Moving from a company where everything ran on 'bare metal' in a Datacenter to a startup where everything was already running in AWS has proven to be an interesting learning curve. This talk takes you through some of my learnings along the way and some of the ways we use bits of the AWS toolkit now at Tido. Clarkie, CTO @ Tido https://twitter.com/clarkieclarkie https://twitter.com/tidomusic

1. Clarkie
25th January 2017
A Year with AWS
@clarkieclarkie github.com/clarkie

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Case Study
Store API

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● Drives the content in the app
● Simple relational model (Volumes, Pieces and Masterclasses)
API

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● A database
○ Clustered?
○ Backups?
● An application
○ Servers?
○ Clustered?
● Continuous Integration / Deployments
Requirements

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AWS, WTF?!

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Name that AWS Service!

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RDS (Relational
Database
Service)

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● MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, ...
● Simple setup
● Automated backups
● Multi-AZ
RDS (Relational Database Service)

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What about the application?

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Elastic Beanstalk

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● PaaS
● “Infrastructure as code”
● Layer of abstraction on top of CloudFormation
● A bit like Heroku
Elastic Beanstalk

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● Select Platform
Elastic Beanstalk

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● Select Platform
Elastic Beanstalk
● Environment Type

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● Instance type
Elastic Beanstalk

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● User interface or command line?
Elastic Beanstalk

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● Scriptable (CI)
● UI is rubbish
Elastic Beanstalk

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Lang Lang

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Regions?
● Regions
○ eu-west-1 (Ireland)
○ ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo)
○ ...
● Availability Zones (AZ)
○ eu-west-1-a
○ eu-west-1-b
○ ...

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$ eb clone store-api
--clone_name lang-lang-store
--envvars NODE_ENV=langLang
--region ap-northeast-1
--scale 2
--exact
eb clone to the rescue

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What about the content?

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Simple Storage
Service (S3)

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● Buckets
● Permissions
● Object versioning
● Static website hosting
Simple Storage Service (S3)

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Great firewall of China

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CloudFront

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● S3
● Elastic Beanstalk (Elastic Loadbalancers)
CloudFront

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CloudFront

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What happened next?

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Now

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● 13 Elastic Beanstalk environments
○ SQS
● 3 S3 Buckets
● 8 CloudFront distributions
● Elasticache
● RDS scrapped in favour of DynamoDB
Summary

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● All the things!
● Vendor lock-in
● China
● ‘Hidden’ limits
● Documentation
AWS is great, but ...

34. Questions?
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35. The future of music is here
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