SQL
Server
Exchange
Server
Windows
Server

15. VPC: Subnets and Route Tables
• VPC can have Internet Gateway
or Virtual Private Gateway
• VPC can span two Availability
Zones for High Availability
Internet

16. Getting Started Demo