Learn how to run Microsoft business productivity servers in the AWS Cloud, and draw on Amazon's own experience migrating the Microsoft stack to support Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, SQL Server, and Active Directory. Attend this webinar and learn how AWS ensures customization, high availability and scalability, and also gain and understanding of how these workloads are licensed and monitored. Attend this webinar, see a live demo and learn about: · The benefits of running Microsoft Servers specifically on AWS · Microsoft servers and Windows reference architecture on AWS · Amazon’s Quick Start for the Microsoft Business Productivity Servers · Costs, licensing and performance on AWS

1. Running Windows Workloads on AWS
Bill Jacobi, bjacobi@amazon.com
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2. Agenda
Amazon Corporation migration of Microsoft Servers to AWS
Demo of Accelerator for Microsoft Servers on AWS
• Discussion: Active Directory, Security, remote administration
• Live example of SharePoint “push-button” launch
Cost, Licensing & Performance
• Licensing Options (BYOL and Amazon-provided)
• Cost of running Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and AD on AWS
• Performance and Latency
DaaS Core Services & Proposed Solutions

3. Why Run Microsoft Servers on AWS?
Cloud Benefits
Agility Vertical and horizontal scaling takes place in minutes.
Experiment, optimize with simple clicks or CLI commands
Cost You pay only for what you use, and you can turn up/down
resources elastically according to demand or schedules
Elasticity Resources are provisioned according to demand. Horizontal
and vertical scalability are programs, clicks or CLI commands.
Breadth of functionality Compute, Storage, Database, Networking, Dev Tools,
Management tools, Security/Identity, Analytics, Mobile, App
Services, Enterprise Apps
Go global 12 Regions across Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, South
America. 33 Availability Zones.

4. Why Run Microsoft Servers on AWS?
AWS-specific Benefits
ISV Application Compatibility ISV apps that run on Microsoft are supported by the
AWS Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform
Enabled for compliance Applications can run under NIST, PCI, or HIPAA
Accelerators that provide baseline regulatory controls
License management AWS Config can monitor license compliance of server-
bound licenses on Amazon Dedicated Hosts
Auditability enabled Every API call, network packet in/out, and
infrastructure change is audited, both ALLOWS/DENIES
DevOps enabled AWS CloudFormation builds infrastructure while
Microsoft PowerShell builds applications, automating
Windows on AWS deployments
Optimization Monitor and optimize the specific resources needed

5. Amazon Corporation migration to AWS
In 2013 Amazon IT decided to migrate the
Microsoft stack to AWS
 Over 200K Amazon users access
Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync via the
corporate image
 Exchange data points
‒ There are total of 26 Exchange servers (4
per AZ)
‒ DAG Architecture for HA
‒ Supports users in Americas, EMEA, and Asia

6. SharePoint Push-button Launch
SharePoint Deploys SharePoint
Foundation running on
Windows Server
View View in
Designer
Launch
Stack

8. Availability Zone 1
private subnet
NAT
10.0.32.0/20 10.0.2.0/24
DB1SP1FE1Exch1
SQL
Server
10.0.0.100
10.0.0.101
10.0.0.102
SharePoint
Server
10.0.0.140
Lync
Server
10.0.0.160
Exchange
Server
10.0.0.150
RDG
Availability Zone 2
private subnet
NAT
10.0.96.0/20
RDG
Remote
Users / Admins
10.0.0.0/19
On-premises datacenter
VPN
Direct
Connect
DC1
10.0.2.0/24
DB2SP2FE2Exch2
SQL
Server
10.0.64.100
10.0.64.101
10.0.64.102
SharePoint
Server
10.0.64.140
Lync
Server
10.0.64.160
10.0.64.0/19
DC2
Active
Directory
10.0.0.10
Active
Directory
10.0.64.10
private subnet
private subnet
Exchange
Server
10.0.64.150
VPC CIDR
10.0.0.0/16
Enterprise
Accelerator
for Microsoft
Servers
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/accelerator-msservers/welcome.html

9. • Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, SQL
Server, and Active Directory on AWS
• Deployed from single Master template
• 14 Servers, 2 AZs, 10K Users
• Exchange users have 5GB mailboxes
• Lync users have VOIP, video, web
conferencing, and desktop sharing
• SharePoint Blog and Team Sites are
“Everyone”-enabled
• ~$14/hour to operate
Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, SQL Server, AD
Solution Summary

10. Exchange, SharePoint
Lync, SQL Server, AD
• Single VPC for integrated
cross-server experience
• Multi-AZ for High Availability
across all servers
• DMZ subnet for management
• Private subnet for app servers
• 2 AD Sites for high availability
• Connect to on-premises
through Direct Connect (not
part of QuickStart)
AWS Infrastructure

11. Exchange, SharePoint
Lync, SQL Server, AD
• Exchange DAG
architecture
• Lync Paired Pool
architecture
• SQL Server AlwaysOn
architecture for SharePoint
• Brick architecture
represents a 10K modular
pod
• Add n pods for n-scale
• Use the Microsoft capacity
calculators and load-
testing tools to validate
Microsoft Infrastructure

12. Licensing Microsoft Products on AWS
BYOL: Support for Microsoft servers
(Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, etc.)
• See AWS Microsoft Licensing page for
details
SPLA: Windows Server and SQL Server
AMIs available from AWS
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2003
• SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014
http://aws.amazon.com/windows/resources/amis/

14. $9,997 per month for 10,000 Users - Details
$1.00/user/month
Generally, linear scaling and
linear costs

15. SharePoint on AWS – link

16.  Basic standard in AWS for automating
deployment of resources
 CloudFormation Template
− JSON-formatted document which describes
a configuration to be deployed in an AWS
account
− When deployed, refers to a “stack” of
resources
− PowerShell can be slipstreamed into
UserData and run at instance bootstrap
AWS
CloudFormation
DevOps
AWS CloudFormation

17. Master
Stack orchestration
ADStack
SQLStack ExchangeStack
SharePointStack LyncStack
2
3 4
5 6
AZs, VPC, subnets, R53
DC, Global Catalog, DNS, Repl
AZs, LB, VPC, R53
MBOX, Edge, DAG, RDG, AD
AZs, LB, VPC, R53
FrontEnd, Edge, SQL, RDG,
AD
AZs, VPC, EIPs, storage
WSFC, AlwaysOn, Quorum,
Witness, RDG, Full Backup
AZs, LB, VPC, R53
WFE, AppSrv, SQL, RDG, AD
Layer 1
Layer 2
Layer 3
DevOps
AWS CloudFormation
MSServers Solution - 6 CloudFormation Stacks
1

18. DevOps -- Nested Stacks
• Stacks create modularity, reuse, and resource ordering
• See blog post for more details
"Resources": {
"ADStack": …AWS::CloudFormation::Stack…
"SQLStack": {
"Type": "AWS::CloudFormation::Stack",
"DependsOn": "ADStack",
"Properties": …
}

19. Performance and Latency
88 ms roundtrip via Internet 59 ms roundtrip via Direct
Connect

20. Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) Core Services
Email Exchange 2013
Collaboration SharePoint 2013
Unified Communications Lync 2013
Office Automation Office Client
Directory Service Active Directory
Monitoring and Automation CloudWatch Logs
Microsoft Systems Center

21. Resources
• AWS QuickStarts for Microsoft Workloads
• https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/#microsoft
• Building a Microsoft BackOffice Server Solution on AWS
with CloudFormation (Blog post)
• https://blogs.aws.amazon.com/application-
management/post/Tx283EYG3AA5RSD/Building-a-Microsoft-
BackOffice-Server-Solution-on-AWS-with-AWS-CloudFormation
• Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Windows Instances
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/EC2_
GetStarted.html