AWS
- AWS has more than 1 million active customers
- EC2 usage increased 95% YOY (Q2 2014 Q2 2015)
- S3 usage increased 120% YOY
- DB Usage 127% YOY
- 81% YOY Revenue growth
- Amazon Aurora (Enterprise Database) is one of the fastest growing services, faster than RedShift (Data warehousing)
Why do enterprises switch to the Cloud
- Change capital expenditures into variable expenses
- Increase agility
- Lower variable expenses
- Less heavy lifting
- World Wide Infrastructure
- Stop guessing capacity
- Give developers freedom and control over their own destiny
7 Basic freedoms of the cloud
- Freedom to build unfettered
- Freedom to get real value from data
- Freedom to get in and out of the cloud quickly
- Freedom from bad database relationships
- Freedom to Migrate
- Freedom to secure your cake and eat it too
- Freedom to say yes
Capital One use case
- Their goal: Model to the best tech companies out there
- Use DevOps to speed up software delivery
- Reduce datacenter count by using cloud
- Be able to have 1000 developers work efficiently on their products
- Agility: able to handle Black Friday, Cyber Monday
Werner Vogels (CTO Amazon)
- Released over 500 new major features in respond to customer feedback
- Read the AWS well architected framework paper for best practices
- Simplify to get better reliability
- Lambda: no server is even easier to manage
Remind Use-case
- Use Micro-services to easy scale your application
- Use Docker for easy deployments, zero downtime deployments and better resource optimization
- AWS now provides an container registry as a service
AWS New Features
- Amazon launched too many features to list here. You can find them on their website.
