An introduction to development, testing and production patterns on AWS. Slides from the 'Powering games with Amazon Web Services' event in London.

1. From Development
to Production

2. Application life cycle

3. Idea
Develop
Release
Evaluate
Iterate
OR
Pivot

4. Idea
Develop
Release
Evaluate
Iterate
OR
Pivot

5. Idea
Develop
Release
Evaluate
Iterate
OR
Pivot

6. Accelerate

7. Friction

8. How can elastic infrastructure
help?

9. Idea
Develop
Release
Evaluate
Iterate
OR
Pivot

10. Many applications

11. Many applications,
many environments

12. Dev, test, QA, integration,
staging

13. Many applications,
many environments,
many developers

14. Complexity

15. Unlimit development velocity

16. Development and testing are
spiky

17. Spin up and down

18. Usage
Midnight 7am 9am Noon 3pm 5pm Midnight
Time of day

19. Usage
60%
Midnight 7am 9am Noon 3pm 5pm Midnight
Time of day

20. Environmental
consistency

21. Amazon Machine
Image

22. State Config
Code Services
Amazon Machine
Image
ami-219387e

23. Collaborate

24. Full stack collaboration

25. Template

26. Define a full
infrastructure stack

27. Auto-scaling
RDS
EC2 SNS
SimpleDB
SQS
Resources
Elastic Beanstalk CloudWatch
Security groups Tags

28. Template CloudFormation
Provisioned
resources

29. Complete definition

30. Atomic

31. Idempotent

32. Free
Only pay for the provisioned resources

33. Traffic
CNAME
Web front end
App servers
Data store
Full stack

34. Traffic
CloudFormation
CNAME
Web front end
App servers
Data store
Full stack

35. Traffic
CloudFormation
CNAME
Web front end Web front end
App servers App servers
Data store Data store
Full stack

36. Traffic
New CNAME
Web front end Web front end
App servers App servers
Data store Data store
Full stack

37. Traffic
New CNAME
Web front end
App servers
Data store
Full stack

38. Environmental
freedom

39. Same building blocks
Specific configurations

40. Development
Integration build
Performance test

41. Developer freedom

42. Architectural freedom

43. Technology freedom

44. Continuous deployment

45. A/B testing

46. Configuration management

47. Low cost

48. Agility++

49. Meet business opportunities

50. Moving to production

51. Architect for elasticity

52. Web front end
App servers
Data store

53. Web front end
App servers
Data store
Decouple

54. Web front end
App servers
Data store
Resource tiers

55. Web
App servers
Data store
Resource tiers

56. Web
App
Data store
Resource tiers

57. Web
App
Data store
Single point of failure

58. Data store
Redundancy

59. Data store
Load balance

60. Data store
Graceful failure

61. Data store

62. Data store
Add capacity over the day.

63. Data store
Reduce capacity at night.

64. Data store
Autoscaling

65. Data store
Multi-AZ deployment

66. CloudFront
Data store
Amazon S3
Static asset delivery

67. CloudFront
Data store
Amazon S3
Asynchronous processing Spot
Background processing

68. ElastiCache

69. Elastic Beanstalk

70. Thank you