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Introduction to the cloud
Peter Vandaele
Technical Trainer
Amazon Web Services
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Agenda
Introduction to AWS
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Compute
Storage
Databases
Networking
Security
Innovation with AWS
Next steps
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What is the cloud?
On premises
Servers
Cloud services provider
Storage
Databases
Servers
Storage
Databases
Applications
Applications
Corporate
network
Internet
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What is the cloud?
With cloud computing, you can stop thinking of your infrastructure as
hardware, and instead think of it (and use it) as software.
Agility
Elasticity
Cost Savings
Deploy globally
On-demand
self-service
Scale rapidly to
meet demand
Only pay for IT as
you consume it
Broad network
access
What other advantages does the cloud offer?
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Six advantages of cloud computing
Trade upfront
expense for
variable expense
Increase speed
and agility
Benefit from massive
economies of scale
Stop spending
money on running and
maintaining data centers
Stop guessing
capacity
Go global
in minutes
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Choosing a Region
Data residency
regulatory compliance
Proximity of
users to data
Costeffectiveness
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Are there relevant Region
data privacy laws?
Can customer data be
stored outside the country?
Small differences in
latency can impact
customer experience
Choose the Region
closest to your users
Costs vary by Region
Evaluate cost-effectiveness
of replicating data to
another Region
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AWS global infrastructure
Edge infrastructure
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Amazon CloudFront
(content delivery
network)
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AWS Outposts
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AWS Local Zones
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AWS Wavelength
Edge locations
Regional edge locations
Regional edge caches
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AWS edge infrastructure
Moving the cloud closer to the endpoint
AWS Outposts
AWS Local Zones
AWS Wavelength
Overview
AWS infrastructure and
services on premises
AWS infrastructure and services
in large metro centers
AWS infrastructure and services
in Commercial Service
Provider (CSP) 5G networks
Use cases
Migration, local critical
applications, data residency
Migration, low latency,
local data processing
Ultra-low latency,
local data processing
Expandable capacity in
customer’s data center,
colocation, on-premises
location
Scalable capacity in facility
managed & operated by AWS
Scalable capacity in CSP
data center managed and
supported by AWS
Service model
More on this later!
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AWS core infrastructure and services
Security
Firewalls
ACLs
Administrators
Security groups
Network ACLs AWS IAM
Networking
Router
Network pipeline
Elastic Load Balancing
Switch
Amazon VPC
Servers
On-premises servers
DAS
SAN
NAS
Amazon EC2 instances
AMI
RDBMS
Storage and
databases
Amazon
EBS
Amazon
EFS
Amazon
S3
Amazon
RDS
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Key service areas
Compute
Storage
Amazon
Route 53
Amazon
S3
AWS Lambda
VPC
Databases
Containers
User
Serverless
Amazon EC2
Amazon
SageMaker
Amazon EBS
Amazon
DynamoDB
Machine Learning
Your
application
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Cloud deployment models
On premises
Hybrid
Cloud
Your
application
Your
application
Your
application
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Before we go on…
A few common cloud terms
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Cloud Computing
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Elasticity
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Auto Scaling
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Public Cloud
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Private Cloud
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Hybrid Cloud
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Before we go on…
A few common cloud terms
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
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Serverless/Serverless Computing
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Big Data
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Generative AI
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