1. AWS Government, Education
and Nonprofits Symposium
Canberra, Australia | 6 May 2015
Teresa Carlson
Vice President, World Wide Public Sector
Amazon Web Services
6. Gartner
“Magic
Quadrant
for
Cloud
Infrastructure
as
a
Service,”
Lydia
Leong,
Douglas
Toombs,
Bob
Gill,
Gregor
Petri,
Tiny
Haynes,
May
28,
2014.
This
Magic
Quadrant
graphic
was
published
by
Gartner,
Inc.
as
part
of
a
larger
research
note
and
should
be
evaluated
in
the
context
of
the
entire
report.
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Gartner
report
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at
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reports/.
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fitness
for
a
particular
purpose.
Gartner Magic Quadrant
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
7. 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Over 1 Million Active
Customers
“Active customer” is defined as a non-Amazon customer with AWS account usage activity in the past month, including the free tier
8. 2012 2013 2014
Amazon S3 Usage
102% YoY increase in data transfer
to and from S3
(Q4 2014 vs Q4 2013, not including Amazon use)
9. 2011 2012 2013 2014
Amazon EC2 Usage
93% YoY increase in EC2
instance usage
(Q4 2014 vs Q4 2013, not including Amazon use)
17. Old World
Large upfront capital investment
Basic compute and storage only
Responsible for feature upgrades
Slow to get new capabilities
Low, variable cost
Broad and deep platform
New features arrive daily
Ready to use
18. 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
516
280
159
82
6148
24
AWS Rapid Pace Of Innovation
516 major new features and services launched in 2014
29. More Functionality Than Any Other
Infrastructure Provider
Enterprise Applications
Administration & Security
Core Services
Platform Services
Infrastructure
AWS Marketplace
30. Key Components Of Agility
+ =
Quick to
provision
Don’t have to
reinvent the wheel
Vast infrastructure
technology platform
31. Storage
Auditing, Security &
Compliance
Relational
Databases
General Purpose (M3)
Compute Optimized (C3)
Memory Optimized (R3)
GPU Optimized (G2)
Storage Optimized (D2)
IO Optimized (I2)
Low cost, burst-able
performance (T2)
RDS for MySQL
RDS for SQL Server
RDS for Oracle
RDS for PostgreSQL
RDS for Amazon Aurora
Configuration history
Usage audit logs
Change notifications
Dedicated HSMs
Customer controlled keys
Block storage:
Magnetic
General Purpose SSD
Provisioned IOPS SSD
Multi-AZ synchronous
replication
Read replica support
Object storage:
Life cycle management
Event triggers
Data locality control
Not Just The Expansive Services… Much Deeper Features
Compute
32. Architected for Gov’t Security Requirements
Certifications and accreditations
for workloads that matter
AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config -
Call logging and configuration
management for governance &
compliance
• Log, review, alarm
on all user actions
• Browse and query
database of
current and
previous state of
cloud resources
MTCS
33. Security is a Shared Responsibility
Customers Refocus on Systems andApps
Security experts are a scarce resource!
Refocus your security professional on a subset of the problem
Facilities
Physical security
Compute infrastructure
Storage infrastructure
Network infrastructure
Virtualization layer (EC2)
Hardened service endpoints
Rich IAM capabilities
+ =
Network configuration
Security groups
OS firewalls
Operating systems
Application security
Proper service configuration
AuthN & acct management
Authorization policies
Customers
More secure and
compliant systems
than any single entity
could achieve on its
own
34. Economies of ScaleApply to Security & Compliance
The customer community benefits from tough
scrutiny, the world-class AWS security team,
market-leading capabilities, and constant
improvements
Everyone’s Systems and Applications
Security Infrastructure
Security Infrastructure
Requirements Requirements Requirements
Nothing better for the entire community
than a tough set of customers…
46. Why Does the Cloud Matter to Public Sector?
Make the World
a Better Place
Pave the Way for
Disruptive Innovation
• Disruptive innovation
• Agility
• 21st century capability
• New skills
• Cost savings
• Support world-changing
projects
• Enable economic
development
• Improve citizen services and
engagement
• Improve research and
education
47. New Models: Open Data
“Open Data” is data that can be used by anyone for any purpose for free.
Many of our customers, such as Esri, the Weather Company, and the
Climate Corporation rely on quality open data as much as they rely on our
computing, storage, and other services.
48. Slides not intended for redistribution.
• One Nation, One Map
• First Government-Wide National Intelligent Map Portal:
Integrated map system for gov’t agencies to deliver location-based services and information
– Multi-agency collaboration platform
Singapore Government
“AWS has helped my organization to
provide better service availability and
handle higher traffic load at a lower cost”
– Chan Chin Wai, Chief Information Officer, SLA
5/6/2015
49. • High Performance Computing (HPC) for Engineering and Simulation
• High Throughput Computing (HTC) for Data-Intensive Analytics
– Hybrid Supercomputing centers
• Collaborative Research Environments
• Science-as-a-Service
New Models: Scientific Computing (SciCo)
50. 1000 Genomes Project
The 1000 Genomes
Project has grown to 350
terabytes of genomic
data including DNA
sequenced from more
than 2,000 individuals
that researchers can now
access on AWS for use in
disease research.
51. Moovit: Smart Public Transportation
• Mobile app turns bus and
train riders into real-time
sensors for city gov’t
• Integrates with city back-end
systems to improve both
service and rider experience
• Powered worldwide by the
AWS cloud
52. Boston’s StreetBump: Citizen Engagement
•Mobile app + accelerometer
automatically report location,
severity of potholes
•Allows city to make optimal
decisions about priority of
repairs
•Data acquisition and analytics
powered by the AWS cloud
92. It’s never been easier and less expensive to
collect, store, analyze & share data
93. Sources of Truth Analysis PlatformsHigh Performance Databases
Fully Loaded For Big Data
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EFS
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon EMR
94. Big data and going “all in”
Financial Industry RegulatoryAuthority
• FINRA now deploying multiple Hadoop-based and Redshift-
based analytics apps core to their regulatory mission
• Multi-petabyte clusters growing by terabytes per day
• Production in January 2015
• Two year plan to go “all in” to the AWS cloud
“From a physical and logical security standpoint, I believe that, if
done right, public cloud computing is as or more secure than self-
hosting.”
– Steve Randich, EVP and CIO
95. More And More Customers Are
Adopting Machine Learning
Email targeting Recommendations Social news
Digital health Language processing Auto-scaling
96. Easily create machine learning models
Visualize and optimize models
Put models into production in seconds
Battle-hardened technology
Introducing Amazon
Machine Learning
102. “Whether you want to uncover the secrets of
the universe, or you just want to pursue a
career in the 21st century, basic computer
programming is an essential skill to learn.”
Steven Hawking
105. New Skills for the Future
• Educate students everywhere on AWS cloud technology
• Bring the brightest minds and the best curriculum together
• Make computer science relevant for non-CS majors
• Encourage women and girls to pursue computer science
• #SmartIsBeautiful
• Skills certification programs for professionals